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GM Brings IT Dev Back In House; Self-Driving Caddy In the Works 171

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @09:47AM from the oh-christine dept.

dstates writes "Want a good job in IT? Detroit of all places may be the place to be. GM is bringing IT development back in house to speed innovation. Among other initiatives, a self driving Cadillac is planned by mid decade. Ford is also actively developing driver assist technology and is betting big on voice recognition. Ann Arbor has thousands of smart cars wirelessly connected on the road. Think about all those aging baby boomers with houses in the burbs and no desire to move as their vision and reflexes decline. The smart car is a huge market. Seriously, Detroit and SE Michigan have good jobs, great universities, cheap housing and easy access to great sports and outdoors activities."

Comment Re:OK Howto article, but missing key points (Score 5, Informative) 137

by Darik on Friday June 01, 2012 @08:05PM (#40188937) Attached to: Making ZFS and DTrace Work On Ubuntu Linux

I just looked at this article as my employer uses Debian and Ubuntu heavily and I've been pushing for ZFS on our file servers. There is no mention of ZFS version, the feature set available, or even a link to the source material.

ZoL is based on ZFS version 28 from the last open Solaris release, and currently integrating Illumos as its upstream.

There isn't much mention of how to use ZFS. I happen to know most commands, but I think this article would be difficult for a beginner even though it seems to be targeted at that demographic.

It looks like the Slashdot editors are doing this blogger a favor by linking to a mostly empty article.

At a minimum, this article should link to the ZoL home page, the ZoL Launchpad page for packages, and maybe the ZFS introduction or another tutorial.

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