Solaris and the GNU (tools)
The ever reoccuring customer criticism in the Q&A part of my presentations is: “Your command line tools are really strange in regard of the options. Why does your ps has...
Over 900 subscribers
c0t0d0s0.org just reached the number of 900 subscribers:Really cool …
Separated ZIL on ramdisk.
I used ramdisks today in a live presentation of ZFS, L2ARC and sZIL (you can´t use files for sZIL and L2ARC testing, you need a device). One of the customers...
Spleen
I was in the mood for back-biting myself for the fact, that i tried to save some money for Sun. This meant: As there was no economy class seat in...
MSI Wind PC and Opensolaris
I just bought a MSI Wind PC . This is a device in the so-called “Nettop” range. 1.6 GHz Atom, 1 GB RAM, 320 GB harddisk and 30 Watts of...
Anmerkungen zum ZFS-Tutorial in der c´t - revisited
Eigentlich wollte ich das Thema “ZFS-Tutorial in der c´t” mit dem letzte Artikel abschliessen, aber meine Anmerkungen haben doch so viele Reaktionen zur Folge gehabt, das ich mich dazu entschlossen...
links for 2008-10-08
Exposing a MySQL Database with RESTful Web Services - NetBeans IDE 6.0 Tutorial (tags: webservices webservice tutorial restful rest netbeans) Getting Started with RESTful Web Services on Glass Fish -...
Anmerkungen zum ZFS-Tutorial in der c´t
Die c´t schreibt im Artikel ueber ZFS: Aber auch ein RAID-Z kann richtig kaputtgehen: Als wir im laufenden Betrieb aus einem RAID-Z1-Verbund mit drei Platten zwei entfernten und mit zpool...
TheRegister about the NTAP/Sun lawsuit
The Register writes in NetApp faces Sun lawsuit loss: NetApp was unable to comment immediately on this story. Sun's win - if it is a win - and the PTO...
links for 2008-10-07
767 deal structures studied for Boeing's ANA/JAL 787 compensation deals (tags: 767 787 Boeing Delayliner)
ZFS in der c´t
In der aktuellen Ausgabe der c´t (21/2008 vom 29.9.2008) kann der geneigte Leser auf den Seiten 194 bis 199 ein gutes Tutorial zum Thema ZFS finden. Positiv geschrieben. Leider hat...
Earworm
Sh… can´t get this tune out of my head …
links for 2008-10-06
Finanzkrise in Deutschland - Demokratiealarm - Wirtschaft - sueddeutsche.de Muss ein Schaediger nur dreist genug und der Schaden nur gross genug sein, damit der Staat das Desaster nobilitiert? (tags: wirtschaft...
Oracle on CMT
Glenn.Fawcett of Sun and Andrew.Holdsworth of Oracle held a presentation about the performance characteristics of Oracle on CMT: Growing Green Databases with Oracle and Sun UltraSPARC T-series servers. The presentation...
News from the NetApp vs. Sun lawsuit
Mike Dillon published some news in his blog about the NTAP vs. Sun. The development looks really positive for Sun: Most significantly, the Court found each of the asserted claims...
Heise und der SAP SD Benchmark
Da muss ich doch meinen Hut vor Herrn Stiller ziehen. Ich hatte mich ja ein wenig ueber die Bewertung der unterschiedlichen SAP-SD Benchmarks fuer die Hexacore Systeme echauffiert. Dies hat...
links for 2008-10-05
digital:pardoe – iSyncIt (tags: sync software productivity osx nokia macosx)
Going to lunch - with the eyes of an IT architect
When you work as an architect in the IT industry you tend to look at the non-IT processes in your world with the eyes of an IT archtitect. And at...
IBM stock under pressure
In the last few days the stock of IBM was hit quite hard. Two days with roundabout 5 percent decrease. You can wonder a little bit about this, but there...
links for 2008-10-02
Self-service, Prorated Super Computing Fun! - Open - Code - New York Times Blog (tags: webservices scalability storage s3 python programming performance parallel mapreduce hadoop grid java) Introduction to Hadoop...