16 core porn
last.fm got a new machine for their central database. They made some hardcore hardware porn shots with the machine. Looks like a fully loaded X4450.
1962
Freitags in der Bahn
An manche Dinge im Rahmen der Emanzipation muss man sich ja wirklich erst gewöhnen : Als ich bei der Bundeswehr war (93-95), haben in den Zügen der Bahn Freitags nur...
NuBIT
Habe meine beiden Vorträge bei der NuBIT gehalten … sind ganz gut gelaufen. Aber da ich schon mit schmerzenden Hals nach Kiel gefahren bin, bin ich jetzt ganz stimmlos. Wer...
Uninformed
What should you think about commentators making such errors? Fujitsu-Siemens was about a year late last year getting the dual-core Sparc64-VI chips to market. Okay, just to repeat it again:...
links for 2008-02-13
Sun Introduces The Industry's First Carrier-Grade, 64-Thread Rackmount Server We´ve announced a NEBS certified version for telcos of the Sun T5220 system . (tags: NEBS sun)
Opensolaris Developer Preview 2
Glynn Foster announced the availability of the second developer preview of Opensolaris. You can download the image of the LiveCD here.
Sun acquires innotek
We acquired an additional open source company. From the press release: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced that it has entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire innotek,...
Bottom up
MacOS 10.5.2 out now ...
Apple published a new version of Leopard. You find the “What´s new” list on Apple´s website.
Known, but underused Solaris Features: Live Upgrade
How to change the world ? Once in a while root saw some imperfections in his world. He had change some things. But root couldn´t stop the turning of the...
Review of the T5120
Octave Orgeron did a really good review of the T5120 server. Octave closes his findings with: The T5120 and the T5220 offer many unique and exciting features that set it...
Burning Sky
Rock
Perhaps you wondered a little bit about the fact, that i didn´t wrote about the reports about the delayed Rock processor. I wrote an article, but this contained some internal...
links for 2008-02-10
AIR TRAFFIC around Zuerich TRACON and Google Maps mashup (tags: airplane cool fliegen googlemaps) How Rainbow Tables work (tags: article crypto cryptography encryption hash security) Localwuerstchens Tagebuch Frau Localwurst (Ich...
links for 2008-02-09
Solaris TCP Latency for HPC This is important for software like memcached, too. Interposing on malloc How to write your own interposer library
Coverflow in Finder
I wasn´t sure about the usefullness of Coverflow in Finder. But now i have a good use case for it. The pdf´s from docs.sub.com doesn´t have a speaking name (like...
Problems with Akismet
To keep spam outside my blog, i configured my software to use Akismet. This is a centralised AntiSpam service. This worked reasonably well, thus i configured an automatic rejection of...
Rauchverbot
Kommentar einer Bekannten, die als Bedienung ihr Studium finanziert: “Mir wäre es lieber, wenn die Gäste wieder rauchen. Jetzt riecht man die Gäste, ihre Parfüms und die Schweissflecken.” Sie ist...
Solaris Containerleitfaden 2.0
Detlef Drewanz und Ulrich Gräf haben den Containerleitfaden in der Version 2.0 fertig gestellt. Wesentliche Neuerungen dieser Ausgabe sind IP Instances, neues Ressource Management, Live Upgrade mit Zonen und Branded...