Tuesday Jan 20, 2009
Read this book. Reduce your impact on the environment: Try to consume 25% less electrical energy this year. Ask for FSC certified wood products. Use your bike (with or without a trailer) for distances less than 3 km/2 miles. When driving a car, drive less fast.
Why? Read this book. Or maybe because you need a new challenge. Or just because it's fun to impress your neighbors (who are used to see you in a car) by coming home from shopping or from work on a bike.
Wednesday Jan 14, 2009
... programming errors with regards to security have been published a few days ago here, grouped into
I believe it's a good idea to read through the list from time to time, or to use it when planning QA.
Read a related article on Heise Online here. For the original German version, click here.
Sunday Jan 04, 2009
Read about Sarah's findings after viewing user testing screen casts. Her blog is full of examples and comments on application usability and web design, so I'll add it to my link list.
Saturday Oct 13, 2007
Click here to read the complete story:[Read More]
Friday Apr 06, 2007
A short discussion on the meaning of "proprietary"[Read More]
Wednesday Apr 04, 2007
Great news: Sun has unveiled Project EcoBox. A great place to work!
Details here:
http://www.openwork3.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSuLMhTnuMc
A Report That Will Change the World
Friday Feb 02, 2007
... has today been published by the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It's about the world's climate and our influence on it.
Read it and keep it in mind when making decisions about your new house, car, desktop system, or server.
Some pictures from the report:
This is a graph of the atmospheric concentration of CO2 over the last 10.000 years.
And this is a graphic showing the temperature change in certain regions, where the blue shaded bands in the small graphs show results of simulations of climate models with only non-human influence, and the red shaded bands show results of models with human influence (e.g. burning of fossil fuels). The black lines are real measurements.
Friday Aug 25, 2006
Yesterday, an article in Heise Newsticker (German language) pointed me to the release of SPEC CPU2006. I was quite impressed by the results - with Sun Microsystems publishing more results than other company.
Among them is an impressive result for the parallel integer benchmark CINT2006 rate for the Sun Fire E25K with 72 US-IV+ processors: 759!
With SPEC CPU2006, it is easier to compare the results for the CINT2006 benchmark with those for the CINT2006 Rate (CINT2006 running in parallel). Same applies to the floating point benchmark suite, CFP2006. The base result of 1 is identical for all four SPEC CPU2006 benchmarks - it's the result of the benchmark suite on a Sun Ultra 2.
Sunday May 15, 2005
It has been mentioned before on the web, but whenever I talk about it, people say, "Wow, I didn't think about that way of using a search engine!".
Especially for non-native speakers of the English language, if your favorite dictionary (mine is currently LEO, an Online Service of Technische Universität München, powered by Sun Microsystems) does not contain a word that you would like to use, you may want to try a search engine. An example?
Try: "parallelizable" (currently 51,900 hits) and "parallizable" (359 hits). The U.K. style, "parallelisable" gives you 859 hits, so it's very likely that the second possible way of spelling is incorrect (at least, less people may know what you mean by using that word instead of the first one).
By reading the word in the context, you also get an impression of the meanings, and maybe you'll discover that the word you wanted to use means something different than you thought;-). And, as you can see in the above example, by looking at the domains of the search results (e.g. .com vs. .uk), you may even get hints about in which countries a special way of spelling is used.
Tuesday May 10, 2005
Hi all,
I'm Bernd Finger, a Service Engineer working for Sun Microsystems in Walldorf, Germany. My main work area is SAP on Sun proactive and reactive support.
My main hobbies are computers and music, and I will write about those and my other hobbies later.
It's my first blog, and I wonder how this evolves in the future. As I am sometimes writing letters to the editor, blogging is probably my perfect add-on or follow-up activity.
Feel free to contact me!
Bernd
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