Archive for the 'General' Category

Sorry it’s been a bit quiet around here recently folks. I haven’t been completely offline and neglecting this and my other sites, I’ve just been lacking the motivation to write or get involved due to recent events on the home front.
Sadly, February has been a very tough month for my wife and I: [...]

From the diary of ISC yesterday:
While I’m aware that ISC readers probably don’t have to be told, let’s nevertheless try again to get the word out: If you are running any SSH server open to the Internet, and your usernames and passwords aren’t at least 8 characters or so, your box is either owned by [...]

Hot on the heels of the news that the The Internet Archive has chosen to deploy one of Sun’s Modular Data Centres (aka Project Blackbox) comes this video showing how it stands up to a simulated 6.7 earthquake.

Now this is pretty impressive. Of course something else is very impressive too: Slashdot is actually [...]

4 great posts from Sun’s CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, that bring you up to speed very quickly on where the company is heading and how it intends on making money in the future. Each post includes a video that very closely mirrors the words written in the post.

Understanding Sun in Three Easy Steps (1 of [...]

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If you’re visiting after the event, it’s Friday 13 February 2009 @ 23:31:30 GMT (aka UCT).

As you will have no doubt heard today, Adobe are making available a 64-bit version of the Flash Player for Linux to those who want to be on the cutting edge (it’s still alpha).
When I heard this, I couldn’t help but ask myself “Why? Why on earth do you need a 64-bit Flash player?”. [...]

About a month ago I migrated my Ultra 20’s root filesystem from UFS to ZFS using my HOWTO: Migrate a UFS Root Filesystem to ZFS procedure. Today I performed my first live upgrade since, which worked a treat, however now I’m running a bit low on space.
Not for much longer…

Solaris 10 10/08 (u6) is due to be released within the next month of so (I don’t have an exact date) and one of the great features to come with it is ZFS boot. You can already use ZFS boot on Nevada and OpenSolaris defaults to ZFS, but this will be the first release [...]

The Google engineers have been hard at work in another bid to change the way we work. Today they will be releasing a new open source browser called “Chrome”.
As is common with announcements these days, the internet soon got wind of the project when someone at Google clicked the “Send” button just a little [...]