Posts tagged with: technology

Links of interest for 14 Oct 2008 - 1 Nov 2008: Multicore Bollocks - Hmmm, for someone who's head of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, he certainly talks a load of old cobblers about multicore CPUs. Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009 - Sounds like there will be more need for ZFS then, that's why Sun are working on some awesome storage products coming to market very soon. Watch this space. Anatomy of an attack: The New York Times on Solaris - Blowing that NYT and Computerworld article to pieces in an analytical manner. Good read, regardless of which side... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 12 Oct 2008 - 14 Oct 2008: ZFS & MySQL/InnoDB Compression Update - Real world ZFS & MySQL compression testing from the guys at SmugMug. Success with OpenSolaris + ZFS + MySQL in production! - Woohooo!!!! Another happy OpenSolaris + ZFS customer. Nice one Don. NetApp faces Sun lawsuit loss - Looks like NetApp's patents are falling apart. BT's 21st Century network, er... isn't - I guess the UK will be last on the IPv6 bandwagon :-( Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder - I have my own reservations about "cloud computing", some of... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 1 Feb 2008 - 14 Feb 2008: Major Linux security hole found - Ooops. This is going to be around for some time and I wouldn't be surpised if a worm is created to capitalise on this vulnerability in the not too distant future. How one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million people - Just goes to show how fragile the internet really is. Given that it only took a ship to take out most of the emerging markets, imagine the chaos terrorists could cause if they took out the cables for the... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 19 July 2007 - 2 August 2007: OS X is Now Officially UNIX - Now you can legitimately call OS X "UNIX with a pretty face". OS X has been certified to UNIX03 standards, like Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. Bubble 2.0 Coming Soon - Dvorak believes we're in for another pop. Maybe, maybe not. Only time will tell. Sun preps 2048-thread monster - I really hope Sun can deliver on this. If they do, they'll be so far ahead of the like of IBM, Intel and AMD it won't be funny. None of these companies are... Continue reading ►