Archive for the ‘hardware’ Category
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Sun's super-secret-squirrel storage appliance project has been under wraps for years now. We're talking Apple style secrecy.
About a week ago they finally launched product. Another cool bit of news is that there is a vmware 'simulator' version available for download. cool.
The "fishworks" project was rumoured to be Sun's NetApp killer ...
Posted in hardware, software, Sun & Solaris | 1 Comment »
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
I bought a new PC recently to run virtual machines on. Virtualisation is all the rage, so I've decided to play around with Xen and VMware. It also gives me an easy way to play with numerous OSes without having to frig around with hardware. As GNS3 is to Cisco ...
Posted in career, hardware, linkedin, networking, software | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
I bought a Canon EOS 10D way back in 2003 and have loved having it. I saw the 20D and 30D come out and they really tempted me. When the 40D came out and I read the specs, I could resist no longer. Upgrade time!
The first thing you notice is ...
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Friday, July 13th, 2007
I've been pondering what I'd set up at home if I was going to go all out but keep the cost within realistic limits.
Mac Pro dual quad core Xeon, lots of RAM
Highpoint RocketRAID 2322 PCI-Express x4 SATA II RAID Controller w/ RAID 5 and External Infiniband Support or maybe a ...
Posted in hardware, Mac OSX | 4 Comments »
Friday, July 13th, 2007
Sweet!
Maximum Ethernet transfer rate
10 Gb/sec for each single port
16 Gb/sec total for both ports
Host Interface
x8 lane PCI-Express 1.1
Network Interface
Two instantiations of XAUI, IEEE 802.ae, 2002 compliant
Optics
10GBase-SR, 10GBase-LR
IEEE 802.3ae 2002 compliant
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