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I've gotten out of the habit of posting on each Build release, but snv_121 is a pretty important one. Several good things have converged, such as Crossbow fixes, ZFS improvements and bug fixes, some more COMSTAR goodness and now xVM 3.3 integration. I'm excited and would love to see lots of testing on this release from the community. Check it out! This is, in my mind, a milestone release.
That's right folks, the 10th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day is upon us! Yes, that one glorious day a year we're told we're appreciated without a long laundry list of TODO's following it. To all my fellow SysAdmins, I raise a pint my friends. We may have our complaints about our line of work and its many deficiencies... but hey, its what we love and I for one am glad I still don't have to get a "real job". ;) For those ...
Tron Legacy is coming. I'm almost in disbelief. And its got Jeff Bridges! Too awesome.
OpenDS 2.0, Sun's Open Source LDAPv3 Directory Server, has hit the proverbial shelves. Announcement, Release Notes, and Documentation are available. As always, OpenDS is the easiest directory server to install ever, with a JNLP Web-Start install application that gets you going quickly and effortlessly. But my favorite feature since 1.0 is the inclusion of a very intuitive and powerful GUI Control Panel which can handle everything from ...
I've noticed this year an interesting trend. Very rarely does someone outright declare their love for Solaris, rather, they tend to really love some technology. More and more that technology is ZFS, rather than DTrace. The question then is, has your love for DTrace faded? Is ZFS superior? Or is it simply that ZFS fills a more practical every-day need and therefore more visible? Opinions?
Held in San Jose, prior to OSCON, the Community Leadership Summit, a 2 day unconferance kicked off today. Sadly I'm unable to return tomorrow. The summit was more productive than I expected. It was a sizable audience, with 135 people registered and about that in attendance. With 8 sessions going each time slot it evened out nicely, with enough people participating in each discussion, but not so many as to discourage participation. It ...
10 years ago today. Then... Now... Jesus reiterated the commandment and joy of marrage in the Gospels, saying (Mark 10:6 ESV): "6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ 7 ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, 8 and they shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man ...
As I previously reported, a special shareholders meeting was held this morning on the Santa Clara campus and I was front row for the action... or lack there of. As expected, it was merely a formality. The meeting was no more than 10 minutes long and Jonathan Schwartz called in sick (literally). The meeting was officiated by Sun's legal council. It was called to order, minutes read regarding the sending of proxy materials, then paper ...
It's wierd... I know. I'm the last person to defend Microsoft, or anything other than Solaris for that matter, but its true. Windows 7 is pretty non-sucky! Windows 7 is, frankly, the first OS from Microsoft since Windows 98 that is interesting. I admit that I love the Aero look that came with Vista, but it was a pig. Vista in general was a pig. But Vista also had some high points, such as an iSCSI Initiator by default and PowerShell, ...
Nirvanix is a cloud storage company that offers several solutions around their Storage Delivery Network(SDN). Nirvanix is at its core an API-based cloud storage solution, similar to Amazon S3. In fact, what they've done is simply created a "better-s3-than-s3", solution which adds a lot of intelligence to the backend storage to give you the benefits of global load balancing and Content Delivery Network (CDN) capabilities. As the CEO says, ...