Entries tagged with 'dtrace'

Links of interest for 1 Jul 2008 - 30 Jul 2008:

Direct Mounting of Files - As of snv_91, you no longer need lofi to mount a filesystem image, like an ISO. You can now call mount(1M) as you would a normal filesystem.
DTrace IP Provider - Cool. The first step of implementing TCP/IP DTrace providers [...]

OpenSolaris 2008.05, aka “Project Indiana” will be officially released to the world later today (US time), but it’s already available now for download from it’s dedicated site - www.opensolaris.com.
For the uninitiated, I’ll quote the OpenSolaris docs…

Links of interest for 13 Jan 2008 - 27 Jan 2008:

Transactional ZFS Upgrades on Nexenta - This is pretty impressive usage of ZFS. Once Solaris officially supports ZFS boot, this is a fantastic feature that could be added to patching and live upgrade.
Mystery web infection grows, but cause remains elusive - Pity no one seems [...]

Links of interest for 9 Nov 2007 - 22 Nov 2007:

Google as a password cracker - Another good use for Google - password cracking. Ok, it’s not true passpord cracking, but rather MD5 hash pattern matching.
Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Facebook Developers on Dell Servers. What does it mean? - I’m a very disappointed in [...]

Links of interest for 9 May 2007 - 13 May 2007:

About Project Indiana - Oooo, so that’s what Project Indiana is all about. Pity we heard about it from the press first. That said, it sounds like Ian’s got his head screwed on right and this’ll really drive OpenSolaris adoption.
Experts scramble to quash IPv6 [...]

Are you still a bit sceptical about running your business on OpenSolaris - a free and power operating system, which due to it’s development status is technically unsupported (cos you can’t pay for the support)? Well, don’t be. Joyant run on OpenSolaris and do encounter problems, however they get them fixed, and quickly [...]

I was a little surprised and saddened to read that DARPA has decided to pump US$250m into Cray and US$244m in IBM for them to work on DARPA’s next high performance computing initiative - their “Petascale” program.
There was a lot of bidding and vying for the investment and it came down to 3 final contenders [...]