![]() ![]() I'll eventually toss them out too, and they'll be mostly virtual VirtualBox instances or AWS EC2 instances. These used to be mostly desktop PCs and servers, but they took up too much room and power, and so they became mostly laptops. I have a menagerie of very old computers for doing personal IT projects or hobbies. The keys are still labeled QWERTY, which I ignore. I use the DVORAK keyboard layout, for efficiency and performance. Apple products in the past have been very reliable, which is what I'm after. I'm currently using an Apple MacBook Pro Retina 15 inch as my work computer, connected to a 27-inch Apple Thunderbolt monitor when I'm at my desk. This year I gave the keynote at SCaLE, the Southern California Linux Expo, on Linux and Solaris performance differences. I also write technical books, contribute to open source projects, and speak at technical conferences as a performance expert. Performance tuning improves the customer experience and saves the company money, by doing more with fewer resources. Retrieved 28 January 2016.I'm Brendan Gregg, I'm a senior performance architect at Netflix, and do large scale computer performance design, analysis, and tuning. Archived from the original on 17 September 2015. "FireChat warns Iraqis that messaging app won't protect privacy". "Firechat comes to UOH students' rescue". ^ "Hyderabad university shut after protests over Dalit student's death"."L'aplicació amb què et podies comunicar a la Via Lliure també et servirà en una catàstrofe". "The Internet, a Staging Post for Protests in Ecuador, is Under Threat". ^ "Faced with network surveillance, Hong Kong student demonstrators go P2P"."Firechat updates as 40,000 Iraqis download 'mesh' chat app in censored Baghdad". " 'Private internet' FireChat app grows in popularity in Iraq". ^ Kuchler, Hannah Kerr, Simon (22 June 2014)."This App is Building a Giant Network for Free Messaging". ^ Stinson, Elizabeth (12 October 2015)."This app lets rescue workers send offline alerts when disaster strikes". ^ a b "FireChat launches new offline private messaging option"."How one app might be a step toward internet everywhere". "FireChat Could Be the First in a Wave of Mesh Networking Apps". "FireChat – the messaging app that's powering the Hong Kong protests". ^ a b Bland, Archie (29 September 2014)."Russians Are Organizing Against Putin Using FireChat Messaging App". It was not meant for secure or private communications." By July 2015, the FireChat developers claimed to have added end-to-end encryption for its one-to-one private messages. In June 2014, Firechat's developers told Wired that "eople need to understand that this is not a tool to communicate anything that would put them in a harmful situation if it were to be discovered by somebody who's hostile. Some students were reported to have used Firechat after the university shut down its Wi-Fi. In January 2016, students protested at the University of Hyderabad, India, following the suicide of a PhD student named Rohith Vemula. On September 11, 2015, during the pro-independence demonstration called Free Way to the Catalan Republic, FireChat was used 131,000 times. In 2015, FireChat was also promoted by protesters during the 2015 Ecuadorian protests. Usage įireChat became popular in 2014 in Iraq following government restrictions on internet use, and thereafter during the 2014 Hong Kong protests. This feature was added for the benefit of aid workers doing disaster relief and stemmed from a partnership with the city of Marikina. In May 2016, FireChat introduced FireChat Alerts, which allowed users to "push" alerts during a specific time and in a specific place. Until then, it had only been possible to post messages to public chatrooms. In July 2015, FireChat introduced private messaging. The app was first introduced in March 2014 for iPhones, followed on April 3 by a version for Android devices. ![]()
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