New low-end Sun x64 servers soon?
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 Read More …
Making OpenSolaris into a storage appliance OS
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 Read More …
Disabling Solaris kernel modules in GRUB
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 Read More …
New ambient dub mix is up.
See Mix 04 on my mixes page for details.
Pictures of Turkey, the eclipse and Soulclipse festival are up
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 Read More …
First picture taken with my new solar telescope
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 Read More …
Happy birthday, Mr. Yuck
You’re 35 years old today.
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 …
New telescope purchased for solar viewing
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.
It’s official: Nation closes on July 16th 2006
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 Read More …