A Revolution that Fits in a Trunk [10]. That’s a 24 terabyte (!) “Thumper” (Sun X4500) in my trunk under the golf clubs. Jason, Matt and I wandered around Sun yesterday with Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore of the Sun ZFS team hunting for “Thumpers”. We really, really wanted to use this new server/storage product… Continue reading A Revolution that Fits in a Trunk [10]

The Rise of Open Infrastructure. By tim Jon Udell just wrote a thought-provoking editorial on Infoworld that takes off from my conversation with Debra Chrapaty, which I blogged earlier this month. I had called out Debra's comment that “In the future, being a developer on someone's platform will mean being hosted on their infrastructure.” Meanwhile,… Continue reading The Rise of Open Infrastructure

Jonathan Riddell: Billie Piper Endorses Kubuntu. LUGRadio live happened at the weekend and we had a good number of KDE and Kubuntu people there. Full report coming later but the highlight of the show was when Billy Piper from Dr Who stopped by the stand to say how much she liked her free Kubuntu CD. … Continue reading Jonathan Riddell: Billie Piper Endorses Kubuntu

RWW the inner goo. The SBS blog gives a deep dive (with pictures even) of the innards of the Remote Web Workplace. If you have a SBS box and you don't know what this is… shame on you! Steve Friedl has a 'rough' and unpublished techtip about the nuances of remote access in SBS 2003…check… Continue reading RWW the inner goo

I found a great post on how to configure WPA-encrypted Wifi for Ubuntu Dapper Drake on my laptop.  Thanks, Fred!

Wanted: System / Network Administrator. Yesterday, the net sum of what I managed to accomplish consisted, approximately, of creating one new email address. Sure, there were extenuating factors: it was the first email address on the fogcreek.de domain, the German registry doesn't understand that the order of your domain's name servers should not make any… Continue reading Wanted: System / Network Administrator

Dell Lowers Profit Forecast and Shares Fall Nearly 10%. Dell, once a symbol of hyper-efficiency and marketing, warned quarterly profit would be 30 percent lower than expected. By STEVE LOHR. [NYT > Technology]

Four Big Ideas About Open Source. By tim In my O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing next week at OSCON, I'm focusing on four big ideas about open source: The architecture of participation beyond software. Software development was the canary in the coalmine, one of the first areas to show the power of self-organizing systems leveraging the… Continue reading Four Big Ideas About Open Source

Times are Changing So, things have been happening in the iFolder project. First, Calvin has left Novell (good luck in the future!) which has meant less people to work on the team. Therefore, a big change… The team are not rewriting iFolder client. Previously, a decision had been made to rewrite iFolder for version 3.5… Continue reading Times are Changing

thoughtless acts?. How does our environment influence our behavior? This lovely book, by Jane Fulton Suri + IDEO, highlights things we do as we interact with the objects in our world and with other people. It challenges us to consider: which of these acts are conscious and which are done without thought? How do we… Continue reading thoughtless acts?