Less known Solaris Features: Long support cycles
I´m extremely busy this weekend to prepare some presentations, thus i decided to write a rather short article about a topic nevertheless important to many customers. This time, i don´t...
Fremdschämen im Zug
Ich finde ja auch, das persoenliche Durchsagen mehr Charme haben als jene vom Band und ich weiss, das auch mein Englisch nicht sehr berauschend ist … aber “Thö wiekent tikket...
Dieses Wochenende ...
Nicht wundern … dieses Wochenende wird es keinen Teil in der Reihe “Less known Solaris Features” geben. Hoechstens einen relativ untechnischen Beitrag, den ich in der letzten Woche angefangen habe,...
links for 2008-04-04
Scott Brown on Why 'Battlestar Galactica' Must Self-Destruct Have i mentioned in the past, that i´m a regular viewer of the new BSG series ? ;) (tags: BSG)
Gleise
Also irgendwie scheinen Gleise momentan eine ziemliche Anziehung auszuueben. Vorgestern S-Bahnzuege zwischen Hammerbrook und Hamburg gestoppt wegen Polizeieinsatz im Gleis. Heute morgen RTW-Einsatz im Zug wegen wasweissich … auf jeden...
Froward old man
This picture describes the situation of President Bush quite well. At the end, he is just an froward, old man waiting for the end of his presidency. He just kept...
Leakage through Opensource
One “nice” side effect of Opensourcing: You don´t need leaks at Sun, you have just to wait until plattform support code gets integrated into Opensolaris to learn more about upcoming...
Who are you?
Inspired by this article in Kris Koehntopps blog, i want to ask you the same questions: 1. Who are you? 2. What tools to you use to read this blog?...
Infoworld about the T5120
Paul Venezia of Infoworld wrote a really positive review of the UltraSPARC T2 based Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 - “Lab test: Sun’s octo-core SPARC is made to multitask”. He even...
Ich bin ein Nasenduscher
Um mal die Dunkelziffer ins Helle zu zerren: Zur freundlichen Übernahme und Verlinkung ;)
links for 2008-04-02
smcFanControl 2.1 (tags: mac tools utilities freeware hardware software osx)
Dedupalicious
Deduplication is one of the big hype topics in the storage world today. Deduplication is about finding blocks or files on a storage, that exist multiple times with the same...
Update 1 of SunCluster 3.2 released
Sun released the first update for Sun Cluster 3.2 yesterday. You will find the wikified Release Notes at wikis.sun.com. This update offers some really interesting features. For example you can...
Less known Solaris Features: Remote Mirror with AVS
As i told you before, Remote Mirror of the Availability Suite is a rather unusual feature. Nevertheless it´s a really useful feature. The possibilties of such tools are endless, but...
Less known Solaris Features: Remote Mirror with AVS - Part 8: Conclusion
How can you use this feature? Some use cases are really obvious. It´s a natural match for disaster recovery. The Sun Cluster Geographic Edition even supports this kind of remote...
Less known Solaris Features: Remote Mirror with AVS - Part 7: Truck based synchronisation
Andrew S. Tannenbaum said “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of tapes hurling down the highway”. This sounds counterintuitive at the first moment, but when you start to...
Less known Solaris Features: Remote Mirror with AVS - Part 6: Deactivating a replication
In the last parts of this tutorial i´ve explained to you, how you set up a replication relation. But it´s important to know how you deactivate and delete the replication...
Less known Solaris Features: Remote Mirror with AVS - Part 5: Replication Groups
A new scenario: Okay, the filesystem gets replicated now. Let´s assume that we use /dev/rdsk/c1d0s1 for a database. The filesystem and the database partition are used from the same application...
Nasendusche
Ich laboriere ja immer noch an der Erkaeltung von vor sechs Wochen herum, die mir auch vor etwa vier Wochen diese recht interessante Stimme bei einem Vortrag gegeben hat …...
Unix für Männer
Ich weiss … auch bei Solaris ist nicht alles im Reinen. Aber Kris “made my day”, in dem er mir diese Links zu einem Blog geschickt hat, dessen Betreiber zur...