Quick links for November
ZFS has full deduplication features:
http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/en_US/entry/zfs_dedup
This is extremely cool, and means that I will most definately finally get that Open Solaris server up and running. 10 GB Ethernet with NFS is starting to look like a viable option instead of expanding our SAN. The cost of NICs and switch can be offset quickly by the cost expanding the FC-Switches and the cost of the SAN-software…
Some more discussion on the subject:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/02/2117206/ZFS-Gets-Built-In-Deduplication?from=rss
Filipp over at Unflying Object has some ideas on integrating the authentication for the Wiki and a Forum on a Mac OS X Server:
http://unflyingobject.com/blog/posts/1014
Quite straightforward, but not working for me yet, probably due to my “golden triangle”-setup with our AD-server.
Oh, and Spooks must the best TV-show in a long, long time. Been watching this on the iPod in the bus while commuting. Just brilliant, and quite realistic. Quite similar to The Song Of Ice And Fire in that they seem pretty happy to kill off any of the leads at any time…