Monday November 19, 2007

It's that time again. Opensolaris users in London

The next meeting of the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) is due to be held this Wednesday,Nov 21st i.e. tomorrow at Sun's Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House on Lower King William St. The agenda has been posted at their site, and is about HA Clustering. On another note, I don't expect to go to the December meeting as it's on my birthday, but it is due on 19th December, other details as normal.

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user group losug

Monday October 15, 2007

Open Solaris users in London on Wednesday

The next meeting of the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) is due to be held  this Wednesday, Oct 17th at Sun's Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House on Lower King William St. The agenda has been posted at their site, and is about LDOMS. Once again, I have been unable to give people both a two week and two day notice of these meetings, and since two days notice would be tomorrow, I shan't bother as its too close to this notice to be useful.

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user group losug

Tuesday September 18, 2007

Open Solaris tomorrow

The next meeting of the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) is due to be held  tomorrow on Wednesday, Sept 19th at Sun's Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House on Lower King William St. Jon Haslam is talking.

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user group losug

Monday July 16, 2007

Open Solaris users in London on Wednesday

The next meeting of the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) is due to be held  this Wednesday, July 18th at Sun's Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House on Lower King William St. The agenda has been posted at their site. Over the last couple of months I have tried to give people a two week and two day notice of these meetings but have failed this time, and since two days notice would be tomorrow, I shan't bother as its too close to this notice to be useful.

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user group losug

Tuesday June 19, 2007

Opensolaris in London tomorrow!

The next meeting of the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) is due to be held  tomorrow on Wednesday, June 2st at Sun's Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House on Lower King William St.

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user group losug

Thursday June 07, 2007

Opensolaris in London in June

The next meeting of the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) is due to be held  in two weeks time on Wednesday, June 21st at Sun's Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House on Lower King William St. As ever, check out their page for full and final details.

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user group losug

Tuesday May 15, 2007

Opensolaris in London, tomorrow!

The next meeting of the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) is due to be held  tomorrow on Wednesday, May 16th at Sun's Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House on Lower King William St.

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user group losug

Wednesday May 02, 2007

Opensolaris in London in May

The next meeting of the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) is due to be held  in two weeks time on Wednesday, May 16th  at Sun's Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House on Lower King William St.

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user group losug

Tuesday April 17, 2007

LOSUG

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Wednesday April 04, 2007

Opensolaris in London

The next meeting of the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) is due to be held  in two weeks time on Wednesday, April 18th at Sun's Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House on Lower King William St.

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user group losug

Monday April 02, 2007

Service Management Facility in S10

I promised I'd arrange for Jarod Nash'es slides on SMF, presented to the January meeting of the "London Solaris User Group"  to be posted in Sun's .com domain.

I have just posted them, finally, to the media caster. They are in .pdf. [ Jarod's SMF Slides... ]

This article was edited on the 5^th April when I uploaded the version without a privacy marking.

tags: Technology losug solaris smf opensolaris

Monday March 12, 2007

Fantastic Day

I'm just setting off to Sun Live, and I'll be dropping in to the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) at about 6:30 pm at the Westminster Central Hall.

Sun Live, is tag lined as "Evolution + Innovation = Revolution" and the revolution starts here. I always thought is was Electrification + Soviet Power; but we live and learn.

I publish on San Francisco time, the event is taking place on Tuesday 13th. 

tags: losug Sun Live SUNW UK London sunlive2007

Thursday February 22, 2007

Yesterday & Tomorrow at the London Open Solaris User Group

So, I popped out last night after work to hear Jarod Nash, talk to the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) about SMF (the service management framework). An excellent and comprehensive pitch, and I shall post (or get Jarod to post) his slides somewhere and let you know where they are.

The next meeting is at Sun LIVE on March 13th, at Central Hall Westminster, where Simon Phipps is planned to talk to the group. Previous agenda have covered, Fault Management Architecture and virtualisation.

Otherwise the meetings are planned for the third wednesday of each month, except August, to the end of the year, to be held in Sun's City Customer Briefing Centre. (Apr 18th, May 16, Jun 20, Jul 18, Sep 19, Oct 17, Nov 21, Dec 19.) I wonder, if we can bring the discussion held internally about features required for a laptop desktop into the public. It was certainly lively enough, and given that its now opensolaris, non Sun people need to join in.

I have tagged this both within roller and at technorati, I am considering placing reminders in the brought forward feature for the next meetings (with technorati tags) to allow anyone to set up a technorati watch list on these tags and thus receive the reminder's through their favourite RSS reader.

Let me know if you'd find this useful. 

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user user group losug

Thursday November 16, 2006

Open Solaris User Group in London

Gavin Maltby, presented on Solaris' Fault Management Architecture. It is so hard to really get home how some of the very low level features of Solaris are unique and compelling competitive advantage. We all know hardware fails, but systems don't always have to do so. FMA allows Solaris to fail through some faults that bring other UNIX (or UNIX like) systems down and to recover rapidly from others. The engineering team have revisited the UNIX panic thing and improved Solaris' behaviours and diagnostics. This is an availability technology and as those of us who have worked on Consolidation Economics know, downtime costs money. In fact, the wrong (or too long) downtime causes business to fail. (Ask me about my local video shop some time?)

I am not sure that this meeting was the best for me to attend since most of my time and thinking is much closer to systems users as opposed to the hardware and this software is very close to the hardware design. The hardware designers should now be designing for it. Its one of the technologies that stems from Greg Papadopolous 5th eigenvector. "Best on Solaris". It's because we design the CPU, system and OS, we can create this technology and deliver the improved uptime benefit.

It was good to meet the other attendee and I shall be back for the January meeting. You might like to join me since there's free booze. (There's a December meeting but its on the 20th and I don't think I'll make it.)

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris LOSUG faultmanagementarchitecture fma