Posted in IT Architecture, Technology, Blogging on August 16th, 2007 2 Comments »
I’ve encountered several items today prompting me to blog on what must be a worn topic.
James Governor’s links today include a reference to Microsoft’s Terms of Use, “Just because a work is easily available on the internet or elsewhere does not mean you may use the work freely. Look for terms of use, such as […]
Posted in IT Architecture, Technology, Blogging on August 15th, 2007 3 Comments »
A discussion I just had with David Levy got me thinking about how various social networking channels are working and not working for me and others. It seems like various social networking channels are finding their place, based on capabilities, usage, integration and push versus pull issues. Twitter is somewhat filling the social void felt by […]
Posted in IT Architecture, Solaris 11 on August 6th, 2007 1 Comment »
The presentation on Jay’s blog just reinforces my dismay at not getting my act together to at least try to go to OSCON.
iSCSI, nevada, solaris, zfs
Posted in IT Architecture, Technology on June 18th, 2007 1 Comment »
Simon Phipps just posted a blog entry on archaeological chip documentation has some of the most compelling gems I’ve seen indirectly explaining why open source is just plain good business. Basically, closed source is a pesky, long-lived boat anchor on management attention and legal overhead for the companies that manage the intellectual property. This condition […]
Posted in IT Architecture, Web 2.0 on June 13th, 2007 No Comments »
While browsing James McGovern’s blog entry, “Links for 5-12,” I ran across a link to a post by Bex Huff, “What is an Architect?” Talking about this is a bit of self absorbed navel-gazing that makes the rounds where I work every once in a while. Nonetheless, I will throw in a couple of […]
Posted in IT Architecture, Technology, Rails, Web 2.0 on June 8th, 2007 2 Comments »
I was on a staff call this morning where the subject of red-shift came up. Its a hot topic with the Sun Executive, promoted to help balance our focus between bread-and-butter data center solutions and supporting atypical, non-traditional, hyper-growth markets requiring massively scaled, extreme-availability solutions. Of course, it’s easy to pick a heated discussion in relation […]
Posted in IT Architecture, Solaris 10, Solaris 11 on June 6th, 2007 1 Comment »
One of the advantages of a VMware image over a real server is that you can securely access the Solaris virtual machine filesystem, from your Mac, with NFS. You don’t even need to plead with your system administrator, that would be you! Also, when you have a server vm, you can carry it with you, […]
Posted in IT Architecture, Sun, Web 2.0 on June 1st, 2007 3 Comments »
There are 11,399 blog entries Technorati tagged zooomr, must be at least 100 in the last 24 hours. I’ll leave it to the reader to sift through these to get a blow-by-blow of what’s going on. Basically, it seems like the entire blogosphere is watching “the little photo sharing site that could” pull from the […]
Posted in IT Architecture, Technology, Solaris 11 on May 25th, 2007 4 Comments »
Woo-hoo! Now I’m off to try out vnics in Solaris 11! I’ve encountered one minor issue, so far. Since the Solaris installer is 32 bit, I needed to create a 32 bit vm for the install. VMware was blowing up trying to get Solaris to install inside a 64 bit vm. I’ll need to futz with […]
Posted in IT Architecture, Scripting, Solaris 10, Programming on May 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
I’m setting up a development environment on a Solaris x86 machine (well, actually a VMware virtual machine) and have a couple of goals:
Use zones to set up, and clone, AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) and Rails development environments. The idea is once I get things the way I want, I should be able to quickly set […]