[dtrace-discuss] DTrace on Mac OS X

2008-09-02 Thread Blake Sawyer
To All (This is mainly for the Mac DTrace 3, Adam Leventhal, Bryan Cantrill, Mike Shapiro), My name is Blake Sawyer and I am currently doing some research at Virginia Tech. One of the goals of this project is to track meaningful user interactions such as viewing any file, webpage, or

Re: [dtrace-discuss] DTrace on Mac OS X

2008-09-02 Thread Michael Schuster
On 09/02/08 08:07, Blake Sawyer wrote: To All (This is mainly for the Mac DTrace 3, Adam Leventhal, Bryan Cantrill, Mike Shapiro), My name is Blake Sawyer and I am currently doing some research at Virginia Tech. One of the goals of this project is to track meaningful user

Re: [dtrace-discuss] DTrace on Mac OS X

2008-09-02 Thread Jim Mauro
To All (This is mainly for the Mac DTrace 3, Adam Leventhal, Bryan Cantrill, Mike Shapiro).. We appreciate your desire to go to the source. It's a lot like posting a question on relativity, and indicating you'd really like an answer from Einstein :^) That said, there's great news -

Re: [dtrace-discuss] DTrace on Mac OS X

2008-09-02 Thread Jim Mauro
and there are many, many DTrace experts that can help. So Brian, Mike and Sorry; s/Brian/Bryan ___ dtrace-discuss mailing list dtrace-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [dtrace-discuss] DTrace on Mac OS X

2008-09-02 Thread Blake Sawyer
Jim, Thanks so much for your help. Also thanks for understanding my terminology mistakes, I am new to a lot of this. Let me clear some of these things up by explaining the idea of my project. I want to create an indexing application that will work with a location/context aware system.

Re: [dtrace-discuss] DTrace on Mac OS X

2008-09-02 Thread Bryan Allen
| I want to create an indexing application that will work with a | location/context aware system. This application will automatically | index media files(documents, video, audio, webpages, mail, etc.) | socially and episodically. For example, in a meeting scenario, the | system will

Re: [dtrace-discuss] DTrace on Mac OS X

2008-09-02 Thread Jim Mauro
I'm not sure I can add anything beyond Bryan's response. I'm not an expert in WEB servers or the multimedia server stack (other software components that get integrated for building these cool sites), but I would first look at add-ons, compiler flags, options, etc, for the actual software