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In random order: +* Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly +* Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly * Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly -* Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press -* Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson +* The Practise of System and Network Administration; Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup; Addison-Wesley Professional Pro Git; Scott Chacon, Ben Straub; Apress +* Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press +* Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly +* Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers * Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly +* Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press +* Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers +* Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom; * Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress -* The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional -* Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly -* Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press +* Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt * Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional -* Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann -* DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly -* C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup; -* 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications -* Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly -* The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle -* The Practise of System and Network Administration; Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup; Addison-Wesley Professional Pro Git; Scott Chacon, Ben Straub; Apress +* Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt * The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible -* Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers -* The Kubernetes Book; Nigel Poulton; Unabridged Audiobook -* Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer -* Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom; +* The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle +* Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson +* The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional * The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley -* Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress -* Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School -* Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers +* 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications +* Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer +* Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly +* Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly +* C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup; +* Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing * DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible +* The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton * Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders -* 97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly +* Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress +* 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly +* DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly +* Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann +* Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner * Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly -* Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing -* Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt -* Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing -* Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly * Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press -* The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton -* 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly -* Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress -* Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly -* Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt * Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy -* Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly +* Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School * Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications -* Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly -* Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly -* Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner +* 97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly +* Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly +* Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress +* Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing +* Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly +* The Kubernetes Book; Nigel Poulton; Unabridged Audiobook ## Technical references I didn't read them from the beginning to the end, but I am using them to look up things. The books are in random order: -* BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley -* Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas -* Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley * Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly * The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press -* Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly +* Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley * Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly +* Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas +* BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley +* Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly ## Self-development and soft-skills books In random order: +* The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books +* 101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audible +* Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books +* Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing * The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite -* The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK -* The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd -* Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus * The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select * The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge -* The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers * Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion -* The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook +* The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd +* Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business +* Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy +* Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus * Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley -* The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate -* The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books +* Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne +* The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK +* Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks +* Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press * Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons -* Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy -* Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business -* Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications +* The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers +* Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University +* Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat * Getting Things Done; David Allen -* 101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audible -* Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks -* Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House +* Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business +* The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook +* The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate +* Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications +* Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audible * So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus -* Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly -* Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne -* Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing -* Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University * The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books -* Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat -* Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon +* Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly * Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin -* Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press -* Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audible -* Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books -* Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business +* Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House +* Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon [Here are notes of mine for some of the books](../notes/index.md) @@ -137,29 +137,29 @@ In random order: Some of these were in-person with exams; others were online learning lectures only. In random order: -* Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen -* Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training -* MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training -* F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc. -* Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training -* Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online -* Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online * Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online +* Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online * Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); O'Reilly Online -* Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon * Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...; -* AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training +* The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online +* Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon * Red Hat Certified System Administrator; Course + certification (Although I had the option, I decided not to take the next course as it is more effective to self learn what I need) +* MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training * The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online -* The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online +* Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training +* Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training * Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online +* Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online +* AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training +* Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen +* F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc. ## Technical guides These are not whole books, but guides (smaller or larger) which I found very useful. in random order: -* How CPUs work at https://cpu.land * Raku Guide at https://raku.guide +* How CPUs work at https://cpu.land * Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide ## Podcasts @@ -168,45 +168,45 @@ These are not whole books, but guides (smaller or larger) which I found very use In random order: -* Maintainable -* The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast -* BSD Now -* Hidden Brain -* Deep Questions with Cal Newport * Dev Interrupted -* The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast) * Fork Around And Find Out -* Fallthrough [Golang] * The Changelog Podcast(s) * Backend Banter * Cup o' Go [Golang] +* The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast +* Fallthrough [Golang] +* The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast) +* BSD Now +* Deep Questions with Cal Newport +* Hidden Brain +* Maintainable ### Podcasts I liked I liked them but am not listening to them anymore. The podcasts have either "finished" (no more episodes) or I stopped listening to them due to time constraints or a shift in my interests. +* Java Pub House * CRE: Chaosradio Express [german] -* Go Time (predecessor of fallthrough) -* Ship It (predecessor of Fork Around And Find Out) * Modern Mentor * FLOSS weekly -* Java Pub House +* Ship It (predecessor of Fork Around And Find Out) +* Go Time (predecessor of fallthrough) ## Newsletters I like This is a mix of tech and non-tech newsletters I am subscribed to. In random order: +* VK Newsletter +* Monospace Mentor * Register Spill -* The Imperfectionist -* Changelog News * The Pragmatic Engineer +* Ruby Weekly +* Changelog News * Andreas Brandhorst Newsletter (Sci-Fi author) -* Monospace Mentor -* VK Newsletter +* Golang Weekly * Applied Go Weekly Newsletter -* Ruby Weekly * byteSizeGo -* Golang Weekly +* The Imperfectionist * The Valuable Dev # Formal education diff --git a/gemfeed/2009-02-13-sgi-onyx-3200.md b/gemfeed/2009-02-13-sgi-onyx-3200.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1bc56794 --- /dev/null +++ b/gemfeed/2009-02-13-sgi-onyx-3200.md @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +# SGI Onyx 3200 + +> Published at 2025-02-13T21:17:16+02:00 + +For nostalgia, I've kept this output of the 'dmesg' around. It's from an SGI Onyx 3200 graphics supercomputer with the following specs: + +* 4 400 MHz IP35 MIPS CPUs +* 4GB of RAM + +[![./sgi-onyx-3200/desk.webp](./sgi-onyx-3200/desk.webp)](./sgi-onyx-3200/desk.webp) + +We used this monster when I was a student worker at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology around the year 2006. It operated a walk-in 2-sided 3D cave (unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of that cave), where you could literally walk around with a set of VR glasses and see everything in 3D (that was when there wasn't any Oculus Quest yet). That was useful for running industrial simulations. + +``` +4 400 MHZ IP35 Processors +CPU: MIPS R12000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.5 +FPU: MIPS R12010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 3.5 +Main memory size: 4096 Mbytes +Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes +Data cache size: 32 Kbytes +Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 8 Mbytes +Integral SCSI controller 8: Version Fibre Channel QL2200A +Integral SCSI controller 6: Version QL12160, single ended +Integral SCSI controller 7: Version QL12160, low voltage differential +Integral SCSI controller 9: Version IEEE1394 SBP2 + IEEE1394 CDROM: node 1010031001a454 port 0 on SCSI controller 9 +Integral SCSI controller 0: Version Fibre Channel QL2200A + Disk drive: unit 1 on SpCSI controller 0 + Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0 +Integral SCSI controller 5: Version IEEE1394 SBP2 + IEEE1394 CDROM: node 1010031001c080 port 0 on SCSI controller 5 +IOC3 serial port: tty3 +IOC3 serial port: tty4 +IOC3 serial port: tty10 +IOC3 serial port: tty11 +IOC3 serial port: tty12 +IOC3 serial port: tty5 +IOC3 serial port: tty6 +IOC3 serial port: tty7 +IOC3 serial port: tty8 +IOC3 serial port: tty9 +Graphics board: InfiniteReality3 +Graphics board: InfiniteReality3 +Gigabit Ethernet: eg0, module 001c04, pci_bus 2, pci_slot 2, firmware version 12.4.10 +Fast Ethernet: ef1, version 1, module 001c07, pci 4 +Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, module 001c04, pci 4 +Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 13.0, number 1 +IOC3 external interrupts: 2 +IOC3 external interrupts: 1 +IEEE 1394 High performance serial bus controller 0: Type: OHCI, Version 0 0 +IEEE 1394 High performance serial bus controller 1: Type: OHCI, Version 0 0 +USB controller: type OHCI +USB Human Interface Device: device id 1 type keyboard +USB Human Interface Device: device id 1 type mouse +USB controller: type OHCI +USB Human Interface Device: device id 0 type keyboard +USB Human Interface Device: device id 0 type mouse +``` + +I was mainly working on drilling simulations on this machine. Sometimes I worked directly at one of the 2 terminal screens of the Onyx, or often I used a nearby Linux machine and forwarded the X11 windows to my local screen. + +[![./sgi-onyx-3200/collage.webp](./sgi-onyx-3200/collage.webp)](./sgi-onyx-3200/collage.webp) + +E-Mail your comments to `paul@nospam.buetow.org` :-) + +[Back to the main site](../) diff --git a/gemfeed/index.md b/gemfeed/index.md index 1319a0cc..81c3326c 100644 --- a/gemfeed/index.md +++ b/gemfeed/index.md @@ -75,5 +75,6 @@ [2010-05-09 - The Fype Programming Language](./2010-05-09-the-fype-programming-language.md) [2010-05-07 - Lazy Evaluation with Standard ML](./2010-05-07-lazy-evaluation-with-standarn-ml.md) [2010-04-09 - Standard ML and Haskell](./2010-04-09-standard-ml-and-haskell.md) +[2009-02-13 - SGI Onyx 3200](./2009-02-13-sgi-onyx-3200.md) [2008-12-29 - Using my Nokia N95 for fixing my MTA](./2008-12-29-using-my-nokia-n95-for-fixing-my-mta.md) [2008-06-26 - Perl Poetry](./2008-06-26-perl-poetry.md) diff --git a/gemfeed/sgi-onyx-3200/collage.webp b/gemfeed/sgi-onyx-3200/collage.webp new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e33ea1c8 Binary files /dev/null and b/gemfeed/sgi-onyx-3200/collage.webp differ diff --git a/gemfeed/sgi-onyx-3200/desk.webp b/gemfeed/sgi-onyx-3200/desk.webp new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d82681e5 Binary files /dev/null and b/gemfeed/sgi-onyx-3200/desk.webp differ diff --git a/index.md b/index.md index bb8595a0..a7397226 100644 --- a/index.md +++ b/index.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # foo.zone -> This site was generated at 2025-02-13T10:22:31+02:00 by `Gemtexter` +> This site was generated at 2025-02-13T21:23:36+02:00 by `Gemtexter` Welcome to the foo.zone. Everything you read on this site is my personal opinion and experience. You can call me a Linux/*BSD enthusiast and hobbyist. I mainly write about tech, IT, programming and sometimes also about self-improvement here. And I also like coding. @@ -101,5 +101,6 @@ Welcome to the foo.zone. Everything you read on this site is my personal opinion [2010-05-09 - The Fype Programming Language](./gemfeed/2010-05-09-the-fype-programming-language.md) [2010-05-07 - Lazy Evaluation with Standard ML](./gemfeed/2010-05-07-lazy-evaluation-with-standarn-ml.md) [2010-04-09 - Standard ML and Haskell](./gemfeed/2010-04-09-standard-ml-and-haskell.md) +[2009-02-13 - SGI Onyx 3200](./gemfeed/2009-02-13-sgi-onyx-3200.md) [2008-12-29 - Using my Nokia N95 for fixing my MTA](./gemfeed/2008-12-29-using-my-nokia-n95-for-fixing-my-mta.md) [2008-06-26 - Perl Poetry](./gemfeed/2008-06-26-perl-poetry.md) diff --git a/uptime-stats.md b/uptime-stats.md index e1cfd776..e9d63e21 100644 --- a/uptime-stats.md +++ b/uptime-stats.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # My machine uptime stats -> This site was last updated at 2025-02-13T10:22:31+02:00 +> This site was last updated at 2025-02-13T21:23:36+02:00 The following stats were collected via `uptimed` on all of my personal computers over many years and the output was generated by `guprecords`, the global uptime records stats analyser of mine. -- cgit v1.2.3