I find the following URLs are useful for those tinkering with the new
features shipped with Solaris 10 (zones - their virtualization scheme -
and Dtrace - a better ’truss’ and optimization/troubleshooting tool).
They provide a very good introduction and usable examples you can test
right away, instead of plowing your way through Sun’s documentation:
Zones
Dtrace examples
We have a meeting this Thursday night at Altera. Once again, it’s time
to meet and discuss. See calendar date and time.
I’ll have some commentary regarding the CISSP exam I’m writing this
weekend.
This year Open Source Weekend (OSW) is planning an open source fun day
on May 14, following BSDcan. We will have a full weekend event in the
fall, in conjunction with a national event.
The May 14th OSW event will be in the form of a small number of 1-hour
talks, and ongoing 20-minute workshops/demos throughout the day.
If you have a neat open source hack, and would like to show and tell
others about it we’d like to hear from you.
I ran across this on Newsforge yesterday and I thought I’d pass it
along.
Sun is offering 60 day trials of their new T2000 opeteron
servers. According to the article, if you write a comprehensive
technical review of the box, you may be invited to keep the machine. The
specs are pretty impressive, and the power requirements appear to be
quite low given what we have under the hood.
I have not determined if an individual qualifies for the deal, but I think
I’ll check it out. Just the thing to host a bunch of my websites on.
It appears there will be an LPI exam in May. The OSW people are
interested in sponsoring this one and would like to hold it at the
University of Ottawa. The tentative date is Sunday, May 14, 2006.No
details are available yet, but some informal discussion would indicate
that level 1 and level 2 exams will be available. Sign up information
will be available soon.