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July 11, 2006
Suns new high end x86 Server
Jonathan Schwartz's blog has details of Sun's long awaited high end x86 server code named 'thumper'. The new server has 24 terabytes of storage crammed into a 4U chassis. If you check out the picture you'll see this is an incredibly rack dense piece of hardware, with what looks like 48 512gb disks. It also supports the new 128bit ZFS file system. The product will be officially launched tomorrow. I look foward to learning more.
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July 09, 2006
Your PC in a wall socket
This has to be the ultimate low power PC. This intriguing device plugs directly into a standard RJ45 wall socket and is the first computer to use Power-over-Ethernet. It consumes as little 5W of electricity yet offers a 500Mhz AMD RISC Processor, 4x USB ports, 128mb RAM, 64mb of flash memory and support for 20bit Stereo and DVI Video. It ideally needs to be connected to a Terminal Server and supports both Citrix ICA and Microsoft RDP.
The obvious advantages are the less desk clutter, improved physical security and low power consumption. Whilst this environment wouldn't suit power users or PC gamers it strikes me as the ideal low cost platform for libraries, schools and Universities.
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July 04, 2006
Talis Text RIP
A post on Talis Forums reminded me that Talis Text our once core application suite will reach end of support at the end of 2006. The luddite in me is a little upset by this turn of events. It is after all, a product that has been a large part Talis for a very long time.
When I first started here more six years ago it was already on version 8 and the last major release was 12.5. That's good going for any piece of software.
Still time marches on and it has taken a significant amount of time and effort to gradually wean people off it and onto Talis Alto. I am sure that those who have now completed the switch won't regret it.
But I'll miss those monochrome screens, term servers and dumb terminals.
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