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Setting up the new T105
So yesterday I mentioned the new Dell T105 I got on special offer. Setting up Solaris 10 on this new machine is a little more complex than I would have wanted, but it’s now up and running fine. Here’s what I did to get Solaris b81 working: 1. SXDE…
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Acorn, Pixelmator and Iris alternatives to Photoshop
I’ve had Acorn in my list of applications to review for months, and I’ve only just got round to it. I wish I’d got there earlier. Acorn is quick and powerful, and that’s because it employs your GPU to do soe of the processing, and it includes a nu…
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ZFS resource update
I’m getting really deep into ZFS at the moment as I try and work out how best to use it in different environments and how it affects and alters performance on different loads. I’ve across some great ZFS resources, new and old, and blog posts surro…
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Aggregate RSS and Atom information using XQuery
XQuery is rapidly becoming seen as an alternative XML processing solution. It has some advantages – you can embed the queries into the XML, and it can be easier to follow than XSLT and some other solutions, to name but a few. So how do you use it …
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Twin 64-bit Opteron’s
I got a really good deal on some Dell servers. The T105’s were on special offer starting at just 99GBP, and even with 3-year support contracts and 4GB RAM I managed to get both for less than 500 GBP (+VAT). That’s a pretty good price for four core…
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Migrating from WSRF to WSRT
If you’ve been reading the main MCslp blog you will know that I’ve been writing a series on writing a grid solution using WS-RT. WS-Resource Transfer is an improved version of the WS-Resource Framework (and the associated WS-ResourceLifetime and W…
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Voice enabling XML, Part 3: Develop a voice blogging app
I had a lot of fun developing the VoiceXML series, and the third article in the series is now available. There are some limitations – you cannot yet dictate your blog post, for example – but the article shows the potential power of the a VoiceXML …
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Building a grid system using WS-Resource Transfer, Part 4: Using WS-RT for grid monitoring
The fourth part of my series on developing a grid solution using the new WS-Resource Transfer system is available now. In this tutorial, we look at both sides of the security session, in terms of using WS-RT as an aid to the authorization process …
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An introduction to Eclipse for Visual Studio users
I’m seeing more and more people moving to Eclipse as a development platform, even those Windows users who have traditionally used Visual Studio. As an Eclipse user for quite a while now I’m often asked how good it is, or how to use it. Of course, …
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Building a grid system using WS-Resource Transfer, Part 3: Using WS-RT for grid monitoring
The third part of my series on building a grid system using WS-RT. In this third part of the series, we go deeper into the process of using WS-RT as a grid solution by examining how we can use WS-RT to store and collate information for monitoring …