Instant Alpha in Keynote ´08

Wow! The Instant Alpha feature in Keynote is exceptionally efficent. Removing the background in 3 seconds.

Aha ...

Your Brain is Orange Of all the brain types, yours is the quickest. You are usually thinking a mile a minute, and you could be thinking about anything at all....

Little features

At the end, you can do presentations with Staroffice and Powerpoint. But these little features in Keynote helps you to make really good looking presentations. The moment i saw Instant...

Chip Porn: UltraSPARC T2 - up, close, personal and ... naked

Thanks to Frank Selbach, who gave me the both chips to make some photos.

Chip Porn: Generations

Side by side two game changers. The left one is an UltraSPARC T2 (aka Niagara 2). The right one is an UltraSPARC T1 (aka Niagara 1). I wanted to take...

A380 Seitenwindtests

Two impressive points at this video: The landing with cross winds and the the sheer size of the lady …

787 delayed?

The Chicago Tribune speculates in “Takeoff appears delayed for 787” about delays due software problems. I don´t think, that the software will be the biggest problem of the 787. As...

Mistwetter

Die Zeit schreibt über Sun

Von Rolf Kersten bekam ich gerade einen Hinweis , das die Zeit über Sun schreibt. So schreibt die Wochenzeitung in Der Fußabdruck des Surfers: Allein der optimierte Code eines neuen...

Berlioz Concert in London

I didn´t believed it, when i ordered the tickets, but now i have it black on white: My tickets for the Berlioz Requiem in the Royal Albert Hall are the...

More about Niagara II

Lawrence Spracklen gives a detailed overview about the crypto performance of the Niagara II chip. Alexandre Chartre decribes in his blog the usage of Linux on an UltraSPARC T2 processor....

Cool stuff: DTrace Provider for /bin/sh

How cool is this:A DTrace provider for /bin/sh. Makes the analysis of weird shell scripts much easier ….

IBM whitepaper for Solaris on Bladecenter

Solaris seems to be a factor in the bladecenter world: IBM published a Redbook about the installation process of Solaris on blade center: Implementing Sun Solaris on IBM BladeCenter Servers....

About IBM´s partitioning story ...

While searching for some informations about LPARS i read some interesting articles about the LPARS technology: According to an article in a pseries forum, you have to calculate 1.25 GB...

Lehrinhalte

Ich glaube, ich weiss jetzt, was im ersten Lehrjahr im Handwerk oder im ablesenden Gewerbe unterrichtet wird - gleich als erstes, gleich in welchem Beruf: Wenn Du einen Kunden dazu...

Pelikan

What we´ve announced yesterday ...

What did we announce yesterday? In my opinion, the most important chip for Sun. It´s even more important than Rock. When you look around, the loads for single threaded performance...

Niagara II news galore - Volume 2

SearchDatacenter cites Nathan Brookwood in Sun Microsystems unveils Niagara UltraSparc T2 chip: Nathan Brookwood, the founder and principal analyst for research firm Insight 64, a consulting firm based in Saratoga,...

64

A flash demo in Ashley Saulsbury´s blog shows, that 64 LDOMs are not a marketing gag : 64 domain capable (UltraSPARC-T2) chip launched today

Heise über Niagara II

Ein positiver Bericht bei Heise über ein Sun Announcement … wie konnte das nur passieren? Stop the press …. “Hell freezes over” …