Greg Kihn from KFOX, a Bay Area classic rock station, held a contest for local school bands. All they needed to do was send in their cover of any classic rock song, and the listeners would pick the winners. The cool part was winners got to perform live during his morning show. On the way into work this morning I listened to Valley Christian High School cover "Funky Town", and I was impressed. Map props to Greg Kihn for doing this and promoting music in schools.
I remember my first performance - I was taking classical snare. Another girl and I were to perform in front off all the parents one night. I practiced like crazy - on my snare, on my drum seat, on my pillow ... anywhere. The big night came and I was terrified. It was just the two of us on stage. We started the song, but she faltered and completely stopped a few seconds into it. I saw her freeze out of the corner of my eye, but went back to reading the notes. I managed to make it all the way through with no mistakes. At the end I simply picked up my snare and walked off the stage, relieved. I never heard the audience since I was so focused. Later on my friends told my they were amazed I was able to keep going, and that was the best praise I could ever want.
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Colm MacCárthaigh has a great write up on his detailed benchmarks of a T2000 vs. a dual Itanium with 32Gb of memory
"Bottom line, the T2000 was able to handle over 3 times the number of transactions per-second and about 60% more concurrent downloads than the current ftp.heanet.ie machine can (a dual Itanium with 32Gb of memory) running identical software."
Additional info:
- Sun Fire T2000 Server Product Page
- Sun Fire T2000 Server Free 60-day Trial
- Coolthreads: Sun Fire T2000 Server Documentation
» Tags: SUN, CoolThreads, T2000, Servers, Datacenter
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Several people are blogging about their Try and Buy experience. Here's a list of some of them:
Reading through the blogs and the forums, the biggest problem so far is having the right cables. Grkvlt points out in this thread:
You will need a serial null modem cable which connects to the RJ45 port (the port marked SER MGMT) on the sun, not the DB9 console port. The cable you need is a Cisco rollover console cable, and can be obtained from Ebay pretty cheaply, or you can make your own. if you make one, the pin-outs are available here http://hardwarebook.net/cable/serial/ciscoconsole9.html"
Newegg.com has a USB to Serial cable for $9.
Useful links:
Additional info:
- Sun Fire T2000 Server Product Page
- Sun Fire T2000 Server Free 60-day Trial
- Coolthreads: Sun Fire T2000 Server Documentation
» Tags: SUN, CoolThreads, T2000, Servers, Datacenter
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