As a fan of both Apple an Sun equipment, yesterday was something of a red-letter day for me. Sun announced the release of their new UltraSPARC T2 processor, the successor to the popular (and my personal favorite) multi-core and multi-threaded CPU. The new T2 CPU supports 64 threads using four threads per core on an 8-core CPU. It also incorporates enhanced cryptographic acceleration (for your SSL enable websites and applications), and built-in 10GBbit Ethernet. Hopefully we'll be seeing systems using the T2 CPU that operate at the same level as the original T1-based T1000 and T2000. You can read (and watch) the announcement UltraSPARC T2 Processor. Both the T1000 and T2000 that I've used had an incredible amount of power that it was difficult, in a test environment, to maximize and measure.  Obviously I can't wait to get one of these to test.

As a fan of both Apple an Sun equipment, yesterday was something of a red-letter day for me. Sun announced the release of their new UltraSPARC T2 processor, the successor to the popular (and my personal favorite) multi-core and multi-threaded CPU. The new T2 CPU supports 64 threads using four threads per core on an 8-core CPU. It also incorporates enhanced cryptographic acceleration (for your SSL enable websites and applications), and built-in 10GBbit Ethernet. Hopefully we'll be seeing systems using the T2 CPU that operate at the same level as the original T1-based T1000 and T2000. You can read (and watch) the announcement UltraSPARC T2 Processor. Both the T1000 and T2000 that I've used had an incredible amount of power that it was difficult, in a test environment, to maximize and measure.  Obviously I can't wait to get one of these to test.

&otAs a fan of both Apple an Sun equipment, yesterday was something of a red-letter day for me. Sun announced the release of their new UltraSPARC T2 processor, the successor to the popular (and my personal favourite) multi-core and multi-threaded CPU.

The new T2 CPU supports 64 threads using four threads per core on an 8-core CPU. It also incorporates enhacned cryptographic acceleration (for your SSL enable websites and applications), and built-in 10GBbit Ethernet. Hopefully we'll be seeing systems using the T2 CPU that operate at the same level as the original T1-based T1000 and T2000. You can read (and watch) the announcement UltraSPARC T2 Processor. Both the T1000 and T2000 that I've used had an incredible amount of power that it was difficult, in a test environment, to maximize and measureObviously I can't wait to get one of these to test.

I had to comment on Douglas Schweitzer's blog entry today about the coming of IPv6. Apparently we're running out of addresses. When I was a consultant for ISPs some 15 years ago, we were told then that the IPv4 address space was running out and we'd need to move to IPv6 'soon' to resolve the issues of the rapidly disappearing finite address space offered by IPV4. To be fair, we've addressed some of the issues that would have exhausted the space. We removed the need for the class-based addressing, and most companies of varying sizes hide their hundreds or thousands of machines behind a single public IP address using NAT and firewalls.

I had to comment on Douglas Schweitzer's blog entry today about the coming of IPv6. Apparently we're running out of addresses. When I was a consultant for ISPs some 15 years ago, we were told then that the IPv4 address space was running out and we'd need to move to IPv6 'soon' to resolve the issues of the rapidly disappearing finite address space offered by IPV4. To be fair, we've addressed some of the issues that would have exhausted the space. We removed the need for the class-based addressing, and most companies of varying sizes hide their hundreds or thousands of machines behind a single public IP address using NAT and firewalls.

I had to comment on Douglas Schweitzer's blog entry today about the coming of IPv6.

Apparently we're running out of addresses. When I was a consultant for ISPs some 15 years ago, we were told then that the IPv4 address space was running out and we'd need to move to IPv6 'soon' to resolve the issues of the rapidly disappearing finite address space offered by IPV4.

To be fair, we've addressed some of the issues that would have exhausted the space. We removed the need for the class-based addressing, and most companies of varying sizes hide their hundreds or thousands of machines behind a single public IP address using NAT and firewalls.

If you hadn't seen the news, we've had some very serious flooding here in the UK. It's affected a nuber of different areas, from Tewkesbury and Gloucester in the west right through to Nottingham, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and Hull, which bore the brunt of the first round of floods.

When flying back from holiday you could see the flooding near the airport - nothing like they have experienced in Hull and elsewhere, but it gave you a better idea of the effects of the flood waters. Without such a visual queue it is difficult to comprehend the effects.

The cause, unsurprisingly, was the heavy quantity of rain, but it can be difficult to get a really good idea of how much and where the rain fell so that you can understand and comprehend how it all happened.

If you hadn't seen the news, we've had some very serious flooding here in the UK. It's affected a nuber of different areas, from Tewkesbury and Gloucester in the west right through to Nottingham, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and Hull, which bore the brunt of the first round of floods.

When flying back from holiday you could see the flooding near the airport - nothing like they have experienced in Hull and elsewhere, but it gave you a better idea of the effects of the flood waters. Without such a visual queue it is difficult to comprehend the effects.

The cause, unsurprisingly, was the heavy quantity of rain, but it can be difficult to get a really good idea of how much and where the rain fell so that you can understand and comprehend how it all happened.

If you hadn't seen the news, we've had some very serious flooding here in the UK. It's affected a nuber of different areas, from Tewkesbury and Gloucester in the west right through to Nottingham, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and Hull, which bore the brunt of the first round of floods.

When flying back from holiday you could see the flooding near the airport - nothing like they have experienced in Hull and elsewhere, but it gave you a better idea of the effects of the flood waters. Without such a visual queue it is difficult to comprehend the effects.

The cause, unsurprisingly, was the heavy quantity of rain, but it can be difficult to get a really good idea of how much and where the rain fell so that you can understand and comprehend how it all happened.

Here's an interesting idea - as an alternative to running multiple LDAP servers for your Linux authentication, why not just use Windows Active Directory instead?

This is something I've actually written about and proposed before. If you already have a Windows Active Directory instance on your network (and many companies with Linux and Unix already will), why not take advantage of the directory service offered by AD.