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Das iPhone ist ja ein richtig schoenes Telephon. Vor allen Dingen, weil es sozusagen das mobile Internetterminal "for the rest of us" ist ... nungut ... nichts ist aber so gut, das die T-Mobile da nicht wieder ein Argument liefern koennte, sich das Ding nicht zu kaufen: T-Mob hat genaueres ueber die Bedingungen ins Netz gestellt. Volker verweist auf diese in seinem Blog.

Die Preise sind schlicht indiskutabel und ab abhängig vom Tarif wird relativ schnell auf 64 kBit/s inbound 16 kBit/s outbound gedrosselt. Ganz ehrlich, bei diesen Preisen und Bedingungen darf man später nicht wundern, wenn die Hälfte aller iPhones in Deutschland gehackt werden.

Ich bleibe bei definitiv erstmal bei meinem E61i ....

zpool.org found a really interesting computer case for a Thumper@home: Chenbro ES34069. This case is a small ITX case with four hot swapable drive bays and room for a single boot disk (would populate with a flash based solid state disk)

You will find the our second complaint ("The California-Complaint") in reaction to the NTAP litigations at the resource part of Mike Dillons blog.

John David Duncan of Mysql wrote an article about mysql on ZFS. His conclusion:

ZFS introduces remarkable ease and flexibility of administration, without any real cost in performance. At its worst, in these tests, ZFS performed almost as well as UFS with Direct I/O. With InnoDB, the ZFS performance curve suggests a new strategy of "set the buffer pool size low, and let ZFS handle the data buffering."

Sun filed in reaction to the NTAP allegations a second lawsuit. Mike Dillon, our general counsel, writes in his blog:

Today, we filed a second complaint against NetApp for infringement of six additional patents and other related claims. Although it may appear a separate case, it is in reality, part of the same litigation originally brought by NetApp in Eastern Texas to impede the adoption of ZFS.

The second complaint was filed at a court in Northern California. This is the area where both companies are located and it´s a more sensible choice than the court in Patenttrollville ... errr ... Eastern Texas.

Chris Mellor writes about the NTAP/Sun lawsuits and thinks, that NTAP can´t win from a business perspective:

What someone needs to do, perhaps, is to look Dan Warmenhoven in the eye, someone whom Warmenhoven respects absolutely, and say: "Discretion sir, discretion is the better part of valour. This engagement against Sun is one you cannot, in any real business sense, win."

As your are in gods hands on sea and in front of courts lets think about the both possible outcomes: When NTAP wins, they have a strong competitor less, but the image of beeing a patent troll. A marketing disaster. When Sun wins, NTAP may loose it´s technical foundation (albeit at least some patents should never been granted as of prior art. Perhaps this is the reason for sueing in Texas when both companies are located in northern California). And so i close this snippet with another quote from Chris:

Is NetApp constitutionally averse to negotiation and compromise? Does it have a secret interest in funnelling money to lawyers? Does it fear ZFS so very, very much that it sees itself being squeezed unbearably between ZFS-spreading Sun, a rampant EMC, and myriad NAS and iSCSI minnows snapping at its heels?
If any one of these questions has a 'yes' answer then there is something deeply wrong inside a company that many in the storage industry have a deep respect for.

Hmmm ... presentation in Lessig style without a remote control is a little bit problematic. Going to the keyboard every few seconds ruins the effect a little bit ...

Nach einem Wochende Präsentationsbasteln auf meinem Mac Mini: 10.5 Leopard erscheint stabil, es macht spass damit zu arbeiten, und ZFS funktioniert auch read/write (wenn mann weiss, wie es es geht)

Ashlee did a nice analysis about the ongoing dispute in the blogs of Jonathan and Dave Hitz:

Given that the blogging back-and-forth adds no muscle to the actual dispute between the companies, we're surprised that Hitz has chosen to continue on this quest given the obvious public relations disaster that NetApp faces.

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To that commenter's point, Schwart'z blog posts mostly rely on rhetoric surrounding the merits of open source software and the expensive, proprietary nature of NetApp's products. Schwartz also finds plenty of time to plug Sun's storage gear. Hitz, meanwhile, issues a not so pleasant post about how NetApp employees need not worry about keeping their jobs just because Sun has countersued NetApp seeking to stop shipments of all its major products. Hitz tries to reassure his staff and customers, although just talking about NetApp's demise - however unlikely - feels like an awful thing for an executive to dwell on in public.

Eine Klasse von Problemen loest sich doch von alleine, beziehungsweise durch hängen oder liegen lassen: Ich brauche meine Uhr im Flur nicht mehr auf Sommerzeit umstellen.

So ... keine Lust mehr ... bis auf Kleckerkram ist meine Präsentation für Montag jetzt fertig ... der Rest muss bis morgen warten ...