Logical Domains 1.1

The developers of LDOMs gave the users of the T1 and T2(+) based system a nice christmas present: The 1.1 version of the LDOMs. This update provides some interesting new...

Hohlräume

Interessanter Kommentar von Norbert Bluem zur aktuellen Wirtschaftskrise im Hamburger Abendblatt: Die gegenwärtige Wirtschaftskrise bietet manche Erfahrung, aus der man klüger werden kann: Keiner der großen ökonomischen Koryphäen des Neoliberalismus'...

Updated SDN article about pfexec

After some comments from readers Marina and I updated the article about pfexec at the Sun Developer Network. We integrated some clarifications and changed the wording in some parts. It`s...

Solaris Zones from a security standpoint

Glenn Brunette and Jeff Victor published an interesting document about Solaris Zones with the Blueprint “Understanding the Security Capabilities of Solaris Zones Software”: So why does the world need yet...

Recommended listening: Collide - Two headed monster

This recommendation is from the darker side of my musical taste. It´s Collide … an electronic band from California. I´ve wrote about this band in this block back in 2005....

Best wishes

I´m driving to my parents in a few hours from now. I´m already packing my bags for a few days at the moment. But i won´t leave Hamburg without sending...

Another comment about OpenSolaris 2008.11

A really positive article about Opensolaris 2008.11. Steven Lawson writes in OpenSolaris 2008.11: Its Time Is Coming: I was attracted to OpenSolaris 2008.11 in the first place by a couple...

Road ahead ...

Recession friendly software

Julian Exenberger has an interesting point of view in regard of Sun software. He wrote about it in “It’s recession time and Sun has the best recession kool aid.”: Well...

Road to Death Valley

Crash twittering

As you may have read in the news, there was a plane crash in Denver. A Continental 737 left the runway in the wrong direction at take off. But this...

Does happiness have a price tag?

Gedanken zum Fest 2008

Ich habe die letzten Jahre eigentlich immer ein paar Zeilen zu Weihnachten geschrieben. Aber irgendwie habe ich dieses Jahr noch weniger Weihnachtslaune als sonst. Null … nix … Ich mag...

links for 2008-12-20

Bundestagsdrucksache 16/10220: Stand der Planungen für den weiteren Ausbau der A 20 (tags: A20)

Take off from Las Vegas

Caffeine

That was an successful end of this year yesterday. Customer more than satisfied with performance. Additionally he learned a thing or two. And i learned a thing, too. I will...

Neue Events

In der linken Seitenleiste stehen wieder eine Reihe von Terminen von Events, die entweder von Sun ausgerichtet werden oder bei denen Sun beteiligt ist. Ich bitte um freundliche Beachtung. Sollte...

24 hours of air traffic

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links for 2008-12-18

Using Solaris RBAC to only allow scp/sftp (tags: Security solaris sysadmin ssh rbac) Fernverkehrsseiten von Marcus Grahnert (tags: travel businesstravel Bahn Wagenreihung)

About networking performance in Solaris

I found two really interesting articles about the networking in Solaris: The first one - Examining Large Segment Offload (LSO) in the Solaris Networking Stack - examines the effect of...