Monthly Archives: July 2006

A Revolution that Fits in a Trunk

July 26, 2006 – 9:21 pm

That’s a 24 terabyte (!) “Thumper” (Sun X4500) in my trunk under the golf clubs. Jason, Matt and I wandered around Sun yesterday with Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore of the Sun ZFS team hunting for “Thumpers”. We really, really wanted to use this new server/storage product from Sun as the foundation for some new [...]

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A mongrel endorsement and A manual fix for installing mongrel on Solaris 10/11

July 21, 2006 – 10:11 pm

We had ported our Rails application Strongspace to Solaris at the end of 2005 after ZFS was released in Solaris Nevada Build 27a (I’ll explain the difference between Solaris 10, Solaris Nevada, Solaris Express and Opensolaris in a following post), and began building hooks into the ZFS filesystem for the application to use. But we [...]

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T-shirts Are Here

July 14, 2006 – 5:00 pm

T-shirts from the Joyent Store have arrived and we’ll be shipping them out today and Monday.

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Suddenly This Summer

July 14, 2006 – 11:25 am

Some TextDrive things to note: the much-embraced Mixed Grill and Three Martini specials are about to end – Dude, had to happen some day. We’re also having a quick Summer sale on the annual prepay for our most popular shared hosting offering. And we’re rolling out these container plans, which, trust me, are good enough [...]

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