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Götz Aly schreibt in der Berliner Zeitung in "Westerwelles kleine Welt":

Westerwelle und ein erheblicher Teil der FDP-Spitze repräsentieren eine Generation von Plastikmännern und -frauen, die in den fettesten Jahren der westdeutschen Republik im anstrengungslosen Wohlstand aufgewachsen sind und außer Sprüchen wenig geleistet haben.

Ich denke, der Artikel fasst gut zusammen, was das Problem mit Herrn Westerwelle und seiner FDP ist.

You can get almost everything on airline bonus miles. But Finnair definitely takes this to a new level: For 3.180.000 points you get a Rintojen suurennus (or on swedish: bröstförstorning).

Wieviele Minen braucht man um einen Hafen mit einem Minenfeld lahmzulegen? Garkeine, eine Pressemitellung reicht.

Wieviele CDs mit Kontendaten aus der Schweiz muss man kaufen, um hunderte Deutsche zur Selbstanzeige zu bewegen? Garkeine, eine öffentliche Diskussion reicht.

Just purchased the new album of Peter Gabriel from iTunes: "Scratch my back". There is an interesting concept behing this music: Peter Gabriel reinterprets a song of well known artists in turn for a favor: They have to reinterpret a song of peter gabriel.

The album is Peters part of deal. And his versions of many songs are nothing short of great. I would like to highlight one song from this LP. It's Peters version of "Heroes". It's different, but as good as the original version of David Bowie (however, i've read that Bowie won't return the favor, but Brian Eno will do it, which participated on Heroes"). Peter Gabriels version is just with strings and his voice and the song works exceptionally well.

In some discussions in mail and in some community forums linking to the articles about deduplication and hashing there was a slight misunderstanding. I should explain some things.

There was some discussion about possible attack vectors for checksum-only deduplication. However i don't think the proposed vectors are really feasible. The first attack tries to create data corruption by foiling deduplication into using a thoughtfully created block, with the same checksum but different data. Another, less discussed attack vector, is gaining knowledge of a block by using a thoughtfully created block to foil dedup to show you a different block than the one you have actually written, as the checksum-only variant didn't stored your block, but just created a pointer to data written beforehand.

Humans have a design flaw, they don't have a sense for risks. When you look at the risks from a more scientific perspective, the probability of dying in a terror attack is vastly lower than the probability of dying because you've committed suicide. With a realistic view to the risks, you should look in the mirror each day and observe yourself, not to other peoples in the aircraft, the subway or somewhere else. However the fear-mongers were able to implant us other feelings and so we strip-search people looking differently from us, we even start to strip-search everybody by technology like backscatter scanners.

Why do i talk about this? Well ... there is an technology in ZFS, that allows you to work with probabilities to speed up things. It's the deduplication part. You can use it in a way, that doesn't verify bit-for-bit if a block is really identical to another before just storing a pointer to the already stored block.

Of course it's a little bit tedious to zip cables from your switch to test IPMP or to deconfigure an interface to force traffic on different interfaces when you want to do some maintainance work in your network. There is an command to on- and offline physical connections in an IPMP group. It's called if_mpadm.

When you work with the interesting features of Solaris, you forget about the small features in commands you use day by day. In my my IPMP tutorial i used an SMF script to make some host routes persistent ... at foremost to show you that SMF scripts are really easy. But, well ... this script isn't nescessary because of the -p option of the route add command.