General

The ARC has approved the PSARC/2008/427 iSCSI Boot case.

This project is to enable Solaris to boot off iSCSI luns via regular network adapters. Different approaches, iBFT/OBP, are adopted to implement this feature on x86/sparc platforms.

For the readers unaware of iBFT: This is a part of the ACPI 3.0 specification to enable a kernel to gather additional data needed to boot via iSCSI.

An dieser Stelle möchte ich meine Glückwünsche an meine Schwester Solveig und meinen Bruder Jens richten. Solveig hat heute ihren Bachelor in Frühpädagogik mit hervorragender Benotung geschaft. Jens hat am Donnerstag sein Diplom als Wirtschaftsingenieur mit ebenfalls sehr guter Benotung erlangt . Euer grosser Bruder ist stolz auf euch

There is a nice piece of server porn at silicon.de: The dissection of a X4450 in fifty photos. A nice peek into the chassis of the only available Tier1 2RU quadsocket system.

Yet another tutorial finalized - this time about one of the really hidden features of Solaris - CacheFS. CacheFS is something similar to a caching proxy. But this proxy don´t cache web page, it caches files from another filesystem. I divided the tutorial in 8 parts.

• Part 1: Introduction
• Part 2: Theory
• Part 3: A basic example
• Part 4: The Cache
• Part 5: On demand consistency checking
• Part 6: A usecase for CacheFS
• Part 7: The future of CacheFS
• Part 8: Conclusion

I hope, this tutorial gives you some new insights into Solaris. Have fun while trying out the stuff in the tutorial

CacheFS is one of this features even some experienced admins aren´t aware of. But as soon as they try it, most of them can´t live without it. You should give it a try.

According to a report at Aviationweek Boeing thinks about to leave the tanker rebidding process. The new proposal gives more credits to a bigger tanker and thus a 767 based tanker wouldn´t be competitive to a A330 based tanker ... and as i wrote before. A 777 based tanker is no alternative for Boeing besides of the short timeframe for this proposal.

Now, however, the Pentagon is pushing for the replacement tankers as soon as possible after multiple delays. It remains unclear if a no-bid position from Boeing would drag out the KC-X competition or it if would compel the Pentagon to attempt a sole-source of the work to Northrop Grumman/EADS.

This is an interesting development. Stopping the former decision with the help of the GOA just do leave the proposal process afterwards will not help to make friends for future proposals ....

Irgendwie bekomme ich das "Gülle!Gülle!Gülle!" nicht ausm Kopf



Danke an B-Tina fuer dieses grandiose Video

There is some discussion about the faked fireworks sequence of the Olympic opening celebration. Was there really someone really, who believed that this was a real sequence? The flight of the chasing plane was much to stable for a real one and the light wasn´t correct. That was pretty obvious.

Wer einen Kindergarten in Reinkultur sehen moechte, moege sich bitte mal die Diskussion rund um blastwave auf heise.de angucken. Schily und Fefe prügeln sich da verbal wie die Kesselflicker auf einem niedrigen Niveau ("Lern du mal was ein Integer overflow ist","Lern du mal programmieren") ... eben Kindergarten revisited.

Sorry for writing nothing the last few days, but i´m occupied with the proof reading of the bachelor thesis of my little sister. Arguing about some phrases with her can be quite embarrasing ...

I´m finally back in Hamburg. Was a good flight back to Frankfurt and further to Hamburg.

Additionally i´ve uploaded some unedited photos to a photo set at flickr.



You can view the photoset by clicking on the photo.

25.07.2008

No, this isn´t the first day of my vaction in NY. But a journey doesn´t begin with the pushback at the airport. A journey begins with a decision, with an idea. And this journey began last year.

I just came back from checking in my luggage. I´ve got an exit-row seat for the flight to JFK. Not business-class comfort, but much more space for my legs and that´s all i want from my seat

Perhaps you remember the "Last Lecture" of Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist. I wrote about it some time ago. Randy Pausch´s battle came to it´s inevitable end: He died at 47.

Here the video that made him famous to a large audience:

I´ve viewed the Berlin speech of Barrak Obama yesterday evening on CNN (the german networks had terrible translators). I really think, i saw the next president of the United States. From my perspective it was a good speech. Refreshingly different than the other politicans i saw before (the US ones and the german ones as well). I really hope, your get it right this time, dear US voters ... i really had some doubts about the mental status of the US people at the last election.

BTW: I don´t think that this age is a problem. Long and vast Experience is often not much more than an excuse for stubborn narrow-mindness. You have advisors for this task, knowing much more about an issue than you will know ... you just take care, that your advisors haven´t an own policy (but Bush (the younger one) got even relected with such advisors).