I’m stepping down and away from Triton and SmartOS development. I can confirm that MNX (the former owner of Triton) has been acquired by Parler. Yes, you read that right. The deal was finalized in November 2024. Employees weren’t much notice. Acquihire offers went out on 11/18, due on 11/29. They came in late enough that most people didn’t see it until the next day and with most of us having taken the entire week of Thanksgiving off, that left only three days to decide if we’d still have a job when coming back from vacation.

Note: This was originally published to http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/date/20040925 by Jeff Bonwick. It came up for discussion recently but since Oracle no longer has any published copies, it was retrieved from The Wayback Machine and reposted here. Saturday Sep 25, 2004 One gentle reader offered this feedback on our recent ZFS article: 64 bits would have been plenty … but then you can’t talk out of your ass about boiling oceans then, can you?

I started playing guitar in August 2020 during the pandemic to give myself something to do. This is kind of a made up excuse, because between working from home and having three kids, I rarely go out anyway. Pandemic life didn’t change much for me, but I got interested and went for it. Here’s what I learned as a guitar noob that I think might be helpful for other people wanting to get into guitar.

For the past ten years I’ve been using Hurricane Electric’s Tunnel Broker service to get IPv6 transit at home long before it was available from my ISP (Cox Communications). Today, I bit the bullet and switched to native IPv6 from my ISP. While Hurricane Electric has has been fantastic, it’s not a perfect solution for most residential users. Being a tunnel you’re force to have a lower MTU than you’d otherwise have, and streaming video providers have a propensity to block tunnels as “VPNs”.

I recently migrated my Unifi controller from a bhyve instance in Triton to an LXC container in a Raspberry Pi. I won’t go into all the reasons why here, but suffice it to say that I had made some choices about my existing network that, while they made sense at the time, didn’t really jell with the way Unifi is intended to operate. I’ve been running a controller myself for over a year, and I already have a router and several spare Raspberry Pis laying around, so getting a Cloud Key or Dream Machine wasn’t something I was willing to pay for just yet.