Lanyards

When you talk at events quite often, you will collect them in larger amounts: Layards. I’ve just sorted the lanyard of the Froscon into the large box … i don’t...

Really recommended listening: Imogen Heap - Ellipse

Long time readers of my blog know, that I’m a fan of the music of Imogen Heap. On August 24th she published her new album. My opinion: It was time...

Oracle and SPARC

Looks like Oracle starts to put some weight behind SPARC with a teaser for an announcement taking place on October the 14th at the Oracle World - Performance - Sun...

Rainbow Falls

Sanjay just gave me the kind OK to publish his Rainbow Falls presentation from the Hot Chips conference: It gives you some interesting insight into the future development the the...

Perl 5.10.1 with dtrace support

Looks like Perl will have integrated dtrace support soon. The Install file of the Release Candidate 1 for Perl 5.10.1 states: On platforms where DTrace is available, it may be...

Nach einem Vortrag ist vor einem Vortrag

So … der Vortrag bei der Froscon ist vorbei, ich habe gelernt, das ich anscheinend kein Mikrophon benoetige, um einen Saal beschallen zu können und versuche gerade meine Präsentation noch...

Hotchips: Sun's 3rd generation on-chip UltraSPARC security acclerator

Lawrence gave me the kind approval to publish his presentation from the HotChips event, which ended yesterday in Stanford. In his presentation he talks about the upcoming extensions to the...

PFT

Today the it was announced by an official communication here in Germany. Thus i think i can now write about it here. At the beginning of this month i was...

FrOSCon 09 - Nachlese

Das waren also zwei Tage auf der FrOSCon. Da ich einen Vortragsslot am Ende des letzten Tages hat, war ich die komplette Zeit da und habe Standdienst gemacht. War ganz...

FrOSCon 2009 - first day

I’m just back at the FH Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, the location of the FrOSCon 2009. Had some interesting conversations yesterday about ZFS, about Solaris, about Sun and sometimes questions about a certain...

links for 2009-08-22

AMC - Blogs - SciFi Scanner - John Scalzi's Guide to the Most Epic FAILs in Star Wars Design (tags: starwars humor design funny movies scifi fun film)

Flug nach Koeln

TUIfly hat es echt in Rekordgeschwindigkeit geschafft mich zu nerven. Auf der Bordkarte steht “Boarding 45 Minuten vorher” … Natuerlich begann Boarding 20 Minuten vorher … wie ueberall sonst auch....

links for 2009-08-21

Is the Boeing 787's electrical system working? -- DailyFinance (tags: 787 dreamliner WTF rumour) A300 MSN 093 OO-DLL hit by missile in BAGDAD Will Boeing delay the 787 Dreamliner another...

US DoJ approves Oracles Sun acquisition

Oracle issued a press release about the upcoming merger of Sun and Oracle: Oracle Corporation announced today that the U.S. Department of Justice has approved Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun...

FIPS 140-2 Sec Level 2 for Sun Tape drive

Perhaps that’s interesting for people needing a highly secure tape storage. As reported by eWeek the StorageTek T10000B tape drive got the FIPS 140-2 certification: Nonetheless, Sun revealed Aug. 19...

Review of the Sun Fire X2270 and X4270

Infoworld’s Paul Venezia reviewed two of our Intel Nehalem based systems. Namely he checked our X2270 and the X4270. This review titled with “Last of the red hot Sun servers”...

links for 2009-08-20

Groklaw - Why didn't Microsoft tell us about i4i's patent litigation during the OOXML standards push? - Update: i4i Opinion as text (tags: politics software ISO economy microsoft)

FrOSCon 09

Ab nächster Woche habe ich erstmal drei Wochen Urlaub. Allerdings steht dem noch was im Weg ;) Ich bin Samstag und Sonntag auf der FrOSCON 2009, die am 22. und...

Sun Fire X4275 reviewed by ITpro

ITpro published a review about the X4275 with ” Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4275 storage server review “ The X4275 puts forward a strong proposition as a storage server as...

links for 2009-08-19

YouTube - Airbus Fly By Wire Demo (tags: airbus flybywire) Kein Weltuntergang: LHC ist sicher! | Astrodicticum Simplex | ScienceBlogs.de - Wissenschaft, Kultur, Politik (tags: science LHC) Stellungnahme zu den...