Interesting additions to Build 126
This Wednesday brought some interesting additions to the build 126 of Opensolaris. At first Crossbow got two new features: At first it got a feature called “Anti-spoofing link protection”. When...
Solaris 10 10/09 available for download
A reader pointed in a comment to the download location for the newest Solaris 10 release. To important to leave it in the comments: You can download the 10/09 DVD...
Infiniband for the S7000 series.
The last update for the S7000 firmware started with the support of Infiniband to connect clients to the storage. Of course you expect interesting performance numbers when using this fast...
What's new in Solaris 10 10/09 aka U8
On docs.sun.com you can already find the Solaris 10 10/09 Release and Installation Collection. This release brings some interesting features: The long awaited user and group quotas in ZFS, support...
links for 2009-10-06
philosecurity » Blog Archive » What Does DHS Know About You? (tags: privacy Security travel usa government interesting information US dhs surveillance) Mitsubishi Electric – Kompakte SPS – MELSEC FX1N...
Different CPU, same challenges
Nice to see, that i’m not the only one who thinks, that IBM will run in the same challenges like Sun in regard of massive multicore processors. Great to see,...
Me too!
Looks like IBM is somewhat concerned about the Exabyte V2 announcement and that announcement that is like to happen on October 14th. At least there is a loud “We have...
Autumn
Somewhat disappointed
On Youtube is a video of the Boeing Advanced Tactical Laser in action. I’m disappointed … from a laser large enough to need a C-130 as a carrier aircraft i...
links for 2009-10-04
FT Alphaville » Blog Archive » The Cold War in high frequency trading turns hot (tags: highfrequencytrading lowlatencycomputing) HOLY SHIT, MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON (tags: moon)
Wings
I have more and more problems with the thought to be a passenger in the 787. At September 10th Mitsubishi announced that they vastly reduce the amount of carbon fibre...
TGIF
Friday evening … at last. After the disastrous attempt to do my “Solaris 10 Security” presentation that was interrupted by web presentations provider that which threw the presenter out of...
Another root-server provider with OpenSolaris
There is another provider of dedicated servers: Since 25.9 ovh.de offers OpenSolaris 2009.06 for installation on their dedicated server offering. More information about their services at their website.Thanks to the...
Security nonsense
Did you know that Snowglobes are dangerous? Before reading this blogentry at upgradetravelbetter.com i didn’t knew it as well. What do they expect? That you throw those snow globes after...
Luxusproblem
Nachdem der Entschluss nunmehr fest steht, das ich nach Oldenburg zurückziehe, schaue ich mich ja verstärkt nach Wohnungen um. Was Wunder auch, will ja nicht unter einer Brücke leben ;)...
TPC-C fine
Oracle was fined $10.000 because they made this “Oracle+Sun=Faster” claim. The problem was, that Oracle compared IBM’s 6 Mio TPC-C with XX TPC-C on a unnamed Sun gear with Oracle...
TPC-H for p6-based 595 withdrawn
Do you remember my comment regarding the TPC-H benchmark of the p595? Well, this result has been withdrawn for unknown reasons as stated by the TPC-H page for such results....
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Phenoms and recent OpenSolaris developer builds
I’ve just tried to update my desktop to the newest developer release for the upcoming OpenSolaris 2010.2. But the system just fscked up right after the boot. This error was...
Live the life of a geek, die like a geek
This user of our products must have been a really committed one. According to this flickr images (1 and 2) this geek was buried in a SPARCstation IPC casing. Godspeed...