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Forgive me ... I did not post to list, but to one of my industry mentors. There are some good links below on btrfs if you are interested in them, and the remainder of the email was personal, but I don't mind sharing it since I know a great bunch of the BLU list fairly well by now... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kristian Hermansen <[hidden email]> Date: Jul 24, 2007 1:15 AM Subject: btrfs? To: Roger Osmond <[hidden email]> Hey Roger, Have you heard about btrfs (b-tree file system) yet? http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/12/242 http://oss.oracle.com/projects/btrfs/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs Also, my talk at the conference went almost too well!!! I am still in shock. Before the talk, I was introduced by a senior Canonical employee (commercial-arm of Ubuntu) with the quote that "this is going to be the most interesting topic you will hear". (I think this was said due to the fact that Dell is having internal problems cloning their Linux machines with Ghost, and that Clonezilla may be a viable alternative). I was almost crapping my pants as I walked up to the stage to take the microphone, because I didn't expect him to say that. I was placed as the first spot after lunch following the keynote speakers on the main stage (Tim O'Reilly), which I am told is a great spot to be :-) So it went, I had my talk, and I was quite nervous at first, but apparently no one could tell. Magically, I somehow finished the last slide with exactly 5 minutes left, thanks to your algorithm of 2 minutes per slide!!! I took a few great questions from the audience, and after the talk, some of us got together and conversed about new ways to make the software better. Surprisingly, immediately after the talk, I received a great round of applause and was met by an Ubuntu employee who told me my talk was "incredible" and that I should seriously consider applying to work for Canonical (Ubuntu). That was the second time I crapped my pants. The third time I crapped my pants was when another Canonical employee gave me his card after the talk and asked me if I would be interested in speaking with them about employment. That's about as good a sign as one can get I would think. So, somehow despite all my anxiety, it played out quite well and no one has realized yet that I have got them all fooled! I guess I will just have to keep that going for a long long time then :-) In addition to this, throughout the conference I was able to meet many interesting people, including Maddog Hall, whom was really nice to me and we had a long conversation preceding another talk. I am friends with a guy who goes to Northeastern, and Maddog was the one that got him into programming. Now my friend is a recognized open source developer with his code in many distribution repositories. There were many other bright minds attending, of course, in addition to Maddog. Really, I want to thank you for all the tips and suggestions you have given so far. Without them, I would not have arrived at where I am right now, with all of the opportunities that are available to me (Stratus/Red Hat, Google, FOX, Canonical/Ubuntu, Mu Security). It would be naive to think that I will never have a more important choice to make than the one I am making in the next 6 weeks to move to California, but it feels pretty damn big. If I work for Canonical, I can live anywhere and work from home, except when there are developer summits and the like where people need to interact directly. It would be a great thing! But Google has deep pockets. Alas, I don't know what to do!?!?! So, I am almost too giddy and happy right now to express. My body feels as though a shot of adrenaline has been pumped inside of me and has lasted all day long. I can't explain this feeling. It is, in fact, incredible... -- Kristian Hermansen -- Kristian Erik Hermansen -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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