TWH's Blog

Monday, November 27, 2006

It's a painful weekend...

I am struck by flu......this time it is so bad that i couldn't walk properly for 2 days.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

The ALOM System Controller and ALOM firmware combine the features of RSC and LOM, as well as adding several new features. The ALOM System Controller hardware is embedded in the server. However, ALOM functions completely independently as a separate embedded computer. ALOM firmware is pre-installed by default and is active from the first moment that the system is plugged in.

ALOM 1.6 features include:

Serial interface (CLI)
10 Mb Ethernet interface telnet CLI (10/100Base T for V215/V245/V445)
Secure Ethernet interface (secure shell CLI)
Host side interface/admin utility
Host side monitoring (disks, fans, power, temp, PSU, FRUID, LED, hotplug devices)
Host control (power, reset)
Server watchdog XIR: (OS monitor/restart/XIR)
Self watchdog/restart
Enhanced events (ALOM events, host events, hotplug devices)
Logging events to ALOM (including nvram and syslog)
Logging host console stream output
Multiple users
User configurable delivery of events to ALOM CLI, email, and syslog
Out-of-box functionality
Optimized boot time
Hardware environmental monitoring/management

System Requirements

ALOM comes pre-installed on your server. Servers currently supported by ALOM 1.6 are:

A Sun Fire V125 server
A Sun Fire V210 server
A Sun Fire V215 server
A Sun Fire V240 server
A Sun Fire V245 server
A Sun Fire V250 server
A Sun Fire V440 server
A Sun Fire V445 server
A Netra 210 server
A Netra 240 server
A Netra 440 server

Focus

Sunday, November 19, 2006

《独立新闻在线》 - 三次重申内安法令乃公正法律是否废出版法阿都拉不置可否

《独立新闻在线》 - 三次重申内安法令乃公正法律是否废出版法阿都拉不置可否

This is the response from Pak Lah on ISA. About his reply asking journalist to go back to school -- my feeling is that he is arrogant. He is not a humble people as he claims!!!

Long San Temple and Ching Ann Temple

Ching Ann temple is the first temple i visit in taiwan, i believe there must be some sort of 'yuan', and i made a wish to the 'five thousand years old' to have some fortune....hehehe...typical chinese mentality.
;-)

Very happy!!!

It's busy time

I have just returned from Taiwan trip. It's has been a nice tour, i like Taiwan more after this trip.
I will post some photos later.

Sun Opens Java

Sun Opens Java

And it's under GPL.........not CDDL. I think Jonathan Schwarts really knows what developers want.

Friday, September 08, 2006

Something unexpected in Armsterdam China Town

The Armsterdam Boat House

Monday, August 21, 2006

Blog O’ Matty » Veritas Volume Manager

Blog O’ Matty » Veritas Volume Manager
Yes, this blog is going to be useful in future....

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Jalan Loke Yew Road Expansion Photo

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

docs.sun.com: System Administration Guide: Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones

docs.sun.com: System Administration Guide: Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones:
"global# zonecfg -z my-zone 'create ; set zonepath=/export/home/my-zone'"

This one liner could be useful.

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Expert Sun bigot - Rich Teer

The real Sun bigot who is a real expert in Solaris -- Rich Teer. I am still way way behind this guy.
Got to own one copy of his new book: Solaris System Programming.

Monday, August 07, 2006

Slashdot | "iSCSI killer" Native in Linux

Slashdot | "iSCSI killer" Native in Linux
According to Coraid, he could get storage pricing below $1 per GB. That's real impressive.

Sun's X4500 - Thumper able to get as low as $2.00 per GB, that's of course come with much better performance :

2 GBps throughput from disks to memory, and approximately
1 GBps from disks to the network.

Friday, August 04, 2006

BBC English | Moving Words

The winning Moving Words are........
"A Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
-- Lao Tzu

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

CIOL : News : “We will provide services in non-Sun environments”

CIOL : News : “We will provide services in non-Sun environments”: "Would Sun be willing to provide services in non-Sun environments?"

Yes. It comes from Dan Berg, vice-president and chief technology officer, Sun Services.

Sun has finally takes a pragmatic approach.

memory at zone level...

I just hope Sun can include memory management features at the zone level, currently the parameter rcap.max-rss is only able to be set at project level. I am not sure why Sun did not implement it at zone level.

Just wish it can be included at the next update.

Zones memory

Manual for Solaris Administration Guide: Containers.......

This is the title of the manual i have followed up in docs.sun.com for a while:
System Administration Guide: Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones

I have several versions of this manual, earliest i have back date to sometimes Apr 2005 if i still remember correctly........the part no is 817-1592

I have version of 817-1592-12 (December 2005), 817-1592-13 (May 2006).
The latest i download is of a different part number, yet the manual title is still the same.
The new part no is 819-2450-6 (July 2006) and there is a word "beta" on the cover page....this really baffles me.