This is something I’ve been meaning to write about for a while. There are many reasons one might decide to be an entrepreneur. For me the journey was fairly simple. In graduate school, I saw the sea change in my field with the influx of FSU scientists with much greater seniority, many more publications, etc. taking up postdoc and tenure track positions around the time I finished up. I knew I had to alter my vision of what I wanted to do in my professional career, and happily SGI came along and gave me the opportunity to spend time in industry.

Ok, this is getting to be a common theme. We go to HPC on Wall Street. We show off new kit. And we are hosting a party. Go figure. There will be more on this very soon. You will see the new kit at our new large booth at SC13. The first element of the new kit is a software defined networking powerhouse behind a new global financial cloud. The group building out the cloud will be there with us, ready to talk to people about what they are doing, and why financial types should sign up for this cloud.

As seen here and here. There are lessons to be learned, and wisdom had from the articles. As the founder noted

I am now on Facebook. Turns out my family and all my friends are there, so … … how soon before we have to change for the next great social network platform? I’ve got more than one Twitter account (@sijoe and @scalableinfo), a linkedin account, a google+ account (that for the life of me I can’t really figure out), and now facebook. Not to mention 2 blogs (here and at work).

This is not a CentOS issue in that they merely rebuild the RHEL sources without the copyrighted bits. But its getting to the point where the RHEL bits are so badly out of date, that the platform is rapidly getting to the point of unusability. When I have to rebuild packages from source, as no up-to-date patched source RPM or even binary RPM exists for little used packages such as, I dunno … apache?

… from hobby and sport, to something more. I’ve traveled 1k miles for karate tournaments (to participate). I have not, as of yet, crossed an international border for one. That changes tomorrow. I went through a promotion test last week with an injured intercostal muscle. This caused all sorts of joy … no really … and had me think that I had a serious kidney stone flare up. The pain was in the same region, and toradol helped, which drew me to a rapid, and incorrect conclusion as to the pain.

if [uname -r eq ...] Its very bad form to insist on very particular versions of an OS/kernel. Not only will you piss off your customer (me), you will cause a great deal of effort to unwind the ill-considered test in order to get even basic functionality. I’ve seen this on network cards, RAID cards, you name it. It increases your support load, decreases the likelihood that you can actually support whats out there … say for example, someone does a ‘yum update’ and gets an updated kernel.

Here . We are looking forward to the next 11 years :D

As seen here. I enjoy developing code in Perl. I know, I know, its “the write only language” and “looks like line noise”. It has endured some rather nasty FUD in its day, and yet, it keeps on growing in use. It is just an incredibly powerful, quite expressive language. One which enables you to write very terse code if you wish. But the presentation isn’t concerned with terseness, but with development into a modern programming language.

Last year, I had been incensed at this time, by a US presidential candidate and mindset from him who told me, and every other entrepreneur out there, that “we didn’t build it”. It was a foolish thing for him to say, foolish for his party and fellow travelers to echo. Yet echo it they did. I quietly promised myself to double down on my hard work, the work I did, and see if I could smash the previous years smashing financial records.