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There is an old saying "The journey is the reward". The journey of Christoph Rehage is such a journey. He started to walk from China to Germany. Albeit he didn´t walked the whole way, he walked 4646 km though China. The documented this distance in a really interesting video and an even more interesting blog:

A new update release of Solaris 10 is available for download. With update 5/09 (aka Update 7) the following new feature are available in Solaris 10. This artcle is based on "Solaris 10 5/09 - What's New?" document:

• System Resources Enhancement
• Support Added for Using ZFS Clones When Cloning a Zone
• zoneadm attach -b Option
  you can back out certain patches from update on attach


• System Administration Enhancements


• SMF Services for IPsec
  IPsec is now managed by SMF services


• Security Enhancement


• NAT-Traversal for IPsec Key Management Developers
• Stronger Algorithms for IPsec
  Three larger Diffie-Hellman integer-modulus groups (2048-bit, 3072-bit, and 4096-bit) as well as SHA2 including sha256, sha384, and sha512? SHA-2 using HMAC.
• SunSSH With OpenSSL PKCS#11 Engine Support


• Device Management Enhancements


• x86: T-State Support for Intel Based Processors


• System Performance Enhancements


• Large Segment Offload Support for Intel PCI Express 10Gb NIC Driver
• Solaris Power Aware Dispatcher and Deep C-State Support


• Developer Tools Enhancements


• SunVTS 7.0 Patch Set 5
• x86: CPU Performance Counter Updates for Intel Processors
• SUNWpatchutils Tool


• Driver Enhancements


• hermon Driver
• iSCSI Target - upgraded and several performance, scalability, interoperability, and reliability improvements.It´s not the COMSTAR target.
• x86: NetXen 10-GigE Device Driver
• Intel ICH10 and Hartwell NIC Support in E1000g Driver
• xge Driver Can Enable Multiple Receive Rings and MSI-X


• Other Enhancements


• New Locale Support for Kazakhstan and Ukraine
• SPARC: Fp-scrubber Daemon

Alive prefered. As my blog and the activities around it are my business card, it´s just logical to use it for this step and this solves a problem, as my internal network is smaller than my outside one and vastly more people know c0t0d0s0.org than Joerg Moellenkamp. I was asked about this step by several people, but those people couldn´t help me here.

PS: I won´t explain the sense of this posting to the outside of Sun, the intended audience inside of Sun already know what it means.

A new update release of Solaris 10 is available for download. A "What´s new"-article will follow soon.

Über Fefes Blog wurde ich auf einen anderen sehr interessanten Artikel hingewiesen: mogis.de: Wovon reden wir in dieser Debatte eigentlich?

MOGIS steht hierbei für "Missbrauchsopfer gegen Internetsperren". Eine richtig gute Analyse, dessen was wirklich passiert, interessanterweise auf Basis der selben Zahlen, die auch Zensursula verwendet. Man scheint wirklich überall die Datenlage noch mal selbst lesen zu müssen, dummerweise wird das der Deutsche ingesamt nicht tun, sondern sich auf die vorgekauten Daten verlassen. Man darf sich hier ganz zurecht fragen, wo hier die vierte Macht im Staate bleibt.

Christian hat hier ganz recht:

Wird hier nicht das Leid unzähliger Kinder bagatellisiert, um in Deutschland eine Infrastruktur zu etablieren, die dem Ausblenden beliebiger Inhalte dienen wird?

I´ve searched for some financial data in the peer group of Sun to compare how Sun has done in the last reported quarter. After doing this i think i should i should add some perspective to the revenue numbers.

Company	Last reported quarter	Revenue	Respective Quarter FY2008	Revenue	Level 2009 comprd to 2008	Source of numbers
Sun	Q3FY09	$2.614 billion	Q3FY08	$3.266 billion	80.03 %	Earnings 4/04/2009
DELL all	Q4FY09	$13.428 billion	Q4FY08	$15.989 billion	83.98 %	Earnings 2/26/2009
DELL Server+Networking	Q4FY09	$1.347 billion	Q4FY08	$1.612 billion	83.561 %	Earnings 2/26/2009
Intel	Q1FY09	$7.145 billion	Q1FY08	$9.673 billion	73.865 %	Earnings 4/14/2009
IBM Systems and Technology	Q1FY09	$3.228 billion	Q1FY08	$4.219 billion	76.511 %	Earnings 4/20/2009
HP Enterprise Storage and Servers	Q1FY09	$3.948 billion	Q1FY08	$4.8 billion	82.25 %	Earnings 2/18/2009 Earnings 02/19/2008

At the end the revenue decline looks pretty much similar in the peer group of Sun. Some of our peers experienced a larger decrease of revenue than Sun, some experienced a smaller decrease.

Sun announced the results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2009:

Revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2009 were $2.614 billion, as compared with $3.266 billion for the third quarter of fiscal 2008, and compared with $3.220 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2009. Total gross margin as a percent of revenues was 42.7, a decrease of 2.2 percentage points as compared with the third quarter of fiscal 2008 and an increase of 0.8 percentage points as compared with the second quarter of fiscal 2009.

and

Net loss for the third quarter of fiscal 2009 on a GAAP basis was $201 million, or $(0.27) per share on a diluted basis, as compared with a net loss of $34 million, or $(0.04) per share, for the third quarter of fiscal 2008, and compared with a net loss of $209 million, or $(0.28) per share, for the second quarter of fiscal 2009. GAAP net loss per share includes a restructuring charge of $46 million primarily related to the restructuring announcement of November 2008.

There is a new version of the OS ... sorry ... the Firmware of the Sun Storage 7000. Several new features were integrated into the system like Microsoft shadow copy for shared folders (you can see the contents of snapshots via "Previous Version" of the folders), AD cross-forest authentication and workflow automation. You will find the release notes at wikis.sun.com.

Automated ZFS snapshots (the foundation of the Timeslider) are a feature integrated into OpenSolaris a while ago. Glen Brunette developed the glue to combine the Amazon S3 cloud storage , encryption and the automated ZFS snapshots to provide a really neat way to backup your system. You will find the information about this at kenai.com, a Sun website for developers. With this method, it will be easy (hey, it´s 0.1 ... but works really good at the moment) easy to have an automated backup at an offsite location. There aren´t any valid excuses.

PS: Glenn, my feedback: Really great stuff. But i want a GUI a simple as the GUI controlling timeslider

So irgendwie hat mir das der Organisator bei uns nicht gesagt (oder ich habe die Mail übersehen ... kann auch sein): Ich bin mit einem Vortrag auf den iX Solaris Day vom 29. bis 30. Juni 2009 in Stuttgart vertreten. Mein Vortrag ist am 30. Juni um 14 Uhr: Thema natürlich "Less known Solaris Features" wie in Graz. Damit es nicht langweilig wird, werde ich natuerlich den Vortrag wieder komplett umarbeiten Mal sehen, wo ich dann den Schwerpunkt legen werde ... ich bin am überlegen, diesmal eher den Schwerpunkt auf die Frage zu legen "Wie koennen einem wenig bekannte Features den Hintern retten?" ... aber da überleg ich noch ...

Eine hervorragende Polemik zur momentan KiPo-Filterdebatte geschrieben von Bettina Winsemann. Eindeutige Leseaufforderung!

Happy birthday, dear blogs.sun.com. We celebrating the 5th birthday of b.s.c today There are hopefully several additional years of blogging in front of it, independent from the second level domain it will use in the future