On Jul 22, 2:40 pm, small Pox <smallpox...@gmail.com> wrote: > But then reports started coming in of odd failures. Systems would > crash strangely. We'd get crashes in applications. All applications. > Crashes in the kernel. > > But then reports started coming in of odd failures. Systems would > crash strangely. We'd get crashes in applications. All applications. > Crashes in the kernel. > > Stallman took over his EMACS > Oracle's Larry Ellison, took over his SUN-JAVA > Steve Jobs has Apple > > A free competitor to Oracle must be there to limit this fiend from > taking over the world. > > There was VICIOUS propaganda against Microsoft's, Bill Gates. > > 1981 Gosling Emacs > by James Gosling > written in C; with "Mocklisp" > as its extension language. > / | > 1983 / | > / Unipress Emacs (6-may-83) > / $395 commercial product. > > http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/ > > \begin{quotation} > When Sun folks get together and bullshit about their theories of why > Sun died, the one that comes up most often is another one of these > supplier disasters. Towards the end of the DotCom bubble, we > introduced the UltraSPARC-II. Total killer product for large > datacenters. We sold lots. But then reports started coming in of odd > failures. Systems would crash strangely. We'd get crashes in > applications. All applications. Crashes in the kernel. Not very often, > but often enough to be problems for customers. Sun customers were used > to uptimes of years. The US-II was giving uptimes of weeks. We > couldn't even figure out if it was a hardware problem or a software > problem - Solaris had to be updated for the new machine, so it could > have been a kernel problem. But nothing was reproducible. We'd get > core dumps and spend hours pouring over them. Some were just crazy, > showing values in registers that were simply impossible given the > preceeding instructions. We tried everything. Replacing processor > boards. Replacing backplanes. It was deeply random. It's very > randomness suggested that maybe it was a physics problem: maybe it was > alpha particles or cosmic rays. Maybe it was machines close to nuclear > power plants. One site experiencing problems was near Fermilab. We > actually mapped out failures geographically to see if they correlated > to such particle sources. Nope. In desperation, a bright hardware > engineer decided to measure the radioactivity of the systems > themselves. Bingo! Particles! But from where? Much detailed scanning > and it turned out that the packaging of the cache ram chips we were > using was noticeably radioactive. We switched suppliers and the > problem totally went away. After two years of tearing out hair out, we > had a solution. > \end{quotation} > > [ ??? DID MOSSAD DO IT FOR THEIR BROTHERS - VICTORY IS BY DECEPTION - > for them ??? ] > > \begin{quotation} > Despite being "blissfully unemployed", I've been remarkably busy. Some > of my time has been taken up by job hunting, some by a fun geek > project (more on that in a later post), but an awful lot has been > taken up talking to people about life at Oracle. They need a place to > vent, and I try to be a good listener. The exodus has been a > thundering stampede. Pretty soon, all Larry will have left is an IP > portfolio. Perhaps that's all he wanted: there's precious little > evidence that he was interested in any of the people. Early on after > quitting, I kept waking up in the middle of the night having > nightmares about composing screeching blog entries. They would have > been fun, but pointless. I decided that it was finally time to do some > real relaxing and spend some quality time with a beach and an ocean - > I figured I needed to do it before the poison that BP's been dumping > kills much more. I had a great time. Got back last night. Feeling > hugely better. > \end{quotation}
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