Oracle Solaris 11.1
Solaris 11.1 was just announced a few hours ago:Oracle Announces Oracle Solaris 11.1 at Oracle OpenWorld. You can find a list of new features here.
Froscon Talk cancled
Just back from a final trip from spain and i’m starting to get ill. So i don’t think i’m fit enough to travel to the Froscon tomorrow. Sorry, if you...
LX2021
A few days i wrote on Facebook that business travel is sometimes rewarding. I meant the nice view from a ferry on the that i had to use in order...
Activating 2gig pages on Solaris 10.
Giri Mandalika wrote an article how to use the 2 gigabyte page size offered by T4 systems on Solaris 10: “Enabling 2 GB Large Pages on Solaris 10”. This can...
Mathematikaufgabenblattgenerator
Dirk Wriedt, ein Kollege von mir, baut gerade ein recht interessantes Angebot auf: dw-aufgaben.de. Das Tool generiert webbasiert Aufgabenblätter für den Mathematikunterricht 1.-10. Klasse. Wirklich interessante Idee.
Hotel doors
News like this are the reason why i’m carrying my notebook and my iPad always with me when on travel as i don’t trust hotel doors. However i didn’t thought...
"How to Manage ZFS Data Encryption" by Darren Moffat
There is an really nice article on OTN about using the encryption feature of ZFS written by Darren Moffat: ““How to Manage ZFS Data Encryption””. Really worth a read.
Talk at the DOAG 2012
From 20th to 22nd November 2012 the DOAG Conference 2012 takes place in Nuremberg. Just as an early warning: I just got the confirmation that my talk about network configuration...
Find out in-depth information about a file in ZFS
When working with ZFS, you probably know that you can change many parameters of a filesystem at runtime, for example the record size. But how do you find out, what...
My "Parasitic Hadoop" lecture at the FrOSCon 2012
A few days ago i wrote, that my talk about “Parasitic Hadoop - Wie man bereits vorhandene Server für Hadoop mitnutzen kann und dabei die eigentliche Produktionslast nicht in Mitleidenschaft...
Recommended film: Sunshine (2007)
What i like most about the internet that you get hyperlinked into new stuff you perhaps never would know without being pointed to them via the internet. For example, yesterday...
Solaris 11 Cryptographic Framework in FIPS 140-2 evaluation
The Solaris 11 Cryptographic Framework is now in FIPS 140-2 evalutation as described in the Oracle Security Evaluations matrix.
I would sell my soul to see this with my own eyes
Photos of the earth taken by astronauts of the ISS, transformed into a stunning movie: (click here)
8th anniversary of c0t0d0s0.org
It was a week ago and i almost forgot about it. c0t0d0s0.org celebreated its 8th birthday on July 15th. Hope that i will able to revive the blog until the...
Don't misuse ping!
Folks, there is a tool that is highly misused, a tool that was meant for a completly different task, but now used by people to measure or compare something: ping....
Talk at the FrOSCon 2012
A few days ago i got the confirmation that my talk “Parasitic Hadoop” as accepted for the FrOSCon this year. It’s a talk about a concept, that i’ve used to...
The higgs boson explained
Nice explanation: (click here)
Video : "Power Management with Oracle VM Server for SPARC"
Nice video showing the concepts of power saving in T4 systems like performance and elastic power management policies, how cycle skipping is handled by the LDOM manager, shows the power...
Nice Whitepaper: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Oracle Solaris Porting Guide"
There is an interesting document available inside OTN: “Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Oracle Solaris Porting Guide”. While it’s headline mentions RHEL i’m sure many tips are useful for developers...
Real impact
Sometimes the impacts of a bug are really interesting and easily measurable: On Tuesday i got a mail from the company that hosts c0t0d0s0.org that the electrical power consumption of...