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Monthly Archives: June 2008

Monday 6/30/2008 Links

30-Jun-08

Prediction: Citrix will drop the open source Xen hypervisor for Hyper-V. The rest of the open source world drops Xen for KVM. - Lengthy speculation about the future of Xen now that Hyper-V is out. If this turns out to be correct, I think it leaves Sun in a particularly awkward spot, given that [...]

What is up with VMware’s patch download applet?

27-Jun-08

Am I the only one that hates VMware’s patch download site and its corresponding applet? (Maybe - I couldn’t find anyone complaining about it looking quickly on VMware’s message boards, which I found most odd.) I’ve never been able to get it to launch under Firefox, only under IE (even on the same [...]

Links from 6/26/2008

26-Jun-08

NetApp Litigation - an update: Sun’s take on the NetApp/Sun lawsuit proceedings. “Over the last two months, the PTO has granted the first five of our reexamination requests, finding in all the cases that multiple ‘SNQP’ [substantial new question of patentability] exist for each patent (one request filed in June is still pending). These [...]

README, 6/25/2008

25-Jun-08

Daemonic Dispatches: Dissecting SimpleDB BoxUsage - Colin Percival takes a critical look at Amazon’s SimpleDB pricing scheme.

No Luck with a Quick-n-Dirty BFU of SXCE 79 on EC2

25-Jun-08

For grins, I tried a quick-and-dirty BFU of a SXCE 79 instance running on EC2 to the latest nightly build this morning. I roughly followed Ben Rockwood’s BFU instructions and didn’t do anything to resolve conflicts beyond running acr. On reboot, it looks like the system panicked - I presume the reason is [...]

Linkage, 6/24/2008

24-Jun-08

S3 data corruption: “We’ve isolated this issue to a single load balancer that was brought into service at 10:55pm PDT on Friday, 6/20. It was taken out of service at 11am PDT Sunday, 6/22. While it was in service it handled a small fraction of Amazon S3’s total requests in the US. [...]

Afternoon Links, 6/23/2008

23-Jun-08

The Register: Sun’s Niagara 3 will have 16-cores and 16 threads per core - “Each socket is chewing through an insane 256 threads.” I do love a good rumor.
CloudStatus - Just-launched website for monitoring each Amazon Web Services component in more detail than Amazon gives you. Seen at O’Reilly Radar.

Links, 6/23/2008

23-Jun-08

Blocks & Files: Now HP contributes HPC file system to open source - “HP has contributed its Tru64 UNIX Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code to the open source community, meaning Linux.” It’s been a long time since I’ve used AdvFS (the last time I used Tru64 was in 2003 or so), but it [...]

Putting Ubuntu on the Eee PC

22-Jun-08

I finally got around to installing Ubuntu (Hardy) on my Eee PC this weekend. My only regret: That I waited so long to do it.

What I Think You Ought to Read, 6/20/2008

20-Jun-08

Red Hat adopts KVM: what happens to Xen now? - I work in a VMware ESX shop right now (other than all those Solaris Zones and FreeBSD Jails and OpenVZ VEs, that is) - no Xen or KVM. However, given the serious pain in the butt that timekeeping is in Linux guests on ESX, [...]