in retrospect
May 2005 - i´ve lost my fear of flying …. December 2008 … (inspired by a conversation with a good friend)
Ars Technica about Opensolaris 2008.11
A surpringsly postive review about Opensolaris 2008.11 at Ars Technica - Hands-on: OpenSolaris 2008.11 a major step forward for Sun: OpenSolaris 2008.11 is a very big step forward for Sun,...
Flagday for Crossbow
One of the most interesting upcoming features of Solaris found it. The first parts of the results of PSARC/2006/357 Crossbow - Network Virtualization and Resource Management were integrated yesterday into...
links for 2008-12-05
GlassFish Wiki: JRuby (tags: jruby rubyonrails ruby rails glassfish sun server) lhc - Photocopier and Laser Printer Hazards (tags: laserdrucker) Particle Emission Characteristics of Office Printers - Environmental Science &...
Yet another delay in the 787 program
The Chicago Tribune reports: The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the first of the largely composite jets isn't likely to be delivered before mid-2010, more than two years behind...
Flight to Munich
The flight to MUC yesterday wasn´t really a nice experience. The meeting was good. But the travel to MUC yesterday was a test how long you are able to keep...
Leaked Airbus "787 lessons learned" presentation
The flightblogger was able to publish an article in the “once-in-a-lifetime-scoop”-class. He was able to obtain a internal Airbus presentation,that leaked somehow. This presentation is named “Boeing 787 Lessons Learnt...
A380 too quiet
Okay, we all laughed about the comment of a Boeing guy who stated that the A380 is too quiet. But there seems to be an “too quiet” problem in this...
Overpopulated
Looks like i´m using too many small tools … from right to left: Spotlight, Clock, Language Setting, Volume, Airport, Bluetooth, Monitors, Spaces, Time Machine, PPPoE, Dial-In networking, Accessability, iSync, Growl,...
Deutschsprachiger Anwenderbericht zu Opensolaris 2008.11
Ein sehr wohlwollender, deutschsprachiger Bericht über Solaris 2008.11 ist bei computerseite-spezial zu finden: Mir als Heimanwender macht der Umgang mit dem Unix OpenSolaris viel Freude. [...] Die aktuellen Einschränkungen des...
Guided tour through new features in Opensolaris 2008.11
Roman Strobl created a screencast for the new Opensolaris 2008.11 release. Really worth a look.
More than 250.000 NFS IOPS
Brendan Gregg did an interesting benchmark with our new storage systems to show what an 7410 single-head can deliver: A quarter million NFS IOPS. This number was generated with a...
New features of Opensolaris 2008.11
There is a great list of all the new features of Opensolaris 2008.11 at the opensolaris.com website: What’s New in OpenSolaris 2008.11?
Adam Leventhal about the storage business in the light of the HSP
Adam Leventhal wrote an really insightful piece about the potential effect of the Hybrid Storage Pool to the storage business in “Casting the shadow of the Hybrid Storage Pool”: What...
IBM benchmarketing - now with 100% more nonsense
There must be a standard course at the IBM marketing school. The tricks of the benchmarkting are the same again and again. At least it doesn´t get boring to read...
Opensolaris 2008.11
The released version of Opensolaris 2008.11 is available at the usual locations for download. It contains several interesting new developments like the Time Slider, Fast Reboot and many many more...
This made my day
From a discussion about NAT in IPv6: the only good NAT is a dead NAT
INTJ
Nice tool to find out the Myers-Briggs personality type of your blog. Or better: The personality type you show in your blog as it “reads” your blog: c0t0d0s0.org is an...
History repeating?
The TLB bug almost ruined the AMD Phenom franchise. But it looks like if Intel has a similar problem with the Nehalem. According to Fudzilla the Nehalem is haunted by...
NAS at home
While preparing the next part for the configuration walkthrough of the Sun 7000 my mind was playing with an desire: I want this interface on an soho device. I played...