Inchoate Curmudgeon

This is a collection of notes and links related to a dual installation of Solaris Nevada and Mac OS using Boot Camp. Although all of the links are helpful, this is a rapidly evolving set of technologies, thus there are some adjustments. Possibly the most important adjustment I ran into is that the Boot Camp […]

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

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The large array of Sun platform choices for modernizing older SPARC implementations has a consequence: discerning the correct path, based on your particular situation. There are pros and cons to every approach. For many operations, the most difficult fork in the decision tree is deciding between Sun CoolThreads (CMT) and SPARC 64 architectures versus […]

You might not think these things are related but they are.

I was around, and actually participated in, the bloody revolution that left glass-house mainframe data center operations in virtual flames. I was working on large, and I mean to say scary, scary large, construction projects. These projects had a typical burn rate in the hundreds […]

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 […]

A month or so ago I stumbled across a sad blog post by Jason Hoffman at Joyent. It described the utter apathy Joyent ran into trying to purchase some Sun kit about a year and a half ago. I know things have changed in our relationship; Sun shared a booth with Joyent at the recent […]