links for 2009-01-05
The Irish Economy´s Rise Was Steep, and the Fall Was Fast - NYTimes.com (tags: financial europe crisis economy ireland) Would You Pay $103,000 for This Arizona Fixer-Upper? - WSJ.com (tags:...
DTrace in FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE
From the release notes of FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE: >The DTrace, a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework and dtrace(1) userland utility have been imported from OpenSolaris. DTrace provides a powerful infrastructure to permit...
Crossbow by examples
Ben Rockwood wrote a great article about the usage of Crossbows vnics and virtual switches in conjunctions with zones: Crossbow Experiements and Elation. A must-read.
What will be after Linux?
An tweet on twitter lead me to some thoughts. The question in this tweet was “What will be after Linux?” At first this seems as a question of a Solaris...
Munich OpenSolaris User Group (MUCOSUG)
Es ist eine interessante zeitliche Koinzidenz, denn ich wusste nichts von dem Vorhaben, in Muenchen eine OSUG auf die Beine zu stellen, und ich glaube auch nicht, das die Münchener...
links for 2009-01-03
True Marble Imagery - Free Download (tags: photography photo photos pictures mapping maps world satellite)
Ars Technica about OpenSolaris
Ars Technica writes in “A look back at the open source victories of 2008”: Sun released the very first version of OpenSolaris this year. OpenSolaris, which emerged from Project Indiana,...
Moon
756 vs. 662
The winner in the category “Most fix aircraft orders” is: Airbus. They were able to gather 756 orders whereas Boeing just got 662. But these numbers show another interesting trend:...
Paul Murphy about Sun 2009
Paul Murphy writes in his article “Predictions for 2009”: Sun is an odd case: by any reasonable standard the company should be a big winner next year: in particular with...
Hamburg (Open)solaris User Group
Das neue Jahr hat begonnen, Zeit also die HHOSUG zu startenn. Obwohl die Usergruppe Hamburg im Namen traegt, ist das doch eher auf die Metropolregion Hamburg bezogen. Um erstmal einen...
Latency impact of sonic waves directed to hard disk casings
When you really thing about harddisks, you could get the feeling, that this subsystem is a really delicate one. You read data from disk spinning at up to 15.000 rpm,...
2009!
It´s 2009. At least in my timezone. Happy new year. There is a lot of uncertainity around because of the economic problems, the unsolved problems of this world. And many...
Happy new year!
As the first of my readers enter 2009 in a few minutes (e.g. the readers in New Zealand), i want send some greetings from my side: </a>
FUD from the Linux Foundation or: Mr Zemlin again ...
I wrote it before in my blog, but once (when i was young and wild) i threw a sales rep out of my office, who tried to get into the...
Goodbye 2008, hello 2009!
2008 is over. Almost. I don´t think, that the last few days will change it. At least i hope so. But … i don´t see any game-changing development for the...
Less known Solaris Features: About crashes and cores - Appendix B: Live crashdumps
With gcore you can create core dumps of processes without the need to stop them. You can do the same with the crash dumps as well. You can trigger a...
Bullshit in regard of Openoffice
Hmm … long time ago i´ve subscribed a Google news alert about “Sun Microsystems”. Sometimes it gathers really excellent articles at locations i wasn´t aware of before. But most of...
Andy at the 9th ICFA seminar
Andy held a presentation at the 9th seminar of the International Comitee of Future Accelerator: The Solid State Storage Revolution. The pages 25 and 26 are especially interesting. :) PS: Other topics were Neutrino...
Requalified for FTL status
Only 45 flights this year … thus it was a little bit harder to requalify for FTL. At the end it was the last flight of the year in conjunction...