New SAP benchmark on the X4600M2 with ZFS
There is a new SAP benchmark with the 8 proc X4600M2: Sun Fire X4600 M2 Server Two-tier SAP ERP 6.0 (Unicode) Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark. This benchmark is...
Happy 4th Birthday, Opensolaris
Opensolaris celebrated it´s fourth birthday yesterday. And the child really grew in that time. Some numbers about that at the Opensolaris website: millions of downloads 116.000+ members 400+ contributions 47...
links for 2009-06-14
Judas Adolf Saruman Comparing the I²C Bus to the SMBus - Maxim (tags: i2c smbus)
A further thought to AF447
The more i read about the the AF447 tragedy, the more i start to think that there is a simple truth behind it. Now there are some hints that the...
New version of the "Less known Solaris Features" pdf
I´ve uploaded a new version of the LKSF pdf. It now contains the pfexec tutorial in the version that i´ve written with Marina Sum for the Solaris Developer Network with...
New minimum patch list for Live Upgrade
There is a new list of the minimum patch requirements for Live Upgrade at Sunsolve. For a successful Live Upgrade you should have at least those patches installed.
2.3 Million Pageviews
I´ve just processed all webserver logfiles for c0t0d0s0.org on my server with AWstats. I was a little bit surprised by the numbers: 2.3 million pageviews in this year so far...
links for 2009-06-13
How to Get ‘That Zoom Effect’ (tags: photography tips tutorial) The Server Room Blog: Solaris and Xeon 5500 - a perfect combination? (tags: blog Intel Nehalem) MooreImpact.pdf (application/pdf Object) The...
Draft für den Containerleitfaden 3.0 verfügbar
Manche Dinge sind so gut, das es sich nicht lohnt, selbst etwas in der Richtung zu machen. Diese Überlegung ist der Grund, warum es im LKSF-Dokument kein Kapitel über Zonen...
ISC'09 Student Event
This year, Hamburg is the location for an important event in the computing world: The International Supercomputing Conference ´09. Obviously Sun participates at this conference. But there is an interesting...
Seagull
Nichtexistente Datenlage
Man würde ja vermuten, das die momentane Diskussion von Sperrlisten zumindest auf sorgfältig gebrushten Daten und gesicherten Erkenntnissen basiert. Man möchte ja zumindestens, das die Massen auf intelligente Art und...
preHHOSUG: ROCK NDA Präsentation
Direkt vor dem 4. HHOSUG-Meeting findet eine Präsentation des ROCK-Prozessors statt. Diese wird von Frank Selbach gehalten. Ich kenne Frank schon eine Weile, und kann versprechen, das das keine Marketing-Blah-Präsentation...
links for 2009-06-12
Sun starts porting OpenSolaris to ARM chips (tags: ARM solaris embedded)
Insights to HTTPS
We all take the function of SSL and TLS as granted for our secure communication needs while surfing in the web or for encrypting the access to our mailboxes. But...
Technological Imagination Horizon
There is something that i call the “technological imagination horizon” (TIH). It´s the border of the imagination someone shows when he sees a new technology. There are people that that...
Single box VDI demo
The VDI group published a nice walkthrough to the creation of an evaluation VDI system on just one system. You will find it in the VDI wiki
4. HHOSUG Meeting am 14. Juli 2009
Am 14. Juli 2009 wird das vierte HHOSUG Meeting stattfinden. Ich habe dies schon mal als Event ohne Agenda in Xing gestellt. Die Agenda sollte sich dann in den nächsten...
Das dritte HHOSUG-Meeting
Ein Erkenntnis des gestrigen Tages: Sind nur genügend Techniker im Raum, so funktioniert auch eine Tastatur eines MacBooks plötzlich wieder. Nun mal ernsthaft: Wenn ich mich nicht verzählt habe, waren...
OpenSolaris Project: ARM Platform Port
You can now download the first release of the ARM plattform port of OpenSolaris. Yes … ARM … these small embedded CPUs. You can look at the Installation Guide at...