Beginners Guide to LDOMs updated
The Beginners Guide to LDoms: Understanding and Deploying Logical Domains for Logical Domains got an long awaited update. This updates the original article, first published in February, 2007. In addition...
Potter
Das Handelsblatt weist darauf hin, was die “Harry Potter”-Bücher wirklich sind: Ein Karriereleitfaden für High Potentials
Separate Logging for ZFS
Neil gives an introduction into the usage of the new “seperate zil” feature (dubbed “slog” for “seperate log”). This feature was introduced with build 68 of Opensolaris. Addtionally, he made...
More fun with IBM: Cores/Processors
BM talks about it´s p570 system as an 8 processor system. You find this at the top full disclosure of their p570 TPC-C benchmark But: Why do you need 16...
Schlagkräftige Antwort
Die ultimative Antwort, wenn jemand an einem Check-In-Schalter mit der “Wissen Sie nicht, wer ich bin?”-Nummer nervt ….
Eye Candy: dstrukt showreel
Ian about Project Indiana
Ian Murdock, the man behind Project Indiana writes about the target of his project: So, the next time you read about how Project Indiana aims to make Solaris more “Linux-like”,...
smbfs
At last: the first alpha version of smbfs was dropped to opensolaris.org. With smbfs you can mount shares from CIFS fileservers (Windows/Samba).
End of RAID-5?
Robin Harris of StorageMojo verbalized an interesting theory regarding an imminent inpractiability of RAID5 within 2 years: The arithmetic goes like this. Take a 7 drive RAID 5 stripe. Each...
Serverwatch about "open" AIX
Serverwatch comments the “open” AIX marketing stunt: It sounds to me like IBM wanted to get the "OSS Bump," where anything associated with the term open source gets more notice...
Filesystems as a differentiator
In the recent years, many people thought of filesytems as a commodity. No further development needed. But that wasn´t true. Filesytems still matters and many issues had to be addressed....
Berlioz
Ja … ich weiss, es ist verrückt, aber ich habe mir gerade Karten für ein Konzert am 4. November bestellt. Okay, an sich ist das noch nicht wildes. Aber dieses...
Databases and ZFS
Eric Kustarz benchmarks some recent changes to the vdev cache behaviour of ZFS regarding databases. Interesting read.
XEN for Solaris
There is a new code drop for XEN on Solaris based on the SXCE-Build 66. You can download it here. A list of new stuff in this code drop is...
Finding memory leak
Good introduction into memory leak debugging with libumem in Solaris.
links for 2007-07-17
Legacy matters: why the IBM mainframe continues to thrive (tags: IBM mainframes technology business)
0,006 Prozent
0,006% mehr Verbrechen könnten aufgeklärt werden, wenn die Vorratsdatenspeicherung eingeführt werden würde. Ich glaube, mit mehr Steuerprüfern/Steuerfahndern könnte man mehr erreichen oder bundesweit tausend Planstellen mehr für die Schutzpolizei oder...
Noch´n Verzug ...
Was bei den Videospielen Duke Nukem Forever ist, ist im DVD-Markt die deutsche Version der Muppet-Show. Kommt jetzt erst Mitte 2008 … so nen Mist …
Theft protection for your iPod
It´s so easy to protect your iPod from theft: Hide-a-pod made from 100% genuine disembowled Zunes: How can you do this so cheap? There were a lot of disappointed kids...
links for 2007-07-16
Upcoming IBM AIX 6 features vs. Sun Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris - blog'o thnet (tags: Solaris AIX Sun IBM)