Christmas present
Mika must have been a very polite boy last year given this size of a christmas present: “Santa’s got a huge sleigh this year…”. Or did you get your present...
The Deliverer's knowledge: Sun Cluster Step by Step - How to add an additional node to an existing single-node cluster?
(Foreword from Joerg: The next installment of “The Deliverer’s Knowledge” is a pretty advanced topic: Sun Cluster. This article it’s a cooperation, Heiko wrote the technical side of tutorial, i...
Detecting Mysql full-table scans with dtrace
Robert Milkowski wrote an article about detecting a full-table scan with dtrace without app-specific probes: Identifying a Full Table Scan in MySQL with Dtrace. No need to use the slow...
links for 2010-01-06
Parrot AR.Drone - Quadrotor helicopter with wifi and 2 cameras - AR.Drone games for iPhone and iPod touch (tags: iphone video mobile wifi toys games gadgets robotics helicopter)
zpool split in-depth
Mark Musante wrote an interesting article about the inner workings of zpool spliting and the usage of this feature: Seven Years of Good Luck: Splitting Mirrors.
zpool split
ZFS got an interesting addition a few days ago: With the integration of PSARC/2009/511 you can tell ZFS to split off mirror devices , create an own zpool from them...
Nice addition for my file server
I found an interesting way to mount more drives into my fileserver in the comments of an article about his new fileserver in Kris Koehntopps blog: The Raidsonic ICY Dock...
links for 2010-01-04
Gegen Luege und Dummheit : Textarchiv : Berliner Zeitung Archiv (tags: journalismus medienwandel internet medien) Pentaerythritol tetranitrate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: terrorism nitropenta PETN underwearbomber)
Apropos nude scanning and the media
It turned out that the images of a story about “What a nude scanner” in germanys favorite gossip catapult and tabloid were faked: BildBlog - a watchblog dedicated to this...
Nude scanners revisited - again
There is a lot of discussion about the backscatter scanners (or as the media calls them: “nude scanners”) in Germany at the moment. Technically it’s in discussion for a long...
A prototypical opensource user
We just found out, that a colleage of mine is a typical open source users behaviour - rants about missing features and clamours about bugs, but don’t change a thing...
Job offering at microsoft.com
Looks like Opensource is really huring Microsoft, so if you don’t mind to work for the evil empire, there is an interesting job offering: Linux and Open Office Compete Lead...
Winter
Selfmade SSDs - or: the tale of thinking too complex ....
Frequent readers of my blog know that i’m using an Notebook via iSCSI to emulate a SSD. At the moment my SSD is an old Acer Aspire notebook. It works...
Fireworks
I’ve made some photos of the fireworks at midnight in a gallery at SmugMug. Not that spectacular … looks like a recession time firework ;)
Happy new year!
Wishes
I want to wish all my readers a good start into 2010 and hope you all will have a good and successful second decade of this century!
links for 2009-12-31
True Odds of Airborne Terror - Traction Lobe (tags: terrorism visualization)
Bruce Schneier about aviation security
Bruce Schneier wrote a really thoughtful article for CNN.com about security in aviation: “Is aviation security mostly for show?”. A must read! Security is both a feeling and a reality....
links for 2009-12-30
Freedom Now Freedom Now (tags: gpl business oracle mysql)