James Gosling the Creator of EMACS and JAVA - leaves ORACLE - 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.

small Pox smallpox911 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 22 17:47:28 EDT 2010


On Jul 22, 2:40 pm, small Pox <smallpox... at 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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