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"Individual commitment to a group effort-that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

The advantage of Twitter

August 31st, 2009 • Comments Off on The advantage of Twitter

Twitter gives you an unique chance to show your customers that your are actually improving your product. Twittering that bugs are fixed an when new features are added, tested and released helps keeping the noise down in forums etc. Also (future) customers can retweet or suggest additions. So to all management: Let your software developers twitter! It will help your product!

How NOT to define Cloud Computing

August 31st, 2009 • Comments Off on How NOT to define Cloud Computing

Take your current product and sell it as ‘the Cloud’…:-)

Quotes and pictures about the Cloud

August 26th, 2009 • Comments Off on Quotes and pictures about the Cloud

For an upcoming presentation about OCCI and RESERVOIR I was looking for some nice quotes and pictures I could use. The quotes and pictures should be in relation to Cloud Computing and OCCI. My favorite quote (I’m using several in the presentation) would be from Henry Ford:

“If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.”

The picture I liked most was taken from http://infreemation.net/cloud-computing-linear-utility-or-complex-ecosystem/ – It shows what Cloud Computing is: everything and a kitchen sink:

cloud-computing-kitchen-sink

I’ll share the presentation as soon as the GridKa School event is over.

What Happiness is…

August 24th, 2009 • Comments Off on What Happiness is…

When I started listening to the audio book of ‘Hector and the search for happiness’ which is written by Francois Lelord I didn’t expect much…But it was a very pleasant 5 hours car-ride when getting home. In total Hector the protagonist comes up with 23 lectures of what happiness is. I just wanted to add #24:

Happiness is when you know that you are happy

OpenSolaris on USB stick

August 18th, 2009 • Comments Off on OpenSolaris on USB stick

Just a short (meaning: very short) tutorial on howto create a OpenSolaris USB stick:

  1. Install OpenSolaris in VirtualBox
  2. Boot OpenSolaris and install the SUNWdistro-const package
  3. run pfexec usbgen osol-0906.iso osol-usb.img /tmp
  4. run pfexec usbcopy osol-usb.img