Show Me Yours, I’ll Show You Mine: Big Players Storage
I'm a storage guy, and so I'm naturally curious what other people are using, especially internet sites that rely almost entirely on the performance of their storage. Sites include YouTube, MySpace, Yahoo, Google, RapidShare, and other storage intensive file sharing websites. I've been digging around to find out what everyones got and decided that rather than waste my day I'd put up what I know and maybe all of you guys can help me fill in ...
Splunk 2.0.12 Released
Splunk 2.0.12 has been released. This is the first release (that I've seen) in which Solaris/X86 released at the same time as the other platforms, so a big "thank you" to Splunk for that. Of the new features, I'm most excited about the ability to flag both first and last markers for multi-line events, something that I've really wanted for my Postfix logs and several of Solaris's disk related messages. Find the complete release notes here.
OpenSolaris BFU: All the current goodies without the hassle
Have you downloaded and installed Solaris Express: Community Release? Have you considered downloading, compiling and installing the latest code? Have you run into problems or just been to lazy to do it? Does it just seem too complicated? Wanna run the latest code without having to build it yourself? If so, then BFU is for you. Here's the 30 second BFU Primer: When you compile OpenSolaris the result will be a series of CPIO archives. ...
Jonathan gives us an early look at Thumper
I think I'm in love. Thumper saves me from myself actually. I recently requested a quote on a Rackable storage box: Suprisingly, Rackable isn't as cheap as it would seem, and in fact Thumper may come in lower in cost than what Rackable can offer, with a lot more capability. As a storage guy, Jonathan is right on target with his latest blog entry. In fact... I have a confession to make. I've felt like a real looser for ...
Sun Studio 11 Express
Sun Studio fans everywhere can rejoice, apparently we now have early access to new developments in Sun Studio by way of Sun Studio Express! Just put in your email address and download. The June release is currently available for both Solaris X86 and SPARC. Thanks to Kuldip Oberoi, Product Manager for Sun Studio (Sun Blog) for posting this in his blog. Kuldip also has a BlogSpot blog here.
BayLISA Special Event Thursday
Since so many of us are good Time Management students and we've done our 10 minute outline of the day this morning I thought I'd give you something to pencil into your week. BayLISA is having a special event this month on Thursday July 13th: "Not that kind of Networking" Networking Event. As stated: Bring your resumes, your business cards, and mingle with your peers. If you have a persistent problem that is bugging you, see if anyone ...
Reminder: Sun Network Computing Event Tomorow
Tomorow, Sun's quarterly Network Computing event will be happening at noon in San Francisco. Be sure to watch it on the website. I'll be on site for the event, so I'll likely report any news late, but attempt to get some good pictures to make up for my lag. Lots of goodies are rumored, but I'm still keeping my eyes on Honeycomb.
Life Sucks: Why Organization Matters
So I started reading Time Management for System Administrators last week and immediately started putting it to use. On Wed afternoon I started reading, on Thursday I started putting it to work, and on Friday I sent off the largest "Weekly List" to my manager in months. More importantly, Friday evening I sat in the backyard with my wife, happy and content that I'd been successful and productive without that "oh crap, what am I forgetting" ...
Friday Diversions: Kool Videos
I don't know what it is about this short 3 day week, but it feels like each day has had an additional hour inserted. If your dragging too, here are some fun, interesting, or kool videos to check out: Apple Newton Getting Started Video: Really kool for any Newton owner. I still have and love mine, and frankly some of these tips were new to me! A fun trip down PDA history lane. WRC 2006 Monte Carlo, Shakedown: Some comparative clips ...
Simon Phipps on Open Source: Redux
I was recently highly critical of Simon Phipps, in particular, his talk given at the Open Source Business Confrence. A long list of persons reacted strongly to the reports of his talk, all based on 3 reports of the event, most of which were horribly limited in scope. In fairness to Simon, I was perhaps more critical than I should have been in my responce, due in large part to major frustration and anger I had the day I wrote it about ...