"Real" Grid Computing
My brother is consultant for increasing the energy efficency of buildings. Not long ago i had an interesting discussion with him: In IT we use the example of the electricity...
A system in crisis
A really interesting presentation about the economy of materials - The Story of Stuff:
links for 2008-04-13
Memo to Petraeus About the usage of language (tags: awesome)
On market trends
I´ve thought a little bit about prediction of market trends. There is a large plethora of companies making a living out of predicting the next big thing. I find this...
Flag-day for ZFS boot support
The support for booting from ZFS had it´s flag day yesterday. It looks like this will appear in build 88 for x86 and SPARC. I hope this find it´s way...
What's New in the Solaris 10 5/08 Release?
The next release of Solaris 10 is imminent. As the Sun website states: Solaris 10 5/08 will be available for download on 4/16/08. So it may be interesting to you,...
Do not walk over the apron
Processes on the apron of an airport are really tight … yesterday i´ve got aware of this fact again. Yesterday evening i´ve took the plane to Hamburg, Gate 22 in...
UltraSPARC T2+ Scaling
Stefan Hinker looks to an interesting fact in regard of our new UltraSPARC T2+ systems:They are scaling really well. Benchmark T5x20 T5x40 Skalierung SPECint_rate2006 78.5 157 x2 SPECfp_rate2006 62.3 119...
Last preso of the week
Well, let´s call this a somewhat tough week. My virtualisation preso today was really good. Many good questions and good feedback. I´m sitting in the FTL lounge in MUC now...
@home @last
I´m at home. At last. This was really a day to make two of it and still having some spare hours. It began with sleeping really bad last night. Looked...
links for 2008-04-10
RAS in the T5140 and T5240 Interesting informations about RAS and our new systems (tags: UltraSPARCT2+ Sun RAS)
Being partisan
Sometimes it´s really easy to see, if a writer is partisan. Okay, i´m pro-sun … that´s obvious and i´m admitting that. Hey, i´m working for Sun. But i saw a...
Only fly-fishing?
A really interesting reflection in the sunglasses of Dick Cheney ;) (found via fefe)
Podcasting presentation
This was the presentation i´ve finalized on this weekend. It was intended for an internal audience in Germany to introduce the idea of podcasting to them in the context of...
Solaris 9 Containers for Solaris 10
There was an additional announcement today. It´s at the end of the T5140 release: Today, we´ve announced the availability of Solaris 9 containers in Solaris 10 in addition to the...
UltraSPARC T2+ and the Sparc Enterprise T5240
Today Sun and Fujitsu announced the the first new multiproc Victoria Falls systems: Sun Microsystems And Fujitsu Expand SPARC Enterprise Server Line With New UltraSPARC T2 Plus Processor-Based Systems. The...
Hotels and WLAN
I hate hotels promising WLAN in rooms when this is only true for rooms adjactent to the lobby.
Presentation finalized
Pheeewwww …. I think i´ve finalized my presentation for Tuesday afternoon. 110 slides Lessig style. PS: I will post my part of the preso tomorrow evening after the “show” ;)...
links for 2008-04-07
On Choosing Type | i love typography, the typography blog (tags: typography) Super.fi 4vi Description - Products - Ultimate Ears Earphones Headphones Personal Monitors (tags: gadgets hardware headphones phones iphone...
Backups irrelevant?
It´s nice that he references to ZFS in his article, but i think his opinion stated in #”PostgreSQL to Scale to 1 Biilllliooonnnn Users, Dr Evil would be proud” is...