PSARC 2009/177 - Solaris support for Rainbow Falls platforms
The support for Rainbow Falls (The N2/N2+ follow-on) found it’s way into OpenSolaris: PSARC 2009/177 Solaris support for Rainbow Falls platforms
Some thoughts about the SAP 8-socket benchmark at HP and Sun
I thought a while just write another comment about the HP785G6 benchmark in the comment section of the “Case Design” or the Do more with less” article. At the end...
Case design
While preparing a presentation, i just found a good example, why i prefer the Sun case design over the one of HP. This is an HP DL785G6 from the top...
links for 2009-12-09
limpfish.com - Marge Simpson (tags: simpsons) limpfish.com - Rembrandt’s Homer Simpson (tags: simpsons) limpfish.com - Grounds Keeper Willie Van Gogh (tags: simpsons) limpfish.com - Apu Dali (tags: simpsons)
Searchstorage about the Hybrid Storage Pool
In “Four ways to use solid-state disk” Searchstorage made an really positive comment about the way Sun use SSD: Unlike NetApp, Sun uses flash memory in its Sun Storage 7000...
On the eve of the Oracle/Sun EU hearing
Starting tomorrow there will be a hearing about the Oracle/Sun merger. Reuters reports in “Microsoft at EU hearing on Oracle/Sun deal: sources”: "The Commission has Microsoft, SAP and Monti Widenius...
Hamburg vs. Berlin: Xmas decoration at the main station
In my opinion Hamburg wins hands down … ;) Hamburg: Berlin:
Upcoming Security PSARC cases
There are some hints in the PSARC case log, that the project surrounding “Validated Execution” is taking up speed. The target is to provide an operating environment where just binaries...
Berlin
Damned … what a long day … the second one this week. Monday was pretty much the same. Was in Berlin the last two days. As the own pillow is...
Do more with less
Jan Brosowski found an interesting point in the result for the upcoming X4640 with six-core Opterons: 2.6 Ghz instead of 2.8 GHz and the Sun X4640 is still 10.000 SAPS...
Removal of a successor
A feature was removed from Opensolaris today. Interestingly the feature that should have been superseded by the feature removed today is still around: NIS+ isn’t a part of Opensolaris anymore...
Can't stand it any longer ...
I thought for a long time about writing this article. I didn’t want to talk about it as it’s a little bit problematic to write about this issue as an...
Recommended Listening: Supreme Beings of Leisure - 11i
It took some rotations for me to get fond of this album, but i’m starting to really like it. It’s the album “11i” from the Supreme Beings of Leisure. This...
links for 2009-12-05
Great Mass in C minor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Große Messe (German, lit. Great Mass) No. 17 or 18 in C minor K. 427/417a by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Intel's...
DNS servers - just a short comparision ...
Either the DNS servers of my ISP are extremely good or other providers have extremly bad DNS servers. I’ve repeated each request ten times and took the second-best result: Google...
Groklaw about the Moglen letter
There is an interesting article about the Moglen Letter at Groklaw inclusive a really disgusting reaction of Mr. Florian Müller (as we tend to say in german: I can’t eat...
Eben Moglen letter to the EC regarding Sun/Oracle
The letter of Eben Moglen to the EC is available for download at the website of the the Software Freedom Law Center. The SFLC provided the linkt to it in...
links for 2009-12-04
Tanklaster-Bombardement: Guttenberg bewertet Luftangriff neu | Politik | ZEIT ONLINE (tags: kundus ISAF bundeswehr) Kundus-Luftschlag: Guttenberg und seine Flucht nach vorn | Politik | ZEIT ONLINE (tags: kundus isaf bundeswehr)...
Eben Moglen about the EU report on Sun/Oracle
Reuters reports in “REFILE-Activist lawyer sees flaw in EU Oracle-Sun report” about an analysis of the EU report in regard of the Sun/Oracle deal made by Eben Moglen Moglen said...
OpenSolaris Developer Build 128 available for upgrade
Ladies and Gentlemen, please start your update managers in the case you was waiting for the first OpenSolaris with Deduplication: Build 128 with the kernel respin to get rid of...