Heiteres Berufebloggen
Ich finde ja jene Blogs am Interessantesten, die einen Einblick in andere Berufe geben. Blogs ueber Technik sind zwar oftmals informativ, aber es ist eben wie das Lesen der Zeitung...
Some news about Itanic
At first: Itanium2 will be renamed … to Itanium. Must be a quarter without other important news ;). But there are more interesting news at TPM´s IT Jungle. He writes...
SPARC vs. Itanium
Quite amazing, that a single product line in the SPARC business outships the complete Itanium market. Michelle Parkinson writes in Sun Holds #1 Position in UNIX Shipments, According to IDC:...
links for 2008-03-01
Scientia's Blog: 2008: AMD Still Trailing (tags: AMD,CPU)
Zahlenspiel zur Wahl in Hamburg
Nils zitiert in “Impressionen eines Wahlhelfers” den Verein Mehr Demokratie e.V.: Beim Volksentscheid vom Oktober stimmten 365.133 Hamburgerinnen und Hamburger für verbindliche Volksentscheide. Bei der jetzigen Bürgerschaftswahl stimmten 331.184 Hamburgerinnen...
New tape library from Sun: Sun StorageTek SL3000
We´ve announced a new tape library: The SL3000. Up to 3000 tapes. Up to 56 drives. It´s a smaller system for people who doesn´t need the massive sized SL8500 (we...
Solaris Features: Service Management Facility
Okay, i finalized my SMF tutorial. Was a good distraction from other events … Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The foundations of SMF Part 3: Working with SMF Part 4:...
Solaris Features: Service Management Facility - Part 5: Conclusion
Okay, I hope i was able to give you some insights into the Service Management Framework. It´s a mighty tool and this article only scratched on the surface of the...
Solaris Features: Service Management Facility - Part 4: Developing for SMF
Okay, now you know how to do basic tasks. But how to use SMF for your your own applications. I will use openvpn as an example. A good source for...
Solaris Features: Service Management Facility - Part 3: Working with SMF
After so much theory SMF may look a little bit complex but it isn´t. For the admin it´s really simple. You can control the complete startup of the system with...
Solaris Features: Service Management Facility - Part 2: The foundations of SMF
The additional capabilities of the SMF comes at a price. SMF has to know more about your services. Most of the new components of the SMF has to do with...
Solaris Features: Service Management Facility - Part 1: Introduction
The Service Management Facility is a quite new feature. But sometimes i have the impression that the most used feature is the capability to use old legacy init.d scripts. But...
OEM aggreement between Sun and VMware
VMware again. Sun and VMware announced an OEM agreement: Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced an OEM agreement to expand their virtualization offerings. Starting today,...
VMware exploit
My considerations about the security of virtual machines seem to be correct. The Register writes about a VMware Workstation exploit in VMware vuln exposes the perils of virtualization: The exploit...
RE:Trace
On the foundations of Dtrace the security specialists Tiller Beauchamp and David Weston created a tool for finding vulnerabilties in your code (or writting exploits, depends on your objectives). It...
Hoerempfehlung: The Secret Meeting - Ultrashiver
Vor einiger Zeit habe ich hier ja mal eine Hoerempfehlung für Vortex von Collide ausgesprochen (Ist das wirklich schon fast drei Jahre her ??). Jetzt haben kaRIN und Statik von...
Elisabeth Möllenkamp: 1914-2008
To my grandmother:it was only one hour ago it was all so different then there's nothing yet has really sunk in looks like it always did this flesh and bone...
links for 2008-02-25
Putting terabytes of memory into servers, the cheap way | CNET News.com (tags: memory)
Less known Solaris Features: Installing packages directly from web
Until i´ve finalized my next larger article, i want to give spotlight to a really small, but really useful feature: One relativly unknown feature of recent versions of pkgadd is...
Wahl in Hamburg
Ich weiss nicht, ob sich die CDU in Hamburg ueber eine moegliche linke Koalition in Hessen beschweren darf. Immerhin hat sich Herr von Beust mit den Stimmen von Herrn Schills...