Month: September 2006
Google looking at OpenSolaris? (and an article cameo by yours truly)
An article over at Computer World reveals a rumor that Google might be investigating OpenSolaris as its future primary platform. The article goes on to describe the OpenSolaris community as it stands today, just over a year after its release. I’m quoted at the top of page 3.
New CDs have arrived
Ah, more fodder for the collection. Today’s batch from PsyShop includes: Adham Shaikh – Journey To The Sun (Interchill) Banco De Gaia – Farewell Ferengistan (Disco Gecko) David Bickley – Still Rivers At night (Psychonavigation) Digital Samsara – Blue Beryll (Digital Samsara) Entheogenic – Golden Cap (Chillcode Records) Gaudi – Read More …
The hard drive: 50 years old
Here’s something that should be dear to any storage manager’s heart: the 50th birthday of the hard drive. CNet has posted a silent video of IBM’s first hard drive which held a total of 5MB of data. IBM announced this new technology on September 13, 1956. Click here to view Read More …
SIIG eSATA II PCIe card and OpenSolaris
I went out today and picked up a 1x PCIe eSATA card made by SIIG (model SC-SAE412-S1) and put it in my OpenSolaris dev box. As expected, the si3124 driver picked up on the Silicon Image 3132 chip on this card and was fine with it. Now I just need Read More …