The future of mysql (The Project)

Michael Widenius gave an interesting presentation on the MySQL Users Conference:The future of MySQL. He talks about the shortcomings of mysql and their solution. A really interesting read. PS: I...

About frogs, storks and Linux - or: The nature of pseudo correlations

This is really interesting. I´ve talked about this effect at my presentation on Friday. There is an effect in statistics called pseudo correlation. You have an pseudo correllation, when you...

links for 2008-04-19

YouTube - ZFS-Man (tags: ZFS fun) Mac and Solaris: Fix the "xterm-color" issue (tags: Mac Solaris) IBM Ponders Future of System x (tags: IBM xSeries) Murphys Law (tags: article)

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I have to keep this “New Soul” from Yael Naim from my ears. When i hear this music, i have the strong urge to search my credit card and to...

c0t0d0s0@Heldenfunk

Ich habe ja eigentlich schon so jede Schandtat in Bezug auf Bloggen, Twittern (und was es da noch so an neumodischen Diensten gibt ) ausprobiert. Nur gepodcasted habe ich noch...

Hardware review: Ultimate Ears super.fi 4vi

I wrote some days ago in Twitter, that i purchased some Ultimate Ears super.fi 4vi as my old original iPhone phones. This was a little bit tricky, as i wanted...

No data was harmed in this movie ....

… but two hard disks had a really bad day. A demonstration of the capabilities of ZFS: </param></param></embed>

Two interesting presentations.

I found two really interesting interesting presentation. At first Brent Paulson wrote an really interesting presentation about practical Opensolaris Security. It´s a good overview about the possibilities of Solaris to...

Less known Solaris Feature: Solaris Security Toolkit

When you want to place a system into a network, it´s a good practice to harden the system. Hardening is the configuration of a system to minimize the attack vectors...

About the UltraSPARC T2plus memory controller discussion

This is really interesting in regard of the discussion about the reduced amount of memory controller in the UltraSPARC T2: Stream Benchmark Results on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 Server. On...

Opensolaris 2008.05

Another important Solaris release isn´t that far in the future: Sun plans to release the first version of the Opensolaris distribution named Opensolaris 2008.05 in May. Jyothi Srinath linked in...

Out now: Solaris 10 5/08 aka Update 5

Solaris 10 Update 5 aka 5/08 went live: You can download at the usual place. You will find a short overview of the new features in earlier blog entry: What’s...

Pac-Man

The only way to wake up your audience after 20 sildes with statistics and pie charts ;) (inspired … eehm … stolen from presentation zen)

Ich werde es nicht mehr erleben ...

Ich werde den Tag nicht mehr erleben, an dem der gemeine S-Bahnfahrer endlich lernt, das man sich nicht genau vor die Tür der S-Bahn stellt um auszusteigen, während die im...

At last: Sun Fire X4140 and X4440

Sun introduced the Sun Fire X4140 and X4440 today.The X4140 is dual socket 1 RU server with up to 8 internal disks: But the X4440 is even more interesting. We...

links for 2008-04-15

Sun, Solaris, and a new chance to shine | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs (tags: Sun Solaris) Hunderttausende...

Paul Murphy about UltraSPARC T2plus

As usual Paul brings an interesting perspective into discussion: On the other hand.. the way the processors are coupled - done by replacing the the T2’s on board 10Gbyte facility...

Location-aware Twitter for the iPhone: Twinkle

I revived my twitter account a few days ago, whe i discovered, that my prefered feedreader (Netnewswire) is capable of sending URLs to twitter with a single command. So i...

Is hypervisor based virtualisation the correct way?

I thought a little bit about virtualisation this weekend after some interesting comments of a customer about his experiences with virtualisation. Are hypervisor based virtualisation mechanisms really the way to...

Wisdom of the day: About Opensource

This quote found at Dave Edstrom´s blog made my day … "There are two types of users - those who are ready to spend a lot of time in order...