pstop and prun
Many people know how to kill a process, but less people know that you can suspend a running process in to resume the execution later. The test case I wrote...
Guttenberg Roadkill
Vor nicht ganz einer Weile ist eine 18 jährige Autorin für übernommene, aber nicht dem Originalautor zugeordnete Zeilen in ihrem Buch beinahe geschlachtet worden. Ich hege die Hoffnung, das der...
Secure Deployment of LDOMs
Stefan Hinker wrote a great document about the secure deployment of LDOMs.
Synchronicity in asynchronicity
Sometimes you just think … “Hell … this shouts for being misunderstood”. Asynchronous filesystem semantics and Asynchronous I/O are such concepts. Sounds the same, but isn’t. And often people get...
30-Day Song Challenge: Day 07 — A song that reminds you of a certain event
This one is hard. As music is an important part of my music and as i’m listening to music almost all the time there are a lot of events with...
Would be a nice tagline for Solaris ....
I’m owning a Metabo cut saw for a month or so. When i saw the tag line on the box, i thought that this would be a nice tag line...
30-Day Song Challenge: Day 06 — A song that reminds of you of somewhere
This one is easy, too: “Careless Whisper” from Sether. When i drove through California with my brother while having the greatest vacation i had so far, this song was on...
30-day Song Challenge - Day 05: A song that reminds you of someone
There are many songs connected to persons in my life. So it’s not hard to find such a song, but it’s hard to choose one of them: After thinking for...
30-Day Song Challenge: Day 03 — A song that makes you happy
This is an easy one … there is one song that makes me smile whenever i hear it. It’s Sebastian Telliers “La Ritournelle”: Oh nothing’s gonna change my love for...
30-day Song Challenge - Day 1: Your favorite song
Music is an important part of my life. And i’m really interested in the music other people are listening. I think it’s really a window to the soul of other...
Apple start to make public contributions to OpenJDK
Mike Swingler of Apple announced yesterday, that Apple has started to contribute to the OpenJDK project: I'm very happy to let you know that today we made the first public...
Old dog ...
Think a dog looks like this when he thinks “Thank God, it’s friday” ;)
Eichhörnchen
Tealights
Fscking cold in Germany ....
Recommended listening: Daft Punk - TRON: Legacy
I wasn’t in cinema for the whole year. I will watch only one movie. And this movie will be this one: “TRON: Legacy”. I’m a child of the eighties and...
About zonestat
Jeff Victor wrote a nice introduction to zonestat. Worth a read!
When you think your life goes downhill ....
When you think your life goes downhill, imagine you are a heron and your preferred fish pond is covered by ice:
Protecting your data with two factors and ZFS dataset encryption
It’s really easy to use ZFS dataset encryption to protect your data in a way so you have to know something and to own something to get access to encrypted...
New Solaris features: Notifications from the Fault Management Architecture
The notification framework in Solaris is not only able to notify you of problems with services. As you may know, the fault management architecture monitors the hardware of a Solaris...