Meet the Stats - today: fsstat

There are a lot of *stat in Solaris … prstat, vmstat, iostat, vmstat. In the next weeks i want to write intermittently about all the stats. One of the lesser...

Boat 2

Boat

Sorry, but the weather is just too nice to sit in home office and to write long articles about technology ;)

The consequences of volcanic dust in jet engines

Michiel points in a comment to interesting photos of an jet engine that ingested volcanic ash : “PICTURES: Finnish F-18 engine check reveals effects of volcanic dust”. Perhaps the airline...

Abandoned sky

The location is normaly directly below a frequently used aviation route. By the way: What a great weather! :)

Spring

The sky looks strange ....

I’m so used to see at least a few condensation trails in the sky, that it grabs my attention when there isn’t a single one in the sky due to...

Impact of Clouds

This is the Departure Table of the Airport in Hamburg. Due to the volcanic ash cloud over Europe the airport in hamburg was totally closed down. I think it’s safe...

Less known Solaris error messages: "open failed: No such file in secure directories"

I just want to write about a error message people see when they try to force a program to use a different library. Sometimes that’s nescessary, because you want to...

Recommended Listening: Act Noir - Shape a new start

The days gets longer, the nights shorter, but my taste of music didn’t move out of the shadows so far. I’ve found an interesting album by accident yesterday while searching...

The size of an Airbus A380

I think most of us travelled in a Boeing 737 at least once. So you have an impression about the size of that bird. Well, when you look at this...

Condolences and a *facepalm*

My condolences goes to the people of Poland for their loss. However, when various reports are correct, the cause for this crash deserves a collective *facepalm*: Thick fog (500m visibility),...

Multitasking

One question isn’t answered by many people wanting multitasking for the iPhone/iPad: Why does an device need multitasking, when the wetware in front of the device isn’t able to do...

Habits

The webservice sleepingtime.org is a good example about information about our habits we give to the public without explicitly publishing them. 11pm to 5 am is astonishingly precise.

Tracking via Bluetooth

The german IT news portal Heise linked to an interesting paper: “Anonymous Bluetooth Probes for Measuring Airport Security Screening Passage Time: The Indianapolis Pilot Deployment”. An interesting concept: Anybody who...

Ultimate load test

No … i’m not talking about a new, more effective CPU hog. I’m talking about the so called “ultimate wing load test”. This is an important test in the development...

Photography

I took several thousand photos in my life. Walked miles for them. Got on the ground for them. I published many of them. Now i found out, that the most...

Hamburg Harbor

Landungsbrücken

Recommended Listening: Animal Collective - My girls

It’s just a single track i want to recommend today: It’s Animal Collective’s “My Girls” from their album “Merriweather Post Pavillion”. I heard this track yesterday while watching a documentary...