...update...update...update

I started out in the late 1980s working with DEC VAX/VMS technology and sometimes life today doesn't seem any easier. Although, I'm not wire wrapping the pins to configure the hardware anymore, my job today seems just as complex as it was then.

BIOS updates, OS updates, driver updates, application updates..

Some days it feels the industry hasn't come very far ...update...update...update.

So it was nice to see a graphic showing Moore's Law and Chip Multi Threading. Not because it's Sun, but as a Technologist it's easy to forget the advancement being made by the computer industry.

Happy 25th Birthday Sun!
-InsomniacsAnonymous

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5 Unknown Facts

I'm currently a x64 Product Specialist,Vmware VCP, and Architect for the Systems Practice serving in the US Western Region. Previously, I was the first SE for startup Terraspring, a Utility Computing Software company funded in part by HP and EMC, and was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2002. I was also part of the team that built over 30 Internet Data Centers for Exodus Communications serving as a Senior Network Engineer. Other tenures include Senior Engineer for Lucent, Sniffer Technologies, and Network Manager at Lloyds Bank. I began at a Digital Equipment Corp. OEM including system design and integration of first generation Ethernet and VAX/VMS clusters. I hold a BS degree in Electronic Engineering and I'm a member of Santa Clara Valley IEEE.

Here are five things you probably don't know about me:


In 1998, whilst walking to the Church of Nativity, Bethlehem on a visit to Jerusalem, I very carelessly walked into a car and broke it's side mirror off. Not recommended while visiting Palestine.










In 2001, I was in the World Trade Towers in New York just days before 911.










My first job involved installing first generation Thin/Thickwire Ethernet backbones. I still have wonderful memories of British Steel, Port Talbot (nice place).








While on my first day on the job in London 1990, I was sent down to the Transport Center to execute a DEC VAX/VMS upgrade on the system that controlled ALL the City of London's Traffic Light Systems. Think I aged ten years that day!








I was one of 100,000 people that attended the Genenis outside concert at Knebworth in 1992. The parking attendants did a runner with the money before the concert ended leaving chaos and car park grid lock. It took more than 6-hours (5am) for the traffic to clear.








- InsomniacsAnonymous

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