Different perspective.

Was a long day today ... wake up at 05:45, flew to Nuremberg today, actually via Duesseldorf with one and a half our wait time (no problem, my office is the location of my notebook). And don't ask ... it was actually cheaper than flying directly and actually i was able to have breakfast while working in the FTL lounge in DUS. It was fscking warm in Nuremberg today .... 10 degrees less would be really nice. But it was an really interesting discussion at the customer site: Four hours live demo Solaris. Now I'm back home and the unread mail counter is down to zero.

But that isn't the point i want to make in this blog entry. I've learned a thing in such meetings: Working with Solaris all day long make let you take some features for granted. You don't think that this or that feature is something interesting because it is just this way things go for you: You talk about the virtues of deduplication, compression, and the probabilities of a false positive in dedup, but the customer is enthusiastic about snapshot shiping with ssh and zfs send/receive. You talk about DTrace, but the customer is exalted about prstat -m.

This is the basic reason, why i started to dislike Solaris presentations with slides and prefer to use the presentation program "shell". Because while working with the system on the way that comes natural to you, you give the audience a much better insight into the system. And on the way you show all the small features ...