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I just finished watching the movie ‘Sicko’. Makes me sad to see the United States in is such a poor position health care wise. Why does Cuba have a better health care system than USA? That makes no sense, and it pisses me off. Why are the healthcare companies destroying our nation? Is it worth the money? I guess it must be.

The startup I work for is looking for a few good software people.  Both locations are in Austin, TX (USA).Here’s our wish-list of experience for the positions:

Embedded

A BSCS degree and 5+ years of experience writing C language

Experience with x86 and MIPS assembly language

Experience with low level drivers for networking devices as Ethernet MAC/Phy and switches

Experience with Compact flashes programming algorithms

Experience with Manufacturing Diagnostics drivers

Experience with HDD/SSD low level drivers

Experience with OS like Linux

Experience with RTOS like VxWorks

Experience on multithread management and IPC

OS

A BSCS degree and 5+ years of experience writing C language

Experience with x86 and MIPS assembly language

Experience with OS Linux environment

Experience with RTOS like VxWorks

Experience with IP/TCP stack like FreeBSD

Experience with Routing Protocols

Experience with Device Driver Programming

Experience with Routers, Switches, Proxies and Firewalls

Experience with Storage Protocols as NFS and CIFS and File Systems

Experience on storage related drivers in a Linux environment  No relocation available..Contact me directly if interested.

I’ve been considering porting PUFFS (NetBSD’s kernel implementation of FUSE) along with reFUSE (the library that goes along with PUFFS) to FreeBSD.  I wonder what the interest is in this?

After being a heavy user of Robert Watson’s FreeBSD cross reference site (here) which indexes many different OS kernels, including FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Darwin, OpenSolaris, and more. It’s quite impressive, however, I often found the need to see the entire OS, and I’m mostly interested in the BSD’s. I ended up building a local version on my laptop, so I could take it with me wherever I went (it’s handy when you are on a plane). After using it quite a bit, I realized that I also wanted a version available to me on the web, that I can also use as a reference for others. So, I built it, and made it available here:

FreeBSD Operating System Cross Reference

Feel free to use it as much as you like.

In a future entry, I may show the steps and changes I made to get it all running, if there’s enough interest.

What’s next? We all know about devfs and similar file systems, and many of us use unionfs or nullfs. However - what other utility file systems would be useful, that we haven’t built yet? I think tools like FUSE have given a lot of people some very creative ways of thinking about file systems, but how can that be extended into other areas?