It turns out that you can be great. You can be great at anything you want. You don't have to be born with talent. This totally inspired me to try new things. I only wish I'd read it as a teenager!
You haven't tried this have you? I did. My 8 year old wanted a little netbook just for this kind of stuff (PBS Kids, Nick Jr and Webkins). The flash user interfaces for these things were beyond useless on the tiny netbook screens. Anything below 1024x768 isn't in the design center for these little cames and it basically doesn't work. Try it in the store before you buy if you're considering this.
I agree there is lots of good content, but much of it won't actually work on a low-end netbook -- and flash doesn't scale down to even try.
If you want to do this kind of hacking go get an Aurdino. There's a whole world of home brew stuff cooler than we could have imagined when we were kids.
xVM Ops Center supports SPARC and xVM Systems. The current version of xVM Server is focused on x86/x64 platforms, but you can use xVM Ops Center to manage Solaris virtualization technologies like Solaris Containers.
We've already shipped over 6 million copies of our desktop hypervisor (xVM VirtualBox), which is available under GPL v2 from virtualBox.org. You should go check it out.
We're putting a lot of resources into virtualization and we're going to surprise people.
-Steve Wilson
VP, xVM Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/stevewilson
The otherr realy key metric is server utilization. It turns out the IT's dirty little secret is that the way they deploy applications (in static silos of servers that can't be shared between applications) requires that each app be dramatically over provisioned with hardware to handle various load changes. A typical data center is only using 10% of it's compute capacity at any given time. This has gotten dramatically worse as people moved from Mainframe->SMP->Cheap Pizza Boxes.
They're not x86 compatible. They're special purpose chips for Network Attached Processing devices for driving up utilization on Java applications. For another approach to driving up utilization on server-side Java applications you should check out Cassatt.
Cassatt isn't a "Java Company." We make a product that helps people run data centers more effiently. We just introduced an extension to the product that makes it work really well with J2EE servers. However, our products also work with Microsoft technologies, and lots of our customers run Windows. No conflict there.
Side note: our internal IT and development systems are managed by our own product. We eat our own dog food.
There are no APIs for the system, and you don't have to modify your code to work with it. If it runs in Weblogic (other app servers coming soon) then it will work with Cassatt. The only changes are to the deployment descriptors and Cassatt makes those changes for you automatically.
We use various technologies to allow us to efficiently and safely run more of your J2EE applications on fewer physical servers. By using fewer servers, but still maintaining your performance and availability characteristics, you can save a lot of money running your data center.
I'm so glad you asked this. Hardware is cheap to buy, but really expensive to run and maintain. Thing about all the costs:
Power (which Google now says costs them more than hardware) A/C Administration Maintainance Support Software licenses (and J2EE servers like BEA aren't cheap)
We did an analysis with one of our customers on their costs. Each box (for a 2 CPU linux box) costs over $100,000 during it's three-year lifetime.
The Cassatt Collage software currently runs on Linux, Solaris and Windows. Intel, AMD and SPARC processors are all currently supported. You can manage all these kinds of servers within a single-shared environment.
Everyone should check out the newest beta release of NetBeans (as mentioned in the interview with Ian Formanek). It really shows how nice a rich Java application can be.
Computer software like ProTools put professional quality recording tools into the hands of a much larger number of people. For ~$1000 you can start to set up a nice home studio that will let you record better than CD quality sound and burn your own CDs.
I use some really cheap software called GuitarTrax Pro. For less than $100 it lets me record a huge number of tracks and modify them with effects.
Most of the pros still record in huge studios, but smaller artists can do some great stuff now on the cheap. Eventaully this will have an impact on the music industry.
If anyone wants to hear a tune recorded in my home studio you can check out this.
I agree that replacing Glorfindel with Arwen worked well in the movie. However, Glorfindel is an interesting character. Anyone who's interested in his background (he seems to have caused Tolkien a lot of problems) should check out this article:
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It turns out that you can be great. You can be great at anything you want. You don't have to be born with talent. This totally inspired me to try new things. I only wish I'd read it as a teenager!
You haven't tried this have you? I did. My 8 year old wanted a little netbook just for this kind of stuff (PBS Kids, Nick Jr and Webkins). The flash user interfaces for these things were beyond useless on the tiny netbook screens. Anything below 1024x768 isn't in the design center for these little cames and it basically doesn't work. Try it in the store before you buy if you're considering this.
I agree there is lots of good content, but much of it won't actually work on a low-end netbook -- and flash doesn't scale down to even try.
If you want to do this kind of hacking go get an Aurdino. There's a whole world of home brew stuff cooler than we could have imagined when we were kids.
http://www.arduino.cc/
xVM Ops Center supports SPARC and xVM Systems. The current version of xVM Server is focused on x86/x64 platforms, but you can use xVM Ops Center to manage Solaris virtualization technologies like Solaris Containers.
http://wikis.sun.com/display/xvmOC1dot1/Managing+Solaris+Containers+With+Sun+xVM+Ops+Center
-Steve Wilson
VP, xVM
Sun Microsystems
http://blogs.sun.com/stevewilson
We've already shipped over 6 million copies of our desktop hypervisor (xVM VirtualBox), which is available under GPL v2 from virtualBox.org. You should go check it out.
We're putting a lot of resources into virtualization and we're going to surprise people.
-Steve Wilson
VP, xVM
Sun Microsystems
http://blogs.sun.com/stevewilson
The otherr realy key metric is server utilization. It turns out the IT's dirty little secret is that the way they deploy applications (in static silos of servers that can't be shared between applications) requires that each app be dramatically over provisioned with hardware to handle various load changes. A typical data center is only using 10% of it's compute capacity at any given time. This has gotten dramatically worse as people moved from Mainframe->SMP->Cheap Pizza Boxes.
-Steve
http://www.cassatt.com/
People looking to manage VMMs across a range of vendors (VMware, Xen and Microsoft) should take a look at Cassatt. In particular the XVM product.
Cassatt was discussed on Slashdot a few weeks ago.
-Steve
You can also check out this recent article in InformationWeek for an example of someone using it successfully.
-Steve
Cassatt isn't a "Java Company." We make a product that helps people run data centers more effiently. We just introduced an extension to the product that makes it work really well with J2EE servers. However, our products also work with Microsoft technologies, and lots of our customers run Windows. No conflict there.
Side note: our internal IT and development systems are managed by our own product. We eat our own dog food.
-Steve
Steve Wilson
Cassatt Corporation
Steve Wilson
Cassatt Corporation
There are no APIs for the system, and you don't have to modify your code to work with it. If it runs in Weblogic (other app servers coming soon) then it will work with Cassatt. The only changes are to the deployment descriptors and Cassatt makes those changes for you automatically.
-Steve
Steve Wilson
Cassatt Corporation
In english:
We use various technologies to allow us to efficiently and safely run more of your J2EE applications on fewer physical servers. By using fewer servers, but still maintaining your performance and availability characteristics, you can save a lot of money running your data center.
Does that help?
-Steve
Steve Wilson
Cassatt Corporation
http://www.cassatt.com/
I'm so glad you asked this. Hardware is cheap to buy, but really expensive to run and maintain. Thing about all the costs:
Power (which Google now says costs them more than hardware)
A/C
Administration
Maintainance
Support
Software licenses (and J2EE servers like BEA aren't cheap)
We did an analysis with one of our customers on their costs. Each box (for a 2 CPU linux box) costs over $100,000 during it's three-year lifetime.
Steve Wilson
Cassatt Corporation
The Cassatt Collage software currently runs on Linux, Solaris and Windows. Intel, AMD and SPARC processors are all currently supported. You can manage all these kinds of servers within a single-shared environment.
Steve Wilson
Cassatt Corporation
NetBeans 3.6 IDE is Much Improved
-Steve
http://www.netbeans.org/community/articles/tiger/3 6Tiger.html
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1583320,00.as p
-Steve
-Steve
> Since when is Sun a friend of open source?
OpenOffice, NetBeans, Jini, JXTA, this list goes on....
Here's a picture of my home studio.
I use some really cheap software called GuitarTrax Pro. For less than $100 it lets me record a huge number of tracks and modify them with effects.
Most of the pros still record in huge studios, but smaller artists can do some great stuff now on the cheap. Eventaully this will have an impact on the music industry.
If anyone wants to hear a tune recorded in my home studio you can check out this.
Perhaps he meant Tomacco Sauce. Mmmmm, tomacco.
-Steve
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/performance/
-Steve
I thought that StarTrek 4 was actually the second best trek movie they've made so far.
;-)
However, that doesn't totally offset travisties such as Rocky 4.
http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/g/glorfindel.html
Steve