In case you weren’t quite convinced about just how cool, uuuuber, and just plain old fantastic an opportunity Kernel Conference Australia is, then you should consider this. We’ve got one more speaker coming along:

Brendan Gregg, member of the Fishworks team, author of the DTraceToolkit, co-author of Solaris Performance and Tools.

Naturally, he’ll be talking about DTrace and all the serious and crazy (and seriously crazy) things he’s done with it over the years.

Just a short reminder that if you want to come to Kernel Conference Australia at the earlybird price of $195, then you’ve got until the end of this Friday, 12 June, to get your registration happening.

If you’re interested in any of these areas:

• linux kernel crypto services

• ZFS deduplication

• cross-architecture OS and driver porting

• packet filtering and QOS

• TCP/IP protocol security

• bug finding tools for OpenSource Operating Systems

• network virtualisation, or

• how a DB engine can really hurt your system

then Kernel Conference Australia is definitely for you.

Dates: 15 – 17 July, 2009

Venue: Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

The student price is still $95, too.

For full abstracts please see http://wikis.sun.com/display/KCA2009/KCA2009+Conference+Agenda

For the conference homepage, see http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel/

And for registration, Go Without Delay To

https://www.conveneit.com/secure/sun/kernel_jul_09/

I look forward to seeing you there.

Today Tim and I celebrated the last public holiday in Queensland before Christmas by cycling up Mt Coottha. It was my first time going up the mountain (glad I’d put my slicks on last night), and boy oh boy did I suck!

Haven’t been out on the bike since the May Day long weekend (when I also rode with Tim, but along the river into town and back), so my lack of fitness really showed going up the first bit past the quarry.

However, what really killed me were my sinuses – dripping taplike and not letting me get enough air in. Had to walk the last 1.5km to the ABC compound, but at least I kept moving.

From there it was a really nice undulation around to the summit proper, and then a bit of speed heading back down.Haven’t gone quite that fast on the bike before, and I was a little nervous, not knowing the turns or the road surface.

I’ll enjoy it a lot more next time we ride it. All up we were gone for 3 hours, going to have to work on shortening that time over the next 6-9 months so that when next year’s Bike Week comes around I can do the Coottha Challenge. A great ride, and a grand day for it.

It’s only one week before the earlybird registration period for Kernel Conference Australia closes.

As a quick reminder, in addition to our excellent keynote speakers Jeff Bonwick, Bill Moore and Max Alt, here are the people who you’ll be able to meet, listen and learn from at KCA:

So what are you waiting for? Hurry up and register!

So it’s been a bit wet today:

About 15 minutes ago I was ecstaticly pleased to see that the KCA2009 website had gone live with the confirmed agenda, speaker bios and most importantly, **registrations**.