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Joerg Moellenkamp: Sun Cluster 3.3

Joerg Moellenkamp — 2010-09-08T15:17:48+00:00

Oracle announced Sun Cluster 3.3 today. This release got a lot of new features, too. You find a list of them at wikis.sun.com:

NAS NFS File Systems Now Supported in a Zone Cluster
Failover-File-System Monitoring
Denying Cluster Services for a Non-Global Zone
Trusted Extensions With Zone Clusters Support
Oracle 11g Release 2 Support
Load-Based Distribution of Resource Groups
that one is interesting, the Cluster framework chooses the node according to the load of the system to impose load limits for example or to use the least loaded cluster node
Node Rename
Power Management User Interface
the documentation states "The Oracle Solaris power management user interface can now turn Oracle Solaris Cluster components and systems on and off in order to save energy."
Exporting Cluster File Systems to a Zone Cluster Using a Loopback Mount
Wizard Updates for the clsetup Utility and Oracle Solaris Cluster Manager
Wizard Support for Oracle ASM
Support for Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3 in Failover and Clustered Configurations
Enhanced Oracle E-Business Suite 3.2 Agent
Oracle Solaris Cluster HA for MySQL Cluster
Oracle Solaris Cluster HA for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

Joerg Moellenkamp: What's new in Solaris 10 9/10

Joerg Moellenkamp — 2010-09-08T14:02:46+00:00

Update 9/10 of Solaris 10 delivers a lot of changes when compared to Update 8:

Installation Enhancements

SPARC: Support for ITU Construction Tools on SPARC Platforms - In this release, the itu utility has been modified to support booting a SPARC based system with the install-time updates (ITU) process.
Oracle Solaris Auto Registration - before you ask ... you can disable it
Oracle Solaris Upgrade Enhancement for Oracle Solaris Zone– Cluster Nodes

Virtualization Enhancements for Oracle Solaris Zones

Migrating a Physical Oracle Solaris 10 System Into a Zone - cool, my RfE found its way into Solaris 10
Host ID Emulation
Updating Packages by Using the New zoneadm attach -U Option

Virtualization Enhancements for Oracle VM Server for SPARC (formerly known as LDOMs)

Memory Dynamic Reconfiguration Capability
Virtual Disk Multipathing Enhancements
Static Direct I/O
Virtual Domain Information Command and API - the virtinfo command

System Administration Enhancements

Oracle Solaris ZFS Features and Enhancements

ZFS device replacement enhancements - namely autoexpand
some changes to the zpool list command
Holding ZFS snapshots
Triple parity RAID-Z (raidz3)
The logbias property
Log device removal - at last
ZFS storage pool recovery
New ZFS system process – In this release, each storage pool has an associated process, zpool-poolname
Splitting a mirrored ZFS storage pool (zpool split)

Fast Crash Dump
x86: Support for the IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS MSR
Support for Multiple Disk Sector Size
iSCSI Initiator Tunables
Sparse File Support in the cpio Command
x86: 64-Bit libc String Functions Improvements With SSE
Automated Rebuilding of sendmail Configuration Files
Automatic Boot Archive Recovery

Security Enhancements

net_access Privilege
x86: Intel AES-NI Optimization

Language Support Enhancements

New Oracle Solaris Unicode Locales

Device Management Enhancements

iSCSI Boot
iSER Initiator
New Hot-Plugging Features
AAC RAID Power Management

Driver Enhancements

x86: HP Smart Array HBA Driver
x86: Support for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC Driver
x86: New SATA HBA Driver, bcm_sata, for Broadcom HT1000 SATA Controllers
Support for SATA/AHCI Port Multiplier
Support for Netlogic NLP2020 PHY in the nxge Driver

Freeware Enhancements

GNU TAR Version 1.23
Firefox 3.5
Thunderbird 3
Less Version 436/li>

Networking Enhancements

BIND 9.6.1 for the Oracle Solaris 10 OS
GLDv3 Driver APIs
IPoIB Connected Mode
Open Fabrics User Verbs Primary Kernel Components
InfiniBand Infrastructure Enhancements

X11 Windowing Enhancements

Support for the setxkbmap Command

New Chipset Support

ixgbe Driver to Integrate Intel Shared Code Version 3.1.9
Broadcom Support to bge Networking Driver
x86: Fully Buffered DIMM Idle Power Enhancement

Fault Management Architecture Enhancements

FMA Support for AMD's Istanbul Based Systems
Several Oracle Solaris FMA Enhancement

Diagnostic Tools Enhancements

Sun Validation Test Suite 7.0ps9
Enhancements to the mdb Command to Improve the Debugging Capability of kmem and libumem

You wil find a more in-depth description at docs.sun.com.

Joerg Moellenkamp: Solaris 10 Update 9 aka 09/10 available for download

Joerg Moellenkamp — 2010-09-08T13:57:52+00:00

The Update 9 of Solaris 10 (also known as 09/10) is available for download now. I will publish the "What's new" article in a few minutes.

Joerg Moellenkamp: The tone gets rough

Joerg Moellenkamp — 2010-09-08T06:35:35+00:00

A statement from Larry Ellison:

“Oracle has long viewed HP as an important partner,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “By filing this vindictive lawsuit against Oracle and Mark Hurd, the HP board is acting with utter disregard for that partnership, our joint customers, and their own shareholders and employees. The HP Board is making it virtually impossible for Oracle and HP to continue to cooperate and work together in the IT marketplace."

Well, interesting times ahead of us....

Garrett D'Amore: We're Hiring!

Garrett D'Amore — 2010-09-07T21:59:55+00:00

In case you didn't know, a number of companies are hiring illumos talent.

I know of an opening for a USB kernel engineer at one company.

I'm told Joyent is growing like crazy.

And Nexenta is hiring! In fact, here are some of the opportunities we have open at Nexenta:

QA leads. We have two positions for folks with skills and knowledge to design and build, and run, automated testing of the operating system, with a particular focus on storage and networking. Expertise in NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, ZFS, and the surrounding areas would be highly useful. Good communication skills, shell scripting or perl skills, and an ability to work in the office in Mountain View, are all required. Previous QA leadership preferred.
Support engineers. We need support engineers across the globe. People who can answer the phone, and triage problems. Solaris or UNIX experience, ZFS clue, good troubleshooting and triage skills, and excellent communication skills are necessary.
Kernel software engineers. I need people with deep TCP/IP, SCSI, Storage, and Filesystems expertise. Solaris expertise highly preferred, but can substitute FreeBSD or Linux kernel expertise. Highly motivated self-driven super-stars only.
Sustaining software engineers. Excellent troubleshooting and kernel expertise is required. Expertise in one or more of TCP/IP, SCSI, storage, and filesystems is preferable. Solaris expertise highly preferred.
IT staff. We have one opening for a mid-level IT engineer. Must be able to deal with Solaris, Linux, Windows, phones, and cantankerous development staff.

I expect even more growth will occur here over time. A jobs board for illumos will be coming soon.

Joerg Moellenkamp: HP sues Hurd

Joerg Moellenkamp — 2010-09-07T20:13:21+00:00

Okay ... the usual lawsuits after hiring a top executive of a competitor have begun: HP sues Hurd to stop him from joining Oracle. You will find the court documents at scribd.

Blog O' Matty: Yet another good reason to switch to NFSv4!

matty — 2010-09-07T19:15:02+00:00

There are currently two main NFS protocol versions in mainstream use. The first is version 3, which was introduced in 1995 as part of RFC 1813. NFSv3 implementations use separate daemons to implement the locking (rpc.lockd), status (rpc.statd), mount (rpc.mountd) and port assignments (portmap) features required by the protocol. NFSv4, which was introduced in 2003 [...]

Blog O' Matty: My favorite android applications

matty — 2010-09-07T19:07:58+00:00

I mentioned previously that I picked up an Android phone a few weeks back. As typical geek, I have been on a quest to outfit my phone with some killer applications, and to make my phone use a truly awesome experience. I’ve tested dozens and dozens of applications, and thought I would share my favourites [...]

Joerg Moellenkamp: links for 2010-09-07

del.icio.us — 2010-09-07T19:00:26+00:00

Red Eye - NYTimes.com

(tags: travel humor art illustration funny blog flight airlines cartoon)
Deutschlandfunk - Markt und Medien - Die Aufregungsspirale

"In Wirklichkeit, das zeigen die vergangenen Tage, sind Journalisten jedoch nicht die Vermittler von Fakten und begründeten Meinungen, sondern die Veranstalter eines großen Kasperletheaters."

Joerg Moellenkamp: Reactivated comments

Joerg Moellenkamp — 2010-09-07T16:52:15+00:00

I've just reactivated comments. Out of a simple reason: I would have to tone down my comments, when i'm not allowing rebuttals and i don't want that this blog is considered as a Oracle fanboy's soap box. Thanks to Michael for an insightful mail.

Joerg Moellenkamp: No comments

Joerg Moellenkamp — 2010-09-07T15:35:30+00:00

I made a decision today. I deactivated comments today. This was a hard decision for me, as the comments were open for over six years now and i've got many many good comments. But i don't want to offer a stage for been-there-done-that-knowing-all-better's writing on every stage you offer to them, these armchair-CEOs, people going berzerk because of being disappointed about the things have changed any longer. Feel free to contact me about this decision via mail.

Joerg Moellenkamp: Hurd

Joerg Moellenkamp — 2010-09-07T13:52:15+00:00

You can think about Hurd whatever you want. But the "Oracle top management don't know HW" should be out of the world now.

Joerg Moellenkamp: Hurd at Oracle

Joerg Moellenkamp — 2010-09-07T04:29:02+00:00

Round a bout a month ago, Hurd left HP. Yesterday Oracle announced that Hurd is now a co-president at Sun: "Oracle hires former HP's Hurd, Phillips leaves"

Blog O' Matty: How to make awesome wheatgrass juice for next to nothing!

matty — 2010-09-07T01:18:06+00:00

I have been trying to eat better, and am trying a variety of different things to get into a routine of healthy eating (this is super hard to do when you lived off of junk food for as long as I have!). As part of my new eating habits, I have been trying to incorporate [...]

Joerg Moellenkamp: links for 2010-09-06

del.icio.us — 2010-09-06T19:00:46+00:00

The worlds strangest, weirdest and scariest airports - Telegraph

(tags: aviation)
Flight attendants to land aircraft in emergency

O'Leary again ....

(tags: aviation)
Standpunkt: Dancing the Sarrazin? - wissenrockt.de
Rasse, Vererbung und Zucht fuer das christliche Abendland

Fuer die Steigerung der durchschnittlichen Verbloedung eines Landes gibt es drei Methoden: Es gibt mehr Dumme. Es gibt eine Dominanz von Medien wie Privat-TV, BILD und Spiegel Online. Und es gibt weniger Gebildete.
EDISEN SENSOR SYSTEM GmbH und CO KG

kapazitive lichtschalter
Thilo Sarrazin hat grundlegende genetische Zusammenhaenge falsch verstanden

Joerg Moellenkamp: New Netra servers

Joerg Moellenkamp — 2010-09-06T09:01:09+00:00

Oracle announced two Netra Servers a few days ago: The first one is a blade server, albeit it's in a form factor few of you will ever use. The Netra CP3270 is a so called ATCA blade server. ATCA is the acronym for Advanced Telecommunications Computing architecture. As the name suggests, you find them in use by telecommunication companies for their telephone switching infrastructure e.g. The Netra CP3270 is a NEBS Level 3 certified blade based on two Intel Xeon LC5518 processors. You will find additional information on the Oracle webpage. .

The other server looks a little more common. It's the Netra X4270. It's a rack server, however this one is is NEBS certified as well and it's available with direct current as well as alternating current power supply. You will find more information here.

Joerg Moellenkamp: New Solaris podcast: The integration story

Joerg Moellenkamp — 2010-09-05T19:53:33+00:00

There is a new Oracle Solaris Podcast available:

By combining the great products and technologies from Oracle and Sun, we are able to deliver a complete solution to our customers - from applications to disk. In this episode, the hosts dive into some of the things we've been doing over the last six months to integrate testing, support, and applications. They also cover early plans for deploying Sun systems in Oracle's Global IT infrastructure and how this will benefit our customers.

Joerg Moellenkamp: links for 2010-09-05

del.icio.us — 2010-09-05T19:00:49+00:00

Mark Hurd in Talks With Oracle - WSJ.com

rumour

Marcelo Leal: Performance IV

Marcelo Leal — 2010-09-05T02:35:02+00:00

Hello there, this will be a long post… so, i think if you have no time to waste, think again before you go ahead. And, no. I’m not Morpheus, so and i cannot offer you the truth. Actually, i can just offer you my doubts. And no pills, i do not like them. My blog [...]

Marcelo Leal: Elevator Algorithm

Marcelo Leal — 2010-09-05T02:25:07+00:00

Hello there, this will be a long post… so, i think if you have no time to waste, think again before you go ahead. And, no. I’m not Morpheus, so i cannot offer you the truth. Actually, i can just offer you my doubts. And no pills, i do not like them. My blog is [...]

Garrett D'Amore: Squash-proof?

Garrett D'Amore — 2010-09-03T21:16:26+00:00

So everyone has heard me talk about the 800 lb. gorilla with respect to illumos.

One question I keep getting asked is, can the illumos project be "squashed" by this 800 lb. gorilla?

My stock answer had been "no". But I realized something today; I've been wrong.

The way illumos can be "killed" is if the corporate owner of Solaris were to do something to make illumos irrelevant. Like, say, opening Solaris back up (and in this case, I think they would probably need to go further open than they were before).

I'm not worried though. Even if that happens, illumos will have been a major success. But I really don't think it is going to happen.

Joerg Moellenkamp: links for 2010-09-03

del.icio.us — 2010-09-03T19:00:47+00:00

Joerg Moellenkamp: $7.4 billion was really a steal ...

Joerg Moellenkamp — 2010-09-03T04:38:49+00:00

$2.07 billion for 3PAR - a company just working in the storage area - ... now i'm sure that $7.4 billion for Sun was a steal.

Ben Rockwood: Devops Days Silicon Valley: What You Missed

2010-09-03T04:06:00+00:00

All the panels from the Silicon Valley DevOps Days are now online. A huge round of applause for InfoQ for putting this entire event online and making it available to the world.

If you want a glimpse into the next 10 years of system administration as a career path, you need to get up to speed now so it doesn't take you by surprise in the coming years.

Joerg Moellenkamp: A really long rant ...

Joerg Moellenkamp — 2010-09-02T19:18:00+00:00

I sat a on my fingers for all the weekend but now i can't take all this comments in the blogs and the mailing lists any longer. Ten years ago, i would have gone ballistic long ago... but the fuse got longer of the past few years. However i'm still able to detonate, however despite the undirected explosion 10 years ago, it's more directed today.

And this article is such a directed explosion. I worked a while on this article and this was one of the reasons why it was relatively silent on this blog the last few days. At first i didn't wanted to publish it, but some events of today led me to think otherwise. I don't know if this is a wise move, because the torch of this rant will burn down some beards. On the other side, i think the article is worth the publication, but you have to judge about that.

However i try to prevent me from exploding thus i used this weekend to play with my new toy (i purchased an iPad last week and it's really fscking cool, i just thought "Like Enterprise ... i just wouldn't gave them away like they do in TNG" ) and worked a lot on the planing on the modifications on my newly purchased building.

However the mail by Garrett d'Amore asking about the removal of SVM was a drop. It was one of those drops, that led to a severe spill-over. So this blog article will be a long rant. If you don't like rants, just skip this.

And keep in mind, it's a rant ... it's not meant to be fair or objective ... think of it as a way to write down my frustration about a lot of events in the last few weeks and especially in the last few days.
Continue reading "A really long rant ..."

Joerg Moellenkamp: links for 2010-09-02

del.icio.us — 2010-09-02T19:00:38+00:00

The Story of the Time Traveller-Advertising-Hoax

Garrett D'Amore: illumos Interest Groups

Garrett D'Amore — 2010-09-01T19:26:41+00:00

So, I've been asked by several people who are involved with OpenSolaris User Groups around the world about illumos.

Given the clear demise of OpenSolaris, it seems to me at least, to be kind of silly to continue to meet using that name.

Some groups have reverted to pure Solaris usage. Which is fine for those groups that want to focus on Oracle products and want to come under the Oracle umbrella that it has for user groups.

For groups that are more interested in open technology, perhaps it is time to start up some "illumos interest groups" (IIGs)? (Calling them "User Groups" at this point seems rather premature... I think there are only a very few of us that are actually "using" illumos at this point.. but I hope that number to grow very much very soon. :-)

Btw, are there any folks interested in illumos in either Riverside County or North San Diego County? (California) I'd be interested in participating in an interest group if there was one that didn't require me to drive over an hour to get to.

Joerg Moellenkamp: Relative Silence

Joerg Moellenkamp — 2010-09-01T19:19:48+00:00

Just in case you wonder about the relative silence in this blog ... i wrote a longer article in the last few days circling about Illumos, OpenSolaris, the Java lawsuit, some people in the Solaris community, an article about the live, the universe and all the rest ... it was a large big rant. I've decided not to put it on the blog ... a lot of work in the evenings for the bucket ... but believe me ... it's better that way

Garrett D'Amore: OpenSolaris ARC is Dead

Garrett D'Amore — 2010-09-01T19:05:24+00:00

I had tried to dial in to ARC today, but no luck. But then someone else pointed out that we have not seen any ARC cases since the tap was turned off.

In fact, I posted a query about this to the opensolaris-arc mailing list today, and I got back an interesting automated reply:

This mailing list is no longer active and accepting posts. Mailing
list archives can be found at
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/. You can check
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo to find another list to
which to send your email.

So, OpenSolaris ARC is dead. This has ramifications that go beyond just ON. Because there are other consolidations that we were promised were going to continue to be developed in the open: JDS, X11, and the pkg-gate. If the decisions for these technologies are no longer being made openly, or even the opinions being made available, then this makes Oracle's promise to continue to work with the community on them seem hollow.

So, what's left for "OpenSolaris" as so named? There are some code drops still being made. How long will that keep up? Are they continuing to take contribution from external parties? (I don't work on those gates, so I don't really know.) I'd like to know if the other consolidations have shut down too. At least the key decisions relating to those consolidations seem to have moved behind closed doors.

Joerg Moellenkamp: links for 2010-09-01

del.icio.us — 2010-09-01T19:00:36+00:00

Marcelo Leal: Performance II

Marcelo Leal — 2010-08-31T22:39:02+00:00

In my last post about “Performance“, i did talk about a ZFS tuning parameter: zfs_prefetch_disable. And that was a ZFS read parameter… In this post, we will take a look in another one, with the same “water to wine” effect. This time with focus on writes… We have a set of informations available for our [...]

Constantin Gonzalez: Top 11 Things You Can Do Now To Prepare For Oracle Solaris 11

constant — 2010-08-31T20:58:05+00:00

Oracle Solaris 11 is the future of enterprise IT, that is now clear.

Still, we need to wait a year until it is officially released. What can we do now? Well, quite a lot, it turns out. Even if the preview version (due later this year) hasn't been relased yet, there are a lot of things you can do to prepare for the big OS upgrade.

Here's a list of 11 things you can do now to start enjoying the benefits of Solaris 11, get ahead of your system peers and be a part of the future of Solaris now!

#1: Check out a Preview of the Preview

If you've been following the OpenSolaris project, then you no doubt have noticed, that it already is a preview of the next version of Solaris. Therefore, OpenSolaris 2009.06 is technically a preview to Oracle Solaris 11.

Want something more recent? Download Developer Build 134 of OpenSolaris, which is the most recent publicly available OpenSolaris developer build.

That should give you something nice to play with until the official Preview of Oracle Solaris 11 becomes available.

#2: Find Your Hardware On The Compatibility List

A lot of hardware has been tested with OpenSolaris already, it is documented on the Oracle Solaris Hardware Compatibility List. You'll likely find a lot of popular server equipment there.

Even if at first you don't find your exact hardware component, it's worth searching for your hardware's chipset or a close relative. Most of the time it's close enough to run OpenSolaris on.

And if you find new hardware that works well with OpenSolaris, then feel free to submit it to the HCL so others can benefit from it.

#3: Virtualize Your Hardware For Oracle Solaris 11

If you want to get familiar with new technologies that aren't ready for prime time yet, it's preferable to use a virtualized server. This also allows you to preview Oracle Solaris 11 on your laptop without having to reinstall everything.

Oracle has two great virtualization technologies that you can use for free:

VirtualBox is hands down the best solution to rapidly try out, evaluate and develop for Oracle Solaris on your workstation or laptop. I use it every day to run a preview of Solaris 11 as my regular work environment, running on my Macbook Pro.
For more serious server environments, there's also Oracle VM for x86. This is a free, enterprise-class, certified virtualization solution that comes with advanced features such as HA clustering, management software, live migration and much more.

Download one of these now and get started with your Solaris 11 preview installation!

#4: Join a Local OpenSolaris User Group

When trying out new Solaris features, it's good to be in touch with people like you. That's where OpenSolaris User Groups come in. And don't get hung up on the naming details between "OpenSolaris" and "Solaris 11". It's all Solaris, and its all about great OS technology!

There are several dozen Solaris groups world-wide to choose from. They meet regularly and chances are that one is near your town already. Typically, they host interesting presentations on new technologies, install parties or just informal gatherings where you can discuss any Solaris related news over a beer or two.

#5: Join One or More Solaris Related Discussion Lists

Every user group, every major Solaris technology and almost every other Solaris related topic can be found in one of the many OpenSolaris discussion lists.

The majority of discussions on OpenSolaris.org mailing lists are centered around technology topics and the mailing list members are very approachable. Many of them work at Oracle and are eager to help out with understanding Solaris, solve technology problems or take feedback and helpful suggestions.

So check out your favorite topics and join one or more mailing lists now!

#6: Get Ready for the Future of Solaris Networking with Crossbow

Project Crossbow provides the building blocks for network virtualization and resource control. It was introduced with OpenSolaris 2009.06 and it will completely change the way you think about networking.

Crossbow lets you create new virtualized NICs with a single command. You can attach it to a Solaris Container, wire it up to a virtualized switch or route in and out of it. You can create as many virtualized interfaces as you want, measure, control and limit traffic through them and take complete control of all things networking in your datacenter infrastructure.

Check out the Crossbow website for an introduction to the topic, view the documentation, join the crossbow-discuss mailing list and try out some examples.

#7: Get Ready for the Future of Storage Virtualization with COMSTAR

Another landmark project in Solaris is COMSTAR, which is a software framework that enables you to turn any OpenSolaris host into a SCSI target that can be accessed over the network by initiator hosts. Together with ZFS volumes (ZVOLs), this is your ticket to storage virtualization: Create arbitrarily sized, highly available, integrity proofed and self-healing LUNs, then share them on the network via iSCSI, fibre channel or other protocols.

On the internet, nobody knows your dog is the LUN, they say.

Seriously, check out the COMSTAR pages, read the COMSTAR documentation, check out some COMSTAR + ZFS demos and join the OpenSolaris storage discussion mailing list.

#8: Check Out Some Advanced ZFS Features

While we're at it: A lot has been integrated into ZFS since OpenSolaris 2009.06 that you should be prepared for when looking forward to Solaris 11.

The biggest is probably Deduplication but there are numerous other enhancements that are in the works. Some insight into ZFS enhancements are available in the ZFS: The Next Word talk.

And of course, it never hurts to join the ZFS community.

Because the truth is: ZFS has never been better than now, and its future has just started!

#9: Familiarize Yourself With the Image Packaging System

In OpenSolaris, there's a major effort at redesigning the packaging, install and patch system. And it is expected that this will continue throughout the development of Solaris 11, too.

Two projects are important here: The Image Packaging System (IPS) and the Caiman installer. If you want to learn how to write software for Solaris 11, install it, patch it, both manually or automatically over the network, then it's a good idea to study these two projects.

Granted, there's still a lot to do, and there are some interesting discussions around what IPS can and cannot do, but however you put it, now is the time to join these communities, participate in discussions and provide your feedback.

Oh, and while you're at it, check out the Software Porters community as well, because a lot of packages are waiting to be integrated with IPS and Solaris 11, too.

#10: Get Ready for Migrating Solaris 10

The Solaris branded zone technology has recently gotten an interesting feature: Now you can create Solaris 10 branded zones inside OpenSolaris. This provides an elegant, efficient and convenient way for easily migrating your existing Solaris 10 deployments into more recent versions of Solaris.

More information can be found in the Solaris10 Branded Zone Developer Guide and by joining the zone community.

#11: Get Ready for Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle OpenWorld 2010 on September 19-23 is definitely the place to be if you want to learn more about Oracle Solaris 11, Oracle Sun Systems and anything else about Oracle as well.

Don't miss it if you're lucky enough to be in the San Francisco area, otherwise follow the event on the web or visit Oracle's customer events throughout the world that are scheduled to happen right after OpenWorld. Who knows, we might just bump into each other!

How do YOU prepare for Solaris 11?

These are just some suggestions for preparing for Oracle Solaris 11 now. I'm sure you'll find a lot more.

What are you doing to prepare for Solaris 11? What features do you look forward to? Make yourself heard in the comments section!

Oh, and don't forget to add this blog to your favourite reader and stay tuned for more Solaris 11 related posts.

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Blog O' Matty: My take on Android vs. iPhone

matty — 2010-08-31T20:28:32+00:00

After months and months of research, I finally broke down a few weeks ago and purchased a smart phone. When I first decided to replace my aging Motorola RAZR, I wanted something that didn’t cost a fortune and provided a basic ‘net experience when i was away from my Mac. After playing around with a [...]

Blog O' Matty: Forcing your Linux users to wait after they input an incorrect password

matty — 2010-08-31T20:20:54+00:00

When I run through my security checklist after building a host, one of the first things I change is the login fail delay. This option allows you to force a user to wait a given number of microseconds after a login failure before being able to try another password. For applications that perform brute force [...]

Joerg Moellenkamp: links for 2010-08-31

del.icio.us — 2010-08-31T19:00:54+00:00

Airbus startet A350-Produktion in Deutschland
Boeing Shakes Up 747-8 Program Management
IBM Names Itself Worst Company For Fixing Critical Software Security Bugs
In Defense of Links, Part One: Nick Carr, hypertext and delinkification - Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard

(tags: links linking hypertext writing internet)
Warum haben Buegeleisen keinen Ein-/ Aus-Schalter?

in der tat eine gute frage ....
Manual FriendlyARM m2440

(tags: sbc linux arm)
Mini2440 | S3C2440 ARM9 Board - FriendlyARM

(tags: arm embedded hardware mini2440 sbc linux)
Augenschmalz

das iPad ist wirklich praktisch als datengrab
DevOps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(tags: management development it devops)