Archive for the 'Links' Category

Links of interest for 27 Jan 2010 - 14 Feb 2010:

eWEEK’s Top 25 Technologies Of The Decade - Including Solaris 10 - "During the latter half of '00s, Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 sat at the leading edge of operating system technologies, with unique capabilities that include Containers virtualisation, Dtrace system instrumentation and the ZFS file [...]

Links of interest for 6 Jan 2010 - 26 Jan 2010:

Internal Memo: Sun CEO Jon Schwartz to Staff - I didn't noticed this (I got the original), but these guys did: a little hidden message in Jon's memo. Note how it doesn't apply to the whole memo. Seems consistent with his efforts as a [...]

Links of interest for 5 Nov 2009 - 2 Dec 2009:

J is for JVM: Why the ‘J’ in JRuby? | Engine Yard Blog - A good explanation on why the guys behind jRuby like the J, aka Java Virtual Machine, part of JRuby. Interesting performance figures too when compared to the standard Ruby, especially considering [...]

Links of interest for 17 Oct 2009 - 2 Nov 2009:

ZFS Deduplication : Jeff Bonwick’s Blog - Deduplication has just made its way into ZFS and Jeff provides a great explanation on what dedup it and why you need it, along with details on how to use it with ZFS.
ZFS for MacOS X - One [...]

Links of interest for 26 Sep 2009 - 14 Oct 2009:

xkcd - Static - Hee hee hee
Guest Account Bug in Snow Leopard Causes Data Loss - Ooops. Just as well I disabled this account a long time ago.
MySQL ex-CEO tells EU to let Oracle buy Sun - Some very valid points here. Lets hope [...]

Links of interest for 2 Sep 2009 - 24 Sep 2009:

IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office - Welcome to the party IBM. Sun did this years ago. 99% of people don't use half the functionality in MS Office anyway.
Linus calls Linux ‘bloated and huge’ - … and it's suffered on average a 2% decrease in performance [...]

Links of interest for 28 Aug 2009 - 1 Sep 2009:

Apache.org Compromised via stolen SSH keys - Best bit: "… we restored from a ZFS snapshot to a version of all our websites before any accounts were compromised." Now how's that for an advertisement for Solaris and ZFS?
Oracle is likely to sell sun’s hardware business [...]

Links of interest for 20 Jul 2009 - 15 Aug 2009:

HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment - This is a brilliant display of some of the cool things you can do in HTML5 (Requires a browser that supports HTML5 like Firefox 3.5)
How To Hijack ‘Every iPhone In The World’ - Oooops. Just as well I [...]

Links of interest for 3 Jun 2009 - 14 Jul 2009:

“Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?” FUD - Thankfully someone's being sensible about the FUD that made it's way into the news this week. Oracle is not going to kill OpenSolaris.
Oracle’s Virtualization Gold Mine - Looks like Oracle is counting on Virtualization big [...]

Links of interest for 12 May 2009 - 1 Jun 2009:

Sun Security Toolkit at OpenSolaris.org - The SST (aka JASS) is now open source (under CDDL) and available for OpenSolaris too.
Parallel Patching for Solaris 10 - Chris Armes’s Weblog - This is a godsend if you've got a system with a lot of zones that [...]