Less Known Solaris features: Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit - Part 5: The toolkit
Now we get to the tool that will be the centerpoint of the whole tutorial: The Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit. This tool was started as an internal tool by some project...
Less Known Solaris features: Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit - Part 4: Jumpstart FLASH
Sometimes you don´t to do a new install of a system. You just want to clone a system. For example think about a webserver farm. Let´s assume you have thirty...
Less Known Solaris features: Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit - Part 3: Files controlling the installation
I will not describe the exact process of native Jumpstart in it´s multitude of configuration files you have to modify, as the Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit will do this job for...
Less Known Solaris features: Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit - Part 2: Basic Jumpstart
One basic problem of automated installation is the provisioning of the operating system on the bare metal. Without OS any further configuration is obviously without any relevance. Since several releases...
Less Known Solaris features: Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit - Part 1: Introduction
As I wrote at several occassions in my tutorials, Solaris was designed with the enterprise customer in mind. It´s quite common, that a company has dozens of servers and you...
The Caffeine Test
The problem: I´ve just had three cups of East Frisian tea …
Springer migriert in Richtung Apple
Der Axel-Springer-Verlag laesst in einer Pressemitteilung verlauten: "Apple steht für Kreativität, Innovation, Ästhetik und Kompetenz und ist damit der ideale Partner für Axel Springer", sagte Dr. Mathias Döpfner, Vorstandsvorsitzender der...
787 problems
I don´t think, that i will fly with the 787 anytime soon … even in case, this baby will fly next year. There are new delays in the programs. As...
A nice toy: Wordle
A nice toy to create word clouds from websites. For this example i used my blog:
links for 2008-07-03
Platform Independent FMA for sun4v: July 2008 update (tags: FMA solaris sun) Count von Count - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia essential knowledge (tags: sesamestreet muppets) List of Sesame Street characters...
IBM acquires PSI
There was a small company called Plattform Solution. This company developed a Mainframe clone based on Itanium procs. And big IBM sued the small PSI. This could be a story...
Intel finally admits it ...
The free lunch of the ever increasing per-core performance will come to an end. Ars Technica writes in Intel: an expensive many-core future is ahead of us: Intel has bad...
Adam Leventhal about flash storage
Adam Leventhal wrote an excellent article about the advantages of flash based storage and how ZFS circumvents some of the disadvantages (like write latency). Really a must read: Communications of...
Are blades always the densest way to deploy servers?
Many people think about blades as the best way to put many small servers in a small amount of space. Often this is the case, but not in every case....
Half a Terabyte in a X4600M2
When i started to work at Sun in 2001, Sun introduced the SunFire 15000. A beast with with up to 574 Gigabytes of RAM. A system with a size of...
The market share of Apple notebooks
I have a personal test for the market share of the Mac OS X plattform. I like to sit in the first wagon of the train. To get into the...
Trailer for 007: A quantum of solace
At last a first trailer for the next Bond:
links for 2008-07-01
Spreeblick - Pan: Gegendarstellung oder wie die Bertelsmann-Stiftung Deutschland regieren laesst (tags: rap bertelsmann) Produkte > Remote Buddy > Unterstuetzte Hardware // IOSPIRIT - fueling creative minds worldwide .. (tags:...
Out now: MacOS X - 10.5.4
Apple published an update for Mac OS X yesterday: 10.5.4. This update isn´t as large as the last one, but it still contains some important bugfixes. You will find the...
Storagemojo about "The Hitz report"
Robin from storagemojo wrote an interesting comment about the The Hitz report (Dave Hitz´s declaration in the Sun/NetApp lawsuit): The NetApp/Sun patent battle continues. I don’t see how NetApp can...