Category: Geekery
Luddites beware.
My presentation at the 2007 AFS & Kerberos Workshop
This past week, the 2007 AFS & Kerberos Workshop went on at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) near Palo Alto, CA. Many people from an array of places eductational, government, and commercial came and presented papers and discourse on Read More …
Funny Sun bug fix of the day
So today I was reading over the release notes for patch 126400-1, which is the latest OpenBoot PROM and SC update for the T1000/T2000, and came across an interesting bug ID listed under the Problem Description section: 6510364 “War Mode” Read More …
More Linux/Solaris FUD wars
It’s all too often that I read posts such as this one and can’t help but to think that the writer is a tad on the myopic side of things… so much so that after a paragraph or two it Read More …
Crying “FUD” doesn’t always mean you’re right
…and it sure doesn’t grant you instant vindication. It appears that DaveM (Linux networking and SPARC port guru) has gotten seriously wound up in response to a blog post by Jeff Bonwick (Sun’s storage and kernel guru.) As one can Read More …
The state of enterprise storage for the Little Guy
Earlier this month I spewed some vitriol over an unpleasant discovery regarding the Sun StorageTek 6140 array and its underwhelming out-of-the-box feature set (which, three weeks later, remains an unresolved issue even after contacting and working with my VAR, Sun Read More …
Sun + Intel = A Decent Move
Sun and Intel announced a new partnership between the two companies today, with both CEOs presenting at a news conference this morning. Sun hasn’t had a Intel CPU in its product line since Sun discontinued its Pentium 4-based V60z server Read More …
Sun StorageTek 6140: Buyer beware
My thoughts on the Sun StorageTek 6140 array (and this applies to other Engenio OEM’d storage arrays of the same type, such as the IBM DS4200 and DS4700)
It’s a long rant. Be prepared. Read More …
Sun Solaris 10 11/06 (aka Update 3) is out
Sun released the third maintenance update for Solaris 10 yesterday. The What’s New documentation covers all the features it adds to Solaris 10. There’s so much Good Stuff in this update that’s it really should be called “Solaris 10.5”. The 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 Read More …
lithium.elemental.org has faster CPUs
The primary server for my home on the ‘net, elemental.org, lithium.elemental.org (a venerable Sun Ultra 2 running Solaris 8) has been upgraded to two 400Mhz UltraSPARC-II CPUs with 2MB of L2 cache each. In the coming months lithium will be Read More …