Comments for Yonah Russ' Journal

Comment on 32 or 64 bit MySQL by Mike

Mike — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:42:58 +0000

I like this one:

pargs -l should give you the full command line which was run:

Comment on Cisco ASDM unconnected sockets not implemented by Muehe

Muehe — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:46:06 +0000

but i would suggest making a favorite

the Cisco ASA web interface should have a link something like this

https://Myfirewall/MyId/public/index.html

make a favorite something like

https://Myfirewall/MyId/public/asdm.jnlp

Comment on Sun’s Predicament by Yonah Russ

Yonah Russ — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:31:41 +0000

The Nehalem processors are a HUGE improvement to previous Intel processors and there is no way I can say that enough. They seriously improve the performance, power consumption, and RAS possibilities. They are the first processor Intel has put out which deserves a place inside enterprise hardware IMO.

That said, Unless an application is single threaded and absolutely needs the faster clock speed, or doesn’t support SPARC Solaris, I see no reason to use Intel based HW. Everything else is better on UltraSPARC- OS, server components (even comparing Sun X64 HW to Sun SPARC HW, the SPARC HW is better quality), virtualization, RAS, etc.

Regarding the original topic of this post- I think things are pretty much working out. I’m disappointed that Oracle has discontinued future development of Webstack and I would prefer that their road map work on faster clock speeds in the T3 instead of more threads (At some point it doesn’t help to have more threads in a single machine) and lastly, I really hope they don’t do anything really drastic in Solaris 11.

Comment on Sun’s Predicament by Nick Morris

Nick Morris — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:43:41 +0000

Quick question: With Nehalem and now Nehalem EX, does you T5140/T5240 point still hold water? The public needs to know

Comment on Cute Site Based on Google by Mike

Mike — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:39:34 +0000

Comment on Cute Site Based on Google by itzick

itzick — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:08:21 +0000

nice one – worse some playing around ..

Comment on Sun Oracle Webcast Wrap Up by Neil Williams

Neil Williams — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:59:14 +0000

I like your summary. I have a few very similar concerns:
The ‘phone home’ stuff for example. There is no way my organisation will let our servers phone home to report back diagnostic information. How nice it would be for a hacker to capture how out of date my OS pathches are or my network topology or my mis-configured settings are. ok, ok, I know it would be all encrypted and secure and stuff but it’s only secure until you find out it’s not secure, so why do it

Secondly I thought OpenSolaris was very conspicuous by it’s lack of visibility. But then again if I was Oracle I would dump OpenSolaris as it’s essentially the next ‘product’ that people can pay for. Oracle bought Sun because Oracle made/makes money and Sun didn’t!

Comment on Internet Rimon – First Impressions by Adam

Adam — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:55:41 +0000

Hi Yonah!

I haven’t done a lot of research into this but have found the pro con latte firefox plugin useful. In general I just try to steer clear of hazardous zones by going only to urls I know and trust. Open a new tab and click the my roboform passcard for the site I want.

-Adam

Comment on EMC Replication Manager in Solaris by Yonah Russ

Yonah Russ — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:44:26 +0000

Update: http://www.yonahruss.com/storage/no-zfs-support-for-emc-replication-manager.html

Comment on RAID 10 vs RAID 5: Performance, Cost, Space, and HA by Storage Basics – Part III: RAID | VMtoday

Storage Basics – Part III: RAID | VMtoday — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:25:21 +0000

[...] A great post that uses some math to show performance and cost trade-offs of RAID level, disk type, and spindle speed. http://www.yonahruss.com/architecture/raid-10-vs-raid-5-performance-cost-space-and-ha.html [...]