VMware bug revisited

For my non-german speaking readers a link to an english background article in the Register -Date bug kills VMWare systems: Reg reader Duncan said VMWare's FAIL represented a "fantastic bug...

Timebomb in VMware patch

Heise.de reports about a timebomb in the Update 2. The system denies the migration, creation and suspension of virtual machines with the message that the product has expired. That matches...

Interesting development at the USAF tanker proposal

According to a report at Aviationweek Boeing thinks about to leave the tanker rebidding process. The new proposal gives more credits to a bigger tanker and thus a 767 based...

Lokalpatriotismus: Dat is Friesland

Irgendwie bekomme ich das “Gülle!Gülle!Gülle!” nicht ausm Kopf ;) </param></param></embed> Danke an B-Tina fuer dieses grandiose Video ;)

Hoerempfehlung: Peter Gabriel et al. - Big Blue Ball

The solo studio albums of Peter Gabriel are outstanding. Without any question. And the live performances of Peter Gabriel are not from this world. But i have a somewhat divided...

Faked fireworks

There is some discussion about the faked fireworks sequence of the Olympic opening celebration. Was there really someone really, who believed that this was a real sequence? The flight of...

Best x86 server for Java - Sun Fire X4600M2

Good news from the benchmarking department - Sun Fire X4600 M2 Server Is Industry’s Fastest x86 Java Server: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the new SPECjbb2005 world record...

Sun Events

Ich habe mal die Liste der Termine in der linken Seitenleiste aufgefrischt. Ich bitte um freundliche Beachtung.

Rouladen und Chipmultithreading

Was hat die Zubereitung von Rouladen mit Chip Multi Threading zu tun? Sehr viel … </param></param></embed> PS: Das Video ist auch schon beim Indiskretion Ehrensache Blog angekommen: Andererseit: Ich mag...

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Cat content

As there was no “cat content” so far in this blog i fill that gap now. I´m proud to present “Homer” a.k.a Muh (because of his fur) - the Moellenkamp...

Kindergarten revisited

Wer einen Kindergarten in Reinkultur sehen moechte, moege sich bitte mal die Diskussion rund um blastwave auf heise.de angucken. Schily und Fefe prügeln sich da verbal wie die Kesselflicker auf...

Synchronized masses

I thought a little bit about the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games yesterday. Those scenes of 2008 people almost in synchronity … it seems to be a german phenomenon...

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Kindergarten@Blastwave

Blastwave was essentially dead yesterday. As i´m not really online at the moment, the first news about this occurance reached me by the twitter feed of Anfalas. Blastwave is one...

Proof reading

Sorry for writing nothing the last few days, but i´m occupied with the proof reading of the bachelor thesis of my little sister. Arguing about some phrases with her can...

Geopolitics

What is advanced geopolitics in practice? Sitting at the opening ceremony of of the Olympic Games while battles between your and georgian soldiers starts to rage in South Ossetia.

The Peking Olympics has started

Whatever you think about the chinese people, the ignition of the olympic flame was a cool stunt. But to hoist the olympic flag by soldiers was a little bit strange....

Fujitsu-Siemens divorce rumour revisited

I don´t have a subscription for the Wall Street Journal, but the free preview says enough about this Fujitsu-Siemens divorce rumour: Siemens Set to Pull Plug On Venture With Fujitsu:...

Solaris Cluster testbed

There is an interesting walkthrough for testing Solaris Cluster with iSCSI and Virtualbox at Building a Solaris Cluster Express cluster in a VirtualBox on OpenSolaris. Whoever wants to play with...