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.

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.