Der Terrorist und der Präsident
Ist eigentlich den ganzen wildgewordenen “Er soll sitzen bis er verfault”-Politiker, das sie Köhler fast schon dazu zwingen, Klar zu begnadigen, damit nicht der Eindruck entsteht, das der Bundespräsident sich...
The number
When you search for a certain sequence of hex digits, you find will 1.32 million hits. The sequence is the processing key for HD-DVD. Even when the MPAA forces Google...
Proximity communication
Nice article about some technologies from Sun for the not-so-distant future:Sun’s chip gurus theorize about obliterating IBM and Intel. This is to a part the explanation for my point, that...
Ditto data blocks in ZFS
The ZFS implementation in ZFS build 61 contains an really interesting new feature: redundant copies for data. You can define an per filesystem basis, that zfs makes redundant copies of...
Ich koche ... (Teil 2)
Ich habe mich gestern absichtlich vom Rechner ferngehalten. Oder genau genommen. Ich habe mich absichtlich von meinem Blog ferngehalten. Ich hätte mich sonst wahrscheinlich zu einem bitterbösen Artikel hinreissen lassen....
Ich koche.
Innerlich. Vor mich hin …
Layer violation
The ever reoccuring criticism that ZFS gets from some Linux luminaries and even more often from admins at customers sites is the fact, that we didn´t use the well known...
A sidenote to KludgeFS ... ChunkFS
This one is to good too leave it in the comments: Val Henson coauthored the ChunkFS paper, which states: A few file systems, such as ZFS[2], have gone as far...
ChunkFS - solution or just a kludge
It´s a well known problem in the computer industry, that the needed time for filesystem checking will reach sooner or later unacceptable dimensions. This was one reason, why we developed...
links for 2007-05-03
Apple - A Greener Apple Steve jobs about environmental protection (tags: apple environment stevejobs green jobs recycling mac blog hardware business) ext3cow An implementation of ext3 with the capabilities to...
Maintainance Windows
There is one sore spot with this blog. It still runs on Linux delivered by my hosting provider. But not for much longer. So I announce three maintainance windows: On...
OpenOffice for MacOS X
At last: Sun Microsystems joins porting effort for OpenOffice.org for Mac.
Flash Messiah
According to the Register, Jesus manifested himself in 4 GBit flash memory chips produced by Samsung.
Rock boots Solaris
Perhaps you remember, that i found it quite hard not to talk about something a few days ago: It was because Sun reached a really important keystone in developing the...
Der Frühling, der ein Sommer war/ist ....
Intels Jim Fister speculates about Rock
Quite interesting comment about other peoples view to the Rock processor in a blog normally dedicated to interconnect technolgies. In the article headlined with “Geology of Sun” the author writes:...
New rumours about Power6
TPM of the Unix Guardian has some new rumours about the upcoming Power 6: One source says the launch is in May with initial shipments in June, and said further...
War Mode?
What the heck is the war mode in the T1000? Elektronkind studied the release notes for a firmware patch and found: 6510364 “War Mode” in ALOM-CMT is required by the...
Informationweek about Sun processors
Interesting article in Informationweek about Rock and N2 and their successors: "All the features we will introduce in the Niagara and Rock families will keep the industry busy for the...
links for 2007-04-30
Fubra Blog: First Mac Mini BGP routers on world's largest Internet exchange (tags: bgp mac ubuntu howto hardware internet linux network server sysadmin) Lebensversicherungen: Lebensluege einer Branche - Nachrichten und...