Posts tagged with: hardware

Updating the firmware on an Ultra 20 is a really simple matter: download the "Tools and Drivers" ISO image, burn it to DVD (as it's about 1.3GB), boot from the DVD and select option 2 to perform the update.However, it very quickly becomes way more complicated if you don't have a DVD burner or spare DVD-R, or even a DVD drive. So what other option do you have? Boot CD? Yes, but its way too complicated for the time and effort. Boot Network? Ditto. Boot USB? Bingo!!!  Continue reading ►

Ahead of today's Macworld keynote speech it's been revealed Apple will be introducing a revolutionary new laptop with no keyboard. Instead it'll have a giant touch wheel...  Continue reading ►

If you're ever had concerns about the effect of noise on your disk performance, let Brendan Gregg put your mind at rest. Thanks to the brilliant Analytics (aka Dtrace with a brilliant web interface) on the a Sun Storage 7410 we can clearly see noise does have an effect, and in this extreme case (don't try this at home work), quite a large effect:  Continue reading ►

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Following the most recent data loss by HMRC, they and other companies should seriously start considering dumping laptops in favour of Sun's Sunray technology for their "Work from home" users, and maybe even all of their normal desktop users.For those who don't know, Sunray is a secure, truly stateless device that effectively presents a working desktop environment to a user over the network and consumes very little power. Think of a mix between the ease and simplicity of the old green and black dumb-terminals and the full functionality of your normal desktop and a whole lot more.  Continue reading ►