And You Don't Stop, a dmourati Production: October 2006

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Monday, October 30, 2006

Oracle Follow Up

Sunday, October 29, 2006

The Unbreakable Unfakeable Linux

Oracle just dealt a body blow to RedHat by offering what amounts to an upgrade path for current Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 or 4 subscriptions. By changing the "up2date" program on a RHEL server, you point to a new RHN server, or in this case what Oracle is called ULN, the Unbreakable Linux Network. Now RedHat's answer to this, RHN, or what's on the server side happens to depend on Oracle's Database.

So, one interesting observation is that unlike RedHat, Oracle seems unwilling to sell the ULN "Satellite" equivalent. Which begs the question, maybe Oracle is in fact using an RHN Satellite server to host this ULN. At the very least, they are endorsing this design by imitation or even reuse depending on how much of the RHN Satellite infrastructure they may or may not have redesigned ore replaced. My guess is very little. I'll make an effort to find out exactly what ULN is. I'm downloading the UL isos now and will install them on a test machine Monday.

Red Hat's stock took a 30% dip on the news.

Any way you look at it, you have to give it up to Larry Ellison. This is an aggressive business move no doubt designed as retaliation against RedHat for scooping up JBoss before he could. This also puts to rest all the speculation that Oracle was going to throw its weight behind Ubutnu as a third alternative supported OS on which to run Oracle.

I've also got to hand it to Michael Suzlick of Red Hat. He immediately responded with the Unfakeable campaign and announced that Red Hat would not be dropping prices to compete.

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Thursday, October 26, 2006

26 and 27

Two of my lucky numbers are 26 and 27. I am not particularly superstitious or anything, I just like both numbers. Given that today is October 26th, and tomorrow the 27th of 2006, I'm feeling like it's my time.

Here's something I read today which I really liked. I'll admit it starts out geeky but the rest is just plain fun.

> 1) What value is ICMP if everybody pretty much considers it's accuracy
> suspect?

because for some uses, narrow precision is not needed. like is it
pingable? what is the current path?

my eyes are not highly accurate at measuring distance, color, size,
motion, ... accurately. but i'll keep them, thanks.

> 2) How does ICMP's suspect nature affect Path MTU?

pmtu is hosed for other sicker reasons

randy

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on precision
guy is at mummy exhibit in british museum
asks guard how old mummy is
guard says 2007 years
guy asks how he knows 2007
guard replies that he's been here seven years and mummy was 2000
years old when he got here

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Splunk Notes

http://www.splunk.com/base/LargerInstallations

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Monday, October 23, 2006

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-061022skilling-sentence,0,3818575.story?coll=chi-newsbreaking-hed

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Monday, October 16, 2006

Bears 24-23 over the Cardinals

That was the craziest football game I've ever seen. The Bears trailed nearly the whole game, down 20 points at one time. The score 3 touchdowns without their offense on the field, two on defense and one on special teams.

http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/recap/NFL_20061016_CHI@ARI