LuckyDonkey

nothing to say other then "fucking brilliant"



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I've been hearing about DTrace for years now and I kind of knew what it was and that I would like to have it. In the back of my mind I've been waiting for it to appear in FreeBSD (although this seems to be faltering a little) so I could play with it.

Well one of the engineers from Sun that gave birth to DTrace has done a google tech talk about DTrace and it's very interesting indeed. Highlights for me were the amazing instrumentation of Python which I will definitely use. He also muses on the lack of support for DTrace on linux and tries to gather a posse of developers from google to kick it off, porting DTrace to Windows and how he can't find a good book on programming.

This is a really cute movie of an Apple II animation rendered on an Apple II in 1988. The end credits has a credit for John Lasseter as coach. John Lasseter is the founder of Pixar. Steve jobs bought Pixar in 1986 (see Wikipedia). At this point Jobs had left Apple. It brings back memories of Dire Straits and their video for Money for Nothing.