There is one truth (somewhere)

The new dragonfly bsd 2.2 install cd has two bugs.
The first one occurs in the curses installer, the input in the interface goes also in a under laying login on tty.
As a workaround you login and remove the /dev/ttyv1 entry in /etc/ttys and do "kill -1 1"
The second one occurs on the filesystem creation and looks like this: "/sbin/newfs_hammer -f -L ROOT /dev/ad0s2a failed with a return code of 1"
Look if the device exists in /dev, if not cd into /dev and do "sh MAKEDEV ad0s2a". Replace ad0s2a with your device identifier.

After that the installer should work happily. Big thx for the help from the #dragonflybsd channel on EFNet.

Dragonfly BSD 2.2 features HAMMER rootfs support for the first time and also HAMMER in 2.2 is considered to be "production ready".

Remember the disk parking bug in ubuntu where ubuntu did park the harddisk a couple of times per minute?

Its still there in Ubuntu 8.10, i could not belive it when i installed a laptop last week and the harddisk did the *click* sound all the time..

Future infomation are here.

I finally got my openfire server updated! (I’m running it via the internal database.)

Last time i tried it from 3.5.2 to 3.6.0 and it failed horribly because of some bug in the database update script.

This was supposed to be fixed in 3.6.0a which i didn’t even tried, or did i?

Well i tried it now with 3.6.2 which failed again with the message:

"The Openfire database schema does not appear to be installed. Follow the installation guide to fix this error"

Well, the passage of the installation guide where they tell you how to fix this is missing…

After an hour of searching i finally stumbled over a fix in the ignite realtime forum.

*sigh*

I allready thought about migrating to another jabber server and/or another database backend, but that does not look that easy.

There is a bug in Zfs which i seemed to hit quite often with Solaris Live Upgrade and Zones, but only recently found.

I hope it gets resolved soon….

Here ist some workaround.

After reading this i thought about the future of FSC ("Fujitsu Siemens").

I am certain that the FSC joint venture is coming trough an end after
the expiration of Fujitsus and Siemens agreement in 2009.

While Fujitsu makes nice stuff, the Siemens part of the FSC joint venture
only puts his name on it. FSC is a distribution company, a better VAR maybe thats it.
The consumer products like there line of Amilo notebooks and all the other home user
stuff is all bought from ODMs. Nor Fujitsu or Siemens is involved with any technical
design of that products.

The only real product that Siemens brings to the table is there mainframe stuff.
FSC ships BS2000/OSD and VM2000 (an underlaying hypervisor) on three architectures.
The S series is based on mips/risc and the SX series is based on SPARC.
The newest system is the recently announced Intel Xeon (yes X86) based SQ series,
on which FSC ported of BS2000/OSD and VM2000 via Linux-XEN (X2000?).

VM2000 allows FSC to run multiple instances of BS2000/OSD and Linux, or back in the days SINIX,
on there mips based platform. On there SPARC based systems FSC can run  BS2000/OSD and Solaris side by side.
On the new systems of the SQ series FCS can run BS2000/OSD (either directly or with a VM2000 layer),
Linux and Windows on one system.
I think its highly doubtful that a solution based on XEN and X86 can deliver mainframe like reliability.
The performance might be slower then SX series, but i would not be surprised if it could beat the S series.

As you can see in this paper from FSC, the SQ series is supposed to replace there SPARC based SX series by 2009.
For Fujitsu this does not make sense since they earn the most from the SPARC based series.
Siemens actions in the recent past, show there concentration on there core business.
This is reflected in the sale of there mobile phone division, followed spinning by of there telecommunications division,
in a joint venture with Nokia called "Nokia Siemens Networks".

To me the remaining question in the case of the mainframe business is if it stays in the company Siemens
or if FSC will spin it of. I don’t see Fujitsu keeping it or another it-company buying it.

Fujitsus future looks quite clear to me. Fujitsu will keep their hardware brands Primergy (X86 server),
Primepower (there own sparc server), "SPARC Enterprise" (servers in joint venture with "Sun Microsystems"),
Primequest (Intel Itanium) and Lifebook (X86 laptops).

The consulting (mostly SAP?) business of FSC will go to either Fujitsu, will be sold to a company like IBM
or FSC will just it spin off.

What does that mean for "Sun Microsystems"? Fujitsu will stay in the SPARC business which is great, since in the price
range and the field of operation of such machines you want to have multiple vendors down to the chiplevel.

Achtung:

Auch dieses Jahr wieder finden die  MetaRheinMain Chaosdays  in Darmstadt statt.
Es werden Vorträge, Workshops und anderer interessanter Inhalte gesucht.

Überblick

Die MetaRheinMain Chaosdays 111b sind ein jährlich stattfindender Kongress,
der dieses Jahr mit den Themenschwerpunkten Journalismus,
Gesellschaft und Technik vom c3f2m Frankfurt, CCCmz(Mainz/Wiesbaden),
der Hochschulgruppe Chaos Darmstadt, dem AK Vorrat und weiteren
regionalen Gruppen im Rhein-Main-Neckargebiet organisiert wird.

Die MRMCDs finden dieses Jahr vom 05.09-07.09.2008 an der Technischen
Universität Darmstadt statt. Drei Tage lang werden Vorträge,
Diskussionen und ein Hackcenter geboten.

Den kompletten Call for Papers mit allen relevanten Informationen
findet ihr hier (deutsch, englisch).

achtung achtung:

- these are the ingredients for some big big trouble

basically i could not use any OpenType Fonts (otf).

my system installed with Windows Xp sp3 said the fonts are either not there or damaged. i could use normal truetype fonts (ttf) but no otf.

after hours of search i finally stumbled across that on some systems with sp3 and ati cards there could arise these problems.

i had drivers installed from laptopvideo2go.com which are newer then the drivers samsung provides for my laptop (samsung r70) which has a nvidia 8600gs. version was forceware 175.xx.

I resolved the issue with installing the drivers from samsung which are forceware 101.19 from last year. they are freaking old!

i will try some other versions, i read somewhere 16x.xx series should do.

the bug itself seems to be in the driver and in the engine windows uses to render (postscript based) otf fonts witch they licensed from adobe. nice team work guys!

• how the fuck can such things happen and why cant you find anything about it!
• why the hell i can only get drivers from my laptop vendor and why are they so freaking old?

another problem i have (or had) is tearing mostly bad not only in videos.

its also hard to understand why it seems to be impossible to use directx on dual head, means games or movies.

i will certainly look at other operating systems again now…

sometimes you can see the devil walk on earth:

PID USERNAME  SIZE   RSS STATE  PRI NICE      TIME  CPU PROCESS/NLWP

666 noaccess   90M   63M sleep   59    0   0:01:01 0,4% java/24

All the teasing (last video from jonathan) in the last time pointed at an outcome like getting zfs/dtrace and maybe the rest of opensolaris under a second license gpl v2/3.

Now we got the entry on Jeff Bonwick’s blog. Look at the pics and read the text between them…

(if you don’t know, Bonwick is the leader of the ZFS design team and Sun’s CTO of Storage Technologies)

To understand the text between watch the video of the "Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups" comercial.

For me the only questions left are just how much of opensolaris will be dual licensed, under which gpl version (v2 or v3), did SUN already port the zfs to linux and will they hire Linus (heaven forbid)