Entries tagged with 'encryption'

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 6 Apr 2009 - 3 May 2009:

New Time Slider features coming up in OpenSolaris 2009.06 - Some useful and impressive changes are coming to TimeSlider. Time Slider is definitely starting to eclipse OS X’s Time Machine in over-all functionality, and in my opinion, usefulness.
ZFS Encrypted Backup to S3 - Now [...]


Links of interest for 6 Jan 2009 - 29 Jan 2009:

iWeb acquires the Sun Storage 7410 for its storage area network - It#039;s nice to see companies starting to promote the fact they#039;ve switched from a proprietary storage system to the Sun Storage 7000 range.
Understanding ZFS: Disk Space Discrepancies - I#039;ve seen this discrepency before, [...]

Links of interest for 21 Mar 2008 - 25 Mar 2008:

Paper Enigma Machine - What a brilliant idea, and a great teaching tool too.
Sun turns to lasers to speed up computer chips - Now this would be brilliant if Sun research proves to be a success. Sun's continually proving it is light years (excuse [...]

Links of interest for 20 Feb 2008 - 1 Mar 2008:

MySQL InnoDB Performance Tuning for the Solaris 10 OS - It's not been long since the finalisation of Sun's acquisition of MySQL and performance tuning docs are already starting to come to light.
Network in a Box (Creating real network on your laptop) - Create a [...]

Following the most recent data loss by HMRC, they and other companies should seriously start considering dumping laptops in favour of Sun’s Sunray technology for their “Work from home” users, and maybe even all of their normal desktop users.
For those who don’t know, Sunray is a secure, truly stateless device that effectively presents a working [...]

Links of interest for 28 Sep 2007 - 13 Oct 2007:

‘Hybrid’ HDD Technology To Allow Data Access Without Booting - Nice to see the PC market is finally catching up with Apple. Apple computers have been able to do this for years.
Firefox Is Going Mobile - I can’t help but feel this is a [...]

Links of interest for 17 May 2007 - 25 May 2007:

ZFS Auto Completion for Bash - Now you can get ZFS auto completion for Bash with this script.
Promising antispam technique gets nod - Great idea, but it’s biggest caveat is the fact it requires both sending and receiving mail servers to have this configured and [...]

As I mentioned earlier when this whole AACS key issue kicked off, the DMCA effectively allows any individual to “own” a number or word. It didn’t take long, but now you too can abuse the DMCA by staking your claim on your own 128-bit number. It’s a bit pointless, but it does highlight the stupidity of the DMCA.


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