Entries tagged with 'Software'

Links of interest for 3 Jun 2009 - 14 Jul 2009:

“Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?” FUD - Thankfully someone's being sensible about the FUD that made it's way into the news this week. Oracle is not going to kill OpenSolaris.
Oracle’s Virtualization Gold Mine - Looks like Oracle is counting on Virtualization big [...]

Links of interest for 6 Jan 2009 - 29 Jan 2009:

iWeb acquires the Sun Storage 7410 for its storage area network - It#039;s nice to see companies starting to promote the fact they#039;ve switched from a proprietary storage system to the Sun Storage 7000 range.
Understanding ZFS: Disk Space Discrepancies - I#039;ve seen this discrepency before, [...]

Links of interest for 2 Dec 2008 - 8 Dec 2008:

Sun shows Microsoft how it’s done - Now I would never had predicted this: someone saying that Sun has done something on the desktop environment better than Microsoft. I must admit the Time Slider is pretty damn awesome and I think it may put [...]

Links of interest for 14 Oct 2008 - 1 Nov 2008:

Multicore Bollocks - Hmmm, for someone who's head of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, he certainly talks a load of old cobblers about multicore CPUs.
Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009 - Sounds like there will be more need for ZFS then, that's why Sun are [...]

Links of interest for 12 Oct 2008 - 14 Oct 2008:

ZFS & MySQL/InnoDB Compression Update - Real world ZFS & MySQL compression testing from the guys at SmugMug.
Success with OpenSolaris + ZFS + MySQL in production! - Woohooo!!!! Another happy OpenSolaris + ZFS customer. Nice one Don.
NetApp faces Sun lawsuit loss - Looks like NetApp's [...]

Links of interest for 19 May 2008 - 19 Jun 2008:

June 2008 | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites - Woohoo!!! Sun are finally back in the top 10.
Anything But a Flash in the Pan - Sun's shares may be tanking at the moment, but you've got to read this to see where Sun is going. Once [...]

Links of interest for 30 Apr 2008 - 14 May 2008:

Brussels: Uniform Interface to Driver Administration Through dladm(1m) - Finally!!! A unified simple and easy way to configure network interface settings like auto-neg, duplex, mtu etc on Solaris. Currently only in OpenSolaris and Nevada though.
OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up [...]

After my initial thought of checking out Habari, and the encouraging comment from Skippy, I decided to go ahead and investigate Habari for myself, so I downloaded Habari 0.4.1 and took it for a spin.

Links of interest for 21 Mar 2008 - 25 Mar 2008:

Paper Enigma Machine - What a brilliant idea, and a great teaching tool too.
Sun turns to lasers to speed up computer chips - Now this would be brilliant if Sun research proves to be a success. Sun's continually proving it is light years (excuse [...]

Links of interest for 5 Mar 2008 - 12 Mar 2008:

iPhone rules pose Net neutrality, antitrust concerns - I just knew the iPhone SDK sounded too good to be true. It seems the license allows you to do "this", but not "that", nor "that", oh and "the other thing" isn't allowed either. Why release [...]