While the article is discussing the SSD drives as an option for IBM’s DS8000 Disk Storage system, it has alot of really good information about SSD drives. It discusses topics such as SSD Endurance and advantages over traditional spinning disks.
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Nice IBM RedPaper on SSD Drives
Ubuntu 9.04 Release Candidate now Available.
I’m a big fan of Ubuntu and I’m excited for the new 9.04 RC release. Keep in mind this is a “for testing only” release. Currently I run Ubuntu 8.10 for my main desktop in my home/office. I’m generally late to upgrade and prefer to play with new releases in a Virtual Environment (or, [...]
Oracle to buy Sun Microsystems
It’s all over the news… Unfortunately, I wondered away from keep track of this. The last time I was watching, IBM was considering it.
The press release confirms that Oracle is buying Sun Microsystems. I was a little surprised by the news, but not surprised by the move.
I think it’s a great move. I’ve worked with [...]
COTD: fuser - identify processes using files or sockets
Today’s Command Of The Day is the “fuser” command.
Have you ever wanted to unmounted an NFS share, or local filesystem and couldn’t because it was in use? The same applies to CD/DVD’s, PenDrives, etc. Generally, you receive a message similar to the following:
# umount /dev/sdc1
umount: /media/disk: device is busy.
The fuser has many options. The ones [...]
Windows Services for UNIX
This is not a Windows blog. However, I wanted to mention a Microsoft product called Windows Services for UNIX. This is a Windows Add-on that provides some UNIX interoperability.
It provides things like; Password Syncronization between Windows and UNIX, a Telnet Server, Remote Shell execution Services, a NFS Server, a NFS Client, and more.
I’ve only used [...]
Xenix
I remember my first modem. It was a Radio Shack/Tandy 300 Baud Manual Connect modem. I had purchased it on clearance at a local Radio Shack for $15. I brought it home and using the pinouts in the back of the manual for my VTECH Laser 128 Apple compatible computer, proceeded to wire-up a cable [...]
VirtualBox
I know Sun’s VirtualBox has been out for awhile now. However, when it came out, I already have VMware running and had plenty of VMs operational. Recently, I upgraded to a new workstation and switched OSes. Instead of going with VMware, I tried VirtualBox.
To be frank, I love it.
Other than a few quirks, it works [...]
Renaming files with spaces to dashes
I was just playing with some old disk images of SCO Xenix to try to get it to boot in an emulator. It was quite frustrating that all of the disk images had spaces in the file names. A few files would have been ok, but I have multiple version of multiple releases for multiple [...]
Firefox 3.0.7 Available
Firefox 3.0.7 is available for Solaris according to BlogFinger.
Does anyone remember Internet Explorer and Outlook Express on Solaris Sparc around 1998 or so? It was neat running IE on a Sparc workstation and OE was great for reading USENET. It’s too bad Microsoft discontinued support for it. Fortunately, we now have a great browser called [...]
Linux.com domain sold
Computer world reports that the domain Linux.com has been sold by SourceForge to the Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation has posted a press release with their intentions.
I’m still kicking myself for not going domain-registering-overboard back in the early 90’s registering all the big company domains before the big companies did.
Back in those days you could [...]