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Zemlin on the NYT article based on Zemlins quotes

Tuesday, September 30. 2008

Interesting quote of the person who got the stone rolling:

Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin had two words to describe the article - "sensational and regrettable."

Well ... Mr. Zemlin, this sensational article had its start in sensational quotes ...

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, The IT Business at 10:26 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Airtraffic over Europe

Monday, September 29. 2008

An impressive video, that shows the traffic over the european continent. Some of the race tracks above germany are really obvious ... for example the one between Northern Germany and Frankfurt.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in Aviation, English at 19:52 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Server Market in Europe as seen by IDC

Monday, September 29. 2008

TPM cites in "RISC and Itanium Server Makers Do Well in Europe, Says IDC" a research of IDC about the server market in Europe:

Growth for high-end servers was strong, with banks, telcos, and manufacturers picking up lots of iron and with Power6 and Sparc machines doing particularly well, according to IDC
[...]
Sun Microsystems came in third in EMEA, helped hugely by sales of the Sparc Enterprise M line of rebadged Fujitsu iron, with $577 million in sales, up 1.9 percent.

But there is another interesting number in the article:

Windows servers had a 10.3 percent growth in the quarter in EMEA, but Linux server sales actually fell by 1.8 percent, the first time since early 2002 when Linux showed a decline.

This is an interesting development as the complete Unix server market grew at 8 percent.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, The IT Business at 15:41 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

Virtual Consoles with Opensolaris

Monday, September 29. 2008

One of the features missed by Linux Admins on Solaris is the absence of virtual consoles. Opensolaris Build 100 will bring this functionality to Solaris 10. There is even a nice feature called "Secure Switch":

Secure switch is enabled by default which means you need to enter the login user's password if switching to a login-ed session.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris at 15:09 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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Who needs enemies ... - Part 1

Monday, September 29. 2008

Colleague 1: "How can i open WRF files?"
Colleague 2: "With rm!"

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in Sun/Oracle at 14:06 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

links for 2008-09-29

Monday, September 29. 2008

Andrew Morton on kernel development [LWN.net]

(tags: toread programming linux interview development kernel)

Posted by del.icio.us in del.icio.us, English at 13:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

St. James´s Park 2

Monday, September 29. 2008

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in German, Photographie at 12:51 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

The Register about Ikkaku

Monday, September 29. 2008

TPM wrote a article about an Sun/Fujitsu server at the bottom end of the APL M-class product line: Fujitsu and Sun arm juttejutsu server with quad-core processor. I won´t comment on the details, but the explanation of the codename is ... hmmm ... interesting ... especially when you know that you just have to type in "+ikkaku +sun" to get the official explanation

. It has nothing to do with swords, at least not with ones made of steel:

Ikkaku is a Japanese name for "Narwhal", an Arctic cetacean/whale, about 20 feet long; the male has a single twisted pointed canine tooth or tusk projecting forward like a horn. The Japanese word literally mean "single horn".

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris at 10:16 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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, ikkaku

, solaris

, sparc64 vii

, sun

SUNW,UltraSPARC-AT10

Sunday, September 28. 2008

Yet another interesting integration to Solaris this week. The PSARC/2007/003 Solaris Support for the Rock Processor found it´s way in the build 100 of Opensolaris.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris at 13:33 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

Defined tags for this entry: rock

, solaris

, sun

links for 2008-09-28

Sunday, September 28. 2008

Posted by del.icio.us in del.icio.us at 13:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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SunCEC2008 Day -42: Darling of Fortune revisited

Sunday, September 28. 2008

SWISS just confirmed the upgrade to Business Class just a few minutes ago. So the flight back from Chicago to Zuerich will be a more favourable experience than in Economy. But i had to invest 50.000 bonus miles for this upgrade.

PS: I had this kind of luck last year, too.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, suncec2008 at 12:14 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Really small steps

Sunday, September 28. 2008

Perhaps it´s just me, but i think there must be really big problems in the 787 program, when Boeing celebrates such small steps as a successful static pressure test.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in Aviation, English at 10:31 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

Defined tags for this entry: 787

, aviation

, boeing

Ben Rockwood about the Linux Foundation marketing stunt

Saturday, September 27. 2008

I don´t want to blog any further article about the comments about the comments of the Linux salesman Mr. Zemlin. And as Ben Rockwood of Cuddletech.com wrote a really nice article with "Jim Zemlin Lives in a Cave; or Linux Zealots Should Get Out More" i don´t have to. Ben brings some of my thoughts to the point in his article and adds several other valid ones. The training problem was for example the very reason for starting LKSF.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris at 21:49 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

FAA uses Opensolaris

Saturday, September 27. 2008

Sometimes you find Opensolaris at places where you won´t expect it: How the FAA Is Bringing Its Air Traffic Systems into the 21st Century. It´s an interesting article about the upcoming flight plan distribution system of the FAA.

Sun's open-source OpenSolaris/ZFS/SunFire server/Thumper storage infrastructure—which features built-in, state-of-the-art virtualization capability—was a key building block on which the FAA IT evaluation group settled. Some of the new software is already being used in the air traffic system; ZFS (Sun's open-source Zettabyte File System) is being used in the FAA's air traffic data center.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris at 21:11 | Comments (3) | Trackback (1)

Defined tags for this entry: FAA

, Solaris

, storage

, Sun

Surpassing it all ...

Saturday, September 27. 2008

I already wrote about that weird article about Solaris in Infoworld. But Computerworld easly surpassed this performance in terms of embarrassment: They reprinted the one and a half pages of marketing on behalf of the Linux Foundation word by word and even dared to call it "Analysis". I´m really frustrated about such an impertinence.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris at 20:43 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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