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T1000 CW Review makes Sun News Page
My T1000 review at Computerworld has made it to the Sun News page. Cool!
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Ultra 20M2 Arrived
Sun have very kindly me a sun Ultra 20M2 to test. I’ve only had it a few days, and already I’m hooked. The spec of the unit they have sent me is: 1 AMD Opteron Model 1218 Processor (Dual Core) 4GB RAM 250GB SATA HD NVIDIA Quadra FX 3500 Graphics C…
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Video guide to setting up the X4200
A Sun engineer provides a detailed (and occasionally light-hearted) look at how to set up an X4200 server through a series of video guides on YouTube. Step 1: Anti-Static Setup Step 2: Hard Drive Install Step 3: PCI Card Install Step 4: DVD Instal…
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Using alternative methods to manage and monitor your Unix Servers
I have for a long time been using a number of non-typical solutions for the management of my internal servers and, up until recently, those of my clients. I mentioned this in one of my first posts at Computerworld (RSS as and administration tool),…
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Cool tools for hot laptops
Belkin have announced two cool tools for using your hot laptop – and I’m talking about the temperature here. You can see them at Gizmodo: Belkin Releases Lap-Friendly CushTop, PocketTop Laptop Accessories. The CushTop is the one I’m most intereste…
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Using static disks in Parallels for performance
Using a static disk, or even just multiple disks, within Parallels can make a big difference to performance. This is particularly true with Windows virtual machines within OS X; I’ve managed to change the boot time from about 30 seconds to under 2…
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ATA-over-Ethernet for Solaris
I noticed for the first time recently the ATA over Ethernet product from Coraid. There’s a Solaris driver available (impressively in both SPARC binary, Solaris 7+ (direct download) and source (direct download), under a BSD-like license. The releas…
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T1000 ALOM rocks
I love the Advanced Lights Out Management (ALOM) module in the T1000. The T1000 is kept downstairs, and the noise can be uncomfortable, but the ability to power up and down the T1000 remotely over the network makes using it and testing it so much …
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Niagara II
The Niagara II architecture is on the way, and it promises to double the throughput of the original T1 (Niagara) CPU and provide a host of other benefits. The Niagara CPU (T1) as provided in the T1000 (read my T1000 in more detail review) and T200…
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Parallels Update
Parallels for Mac has been updated, but its the stuff beyond the highlight elements that I find most interesting. The headline elements are: Support for the new Mac Pro (and up to 3.5GB RAM Support for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Experimental support …