Garden 3
Butterfly
Different perspective.
Was a long day today … wake up at 05:45, flew to Nuremberg today, actually via Duesseldorf with one and a half our wait time (no problem, my office is...
Multitude of JVM - misinterpreted ;)
TPM is bragging about the SPECjbb2005 performance of the p7 system. Interestingly he is talking about the nonsensical benchmark again: Multiple JVMs per system with 32 bit. As i wrote...
Garden
Frequent Traveller at Lufthansa
It’s a small change at the Lufthansa Frequent Traveller program and perhaps most people are aware of this change as it was made on 1.1.2010, but Lufthansa changed it back...
Aufmerksamkeitserheischer
Kann mir jemand eine vernünftige Begründung nennen, warum der Bundespräsident in der Mitte bei der Pressekonferenz des DFB sitzt. Das ist ein Erfolg der Spieler, des Trainers und mag vielleicht...
PSARC/2010/259 Ethernet over IB
When you look at the list of PSARC cases, you can get the impression, that Infiniband is one bigger topics in the development of Solaris: PSARC/2010/234 IBTF 2010.Q2 Enhancements, PSARC/2010/239...
Mirrored L2ARC?
There is an interesting discussion in a Marcelo Leals blog article “Do you need L2ARC redundancy? I do…” at the moment: Does Solaris need a mirrored L2ARC in Solaris? I’m...
Bumble Bee
(at least i think it’s a bumble bee)
PSARC 2010/251 FC over IB support.
On Saturday i wrote about the new converged networking adapter in the Oracle portfolio. However you shouldn’t forget that there is a second possible interconnect for a single-fabric network (converged...
Flickr-Set: Dragonfly
Hedgehog
Die dritte Wahl in der dritten Wahl
Nun haben wir Herrn Wulff als Bundespräsidenten. Ob Schloss Bellevue jetzt in Castle Wulffenstein umbenannt wird, bleibt abzuwarten (Den verstehen wahrscheinlich nur wieder Geeks). Einige Gedanken dazu: Das die Installation...
PSARC 2009/042 max-processes resource control
The code implementing “PSARC 2009/042 max-processes rctl” was integrated today at noon: The max-processes resource controls introduced by this case limit the number of slots in the process table that...
Unterwäsche im Handgepäck
Hmmm … dieser Teil des Artikels “Schlafentzug im Schlafanzug” erinnert mich an eine grundlegende Regel des transkontinentalen Fliegens. Man sollte immer zumindestens eine Garnitur Unterwäsche im Handgepäck haben. Es ist...
Fighting for the best place in the apron bus
A few weeks ago i wrote about this strange behaviour of airline passenger to storm the aircraft as there would be no reserved seats in it or no kind request...
A320
A few days ago the A320 celebrated it’s 50.000.000 take-off and the five billionth passenger since the introduction of this model in 1988. On the other side there were 9...
Power Cycling
Do your really think, that power cycling your computer is just something people do at home, when their computer acts weird? Well … not really. In a Safety Alert for...
Astonishing
A good example how resilient aircraft engines are: The Avherald published some photos of an engine of an 777 that had to land at Schipol instead of Heathrow because of...