Apple OS X Includes DTrace
In an exciting bit of news from Apple's WWDC: Xcode 3.0 offers an extraordinary new program, Xray.....Many such Xray instruments leverage the open source DTrace, now built into Mac OS X Leopard. Xray. Because it
Praise for AnySystem
Before I leave on vacation I just wanted to publically thank Dave G and the wonderful people at AnySystem. Several people have been extremely kind and donated equipment to me here and there over the years (namely Nathan Ingersoll who donated 4 Sun Ray 1's, Jeff Huber who donated some smart cards, and Jeffery Schmitz who graciously donated 2 JNI HBA's four years ago), but AnySystem is the only company thats donated gear to me. In years ...
DB2 9 (aka: Viper) Released
Talk about a quiet release, I only found out because of the mail IBM sent me about destroying my DB9 Viper beta material... but, either way, its here! DB2 9 has been released to the world! As usual, DB2 for Solaris is only supported on SPARC. For a full list of whats new view the DB2 9 announcement. If you want to take DB2 for a 90-day trial just visit the DB2 page and click "Download".
Mystery Events Gone By
Just found this on Flikr: An anniversary dinner for OpenSolaris at Rubicon. Any chance someone blogged about this? If you went, let us know how it was. This is the first I've heard of it.
Friday Diversions: Kool Kit
I. Need. This. Shirt. I hadn't seen this before. Classic. Joyent has several classic shirts, including a "MARS" shirt to combat LAMP: MySQL + Apache + Rails + Solaris... of course, I take exception to using MySQL over the vastly superior PostgreSQL, but no ones perfect. Viva Joyent FYI, since this is likely my last blog entry of the day.... I'll be gone all next week doing some much needed camping, reading Solaris Internals ...
Demystifying NetApp’s StoreVault
If you haven't heard yet, NetApp has started a new division: StoreVault. The idea here is to start competing in the largely unaddressed $5,000 to $20,000 storage market for Small and Medium Business (SMB). In the standard NetApp product line they of course have low end options such as the FAS200 line but those start at around $20,000 and go up based on licenses and disk choice. For all intents and purposes, the StoreVault is a cheap ...
Amazon’s Downward Spiral
Whats up at Amazon? The Washington Post takes a look. I think these desprate lurches are going to just speed up the decline. I'm not sure why Amazon is so confused about what needs to happen... frankly its pretty simply to me: Amazon should be the online store. Its got the reputation but not the selection to prove it. If you want Books, CD's or DVD Amazon works alright but if you look for other things you may find a pretty horrible ...
SysAdmin Appreciation Day: Friday!
Thats right, tomorow is the best day of the year: System Administrator Appreciation Day. WIfes and kids... love your husbands and fathers just a little more. When he comes home give him a hug, a kiss, and a new workstation. Screw the brussle sprouts, Twinkies are okey on this wonderful day! Sit down in the morning and drink some coffee with Dad while reading the Wall Street Journal. My fellow administrators... do what you do ...
Sun Cluster 3.2 Enters Beta
Sun Cluster 3.2 has finally entered beta! I'm not sure that I'm allowed to publicize the feature set but its looking really exciting. I'm furthermore excited to say that the Sun Cluster team has allowed me to invite people into the beta! Now, to be clear I can't authorize people, only invite which means that I push your name along to the fellow that will give you the thumbs up or down. But, what this means is that if you are a Sun ...
SRSS In a Zone
Several of us were talking in #opensolaris tonight and couldn't be sure whether or not you could install the Sun Ray Server Software 3.1 in a non-global zone. So I figured I'd try it: ... checkinstall[SUNWuti]: installation not permitted in local zone Installation of was suspended (administration). No changes were made to the system. utinstall: fatal, SRSS installer installation failed So... no, without hacking on this thing ...