Blogosphere news from you friendly OSS dude.

Today, me and a collegue visited Sun to talk about running projects within our company.
we also got to talk about UltraSPARC T1 (the official new name of the Niagara server line, Sun Fire T1000 (1U Niagara server) and the Fire T2000 (2U Niagara server).
the chip on these multicore 32-thread (8 core/4 thread) babies (running at 1.2Ghz instead of the previously mentioned 1.08Ghz) only pulls 70 watts, thus making it one of the coolest server parts (hence the term 'cool threads') will be delivered in a Galaxy chassis and will definitely rock when they are released to the public.
for a quick "peek" visit The Register:
Sun already seems to be gearing up for Niagara II (a 64-thread version of UltraSPARC T1 (16 core/4 thread design))

here's the new logo



w00t! anyone ? :)

posted by Marco @ 21:09 1 comments

2005/10/28: razrX (that's me) receives his godly 17" Powerbook (see previous post of 2005/10/31)
2005/11/28: razrX buys his silver Moto razr v3 cell :)
i gotta tell ya: this is one kool phone. i wanted this phone for a while now but had to save up to get it so it took me a while.
i like being able to peer thru bluetooth with my powerbook and sending pictures, syncing my calendars thru iSync, that sort of shit.
i love the design of this phone, so sleek and it's got a pretty big display :)

did i say w00t already? ;)

posted by Marco @ 07:33 1 comments

Lemme just say this: the HCC was not as kool as i hoped it would be.
i didn't buy the wifi stuff i was lookin' for 'cause the various shops didn't bring the linksys products i wanted.
i did buy the magnificent book by bruce eckel 'thinking in java 3rd edition' though.
i wanna learn the java 2 programming language and according to friends, this is the best book to get you going.
credmp (the handle of 1 of the guys who also visited the HCC with us) visited some photo shoot where some dude was explaining lots of tech tips about a very expensive nikon camera.
the rest of us of course know why credmp actually visited that photo shoot ; some chick was being photographed naked and he doesn't have a gf ;)
after having spent about 3 hours at the HCC we went to a american diner to sink our teeth in some fab burgers.
that pretty much summed up that day.

posted by Marco @ 22:17 0 comments

For my daily dose of nerd news i normally go to either digg or slashdot.
what if you were to combine the 2 of them? you would have THE nerd site that would simply own.
guess what? somebody has done just that :)
check out slashdigg , it's brilliant :)
you can even have the index in a flipped form by going here.
boom, fucking brilliant.

posted by Marco @ 15:34 0 comments

w00t! remember the old days when ASCII Art was made popular thru the AAlib package?
well, now someone took the time to render some scenes from your alltime favorite movie 'The Matrix' in ASCII art.
follow this link for the gzip compressed file.
once you've downloaded it you prolly know what to do ... if you don't well, better start learning some UNIX derived operating system then ;)

posted by Marco @ 14:42 0 comments

This upcoming friday thru sunday the HCC (hobby computer club) will visit the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands.
me, my wife and a couple of friends will be going on saturday to see whether some kool and cheap stuff can be found.
a dude at work almost fell of his chair when he heard my wife was also going, you know like 'a woman is going to computer related fair' ?
that was truly a funny moment :)
personally i'll be on the lookout for some cheap wifi 802.11g access points, preferably from linksys and my wife wants/needs a 16x dvd-burner for her pc.
i'm excited to go so just gotta wait till saturday.

posted by Marco @ 09:41 0 comments

Man, just found a picture of george w. bush shaking hands with a 54 inch tall robot with a head resembling albert einstein.
that's just creepy lookin'.
watch the picture here

posted by Marco @ 11:55 0 comments

Just read on boing boing that iTunes creates vulnerabilities for remote parties to install and execute code running on window$ xp systems but not on Mac OS X.

posted by Marco @ 13:38 0 comments

w00t :) ZFS has finally arrived.
Get it now.

posted by Marco @ 23:03 0 comments

Well, yours truly is already looking forward to the annual Sun x-mas festival, held on 15 december here in the netherlands.
the day is supposed to kick-off with a Solaris 10 update 1 seminar with the rest of the agenda still unknown at this time.
i signed up for the festival today and received the acknowledgement by email within a couple of minutes.
it's always a nice thing, ending the year with lots of IT tech guys (and ladies) getting together, wishing eachother happy holidays and a happy new year.
the way things are going, a couple of my colleagues from work will be joining me so hopefully we'll have a great time.

posted by Marco @ 22:25 0 comments