Codenews 2.2
So … i added another function in the Codenews overview page: You can search in putbacks stored in the database. The search is capable of using boolean operations, thus “+zfs*...
Codenews 2.1
I’ve made a slight extension to the codeview pages: There is an overview page for all the announced putbacks on onnv-notify now. On this page you can browse through all...
PeopleSoft North American Payroll on M4000/F5100
A few days ago i wrote about a recent Peoplesoft benchmark at a part of the article “App benchmarks, incorrect conclusions and the Sun Storage F5100” There was one part...
Vergifte Community?
Wenn man sich die Entwicklung rund im die momentane Löschdiskussion in der Wikipedia anguckt, mag man zu der Meinung kommen, das dort die Zukunft der deutschen Wikipedia als Community und...
VirtualBox 3.1.0 Beta 1 available for download
The first beta for VirtualBox 3.1.0 is available for download. The most interesting feature is Teleportation. In other environments this is called “live migration”. But there are other major changes...
Codenews 2.0
Perhaps you already know twitter.com/codenews. The tweets are feeded by the mail on the onnv-notify@opensolaris.org alias. Whenever new code finds it’s integration into Opensolaris, a message is send to this...
Letztlich verwerflich
In allen Medien wird ausgiebig darüber berichtet, das sich Herr Enke das Leben genommen hat. Wenn er meint, das machen zu müssen, dann ist das sein gutes Recht. Was ich...
Opensource doesn't mean "Do what you want"
At first i thought Oracle was a little bit too harsh with the comment, that the European Commission isn’t knowledgeable about the dynamics of open source. But it looks like...
Experiences with the A380
I wrote not that much about aviation in the last few months, but writing about 787 delays got boring. However … today i found an interesting article about the experiences...
2004 Subscribers
Yet another coffee for Local …. c0t0d0s0.org broke through the 2000 subscribers line yesterday:
Support for SAM/QFS offlined files in the Samba version supported by Sun
Hierarchical storage management is really useful to offload seldom used data to cheaper media like tape while keeping them in access by a filesystem. SAM/QFS is such a filesystem. Your...
Relevanz
Ich habe da ein weiteres nettes Beispiel gefunden, das in der Wikipedia mit zweierlei Maß gemessen wird: Da werden Blogger mit einer gewissen Reichweite, aber zuweilen für unbedarfte Leser erklärungs-...
Oracle 11g R2 for Solaris SPARC
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.1.0) for Solaris SPARC 64 Bit is now available for download at the OTN.
European Commission objects to Sun Oracle merger
The European Commission has expressed their objections about the Sun acquisition by Oracle. Sun notified the SEC with an 8K filing available at EDGAR It’s based on the opinion, that...
ZFS send dedup integrated in Opensolaris
A few days deduplication for ZFS pools found it’s integration to Opensolaris. Now the in-stream deduplication feature for ZFS send streams has followed the on-disk variant. With this feature blocks...
Panic? Don't panic?
In the last few days i thought a little bit about this swine flu panic. Let’s put aside that the vaccination is an adjuvanated vaccination and that it contains questionable...
Lawsuit against Intel
The New York times reports about an lawsuit filing against Intel in “2nd UPDATE: NY AG: Dell Got $6B Via Secret Intel Pact >DELL” : Dell, the world's third-biggest computer...
Better checksum error reporting in ZFS
After all the discussion about filesystems and checking them after errors, i want to point to a small extension: Since the introduction of the changes proposed by “PSARC 2009/497: zfs...
Presentation at the Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin
On 16th December i will talk about Hadoop on Sun at the Apache Hadoop Get Together in Berlin. The talk will be divided in three parts: Advantages of using Hadoop...
links for 2009-11-06
The Billion Dollar Gram | Information Is Beautiful (tags: visualization economics politics) Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds) - Joel on Software "....are the...