http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/ the sun in a lighthungry universe en Serendipity 1.3 - http://www.s9y.org/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441137/3935-On-the-strip-at-night..html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3935-On-the-strip-at-night..html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3935 0 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3935 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp)


As far as i remember, this photo was taken at this moment:

]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:42:17 +0100 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3935-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3935-On-the-strip-at-night..html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441138/3867-SunCEC2007-Best-Blog.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3867-SunCEC2007-Best-Blog.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3867 1 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3867 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp) Shawn linked to the winners of the "Best RedshiftBlog" , "Best WowBlog" and "Best Postcast" competitions at CEC, i think it´s time to disclose, who´ve won the "CEC Best Blog 2007" competition: www.c0t0d0s0.org ]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:32:21 +0100 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3867-guid.html competition suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3867-SunCEC2007-Best-Blog.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441139/3639-SunCEC2007-Presentations.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3639-SunCEC2007-Presentations.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3639 0 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3639 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp) CEC Life (sorry, only for people inside the SunWAN). After reading some presentations: I really missed some interesting ones ... ]]> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:33:35 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3639-guid.html suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3639-SunCEC2007-Presentations.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441140/3630-SunCEC2007-Fountains-of-the-Bellagio.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3630-SunCEC2007-Fountains-of-the-Bellagio.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3630 1 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3630 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp) ]]> Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:45:22 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3630-guid.html suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3630-SunCEC2007-Fountains-of-the-Bellagio.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441141/3629-SunCEC2007-Pictures-of-the-3rd-day-of-the-CEC-keynotes.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3629-SunCEC2007-Pictures-of-the-3rd-day-of-the-CEC-keynotes.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3629 0 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3629 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp) ]]> Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:18:05 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3629-guid.html suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3629-SunCEC2007-Pictures-of-the-3rd-day-of-the-CEC-keynotes.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441142/3622-SunCEC2007-Indispensable-gadget.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3622-SunCEC2007-Indispensable-gadget.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3622 0 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3622 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp) Airport Express that got obsolete since a Mac Mini drives my stereo and my TV.

Now i use the Express as a portable wireless access point. This was useful out of two reasons. Public hotel networks are unencrypted by nature. Thus they are a possible security problem. This is especially true, when you don´t know who lifes in the adjactent rooms and see three to four networks called "Free public WLAN" as ad-hoc networks. Free... Sure! Before you want to phish passwords, go and learn to install an AP emulation on your prefered operating system.

Well, with the Express you can use the wired connection and create your own encrypted and invisible wireless LAN. The second advantage was a little-bit money saving):WLAN at the Hotel Paris was expensive. 11$ for 24h per Laptop. As my E61 has WLAN but isn´t a laptop, i needed a way to connect it to the internet. GRPS for fetching mail with the E61 from the US (with an german phone provider) every 10 minutes or so is incredibly expensive (You would find it as an extra point in Sun´s financial statement;) ). The Airport Express was useful for this again. Simply connect the E61 to the Express and you are done. ]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:03:58 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3622-guid.html security suncec2007 wlan http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3622-SunCEC2007-Indispensable-gadget.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441143/3615-SunCEC2007-Green-Backpacks.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3615-SunCEC2007-Green-Backpacks.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3615 2 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3615 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp)

BTW: I saw many 2006 backbacks ... ]]> Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:06:31 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3615-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3615-SunCEC2007-Green-Backpacks.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441144/3602-SunCEC2007-Day-3-Green-Keynote.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3602-SunCEC2007-Day-3-Green-Keynote.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3602 9 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3602 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp)
You can think about Germany as you want, but most of the stuff green IT tries to discuss is an rather old topic over here. Albeit the "Energieeinsparverordnung" (a typical german word, you can translate it with "Energy saving ordinance", i will shorten it with EnEV from now on) is primary in discussion for habitated buildings, you can get some ideas for datacenters.

One of the things discussed here in germany is the Primary energy factor (Primärenergiefactor). This is a really interesting number.
Continue reading "SunCEC2007 Day 3: Green Keynote" ]]> Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:00:00 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3602-guid.html suncec suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3602-SunCEC2007-Day-3-Green-Keynote.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441145/3598-SunCEC2007-A-kind-of-a-wrap-up.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3598-SunCEC2007-A-kind-of-a-wrap-up.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3598 0 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3598 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp)
The conference
CEC2007 was really cool. As i wrote before: Many good presentations, many interesting informal talks. It was a good mixture. The overarching topic of the Keynotes was Redshift ... well, this underlines how important those customers are for us. There is only an finite amount of computing needed to do your general ledger. Really big SAP systems on one or two small systems is not too far in the future. The growth will come from different customers or from different departments of an existing customer, it has to come from different customers or departments. As Jonathan stated: Redshift is in every company. At the end the CEC2007 was the real Redshift Kickoff Conference.

Las Vegas
Well, i´m still not fond of this city, but i think it´s one of the best places to hold such a large conference. The hotels are much cheaper than in SanFrancisco, thus you have more money in a given budget for other things like a decent show program around the event or - more important - inviting more people to CEC. And this is highly advantageous. Will come to this later.

Las Vegas is a city full of eye candy, but there is no soul. Las Vegas is like a large amusement park with the overarching theme sex, drugs, gambling and rock n´roll ... and the casino hotels are something like separated worlds in it (like the theme parks ins the Disney Resorts). I think this city is okay for 2 or 3 day ... but a day longer and I would opt for a rental car to get out of the city.

More people
There were 1000 people more on CEC2007 than last year. When all attendees learned only a thing or two at CEC, this events makes our customer engineering workforce much stronger. More people leads to more communication. More communication to more exchange of opinions.

Critic
1. We need more more WLAN, more bandwith, more power outlets. Gred Papadopulous talked last year about the ever elastic demand of computing power. The CEC crowd is a nice example for the ever elastic demand of internet connectivity.
2. The breakfast was much better, but i´m still not convinced that a croissant with ham or a wrap with a generic egg-simulating substance is a decent breakfast.
3. Next CEC: Sun Rays, lots of Sunrays ... mooooore Sunrays ....
4. The idea of the paperless conference was a good idea. But the paper boxes for the cartons spoiled that topic a little bit ...

A suggestion for improvement
Some tips for having dinner would be nice. Maybe a short chapter in the conference guide or a wiki entry for decent restaurants in Las Vegas written by a Las Vegas resident.

Kudos!
1. The conference was worth every hour of travel and every hour of missed sleep.
2. From my perspective the conference was organized in a good and professional way. Really, kudos to the org team.
3. The messaging team for the questions from the auditorium did a great job. But next time: only one question at once for Andy B. ]]> Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:41:56 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3598-guid.html suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3598-SunCEC2007-A-kind-of-a-wrap-up.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441146/3596-SunCEC2007-Jetlag.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3596-SunCEC2007-Jetlag.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3596 0 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3596 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp) ]]> Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:43:14 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3596-guid.html suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3596-SunCEC2007-Jetlag.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441147/3595-SunCEC2007-Alec-Muffett.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3595-SunCEC2007-Alec-Muffett.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3595 3 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3595 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp) IT Futurology and the Terabyte iPod. A must-view. Really. It was excellent... ]]> Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:52:42 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3595-guid.html suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3595-SunCEC2007-Alec-Muffett.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441148/3594-SunCEC2007-CEC-and-blogging.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3594-SunCEC2007-CEC-and-blogging.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3594 1 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3594 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp)

The real surge came from RSS. The subscriber count jumped by 50 people to nearly 550. Last week was the first week with out a drop under 400 (out of a strange reason, once a week the subscriber count drops slightly under 400). Hundreds of live hits on each day on each article. That was really cool. Thankyou.

The integrated twitter-feed was quite successful. I´ve got some interesting feedback about the life twitters. Even from outside the company. BTW: The word, that CEC is our premier technical conference got traction at our customer base.

From the blogging perspective i´ve made some conclusions and lessons-learned:
1.Although the WLAN infrastructure was better than in Moscone last year, it was somewhat problematic to get internet access. 4000 Sunnies is the baddest thing that can happen to a network infrastructure. The rumours on the floor ranged from saturation of the WLAN-router address tables to complete saturation of internet connection of the hotel. But i have no confirmation for any for this rumours. As an engineer doesn´t come under two WLAN enabled gadgets all rumors are prefectly feasible...
2. I would take my boosted Linksys with the high-gain omni with me to the next conference. I hope TSA allows me to checkin this 1 meter antenna beast. WLAN access guaranteed. (Altough the toasted colleagues in the hallway are an bad side effect)
3. Next time, i would use an offline editor.
4. I need a new Mac ... badly ... the tooling on Windows is horrible. YMMV. This was the main reasons why i didn´t made a podcast from CEC. You really miss Garageband when you can´t use it ....
5. Next time i will print "Visit c0t0d0s0.org" on my IloveSolaris-Tshirt. Many people know my blog, but nobody knows the person behind it
6. Was really fun to blog from CEC2007.
]]> Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:38:11 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3594-guid.html blogging suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3594-SunCEC2007-CEC-and-blogging.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441149/3593-SunCEC2007-Photos-from-Las-Vegas.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3593-SunCEC2007-Photos-from-Las-Vegas.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3593 0 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3593 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp)
]]> Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:08:07 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3593-guid.html las vegas suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3593-SunCEC2007-Photos-from-Las-Vegas.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441151/3592-SunCEC2007-Day-5-Finally-at-home.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3592-SunCEC2007-Day-5-Finally-at-home.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3592 0 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3592 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp) ]]> Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:16:00 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3592-guid.html suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3592-SunCEC2007-Day-5-Finally-at-home.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441152/3591-SunCEC2007-Day-5-Back-in-Germany.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3591-SunCEC2007-Day-5-Back-in-Germany.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3591 0 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3591 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp)
I didn´t wrote my summary of CEC2007. This will be a job for the weekend. The Inflight Entertainment was more tempting Livefreeordiehiehard (aka Die Hard 4.0) was fun, the House M.D. episode was an older one (it was the one, where a young man get unconscious after sex. Diagnosis at the end: gout), but i´m now sure that I need the episodes in their original language and an unsynchronized Harry Potter is nice, too.

The problems with my travel schedule were solved in San Francisco. The woman at the check-in counter in Vegas was really incompetent. It was bullshit, that she wasn´t able to check me in to Berlin. But the Lufthansa Counter in SFO solved that problem, they even searched for my luggage to put a new luggage badge on it, routing it to my final destination. But th that wasn´t the best round my journey back home. I checked in one piece of luggage in Vegas, but they found two in the carts for the 747. I assume, that the unlucky guy at the check-in counter left of me will wait vastly longer for his luggage. As i stated before: The women at the Vegas check made the impression of being vastly overstrained.

PS: I´m really glad i was at CEC, but now i want to be at home. ]]> Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:29:18 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3591-guid.html suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3591-SunCEC2007-Day-5-Back-in-Germany.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441153/3590-SunCEC2007-Day-4-A-little-bit-annoying.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3590-SunCEC2007-Day-4-A-little-bit-annoying.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3590 0 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3590 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp) ]]> Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:46:01 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3590-guid.html suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3590-SunCEC2007-Day-4-A-little-bit-annoying.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441154/3589-SunCEC2007-Day-4-On-the-way-back-to-germany.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3589-SunCEC2007-Day-4-On-the-way-back-to-germany.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3589 0 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3589 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp)
PS: I´ve made somewhat over 400 photos of the Bellagio water fountains in action yesterday evening. There some really good shoots. Will upload them back home. ]]> Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:35:20 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3589-guid.html suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3589-SunCEC2007-Day-4-On-the-way-back-to-germany.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441155/3587-SunCEC2007-Metric-of-interestingness.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3587-SunCEC2007-Metric-of-interestingness.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3587 0 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3587 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp) ]]> Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:08:00 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3587-guid.html keynote suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3587-SunCEC2007-Metric-of-interestingness.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441156/3586-SunCEC2007-Day-3-All-Hands-GSE.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3586-SunCEC2007-Day-3-All-Hands-GSE.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3586 1 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3586 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp) ]]> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:23:17 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3586-guid.html party suncec2007 tired http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3586-SunCEC2007-Day-3-All-Hands-GSE.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441157/3585-SunCEC2007-Day-3-Why-CEC.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3585-SunCEC2007-Day-3-Why-CEC.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3585 0 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3585 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp)
But the core asset of this conference lies somewhere else It´s communication, the talks between the session in the floors. I had some really interesting discussions in informal talks at CEC. I have learned a thing or two but more important i´ve met people with different perspective , different challenges and different solutions on topics similar to those, which keeps me awake.

It was worth to travel 10 hours for this talks alone ... well ... to be exact .. it were 24 hours bed to bed ... ]]> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:13:45 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3585-guid.html suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3585-SunCEC2007-Day-3-Why-CEC.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441158/3584-SunCEC2007-Day-2-Tired-....html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3584-SunCEC2007-Day-2-Tired-....html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3584 0 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3584 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp) ]]> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:34:37 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3584-guid.html suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3584-SunCEC2007-Day-2-Tired-....html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441159/3583-SunCEC2007-Day-2-Photos-of-the-Keynotes-of-the-2nd-day.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3583-SunCEC2007-Day-2-Photos-of-the-Keynotes-of-the-2nd-day.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3583 0 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3583 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp) ]]> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:21:16 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3583-guid.html 2ndday keynotes suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3583-SunCEC2007-Day-2-Photos-of-the-Keynotes-of-the-2nd-day.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441160/3582-SunCEC2007-Day-3-Convergence.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3582-SunCEC2007-Day-3-Convergence.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3582 0 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3582 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp)
It´s much simpler ... i feed my blog with this phone. Well, not directly and not for the long articles, but when you look at the front page you see a block of five short messages on the top. This block is feeded by my twitter-account, This feed gets it´s input from the simplified mobile twitter interface. And now the E61 comes into play: It has WLAN, it has a webbrowser .. all you need to feed twitter (and thus all you need to blog a short message) while sitting in a keynote or walking around at the conference. This is Web 2.0 as i want it .. a simple way to connect services to produce content with several (very different) input devices. ]]> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:51:22 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3582-guid.html blogging e61 nokia suncec2007 web2.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3582-SunCEC2007-Day-3-Convergence.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441161/3581-SunCEC2007-Day-2-Niagara-2-Systems-launch.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3581-SunCEC2007-Day-2-Niagara-2-Systems-launch.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3581 1 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3581 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp) Allan Packers link list is a really god start). So i won´t write about the systems now. Nevertheless i want to write about the event itself. It was really cool launch. As far as i know it was the only launch (at last since i work for Sun) in front of 4000 peoples with at least half of them wearing "I love Solaris"-tshirts. Jonathan made an excellent keynote before and so it was a kind of a special atmosphere that surrounded the event.

The event started with the usual presentation about the advantages of the new systems hold by John Fowler. Then Andy B. and Rick Hetherington (lead of the N2 development) joined the stage and the real metal was presented. And this metal is really cool. 64 Threads. 64 Gigabytes. There was a Constellation-chassis full of T6230 blades. Doesn´t sound impressive.? This rack contains 48 blades. 3072 Gigabytes of memory in one rack. 3072 threads in one rack. I find this really cool. After testimonials from Ichiro Hirose of Fujitsu and Jason Turner of Mediastile, John talked about the six records on benchmarks (ranging from specjbb over specweb to specfp) and led to the Q&A session.

Andy B. made on of the best comments when he answered the question about the Oracle Licensin with "There are several opsn-source databases out there which runs really good on this systems". He got instant applause for this comment. I assume, that many colleagues share my opinion about Oracle ("incredible expensive, political pricing and unneeded for many databases").

So ... it was a really cool event. I think it would be a good idea to keep this way to announce such groundbreaking products. There is no better auditorium for such announcement than 4000 engineers. Maybe we can get even more ecstatic as the Apple folks when we announce Rock and Supernova The systems would deserve it ...

PS: I don´t know if i´m correct, but i thing we´ve offically announced Project Etude (Solaris 8 container on Solaris 10) yesterday on one slide. It´s called Solaris 8 Migration Assistant. ]]> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:59:36 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3581-guid.html launch niagara2 suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3581-SunCEC2007-Day-2-Niagara-2-Systems-launch.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441162/3580-SunCEC2007-Day-2-Photos-of-the-Niagara-2-Systems-launch-event.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3580-SunCEC2007-Day-2-Photos-of-the-Niagara-2-Systems-launch-event.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3580 0 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3580 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp) ]]> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:17:46 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3580-guid.html suncec2007 sunlaunch07 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3580-SunCEC2007-Day-2-Photos-of-the-Niagara-2-Systems-launch-event.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441163/3579-SunCEC2007-Day-2-Party.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3579-SunCEC2007-Day-2-Party.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3579 1 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3579 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp) ]]> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:08:58 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3579-guid.html suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3579-SunCEC2007-Day-2-Party.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441164/3578-SunCEC2007-Day-2-1st-breakout-RBAC-by-John-Walsh.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3578-SunCEC2007-Day-2-1st-breakout-RBAC-by-John-Walsh.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3578 0 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3578 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp)
I took some interesting information out of this breakout.

• Often the first try of a customer to implement roles end in role explosion ( worstcase: vastly more roles than users)
• Don´t try to put 100% of all roles in your model. The project will never finish
• 80% of the people use 20% of the roles. 20% of the people use 80% of the roles.
• Based on this observation, define a standard set of roles for the 80% and use exceptions (together with a decent toolset) for the residual 20%
• There are two methods to determine roles: Top-Down (ask managers about roles) and bottum-up (ask authentication databases about roles). Mostly you end with using both methodologies in a hybrid approach. But whatever you choose to do, choose the methodology that has the least potential of role explosion

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Tim Bray thinks, that there are for key issues to developers of Web 2.0: Scaleability, Time to market, Maintainability and Integration. Interestingly he doesn´t say "Java for all" becaus it´s simply not true. For example people opt for PHP because of Scaleability because of the default shared-nothing architecture of PHP application, and Time to market, as it´s easy to hack together an application. But the code is mostly unmaintainable, as Tim summarized it : "Bad SQL-Code, in Spagetti-PHP-Code in Spaghetti-HTML".

Ruby on Rails on the other side addresses Time-to-maket and maintainability, as code written for this framework tends to be more compact and by the fact that it´s difficult to evade unit testing. From the viewpoint of Tim, Ruby on Rails has the potential to get as big as Java is nowadays, once Ruby has solved it´s performance and scaleability problems.

Out of this reasons, Sun works together with the community: Warm relationships with the developers, sponsoring of equipment, employment of top developers for the JRuby implementation and so on. The talk of Tim was a good example of the new agnostic-ness of Sun. Java is a good answer to many questiions, but not for all. Almost at the end of his presentation, he came up with the tagline that summarizes this position: "The network is the computer. The computer is heterogenious. Deal with it!"

Tim was definitely the highlight of todays breakout sessions. I share his opinions.Programming languages are tools, not religions and we should handle them as tools: using the right tool for the given job. ]]> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:15:57 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3576-guid.html suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3576-SunCEC2007-Day-2-2nd-breakout-Web-2.0-by-Tim-Bray.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/C0t0d0s0org-Suncec2007/~3/316441167/3575-SunCEC2007-Day-2-Macs.html suncec2007 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3575-SunCEC2007-Day-2-Macs.html#comments http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=3575 0 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3575 nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp) ]]> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:14:04 +0200 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3575-guid.html apple sun suncec2007 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/3575-SunCEC2007-Day-2-Macs.html