My Sun T2000 is here, and with Cliff’s help it’s now patched, configured, and online. (Aside: what’s a Sun Happy Meal?)
I’ll second Jon’s assessment that Sun really should put some reasonable cable adapters in the box, as the the bundle of adapters necessary to make a null modem connection to the box is ridiculously out [...]

Posted June 11, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: amp, amps, apache, Blastwave.org, lamp, mysql, php, solaris, Solaris 10, sun, Sun Microsystems, t2000. Be the first one.

A Solaris sysadmin I’m not. But now that I’ve finally got the Sun T2000 server I begged for a while back, I’ve got to ramp it up right quick.
The first task is to get a, um, LAMP environment up and running (SAMP?…oh, Sun wants us to call it AMPS). A bit of Googling turned up [...]

Posted June 7, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: amp, amps, apache, lamp, mysql, open source, oss, php, solaris, sun, t2000. 5 Comments.

My buddy Cliff emailed me excited about the following quote he found on the Yahoo Finance message boards:
Sun vs Dell
All you need to know about Dell & Sun was predicted 8 months ago by some blogger in his parent’s basement. The draft ads are cool:
http://spiralbound.net/2005/09/15/sun-talks-some-smack/
How come the big brokerage house analysts can’t figure this stuff [...]

Posted May 12, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: basement, blog, blogger, blogging, cliff pearson, dell, industry analysis, link love, parent's basement, sun, sun vs. dell. Be the first one.

Jonathan Schwartz made the kind of news that makes Slash Dotters happy: he announced Sun is (sort of) giving away free servers. It’s a promotion, a media play, of course, but one that might make a few lucky people very happy.
Here’s the deal: Sun is really proud of their new T2000 eight core server. Each [...]

Posted February 26, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: 8core, 9.6ghz, big db, challenge, coolthreads, free, free server, Jonathan Schwartz, performance, server, solaris, sparc, sun, t2000, try and buy, try-n-buy, ultrasparc, wpopac. 9 Comments.

From the NASA website:
EIT (Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope) images the solar atmosphere at several wavelengths, and therefore, shows solar material at different temperatures. In the images taken at 304 Angstroms the bright material is at 60,000 to 80,000 degrees Kelvin. In those taken at 171, at 1 million degrees. 195 Angstrom images correspond to about [...]

Posted August 31, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Technology. Tags: 1 million degrees kelvin, blue, bright material, corona, degrees kelvin, extreme ultraviolet imaging, hot, hot air, hot gas, nasa, solar, solar material, solar satellite, sun, the sun, ultraviolet. Be the first one.

Cliff worries that his website, Spiralbound.net, doesn’t get indexed by Google often enough. He’s a good guy, so I figure I’ll prime the pump for him. Here, Google Google.
Solaris Docs: Migrating Veritas Volume Manager disk groups between servers
Solaris Docs: Solaris Disk Partition Layout
Solaris Docs: Copying A Boot Drive Between Disks With Different Partion Layouts
If you’re [...]

Posted September 23, 2004 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: blog, cafepress, cellophane, disk partition, explosion video, factory explosion, fireworks, fireworks factory, google, servers, solaris docs, sun, tee shirts, things to remember, veritas, veritas volume manager. Be the first one.