Presentation: End of RAID5

I often use a thoughtgame when i talk about ZFS: Can we afford to use large harddisks without stronger mechanisms to ensure data validity? The best examples for this problem...

links for 2008-02-22

Tip: Prevent iPhoto from opening when you plug in your iPhone - (37signals) (tags: iPhone Macosx iPhoto) telekinesis - Google Code Controlling your mac via iPhone (tags: mac iphone)

SunSTAR

Someone has nominated me for a SunSTAR interview. You can read it at the website of the GSE Divas (GSE is the Global Systems Engineering, the department at Sun i...

links for 2008-02-21

Big Clusters and Deferred Repair Interesting article about availability of big HPC clusters (tags: HPC availability) The Unix Guardian--IBM Certifies Solaris for Selected X64 Servers (tags: IBM Solaris Sun)

Further "Less known Solaris features"

The articles from the “Less known Solaris features” series were quite sucessful. I writing further articles for this series at the moment. But i think it´s time to ask my...

Sun Blade X8450

We had an announcement out of the “No, our blade isn´t too big, your´s too small”-department today. We´ve announced the X8450 blade today. It´s a really incredible piece of hardware....

Paul Murphy about Transactional Memory

Paul has written an really interesting article about the implications of transctional memory: The most obvious implication here is that Rock and its successors will allow Solaris kernel developers to...

TSMC for 45 nm SPARC

Do you remember my article about a presentation held by Rick Hetherington about future directions in SPARC with many confidential informations? One of the most interesting informations was the new...

Pre-release of Crossbow

You can download the pre-release of Crossbow at opensolaris.org. The release notes sound promising.

c0t0d0s0.org at Systemnews

My RBAC/Privileges article made it into the sun.systemnews.com. Really cool! :)

Aha ... oehm ... oha ...

How evil are you? Das mit AOL ist allerdings etwas zu hoch gegriffen … ich würde niemals die Welt mit CDs überschwemmen :)

Mirror trees

Less known Solaris Features: /export/home? /home? autofs?

History The ever reoccuring question to me at customer sites relatively new to Solaris is: “Okay, on Linux i had my homedirectories at /home. Why are they at /export/home at...

Weekend ...

What a week … thank god it´s weekend. Monday and Tuesday working at the booth at the Hamburger Strategietagen. Wednesday meeting with a customer about test equipment and directly driving...

NuBIT 2008 Präsentation: Das sicherste Betriebsystem

Das ist die Präsentation zum Thema “Das sicherste Betriebsystem”. Es ist die Version, die ich eigentlich halten wollte bevor ich mit Keynote Mist gebaut habe und die Mittagspause zur schnellen...

NuBIT 2008 Präsentation: ZFS - Eine Einführung

Diese Präsentation habe ich gestern im Rahmen der NuBIT gehalten. Eigentlich ist es nur das Gerüst, an dem ich mich während der Präsentation lose festhalte. Daher weiss ich nicht, wie...

Weapons

How many massacres at university does the United States need to realize, that the Second Amendment may pose a problem?

Seltsam

Ich guck ja zur Entspannung oder aus Langeweile oefters mal auf das Radarbild des Zuerich. Mittlerweile hat man auch ein ganz gutes Auge fuer die Anflugpattern. Was einen aber ein...

Solaris 10 Update 5 Beta

It´s too late to apply for the beta program, but this page gives a nice overview about some of the upcoming new features in Update 5 of Solaris 10: Sockets...

Infiniband in the datacenter

EETimes wrote an interesting article about some statements of our top management regarding the future architecture of datecenter. In “Sun preps Infiniband for broad net role” EETimes writes: "In most...