HP vs. Sun 10 GBit/s in Blades
I´ve just made an interesting discovery when i did a quick pricing check for HP and Sun 10 GBe in Blades. I hope i didn´t made a mistake while configuring...
Zahlenwerk
Frau von der Leyen beziehungsweise die Behörde, der sie vorsteht, argumentiert ja gerne dieser Tage, das Kinderpornographie immer schlimmer wird: 111 Prozent Zuwachs von 2006 auf 2007. Netzpolitik.org hat mal...
Wirklich peinlich
Da rennt die Polizei seit geraumer Zeit einer unbekannten weiblichen Person hinterher, die Spuren an Dutzenden von Tatorten hinterlassen haben sollen, beispielsweise auch an jenem des Polizistinnenmords von Heilbronn. Ich...
RWY 05/23 closed
Fsck …. RWY 05/23 at EDDH is closed until tomorrow … welll … this means: Approaches take place at RWY 33 … directly over my appartment. I like planespotting, but...
links for 2009-03-25
Sun VDI 3 - How it all came together : White men can't jump (tags: virtualisation desktop vdi) Obama's Gift To British Prime Minister Rendered Useless By DRM | Techdirt...
iSER in Opensolaris
Yet another interesting putback to Opensolaris: PSARC 2008/395 iSER: iSCSI Extensions for RDMA. With this extension it´s for example possible to do iSCSI over Infiniband circumventing the complete TCP/IP stack...
At last: Acrobat Reader 9.1 for Solaris 10 x86
Evince is a nice pdf reader, but sometimes it´s better to have the real thing: Adobe published the Acrobat Reader for Solaris x86 (there is no dedicated 64-bit binary, as...
Fast Reboot enabled by default
In build 100 we introduced the Fast Reboot feature. It circumvents the POST and the GRUB stages to shorten reboot times. Not that you have to reboot often, but checking...
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.0
Today Sun released the new version 3.0 of the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. This version introduces some interesting new features: For example using Virtualbox as a hypervisor or leveraging ZFS for...
Jonathan about the future of Opensource
Interesting artcle written by Jonathan. It´s a guest post at ostatic - Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz on What’s Next for Open Source: Which is all to say, I'm not...
Chrooted SSH
A new feature has found its way into OpenSolarisPSARC/2009/155 ChrootDirectory option for SunSSH server. Chrooting is one of the features of OpenSSH, that didn´t found its way into SunSSH for...
ZFS visualized
Constantin linked to an interesting playlist of videos at youtube: ZFS. How can you visualize a filesystem. Well … Pascal Gienger used dtrace and some perl scripting to display usage...
links for 2009-03-24
If you're an enterprise, developer or economist, IBM is not the right buyer for Sun | Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect | ZDNet.com (tags: sun IBM) Performance Testing the 7000 series, part...
Botnets ... based on routers - revisited
While waiting for my tea water to boiling, i had an idea: Perhaps it´s much easier to hack a router to a botnet drone than i initially thought. I think...
Bettina hat nachgegeben
Der unangenehme Mensch, mit dem es Bettina zu tun hat, hat letztlich seinen Willen bekommen. Bettina hat nachgegeben und den Artikel entfernt, der Stein des Anstosses war. Ich habe mich...
Botnets ... based on routers
With a sharp tongue, you could state: Microsoft already proofed that cloud computing is a economic success. The large botnets in the Internet are nothing else than clouds, even with...
Vacation
Hotels throughout California … check. Rental Car … check. Flights to SFO … check. Travel Guide … check. Vacation can start now, can someone accelerate the time please ….
links for 2009-03-23
Bob Netherton's Weblog - Dr. Live Upgrade - Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Solaris Patching (tags: upgrade live)
Zweites HHOSUG-Meeting - Zwischenstand
Mittlerweile haben sich für den 31.3. schon 24 Leute via Xing angmeldet, eine Anmeldung kommt mit Gast und eine Anmeldung kam via Mail. Also 26 Anmeldungen. Darüberhinaus haben 6 Leute...
Internet Archive is moving to Solaris 10
There is an organisation building a large archive of Marjorys content? Marjory? I call the Internet that way, because that was the name of the all knowing trash heap in...