xVM Server and xVM Virtualbox
I´ve got the question several times in customer meetings, mails and even in comments in my blog: “Why has Sun two hypervisors? When should we use xVM server? When should...
Burst
Since yesterdays evening i have a really strange burst in visits. They almost doubled. But i have no idea where this burst comes from, because i just see many referer...
Using Sun Studio Compiler for x64
The GCC has the advantage, that you get it almost everywhere and many programmers design their makefiles in a way as it is the only compiler in the world (on...
Making an one dot zero out of the LKSF book
I´ve decided to stop the writing of new parts for the LKSF for a while and want to make a version 1.0 of of this document. There is one major...
The new trailer for the next Bond
Just a “Wow … must see it … can´t wait”: </param></param></embed>
Discussion
Sorry, but i haven´t found time to write new articles today … the discussion raging in the comments of this older article is just too interesting at the moment …...
xVM
There were many reports about the announcement of xVM today. I won´t repeat all the stuff said about this suite of products. The blog of Steve Wilson is a good...
Strange day ....
This was really a strange day … it really tried hard to annoy me. I have to start in the morning to tell the complete story. This morning i woke...
links for 2008-09-10
Studio Network Solutions - Download iSCSI Initiator for Mac OS X (tags: iscsi macosx)
Salon: "What's the difference between Palin and Muslim fundamentalists? Lipstick"
A really good article at Salon about the Mrs. Palin: McCain once excoriated the Rev. Jerry Falwell and his ilk as "agents of intolerance." That he took such a position...
Two-faced
I hate this two faces comments. In an article in a blog of the Wall Street Journal about xVM, an analyst is cited: Al Gillen, an analyst at IDC, questions...
Suicide Wednesday
I´m on my way to Wilhelmshaven for a customer meeting. 10 minutes delay at the moment because of an “emergency doctor deployment on the track” at the small village Wüsting....
A fabless AMD?
According to the article “Re-engineering AMD” in Fortune´s BigTech blog AMD plans to spinoff it´s fabs: Since it can’t afford to do this anymore, AMD plans to spin off its...
I hate ...
… dentists.
links for 2008-09-09
Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient (tags: writing usability typography tools text tex software reference) Six-Year-Old News Story Causes United Airlines Stock to Plummet -- UPDATE Google Placed Wrong Date on...
Tofu
PDF articles with multiple columns look good on paper, but they are a major pain in the a… to read on a display under 22 inches. There is a small...
Boomerang ad campaigns
Perhaps you remember Microsofts ad campaign regarding with the fake newspaper “The highly reliable Times”. There was one version with the London Stock Exchange: I think this one got back...
Carcassonne
links for 2008-09-08
eWeek: Sun Gets Big Traction in Storage Market (tags: storage Sun) Solarius CAT 5.0 Release Notes : SolarisCAT (tags: solaris SolarisCAT sun)
UltraSPARC T1 on a Xilinx FPGA
Interesting news … Sun and Xilinx jointly announced the availability of a development board with an UltraSPARC T1 processor on a Virtex-5 FPGA. You can buy a reference board with...