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By pfuetz, October 17, 2006 04:31

Folks,

I just downloaded and installed GoogleMaps on my Palm Treo 650 GSM. That’s great! Highly recommended, just check it out at:

http://www.google.com/gmm/treo

A couple of recommendations for Google:

• Please add a “disconnect” button, in order for those, that do not have a flat-rate data-plan, so that they can stop the EDGE/GRPS/WhatEver dataconnection to save money.
  

• Please add an “overlay” feature, so that we can have satellite plus maps in one image!
• Just add a “Where am I?” Button, which could read the location info from the “cell” in which my cell-phone (aka I!) currently resides, and map that onto the map… ;-)

Still, I do love it, and it is Version 1.0.0, so there will be enhancements!

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By pfuetz, October 16, 2006 09:11

Thomas Hampson, my favourite living Bariton, shared his insights on public sharing of IP (in his case: music) and great american songwriters in an interview with WNYC. Really great listening, check it out:

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/episodes/2006/06/02

In the same session, there also was a small episode on the greatest ever recorded album in america, Frank Sinatra’s “In the Wee Small Hours”. Also worth listening to!

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By pfuetz, October 13, 2006 12:36

On my flight back and forth to the DC Amb Conference and the CEC 2006 I spend my time on the plane reading books. You can find the list on my “old and traditional” web-presence at http://www.pfuetzner.de/matthias/Further.html. This time it was Steven Isserlis’ book for children on some great composers, the title of the book is: “Why Beethoven Threw the Stew” (I read the german translation “Warum Beethoven mit Gulasch um sich warf”). He describes, starting with Bach, finishing with Strawinski, in every single one of the seven chapters what kind of person the composer was, what type of music he wrote, and with which pieces to start listening to. The intent is to make it easy for children to get an understanding of the surroundings, that led the composers to compose the way they did compose, and then to get an easy entry point into listening to the various styles and pieces of each of the seven composers covered in this small book.

I enjoyed it, but have to admit, that it might be influenced in it’s selection of topics by the fact, that Steven is a renowned player of the violoncello, so he focuses on composers that did also write pieces (the important ones) for cello… ;-)

The second book on my round-trip was “Cross Bones” by Kathy Reichs. Although I did enjoy her earlier books more than this one, it still is a good read. My only caveat: I didn’t like the “up to date” topic on Christ’s bones (remember: That sadly, cruely, un-skilled book: The Davinci Code?), because it seems to me as just following a trend. She doesn’t need that, so that was, what makes me select this one as one of her less good ones… ;-)

The third book I started going back, and have not yet finished, is Patricia Cornwell’s “Predator”. She’s no longer as good a read as she was in her earlier books, but I might be caught by the fact, that I read this book directly after Reichs’. The problem I now have is, that Reichs writes in the first person, having the “I” perspective of the hero, whereas Cornwell is more distant in using the third person, writing “she does” instead of “I do”, which draws you less into the action… Review to follow… ;-)

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By pfuetz, October 13, 2006 12:11

As of today, I’m the third (there won’t be more!) german Sun employee to review the professional translation of Jonathan’s Blog into the german language. Tim N., thanks for accepting me!

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By pfuetz, October 12, 2006 01:05

Folks,

Jonathan has great ideas and comments on the future of DCs, check it out: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/computing_in_the_strangest_places

And also read my comments on that in his comments section!

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By pfuetz, October 6, 2006 03:54

On the afternoon, we once again went dining, and again, had our french nose with us (Thanks, Eric for the nose, and thanks, Dave, for the nick-name). We went to First Crush, did have a marvelleous wine from bonny doon with our dinner, and enjoyed ourselves. Sad, that we only meet at such rare occasions.

The flight back was without further ado, so, now I’m back home. See you all monday!

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By pfuetz, October 4, 2006 18:11

As mentioned earlier, I was backstage again at the closing general sessions, again doing the email-to-stage conversion. As usual, when we do have celebrities on stage (and: Yes, it was Jonathan!), there is little feedback creeping in from the field. Still, we got enough to keep JIS busy answering the different topics. Most important for me was his statement w.r.t. us OEM-ing or not OEM-ing Windows on our x64-based servers. It’s a clear statement:

As the hardware gets commodity, guess who will be the one making money in a competitive bid: HP? IBM? Sun? If only they would… ;-) It’s Microsoft, and no-one else. So, folks, do not expect us to anytime soon OEM-ing MS, although they are great business partners for us. Solaris is one of our core competencies, so let’s embrace that.

The future will show, how well we did in doing so, but only, if you all propose it earnest and eagerly.

The second topic, that always comes up, is the question w.r.t. when Jonathan will get rid of his ponytail. We had the lucky situation, that we got an sms stating: “No, it wont go!”, and Jonathan laughed and said (as we put the first 5 numbers of the phonenumber on stage): “That’s probably my wife, so you got your answer!”

With that, I’m closing down my reports from the CEC2006, and want to give a summary, from my limited view:

a.) This was the first time, I had been on the staff (and the forth time I had the honour to go the the CEC), so I did miss the atmosphere in the big crowded general sessions, and couldn’t completely follow the messages delivered by the VIPs.

b.) As I have been a speaker myself during two session blocks, I couldn’t visit to many other sessions.

Still, what I did hear from others, and I can second that: It was a great conference, did provide us all with a good thrill, and makes us leave for home with much new energy.

P.S.: The videos shall be on sun.feedroom.com and Sun internally on mediaproduction.sfbay

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By pfuetz, October 4, 2006 11:04

Good morning everyone,

this is the third and last day of the CEC2006, again, a very great conference and experience! Continuing my entries from yesterday, Hartmut and me were giving our talk on “Not Supported” and how this effects sales and can be circumvented. We had a lot of discussions with the people in the talk during the sessions (and afterwards!), and we had the impression, that they liked, what we were talking about. We only had 10 slides, but the “participation age” took of, and even happened in these presos.

And after that, we had the annual CEC Party, check out the others blogs on videos and comments on that.

This morning did start with again breakout sessions, and Ulrich Graef and myself were giving a talk on “Solaris 10 Zones – Best practices and N1 SPS Implementation”. Uli and I had the impression, that those who were there got news to take away back home, and positively, none fell asleep after a long night of partying.

Now, I’m again sitting backstage and am desperately awaiting incoming emails (please send them, we need questions!) to present to all the folks front-stage.

Next on stage will be Jonathan, giving the last preso of the CEC this year. We all await him, and expect to be enthrilled!

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By pfuetz, October 3, 2006 16:32

After the morning sessions were over (check the blogs of the others, that you can access via the technorati tag cec2006), I was a little lazy, and only visited one session.

And that was the session given by our nice lady of marketing from the N1 marketing Team, Renu Motwani, on “Managing Business Services with N1”. It’s been a nice introductory session, providing information on the individual pieces from the N1 portfolio, and how they all mix and match together. As I’m deep into that, that was not the kind of information for me, but there were some in that session, that seemed to be the right audience. I’m curious, as to how that kind of basic info did not yet come through to all of Sun’s field folks… ;-)

So, now it’s up to me to give my speech together with Hartmut Streppel on: “Not Supported” and what it all means… ;-)

See you in room 2022 in a couple of minutes… ;-)

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By pfuetz, October 3, 2006 08:12

After the sessions yesterday, I joined Constantin Gonzalez for his daily podcast on the events of the day. I did report on the two provisioning sessions mentioned above. So, for those internal to Sun, check Constantin’s Blog for the links.

Cindy Hill, who runs Sun Library, made a great announcement during that podcast: Saturn, the online Library with over 4000 publications will be online for every Sunnie starting today, so go, check it out!

And just to give you an idea: Yesterday during the general sessions we got around 120 email messages, more then 500 text messages, and uncounted AIM chats. So, sorry for those, whose input didn’t make it to the front screens, there simply were too much. If we would have allowed to let them all go through un-edited, you would not have been able to read, because they would have been running (rushing) across the screen…

So, today for the second round: I’ll be checking your emails again, and forwarding them to Brian Down, who is the mixer of all the three incoming streams (SMS: +1-415-430-5833, email: ceclive@sun.com, AIM: ceclive), which will then be placed nicely on screen by Constantin Gonzalez. SMS had been handled by Franz Haberhauer yesterday, today it will be Kris Buggenhout and Kris, AIM is handled by Erik Fischer, and, as mentioned, email is done by myself.

So, again: Enjoy the show, and send in, what you feel and like to ask!

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