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I was writing a lot of presentations in Keynote, but snap-to-grid issues for a very popular Linux performance tools diagram I drew have driven me crazy, so I'm trying OmniGraffle instead. I wrote my last book in vim, for the drafts, before they become OpenOffice and Word documents, which I use as well. For word processing, I do a lot of my writing in the vim text editor.

I use a lot of somewhat standard software. I use DTrace tools including iosnoop and execsnoop, which are tools I originally wrote, and are shipped with OS X by default. That's an advantage for me for using Macbooks - OS X has DTrace, which lets me do immediate advanced debugging. If I notice performance issues on OS X, apart from Activity Monitor, I'll use a variety of DTrace tools to figure out what's going on. Temperature Monitor Lite stopped working for the recent versions of OS X, so I've been figuring out GPU utilization by touching above the 1 and 2 keys and feeling the temperature. On my Macbook I usually have Activity Monitor running to keep an eye on CPU resources, and Temperature Monitor Lite to keep an eye on GPU utilization, inferred by its temperature. I was doing a lot with Solaris, OpenSolaris, and SmartOS, but not anymore. Operating systems I used today are OS X for the Macbooks, and Linux and FreeBSD for servers.

These days, often with a 0.5mm Uni-ball Kuru Toga mechanical pencil, which auto-rotates the lead to keep it sharp. I also take a lot of notes on paper, and write with different instruments. The Casio is indestructible, and requires no batteries. It's hard to emulate these, especially the C64 music chips (the SID6581 and MOS8580).Īs for other hardware, I use a Fujifilm X-A1 for photographs, and wear a Casio AL-180 for the time.

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These include Atari 2600s, C64s, N64s, and PS2 slimlines (in particular as backups, in case the CD-ROM drive dies). I'd like to own fewer things if possible. All of my personal computers may, via VirtualBox and EC2, be consolidated to run from a single 13-inch MacBook Air, which would be great. I have a couple of PCs I was using for doing bare-metal server work, although these days I'm doing most of my work on the cloud instead. When I have the time, I'd like to build custom instruments and controls, and I've been collecting bits and pieces of hardware for that work.

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With that I use CH Products rudder pedals, the Saitek throttle quadrant, and Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick.

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My only other Windows laptop, a Compaq, is for Microsoft Flight Simulator. It has some performance tools on it I was writing in PowerShell. I don't use Windows much, so I use that for a fun excursion to another planet. One of my favorite laptops is a pink Acer Aspire One, with a 9-inch display, a 1.60 GHz Intel Atom processor, running Windows XP.

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. I'm Brendan Gregg, I'm a senior performance architect at Netflix, and do large scale computer performance design, analysis, and tuning.