links for 2009-07-23
Urteil aus Karlsruhe : Regierung verstieß in BND-Affäre gegen Verfassung - Nachrichten Politik - Deutschland - WELT ONLINE Kleinbloggersdorf: nicht der Nabel der Welt aber gerne anti-kommerziell, fundamentalistisch und schizophren....
Zensursulas neustes Vorhaben ....
Ich glaube, Frau von der Leyen ist nunmehr vollstaendig in irgendeine Nebenrealität abgedriftet. Im SPON wird sie wie folgt zitiert: Im Internet sollen Benimm-Regeln gelten - das fordert Familienministerin Ursula...
Updating a Confluence Wiki with a script
In the process of creating a wikified version of the LKSF, i had the problem of importing all those files into the Wiki. As wikis.sun.com is based on the Atlassian...
Monitoring a Solaris system with your iPhone
I´ve got an interesting hint from a reader of my blog via Twitter DM: You can monitor your Solaris System via your iPhone. At first you need the iStat application...
A thought about the $PATH and the GNU Tools in OpenSolaris
I wasn´t really a friend of the decision to put the GNU tools in front of the native Solaris tools by setting the PATH accordingly in OpenSolaris 200x.y. I leaned...
links for 2009-07-22
YouTube - Muppet Show While My Guitar Gently Weeps (tags: fun muppets music) YouTube - Jake Shimabukuro While My Guitar Gently Weeps a different version (tags: ukulele Jake Shimabukuro)
The reasoning behind triple-parity RAID-Z
There was some discussion with colleagues and friends if we really need Triple Parity RAID. Adam Leventhal wrote an article about the need for Triple-Parity, the Math behind it and...
Who has invented it?
I don´t know if you know the german commercial for “Ricola”. It goes about the invention of the “Ricola” cough sweet. Several nations claim the invention of the drop, but...
Preview: Sun Fire X4640
The venerable X4600M2 will have a successor this year. You already find some technical specs of the upcoming X4640 at the Sun website: Sun Fire X4640 Specs. The X4640 can...
Wikified "Less known Solaris Features"
I finally found some time to improve my converter scripts for the import of the LKSF documents into wikis.sun.com. Now i just have to get the convert of tables right....
UltraSPARC T2 got a speedup
The UltraSPARC T2/T2+ got a speedup to 1.6 Ghz.
links for 2009-07-21
F-22 Raptor: Obamas Kampf gegen die Dinosaurier | ZEIT ONLINE (tags: f22)
40 years ago ... - Part 3
“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
40 years ago ... - Part 2
The Eagle has landed ….
In der Bahn ... Teil 3
Zwar war meine Rückfahrt durch einen Arbeitstag unterbrochen worden, da das aber irgendwie immer noch zur Rückfahrt der Bahnreise vom Wochenende gehört, noch mal eine kurze Geschichte dazu: Irgendwelche Volltrottel...
Look back
Forbes about the Sun/Oracle Merger
Forbes writes after Sun stockholders approval about the proposed Sun/Oracle merger in Oracle-Sun Tie-Up Changes Everything: The shareholders of Sun Microsystems have approved the proposed acquisition by Oracle, setting the...
RAIDZ3
In the case you want to know more: The parity algorithm behind RAIDZ3.
A decision in favour of Solaris
I have a tweetsearch in Twitterdeck to show me all tweets containing “Solaris”. There are many tweets just talking about the movie “Solaris”, but this search yield gems from time...
New in Opensolaris Build 120: RAID Z3 and latencytop
You wear two belts and suspender? Well … this addition to Solaris may give you some relief in regard of your data: RAID Z3. A RAID-Z with triple parity information....