Wednesday February 22, 2006 
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Wednesday February 22, 2006 How many other companies have a Space Program?
Thursday February 09, 2006 Keith Wesolowski "wrote an article":http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/wesolows?entry=a_louder_voice_for_the yesterday about integrating the Solaris Fault Manager into a SNMP based monitoring system.
I wonder how hard (or useful) it would be pipe FMA events into an RSS (or Atom) feed. I imagine it would live in the area that snmp-trapgen is, so that would be a good place to start.
Hmmm...
Tuesday February 07, 2006 I've been reading up on the news that VMware's Server product (the follow on to GSX server) has been released as free (as in no cost, not open) software. Here's a link to the press release.
But that's not what this entry is about. In this Linux Watch coverage, Yankee Group research fellow Laura DiDio is quoted as saying:
"Last fall Sun Microsystems initiated a similarly bold move when it opted to make its Solaris operating system free for customers who have one-, two- and four processor servers."It's nice to be noticed, but it's wrong. Solaris is free for all types of systems, x64 and SPARC, no matter how many processors. We must not be doing a good enough job getting the word out.
Monday February 06, 2006 Since Cyril Plisko managed to discover that I had a blog (despite my inability to post on even a semi-regular basis), and linked to it in a recent article, I thought it would be nice to at least mention what I've been working on.
I've been watching OpenSolaris since hearing about it from Dan Price and others at Sun's Immersion Week (an internal conference for Sun's customer engineers) in November 2004. I was very interested in the Power PC porting effort (aka Polaris) since it was an unparalleled opportunity to really learn about the guts of Solaris in a unique way.
Since that time, I haven't been that active. It's hard to pipe up in a discussion of operating system aracana when the people who wrote the thing are on the same list, and I can't say that anything in my background would qualify me to port an operating system. However, an opportunity came about when a discussion about wikis and ticketing software arose on the Polaris mailing list.
I volunteered to implement the Trac software on one of Dennis Clarke's Blastwave servers and after a month or so of what seems like constant collaboration with Cyril Plisko and Dennis, the Polaris Trac site was launched late last week.
I've found doing this work to be a fufilling way of contributing to the open source effort while waiting for the project to evolve to the point where I can pitch in there as well.
Thanks for the opportunity.
Friday May 06, 2005 My name is Craig Steinberger, and I'm a technical specialist in Sun's Client Solutions Data Center practice based out of Rochester, NY. I joined Sun in 2001, and I've typically worked at Sun customer sites defining and delivering solutions. My professional interest areas are Solaris, performance and capacity management, data center operations, and architectural issues. I've also developed some expertise in storage, backups, and Oracle.
I come from a engineering background, and in a previous life I earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering studying turbulent combustion and computational fluid dynamics (that is, big iron number crunching). I spent a short period of time doing web design (in the early days of the web), computer animation, and motion graphics, although those are just hobbies now.
I'll probably be writing about the applied side of Sun's products. There are plenty of engineers writing about the latest and greatest things that they've developed, but I'd like to concentrate on what it takes to get it all working in the real world. I'm currently also interested in the new Service Management Facility (smf) in Solaris 10 and in the OpenSolaris project.