Chicago skyline panorama
November 10th, 2009 • Comments Off on Chicago skyline panoramaPanorama picture form Chicago – put together from 4 pictures. Just ordered it in size of 120cm x 30cm – going to look decorative on my wall.
Panorama picture form Chicago – put together from 4 pictures. Just ordered it in size of 120cm x 30cm – going to look decorative on my wall.
Beatiful colors during the Chicago architecture boat tour:
While I worked for the German Aerospace Center (DLR) I was in the lead of a project team working on the SESIS project. Definitely one of the most interesting projects I ever head. During this time I was in charge of the development of the Reconfigurable Computing Environment (RCE). Since then I moved on and started to work for Sun. But the project has moved on – And I am so happy to see it grow more mature! RCE has now been released under a open source license and been renamed to Remote Component Environment! Great stuff – Two days ago it hit version 1.4.0 – My congratulations!
I really like OpenSolaris. If you haven’t tried it yet you should give it a try. Still there are some things where I choose other operating system over OpenSolaris. Missing ports for some of the application I use is one point…
But never the less OpenSolaris has some killer features which makes is worth a try. For example ZFS, Zones or DTrace.
One tool I absolutely like when using Linux is the packaging system and the ability to clean up orphaned (e.g. with help of deborphan) packages. After some googleing it seemed that there is nothing in OpenSolaris yet to do so. But here are some tips and tricks to keep your installation clean as long as the feature is not available…
zfs set compression=on rpool
pkg set-property flush-content-cache-on-success True
svc:/application/desktop-cache/input-method-cache:default
svc:/application/desktop-cache/mime-types-cache:default
svc:/application/desktop-cache/icon-cache:default
svc:/application/desktop-cache/desktop-mime-cache:default
svc:/application/print/ppd-cache-update:default
svcadm disable ${svc}
svccfg delete ${svc}
/bin/pkg search -l \'depend::\'
pkg list
Overall these actions saved me 4Gb of space. Next thing to play with is tuning ZFS 🙂 Installing it on hybrid system. Have a look here: http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/test