Links for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008

Links of interest for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008:

• 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Storage - And the award for Best Filesystem goes to… ZFS, naturally. No other filesystem has been as innovative, with such wide spread adoption, recently.
• Official ZFS on OS X Page - Your source for bleeding edge ZFS on OS X from one of the ZFS developers at Apple.
• 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Platforms - And the award for the Most Innovative Server OS goes to… well, Solaris 10 of course. Who else?
• shimmer - A great alternative to port knocking, which may actually come in useful, however it does have a dependency on time, so be careful. Any time difference of over 3 mins can get you blacklisted from your own systems.
• Top 10 Secure Coding Practices - CERT Secure Coding Standards - Some very useful coding practises here.
• IPv6: coming to a root server near you - This has got to be a sign IPv6 is about to finally take hold. Watch it, it’ll creep up on you if you’re not ready for it.
• Spicebird - This collaboration tool (email, RSS, IM, Wiki, Blog etc), based on Mozilla code, looks very promising.
• Set the Time Machine backup interval - Every hour seems a bit excessive to me, and using an application to make this change is overkill. This tip shows exactly how simple it is to change the backup interval
• Update on the Sun/NetApp ZFS patent litigation - Things are looking good for Sun. It seems NetApp’s suit is slowly being pulled to pieces before it even gets to court.
• Devil’s Pie Usage Examples - The best source of Devil’s Pie usage documentation I’ve found. Well worth a read if you’re just starting with Devil’s Pie
• TransMail Trusted Edition Demo - This looks pretty impressive and as far as I know is the first ever commercial product developed specifically for Solaris Trusted Extensions. This could be very useful in the trusted desktop market
• OpenSolaris Soon to Run on IBM Mainframes - Wooohooo!!! OpenSolaris is soon to run on Big Blue’s Big Iron. This is fantastic news and adds even more weight to the strength of OpenSolaris
• Best Web Gallery - CSS & Flash Design Inspiration - An awesome collection of brilliantly designed web sites. A great place to browse if you’re short of inspiration.