Review
Friday, January 19th, 2007Long time no post.
Review of the past 2 months:
Broke up with my long term girlfriend at the end of Nov. My mistake, but can’t change the past 
Dropped a bunch of weight and getting back into sport (I’m almost as fit as I was when I was 11! 
Re-building habits in my life to be the best I can be. Books, CD’s from the business support system…learning Vietnamese…among other things.
Getting back to roots in IT, really surrounding myself with it. Sir Technology is growing, and I’m building the infrastructure with that, and it’s fun. I’ve just finished looking at reviews of various OS. Sun’s ZFS architecture looks cool, like software RAID, but the file systems are virtual and so don’t need to be redefined to take advantage of added drive space - just add it on the fly, and the file system gets access to it straight away (cool). Doesn’t look like solaris x86 performance is quite up to Linux performance yet (Apache / MySQL are about 5% slower in Solaris 10), but it will make a good NFS / Samba file server.
Also, AmigoOS is back!!!! Version 4 is around, somewhere, though I couldn’t figure out how to obtain a copy of it from the website. I love the microkernel architecture, gels with RISC nicely, and I’ve always loved that. RISC / CISC have sort of merged now days, but the ideaology is still there: design your chip as simple as possible so that you can concentrate on streamlining execution rather than redesigning your chip.
Haiku is also coming along nicely for a desktop OS on low end hardware (e.g. Pentium 2’s). Like Linux…but a little more user friendly (at least, BeOS was). E/OS looks cool as well, I love the idea of embedding emulation into the OS so you don’t have to install additional software. Just one OS Don’t think it’s production ready for people who are computer illiterate yet though.
Thats it for me, off to Summer Conference on the weekend, I’ll take lots of pics and come back and post them all!!