About that whole Solaris vs. Linux thing
This month there has a been a noticeable increase in buzz from IT pundits discussing whether Solaris now has the feature set critical mass required to win over exising Linux users and shops. On one hand, I think it’s tres cool that Solaris is and has been getting lots of Read More …
Psychedelic Saturn
Another post card from the Cassini probe from a far-off corner of our solar system. There’s always beauty in the blackness, I tell you. This psychedelic view of Saturn and its rings is a composite made from images taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera using spectral filters sensitive to 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 ones most exciting and immediately useful to me: Storage Networking Read More …
Downtempo DJ gig tonight in Baltimore
I’m playing for Genrevore tonight from 10pm – 2am at Joe2 Pizza & Bar. Expect good food, good suds, and great music! Expect dub, electronic lounge, atmospheric dnb, and a smattering of world electronica.
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 …
Sun’s new storage arrays – O.K. but not great.
I read over the specs of Sun’s new mid-range storage models, the StorageTek 6140 and 6540, which were announced yesterday (8/11/2006) and the corners of my mouth must have visibly sank after scanning through the specs and not seeing the one big feature I was hoping to see in any Read More …