CeBIT 2009: 1st day - The Evening

My feeling about theis CeBIT are a little bit mixed. I had some great discussions today with customers, many questions and i had enough to do, so i didn´t felt...

CeBIT 2009: 1st day - The morning

Okay, first day of the CeBIT. I´m really a little bit tired. I almost finalized the virtual OS image for my GUUG tutorial next week last night. I´ve tried to...

About sensational IT journalism

There is one tendency in IT media that i really hate at foremost. An IT company can do nothing without having some journalists predicting the death of something. Sun can´t...

Dilbert about Benchmarketing

This Dilbert comic strip summarizes the concept of benchmarketing in an excellent manner.

Such are the labours of celluloid love

And now to something completely different: The actress Sophie Ward writes about the “joys” of filming sex scenes in “Love Scenes”. Great article. So … the next time you sit...

Skype on Solaris

Sorry … no native version so far . But Christian Thalinger explains in his blog entry how to use the Linux version of Skype on Solaris with the help of...

Upcoming Solaris Features: Crossbow - Part 1: Virtualisation

At the moment ZFS, DTrace or Zones are the well known features of Solaris. But in my opinion there will be a fourth important feature soon. Since Build 105 it´s...

links for 2009-03-01

Laurent CONSTANTIN - Network toolbox netwox (tags: tools Security sysadmin network)

npools

Tom Haynes wrote a great article about pNFS: How does a npool compare to a zpool?. He plays in this article with the concept of npools als storage pools consisting...

Amsterdam crash ...

The anchorwoman in the news a few seconds ago: “Why did the turkish 737 crashed near Amsterdam? Even three days after the crash nobody knows something exact about the reasons”....

links for 2009-02-28

YouTube - MadTv No Frills Airlines (tags: funny airlines) One instruction set computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: interesting programming computers esoteric) Shakespeare (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free...

Storage Anarchist is dancing ballet

A while ago, the Storage Anarchist wrote a text about the usage of flash in various vendor strategies. I didn´t knew at first, what i should write about this, and...

Sunrise

This video is boring. No action. Just a 6 minute video of a sunrise i´ve recorded this morning in a Dornier 328 to Dresden. But: Such sunrises are the very...

CeBIT 2009 next week

Opensolaris …. this will be my main topic on the CeBIT helping my colleague Detlef Drewanz at the CeBIT 2009. Don´t hesitate to visit us for discussions about Solaris. When...

Ryanair thinks about toilet fee

I joked about this with my brother Florian while driving from car dealer to car dealer: “I´m sure that Ryanair will introduce a toilet fee in the future.” Well …...

links for 2009-02-26

d-la081127ea.pdf Interim Report: Accident on 27 November 2008 off the coast of Canet-Plage (66) to the Airbus A320-232 registered D-AXLA operated by XL Airways Germany (tags: aviation)

Sun Storage 7000 in production

You want to see yet another production deployment of the Sun Storage 7000 series? Well … just look here: Toro is my favorite sushi. Don MacAskill from SmugMug, an only...

OEM agreement with HP about Solaris

Today HP and Sun announced an multi-year agreement that makes HP an OEM for Solaris on x86. The press release from HP states: Under the terms of the new original...

Insights into ZFS - today: The nature of writing things

So … my last article was about the reading side of ZFS … but whats about writing? As Ben correctly stated in his presentation about ZFS: Forget your good old...

Adobe Flash Player 10 for Solaris 10

Good news from Adobe. They released the Flash Player 10 for Solaris and Opensolaris on x86 as well as on SPARC. Nice! You can download it at the usual location....