Pride goes before a fall.
It´s definitly fear. Or do you know a different explanation for such a major malfunction of good sense. Andrew Morton went as far as: He didn’t mince words. “It’s a...
Second Life - revisited
I´m in desperate need of a system with a faster graphics card … with multiple videos and the surrounding structure the system was dog slow while watching the Niagara 2...
Niagara 2 performance
BMseer compares the preliminary SPECint_rate2006 and SPECfp_rate2006 results of Niagara2 with some other leading processor brands … very encouraging.
Niagara 2 news galore
Jonathan in Sun Enters the Commodity Silicon Business: To add fuel to the fire, the blueprints for our UltraSPARC T2 (I personally like the moniker, "Niagara 2" - named after...
Arrogance or fear?
It is just me, or is this statement full of arrogance: "They've fragmented the non-Windows operating system world and they continue to do so," he said. But he acknowledged he...
links for 2007-08-07
Lozworld [TM] :: Mac Mini, DisplayConfigX and Panasonic TH42PX60B (tags: Mac Panasonic Plasma resolution)
Register about Niagara II
The usual suspect at the Register wrote a nice piece about the Niagara II: Sun releases world’s fastest chip - at 1.4GHz. Ashlee, you´ve ain´t seen nothing yet. Other benchmarks...
Taking a bath ...
45m
Ich vermute, darüber wird man sich in Finkenwerder freuen: Airbus A380 erhält Zulassung für 45 Meter breite Landebahnen. Bisher waren ja 60m breite Monsterlandebahnen vorgeschrieben. Obwohl: Der Vogel ist wirklich...
Mercury News about Niagara II
Mercury News reports about Niagara II in Sun takes on AMD and Intel with new chip. But i find HP´s stance to Niagara II the most interesting part : "Sun's...
links for 2007-08-06
Sparks and White Noise: Niagara II About to Take Center Stage (tags: CMT Niagara2)
Schulungen für Solaris 10
Ich wurde schon häufiger von Lesern nach richtigen Schulungen gefragt, um Auffrischungen für die neuen Features in Solaris 10 zu bekommen. Über Detlef ist mir diesbezüglich nun ein Flyer mit...
Second Life
See you in the Sun Second Life Pavillion tomorrow at 10 o´clock Pacific time (18 o´clock GMT). Don´t miss it.
Das Wort zum Montag Morgen ...
links for 2007-08-05
Chris's Wiki :: blog/solaris/DiskSuiteiSCSIProblem Chris blogs about some Disksuite and iSCSI (tags: iSCSI Disksuite Solaris SVM) Solaris Jedi: First impressions of ZFS "I'm happy to report ZFS was painless and...
Successful grid computing
The most successful usage (from an economic standpoint) of grid computing is ubiquitous, but not obvious. The Guardian writes about it in Why did baddies get grid computing first?: They're...
links for 2007-08-04
Slashdot | Sun to Release 8-Core Niagara 2 Processor (tags: computer niagara slashdot) Sun reports strong Q4 profits, but when will revenue follow? | Tech news blog - CNET News.com...
Frequent Traveller programs
It´s a common misconception that frequent traveller program are for frequent travellers: I´ve flown almost a hundred times the last two years and still no FTL. A good friend, first...
About scheduling
Interesting annotation about the fuss surrounding the CFS in Linux: I find it interesting and slightly sad, given how low level a topic this really is, how much is being...
Jokes about DRS
A colleague of me asked me some months ago “Don´t make jokes about Dresden airport”. Yesterday i had my small point-and-shot camera with me to document the whole point of...