Transactional memory
A interesting article about the concept of transactional memory in internetnews.com: Sun Gives Multithreading an RDBMS feel
Spam
So, i hope that the changes to the infrastructure will lead to an more stable website. So, what it´s the problem: 3000 Visits a day are really good for a...
Minor fuckup
The webserver had some stability problems in the last few days due to high load. Additionally Frank warned me, that he used the links to the T2 photos in a...
House music M.D.
I know someone, who knows someone with access to british television. Thus i was able to get a dvd with three House M.D. episodes. Emergency Room jumped the shark after...
links for 2007-08-18
Server Snapshots: Spotlight on Sun Microsystems (tags: Sun Server hardware)
VMware vs GPL
Yesterday i´ve linked to the Inquirer story about the license violation claims of VMware made by a Linux developer . There is a good blog article venturecake.com that sheds some...
IBM and Sun ink OS Deal
It´s not the “IBM kicks AIX” deal i hoped for, although there are some small hints (Who wants AIX when there is a Solaris on the plattform ;) ). But...
Major fuckup
Sorry for the downtime … sometimes the celebrated update mechanisms of Linux can leave you with an unbootable system within a few seconds. Had to reinstall the system. Sorry for...
links for 2007-08-16
» Counting the roots of growth: BSD vs Linux vs Solaris | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com (tags: Sun Solaris Unix market)
Inquirer: VMware "uses a badly-hacked Linux kernel" - claim
Looks like an ticking time bomb at the foundation of VMware: According to Linus Torvalds, such applications are derived works of Linux and Christopher Helwig is the Linux SCSI storage...
A380-Auslieferung
Erstauslieferung der SIA-A380 ist am 15. Oktober. Vielleicht hören dann endlich mal die Unkenrufe auf …
Oben ohne ....
Liebe Angela, auch wenn es momentan anscheinend unter Politikern Mode ist, mit blossen Oberkörper rumzurennen: Mach diesen einen Trend bitte nicht mit! Ich bitte Dich wirklich inständig darum …
Joint Sun/IBM announcement
Looks like an interesting press announcement tomorrow. Let´s keep the finger crossed and hope that they will announce that they ditch AIX ;)
Some thoughts about IBM´s Workload Partition.
I´ve ranted yesterday about the marketing habits of IBM. But kudos to IBM, they have excellent documentation, they even document the weaknesses of their technologies. So you find very intersting...
Na endlich ...
Individuelle Bordunterhaltung in der Lufthansa Economy Class. Die an der Decke hängenden Fernseher, die zudem auch noch reichlich interessante magnetische Farbspielereien aufweisen sind so 1980 …
links for 2007-08-15
Sun rises in Forrester evaluation of platforms for SOA/BPM (tags: opensource java appserver SOA BPM) Foundry Networks Application Switching Products - ServerIronGT C10Gx2P (tags: networking web) Force10 Networks, S2410, Data...
Rettet die Apfeltaste!
Ich will die Apfeltaste behalten! Rettet die Apfeltaste!Save the Apple-Key!
iSCSI FAQ at wikis.sun.com
A colleague at Sun started to build a wiki page about iSCSI in Solaris.
Paul Murphy about Mainframe Linux
In Mainframe Linux Paul Murphy explains, why Linux on Mainframes isn´t a good idea (or as i tend to say: it´s utter bullshit to use something like that). It´s a...
Gamer-Zeitschrift über Niagara2
Die PC Games berichtet über Niagara2 in Schnellste CPU: Nicht von Intel oder AMD: Die Werte des professionellen SPEC-rate-Benchmarks, welcher auch die Skalierung mit mehreren Kernen berücksichtigt, liefern einen großen...