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Hi, I'm James Briggs, an Internet computer programmer/DBA in Silicon Valley. I've been programming for 20 years for companies like eBay, Cisco, Yahoo!, Apple, Amazon and startups.In my spare time I do Open Source programming and like flying airplanes, karate and studying Asian languages.
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Daily Archives: July 30, 2007
OS Virtualization on FreeBSD vs. Linux
I was talking to somebody at OSCON last week and they made an off-hand comment about using FreeBSD jail to isolate software applications in a development environment. Being a linux guy, it took a while to sink in that jail … Continue reading
Posted in BSD, Linux, Tech
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