Marc Hamilton's WeblogMarc Hamilton's WeblogNASA's Phoenix Probe Lands on Mars- May 26, 2008 And speaking of NASA, the Phoenix probe landed on Mars today.http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/nasa_s_phoenix_probe_lands Not Your Father's NASA- May 24, 2008 An interesting Wired article on NASA, not to be confused with OpenNasa.com. Worthwhile reading for anyone over 30 who knows, works with, or interacts with anyone under 30. Myself Getting ready to make homemade enchiladas cause my wife is out with friends and my teenage daughter and son are both having their Gen-Y friends over for dinner.http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/not_your_father_s_nasa What Is Our Most Popular Product This Month- May 17, 2008 Let me give you some clues. Earlier this week Sun announced a number of new servers supporting AMD's latest quad core "Barcelona" processors like the Sun Fire x4140, with eight cores, 16 DIMM slots, and 8 internal drives with over 1 TB of storage capacity in a compact 1RU form factor and its big brother, the x4440, the first and only 4 socket AMD quad core server in a 2 RU chassis. Need more than 16 threads, then maybe the Sun Fire T5140, packing two eight core UltraSPARC T2 Plus CPUs with 128.http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/what_is_our_most_popular Download OpenSolaris Now at OpenSolaris.com- May 5, 2008 Everyone on the planet can now get OpenSolaris from: The OpenSolaris 2008.05 release is no longer just for developers, it now comes with two subscription support offerings from Sun Services, OpenSolaris Essentials Subscription Support and OpenSolaris Production Subscription Support .http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/download_opensolaris_now_at_opensolaris VirtualBox 1.6 and OpenSolaris RC3- May 4, 2008 I had a spare moment this weekend, so I downloaded the newest release of VirtualBox for my Mac. While a lot of people may use VirtualBox to run Windows on their Mac, I decided to try out the latest release candidate, RC3, for OpenSolaris running in VirtualBox. At the same time I installed OpenSolaris RC3 on an extra AthlonX2 laptop. If you are not a Sun employee, you will have to wait a bit longer to try out the latest OpenSolaris, but not too long. I expect we had plenty of copies to hand...http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/virtualbox_1_6_and_opensolaris Cinco de OpenSolaris- May 1, 2008 Living in Southern California, there is no lack of reminders that next Monday is Cinco de Mayo. But while I love Mexican food, on Monday I'll be celebrating at CommunityOne, or Cinco de OpenSolaris as I would rather call it. Here is a quick clip of over 100 Cinco de OpenSolaris fans who live very far away from Mexico celebrating the first release candidate. No, OpenSolaris is definitely not your father's Solaris. Except perhaps for Chase.http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/cinco_de_opensolaris |