Entries tagged with 'Sun'

Links of interest for 18 Oct 2007 - 7 Nov 2007:

System Profiling 101 : Getting started using sys_diag v.7.04 - A very useful performance gathering script that used Dtrace, amongst other tools to gather performance information
Sun sues NetApp, California style - Well, if the previous case wasn’t enough to let NetApp know Sun are serious, [...]

Links of interest for 11 September 2007 - 27 September 2007:

The Best Minimalist WordPress Themes · plaintxt.org - Some of the best minimalist themes I’ve seen.
5 tools every PHP programmer should know about - Some very interesting tools here. Can’t say I’d have a use for all of them, but certainly a few.
It’s time [...]

Links of interest for 9 August 2007 - 6 September 2007:

BIND 8 Has been EOLd - ISC have announced BIND 8 is End of Life as of 27 August 2007 and is encouraging everyone move to BIND 9. I wonder if Sun will be backporting BIND 9 to Solaris 8 and 9, or opting [...]

Today…
IBM and Sun announced that IBM will distribute the Solaris operating system (OS) and Solaris Subscriptions for select x86-based IBM System x servers and Blade Center servers.
Now that’s got to be an indication of how good Solaris 10 is, and how much demand it’s getting now. This agreement has just effectively opened up Sun’s [...]

Sun has now announced the much anticipated UltraSPARC T2 (aka Niagara 2) processor to the world, and under the GPL too.
The T2 is quite a beast too… it’s ONE chip with 8 cores that provides the capability of running 64 threads simultaneously. Add to that multi-threaded 10 Gb ethernet networking, crypto acceleration, PCI-Express I/O [...]

Links of interest for 3 August 2007:

HOWTO: Move a Solaris Containers How To Guides - Details how to move a container from one host to another using functionality already in Solaris Express and due in Solaris 10.
HOWTO: Managing ZFS in Solaris 10 Containers - A basic guide that demonstrates the use of ZFS in conjunction [...]

Links of interest for 19 July 2007 - 2 August 2007:

OS X is Now Officially UNIX - Now you can legitimately call OS X “UNIX with a pretty face”. OS X has been certified to UNIX03 standards, like Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.
Bubble 2.0 Coming Soon - Dvorak believes we’re in for another pop. Maybe, maybe [...]

Woohooo!!! Sun Microsystems have beaten all expectations and posted a profit for their 3rd successive quarter, and posted their first annual profit since 2001.
From the graph of the day’s trading (courtesy of Google), you can see not many people actually thought Sun would do it…

See how the share price took a dive in the first [...]

Links of interest for 9 July 2007 - 18 July 2007:

Ethernet Autonegotiation Best Practices (Blueprint) - I wish more network admins would read this guide. There is no need to force interfaces. Doing so only opens you up for more work and more problems. With auto-neg enabled, EVERYTHING should work out the box.
The Solaris [...]