Inchoate Curmudgeon

I was in the audience when Jonathan invited Michael on stage to announce an OEM agreement between Dell and Sun.

dell, oow07, openworld07, oracle, solaris, sun

I’ve joined the Open Solaris Mentoring Project. Next step: figure out how to reach out to students in the schools and univsersities in the Denver area. I’m thinking weekend camps with tutorials and so forth might be nice. I’m thinking a good outreach might also start with seeing if there is a Soalris user group […]

An intriguing aspect of ITIL change expected in a virtualization project is CMDB. I missed this on my recent post on ITIL and virtualization. It’s a funny slip, in the sense I’ve been pondering this subject quite a bit lately. Virtualization concepts are increasingly realized in all the classic components of infrastructure: compute, storage, and networking. […]

I was able to attend Sun’s Customer Engineering Conference (CEC) in Las Vegas last week. These are the sessions I attended:

“Turning ‘Blue Shift’ Datacenter into ‘Red Shift’ Enabler”, Eric Bezille and Michel Kintz “Project Indiana”, Glynn Foster “Virtualization: Technology, Performance and Benchmarking”, Jim Mauro and Tariq Magdon-Ismail “Intel EMT64 Quad-Core Deepdive”, Eric Markwardt “Demonstrating Ruby and Ruby on Rails […]

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, […]

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 […]