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New low-end Sun x64 servers soon?

Posted on2006-07-312017-01-151 Comment

A recent update to Sun’s entry-level server warranty matrix lists two new mystery servers – The X2100 M2 and the X2200 M2. I’ll speculate here… I bet that the X2100 M2 is an updated X2100 with iLOM rather than the underwhelming SMDC option card. I can’t think of what the Read More …

CategoriesSolarisTagsSolaris, Sun Microsystems

Making OpenSolaris into a storage appliance OS

Posted on2006-07-272017-01-15Leave a comment

With Sun’s recent release of their X4500 “Thumper” server which can be decked-out with up to 48 500GB SATA2 hard drives and two dual-core AMD Opteron CPUs and comes with quad gigabit ethernet, a new albeit currently infantile era of flexible storage platform has been born. Combined with the storage Read More …

CategoriesSolarisTagsOpenSolaris, Solaris, storage

Disabling Solaris kernel modules in GRUB

Posted on2006-07-172006-07-17Leave a comment

I had a situation today with a Dell PowerEdge 1750 where my attempt to load Solaris 10 06/06 on it failed miserably. Using Jumpstart, I attempted to install the box per the normal routine but this one server kept panicing in the cadp160 driver. This driver is for the Adaptec Read More …

CategoriesSolaris

New ambient dub mix is up.

Posted on2006-07-12Leave a comment

See Mix 04 on my mixes page for details.

CategoriesMusic

Pictures of Turkey, the eclipse and Soulclipse festival are up

Posted on2006-04-052006-04-05Leave a comment

I fixed my gallery and uploaded the pictures that Talia and I took this past week as we travelled around Turkey. We started out in Istanbul in the old city, then we went on to the Antalya area of southern Turkey to attend the Soulclipse Festival near the small town Read More …

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First picture taken with my new solar telescope

Posted on2006-03-232006-03-231 Comment

I just received from Scopetronix the camera adaptor ring and mount to mate my Sony DSC-V1 camera to my Coronado Filters P.S.T. Naturally, I had to use it as soon as possible. I waited for a nice break in the overcast and was able to snap this picture of the Read More …

CategoriesAstronomy

Happy birthday, Mr. Yuck

Posted on2006-03-211 Comment

You’re 35 years old today.

CategoriesLife

lithium.elemental.org has faster CPUs

Posted on2006-03-212006-03-21Leave a comment

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 replaced with a new server. Most likely this’ll be in Read More …

CategoriesGeekery

New telescope purchased for solar viewing

Posted on2006-03-21Leave a comment

Last week I purchased a Coronado Filters Personal Solar Telescope. This telescope is made specificially for sun viewing and incorporates a filter that bandpasses the hydrogen-α wavelength, allowing clear views of the sun’s chromosphere.

CategoriesAstronomy

It’s official: Nation closes on July 16th 2006

Posted on2006-03-212006-03-21Leave a comment

The people who run the Alchemy night at Nation Nightclub in DC have posted a statement that affirms the fears of the DC clubbing scene – Nation is closing on July 16th 2006 to make way for the redevelopment of the South Capitol Street area for the new DC baseball Read More …

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