solaris zfs

Monday May 05, 2008

Laugh, cry or both?

What does it take to get your filesystem accepted as the 'de facto' standard in Linux? Guess this guy got annoyed at something, hopefully, not his coding abilities.


Linux-guru's conviction fuels ReiserFS debate | Reg Developer

Posted on: May 05, 2008

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Category: General

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The truth is out there ... and if it isn't we'll make it so

Don't like the unfavourable comments on wikipedia? Then simply edit them away. I bet this article

Phorm admits 'over zealous' editing of Wikipedia article | The Register

is the tip of the iceberg. Which leads to an interesting discusion as to the validity of information posted on blogs/web sets etc etc. Where is the peer review? (and that doesn't mean 'comments')

What was it Lewis Carrol said about words and their meanings? (Or was that Lep Zeplin "you know sometimes words have two meanings")

Posted on: May 05, 2008

Posted by: Neil Davis

Category: General

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Awesome robotics demonstration....

This is truely amazing....

YouTube - Boston Dynamics Big Dog (new video March 2008)

I want one.. wonder what cpu powers the 'brain'

Posted on: May 05, 2008

Posted by: Neil Davis

Category: General

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Laugh, cry or both?

What does it take to get your filesystem accepted as the 'de facto' standard in Linux? Guess this guy got annoyed at something, hopefully, not his coding abilities.


Linux-guru's conviction fuels ReiserFS debate | Reg Developer

Posted on: May 05, 2008

Posted by: Neil Davis

Category: General

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Wednesday Apr 09, 2008

The truth is out there ... and if it isn't we'll make it so

Don't like the unfavourable comments on wikipedia? Then simply edit them away. I bet this article

Phorm admits 'over zealous' editing of Wikipedia article | The Register

is the tip of the iceberg. Which leads to an interesting discusion as to the validity of information posted on blogs/web sets etc etc. Where is the peer review? (and that doesn't mean 'comments')

What was it Lewis Carrol said about words and their meanings? (Or was that Lep Zeplin "you know sometimes words have two meanings")

Posted on: Apr 09, 2008

Posted by: Neil Davis

Category: General

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Tuesday Mar 25, 2008

Awesome robotics demonstration....

This is truely amazing....

YouTube - Boston Dynamics Big Dog (new video March 2008)

I want one.. wonder what cpu powers the 'brain'

Posted on: Mar 25, 2008

Posted by: Neil Davis

Category: General

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Monday Mar 24, 2008

Global Warming? All our fault?

Yes, countless scientific reports have been written that state the claim that Man's activities over the past 300 years are a major contributor to the rise in global warming. Interesting then that there is copious scientific research that has established that Earth's magnetic poles have (and are currently doing so) moved many times and will continue to do so. The effect of the the poles moving tends to have an effect on the climate too. Mind you, given that the next shift is due sometime around 3000-4000AD, perhaps it'll be a good idea to keep the home fires burning...


Earth's Inconstant Magnetic Field

Posted on: Mar 24, 2008

Posted by: Neil Davis

Category: General

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Wednesday Feb 27, 2008

Running Solaris 8 on Sun4v (in a container of course!)

As Willard Duncan Vandiver said,
I'M FROM MISSOURI, YOU'VE GOT TO SHOW ME
and so it was with the ability to run a Solaris 8 2/04 flar on a T2000 (with LDOMS) in a branded container.

To make it even more interesting, the underlying filesystem as ZFS. And it actually worked.

So, to be clear, I took a flar from a running Solaris 8 system and loaded the flar on to the T2000's branded zone.

There are of course, a multitude of questions that will arise once one tries to move an application but the principle has been established.

For more information check out the page on  Solaris 8 Migration Assistant

(Fortunately, I did have the help of one or two knowledgable colleagues)

Posted on: Feb 27, 2008

Posted by: Neil Davis

Category: General

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Monday Sep 25, 2006

ZFS and how it got it's name

Yes ZFS is cool. But let's take a look at the FAQ and the first question. This concerns the naming of the technology and here's the bit that is just plain wrong ZFS FAQ Huh? Zeta is the last letter of the Greek Alpabet? NO It's the 6th letter; Omega is the last letter. Here's the complete table OpenSolaris for the Enterprising
Hey, but then Hollywood has produced a film called "My Big Fat GrΣΣk Wedding"... Er, that's grSSk. Oh, and as for the comment, it still claims in the FAQ that Zeta is the last letter even if 'Z' stands for 'zetabyte'.

Posted on: Sep 25, 2006

Posted by: Neil Davis

Category: General

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Friday Sep 08, 2006

I too can save the planet

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Posted on: Sep 08, 2006

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Category: General

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Tuesday Jun 27, 2006

Solaris 10 6/06 includes PostgreSQL

Wow!

The latest incarnation of Solaris 10 now includes PostgreSQL

... and not a moment too soon! It's been a funny old ride for Postgres; staring life in UBB as ingres, shipping as part of SunOS 3.x (that's the earliest I remember!), going commerical as the company Ingres, being bought out by CA, spliting the world between Ingres and Postgres, CA open sourcing Ingres. Crikey! How come it doesn't dominate the world.

Posted on: Jun 27, 2006

Posted by: Neil Davis

Category: General

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Wednesday Jun 14, 2006

The Panda Said NO!

I'm, unfortunately, somewhat pedantic in nature. The observant amongst you will notice that the name of this blog has changed. All I can say is, read "Eat, Shoots and Leaves".

Posted on: Jun 14, 2006

Posted by: Neil Davis

Category: General

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Tuesday Jun 06, 2006

Communication.....

Hello Readers!

If you find this acataleptic, you're not alone. I'm an acapnotic, which I'm not sure helps; Bill , Clinton that is, is one too. (or is that in-hale?) There's something about being an acephalist that appeals :)

Posted on: Jun 06, 2006

Posted by: Neil Davis

Category: General

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Wednesday Nov 02, 2005

A sad day for SGI...

SGI once the darling of the visualisation world (gee, I forget how many times we lost deals involving graphics to SGI) has de-listed from the NYSE; it's now a penny stock.

SGI Delists frm NYSE, now a penny stock

Posted on: Nov 02, 2005

Posted by: Neil Davis

Category: General

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Tuesday Jun 14, 2005

Linux has an Open Source competitor ...ok another one

One would be forgiven for thinking that Linux was the only open source/freely available OS....it's not, there's FreeBSD. Oh, and this...OpenSolaris Now, all those people who want the source of the kernel can choose the best.

Sometimes I do think that an awful lot of Linux advocates think that Gcc was written for them.. Strange, I was using Gcc to compile something called X11 back in 1987 on a Sun workstation... that's before Linux existed. OpenSolaris for the Enterprising

Posted on: Jun 14, 2005

Posted by: Neil Davis

Category: General

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