The new Silicon Valley Parlour game? Really?

Have you seen this?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/29/whats_going_to_happen_to_sun/

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Posted at 03:25PM Nov 30, 2008 by samktan in SUNW  |  Comments[1]

Moving to http://fangzilla.blogspot.com/ - NOT !!!

Yes, I'm back. :-) Of course, this might be good or bad news depending on your perspective.

First some good news of my own. I've been able to narrow down the source of my problems and it's not Scribefire nor Firefox nor OS X nor anything on my side. The crowd goes wild!

Now the bad news. It turns out that our blogs server is as stable as a bowl of rotting jello. The XML RPC server agent (I'm assuming it's an agent.) throws spurious errors as return messages and it causes Scribefire to return all kinds of nasty error messages that freaked me out. The solution is to ignore the error messages, and keep hitting that "Publish" button until it finally gets through.

Not the most intuitive nor the most conclusive of analyses, but it suffices my needs for the time being. Now back to catching up on my blogging!

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Posted at 07:48PM Nov 24, 2008 by samktan in SUNW  |  Comments[0]

Sun and Intel Training

So some of you might already know of this website but we've recently updated it to include our latest servers and will continue to update it as new products are announced. Check it out.

http://www.sunandinteltraining.com/

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Posted at 08:38PM Nov 23, 2008 by samktan in SUNW  |  Comments[0]

Why Sun won't be acquired?

Here's yet another article espousing an opinion on Sun.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10105585-92.html

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Posted at 07:00AM Nov 22, 2008 by samktan in SUNW  |  Comments[0]

Moving to http://fangzilla.blogspot.com/

So, I give up. I've been trying to get ScribeFire, my preferred blog client to connect to my blog at blogs.sun.com/ramblings but I can't get past the authentication. I know the password is correct because I use it to login via the webpage, but ScribeFire (or Apache Roller) chokes on the authentication. This is not the first time this has happened, everytime there is some upgrade or change to the Apache Roller backend that powers blogs.sun.com, I have to go through a whole lot more pain than I think I should have to to get ScribeFire to connect again. So no more, I'm moving to fangzilla.blogspot.com and hopefully this will work better, otherwise I'll have to investigate some other options. :-(

Posted at 06:49PM Sep 03, 2008 by samktan in SUNW  |  Comments[4]

Project Blackbox in Canberra, our nations capital!

So here's a picture of Project Blackbox with the Australian Federal Parliament Building in the background.

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Posted at 09:18PM Dec 19, 2007 by samktan in SUNW  |  Comments[2]

Project Blackbox in Sydney, Australia

Project Blackbox is currently touring Australia. First stop is Darling Harbour, Sydney. If you haven't been to see it yet, register at http://au.sun.com/events/blackbox/index.jsp and come on down. Here's a picture of the actual box all ready for a green Xmas.

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Posted at 10:14PM Dec 17, 2007 by samktan in SUNW  |  Comments[0]

I'm back!!!

Yes, I know it's been a long time since my last posting. The last six months have been pretty hectic, what with the tender which is still running (don't tell me, I know!) plus various product delivery problems plus AMD's multiple delays for Barcelona plus VMware ESX certification issues plus ... etc. etc. etc. !!! All in all, it reminds of the Chinese saying, may you live in interesting times. :-)

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Posted at 11:08AM Dec 16, 2007 by samktan in SUNW  |  Comments[0]

Busy with tender

Yes I know it's been two weeks since my last blog entry but I've been busy working on a tender for x64 servers that could be worth 1000+ server every year for the next 5 to 9 years. Need to pay a lot of attention to it for the next five days. :-)

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Posted at 09:38PM May 14, 2007 by samktan in SUNW  |  Comments[0]

Customer Success Stories

Yet another site I came across while perusing the ever growing mail in my INBOX marked "Later". This time it's a website that lists our customers who speak up about how Sun has created solutions for some of the most challenging problems in industry, in the customers own words. Read all about it at http://www.sun.com/customers/testimonials/index.jsp.

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Posted at 08:21PM May 02, 2007 by samktan in SUNW  |  Comments[0]

Logical Domains

The final part of the Logical Domains trinity has been released. The first two, that being the UltraSPARC T1 processor and Solaris 10 11/06, have been available for quite some time now. The final component, a firmware upgrade for the OBP of the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers were released earlier this week. You can read all about it and get your own copy at http://www.sun.com/ldoms

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Posted at 07:32PM May 02, 2007 by samktan in SUNW  |  Comments[0]

Tuning for UltraSPARC T1

It is a very rare person who has a 32 CPU development server, which tends to lead to the situation where most developers write code that is rarely capable to scaling to 32 processors. This has not usually been a problem since traditionally 32 CPU servers cost in the vicinity of small houses.

With the introduction of the UltraSPARC T1 with it's 8 core and 32 threads, a server can cost less than US$10000 and run 32 simultaneous applications. Developing applications for this is not the same as that of a typical 2 or 4 CPU Intel server, getting the most out of so much horsepower requires a radical thinking of application architecture.

For those of you who are interested in knowing how to do tuning for UltraSPARC T1 processors, and it's successors, read the "UltraSPARC T1 Tuning Guide" available right here.

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Posted at 08:08PM Apr 27, 2007 by samktan in SUNW  |  Comments[0]

Sun Fire x64 server configuration online

Roll up, roll up, get your x64 server here ! Click on the configurator tool and design your own system the way you like it ! Hurry, hurry, hurry ! http://www.serverconfigurator.com/

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Posted at 03:34PM Apr 17, 2007 by samktan in SUNW  |  Comments[0]

Information Superhighway

Do you ever get the feeling that there is too much information available online? During the course of a normal working week, I have to search at least 50 different sites to get information to do my job. It isn't good practice to put Sun internal URLs on this external website but most of you will recognize these names.

SunTEA, sunsolve, xmen, pricertool, sunreserve, servicedesk, cepedia, onestop, cal-apac, namefinder, crm, blogs.sun.com (of course!)

It all adds up. I feel sympathy for new employees who don't know these services exists and have to waste time trying to find out what is the correct URL just to get their job done. I don't know how other companies do it but I remember many years ago Sun tried to come up with a single employee portal for all relevant websites for that employees function, alas with the cost cutting in recent years I fear that project will never see the light of day.

I know that the default home page on Sun Ray browsers is sunweb but more often than not it doesn't have what I want on the front page and the search function is so antiquated, I recall the days of Altavista and Hotbot where any kind of search on the internet would return 1,000,000 matches but the one you want is on page 100+.

How do you manage your list of URLs? I wrote about trying to find a bookmark manager in an earlier blog, that quest is still underway, but I'd be interested if others have a system that works for them.

Posted at 09:45AM Apr 13, 2007 by samktan in SUNW  |  Comments[0]

Sun turns 25 this year, get your t-shirts here !

Sun is now a quarter of a century old, the exact anniversary is 25th Feb 1982, so we missed it by a few months, but better late than never. You can order your commemorative t-shirts from http://www.sunwarestore.com/category/25thAnniversary for yourself, your loved ones, that special someone, even your customers. Go for it!

You can also read all about the first 25 years in Sun's history at http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/features/25years/index.jsp including a poster timeline of Sun's achievements.

Posted at 09:39AM Apr 11, 2007 by samktan in SUNW  |  Comments[1]