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A reader with much better eyes than mine (think i should really visit my ophthalmologist) found an interesting reference to Solaris/SunOS in the new Tron Legacy Trailer:

It's at 1:12 in the trailer. The architecture is interesting: sun4m. That's something in the range of a SPARCstation 4 to SPARCstation 20, several Lunchbox systems had the same architecture and finally SPARCserver 630MP, 670MP and 690MP were sun4m, too. The production of those systems started in 1989.

Watching this movie:

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Okay, just got an even higer uptime result. A reader sent me a screenshot of one of his older systems: 3720 days, i assume this system was rebooted because of a Y2K procedure because 3720 days ago we had the 1.1.2000.

The October 2001 is a little bit strange from that perspective. So i'm not sure about the real uptime, perhaps the system booted with the wrong clock.

Build 134 of OpenSolaris was made available in the repository yesterday evening for an update via the Update Manager. The ISOs for this release are available at the usual location.

Stefan Hinker presents in his blog the screenshot of a Solaris 8 system up and running for 6 years 5 months 29 days. So this system was booted the last time on Wednesday, September 10, 2003. It's a safe assumption that this system is totally downrev.

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One of the annoying (but technically necessary) things with auditing in Solaris was the point that you had to reboot the system to activate it. This isn't needed any longer: It's now always activated, thus you could start to configure and use it without this reboot. The changes resulting out of the PSARC case found their way into the codebase today.

A new interesting PSARC case found it's way into the development process with "PSARC/2010/080: Brussels II addenum". It's the addenum to "PSARC/1009/306: Brussels II - ipadm and libipadm". The outcome of the Brussels II project is really interesting: It completely revises the mechanisms to add, delete an manage IP interfaces in Solaris. At the moment you use ifconfig and /etc/hostname.* files for this task. Such configuration would be done by the =ipadm= in the future. For further information you should look into design document as well in the draft of the man page.

While preparing for doing some work at a customer site next week, i stumbled over an interesting document in the document navigator on the right column in the navigator . It looks like the ak-2010.02.09.0.0 as the release notes found their way to the wikis.sun.com page. There are a lot of interesting features in this release:

• Fibre Channel target
• iSER/SRP target (yeah ... iSCSI/SCSI via Infiniband)
• Kerberized NFS
• Volume Shadow Copy Service block target provider (you need it to remote control snapshots from a Windows application for backup purposes)
• CIFS access-based enumeration (just see the files, you are able to access)
• Multi-interface iSCSI targets
• Deduplication (!!!)
• Multiple pool support
• Improved remote replication
• some Microsoft interoperability enhancements
• AD LDAP signing

However the software itself isn't downloadable at the moment for the public.

I really thought we were through this snow thing for this year.

Am 23.+24. Juni findet die von Netways organisierte Open Source Datacenter Conference in Nürnberg statt. Ich werde dort einen Vortrag zum Thema Opensolaris halten. Genaueres steht noch nicht fest, aber ich werde euch informieren.

Am Donnerstag findet für diejenigen, die nicht zur CeBIT wollen oder können, in Hamburg das 10. HHOSUG Meeting statt. Vorträge sind ein Lightning Talk zum Thema vi von Lars Timmann, ein Vortrag von Jürgen Lüters zum Thema "Urheberrecht für Entwickler" und ein Vortrag zum Thema zum Thema IPsec auf Solaris von mir. Anmeldungen wegen der Pizza bitte via Xing oder via Mail an hhosug10@joerg.moellenkamp.org. Momentan haben sich 14 Leute angemeldet. Das ist doch noch verbesserungsfähig

The mighty root couldn't sleep at night, so root walked around the castle. Deep down in the foundation of super users castle there was a strange room. It was filled with scrolls and some of the serving daemons of root filled this room with even more scrolls while root was standing there. So root looked in some of them: There were new ones, interesting ones. Then root took some old ones, blew away the dust and after a short look root thought "Damned ... those scrolls are so old, there aren't true anymore. Someone has to clean up this place".

So root spoke a mighty spell of infinite power and another daemon spawned from the ether: "You are the keeper of the scrolls. But don't keep everything. Just the last ones." And so it was done since the day of this sleepless night.