Links of interest for 10 Apr 2008 - 29 Apr 2008:

easySMF at OpenSolaris.org - Cool. A web based tool for easy SMF manifest creation. Simply enter the various bits of information, generate the XML file and import it into SMF. Much quicker and easier than writing it all out by hand.
Sun: Trying [...]

Links of interest for 5 Mar 2008 - 12 Mar 2008:

iPhone rules pose Net neutrality, antitrust concerns - I just knew the iPhone SDK sounded too good to be true. It seems the license allows you to do "this", but not "that", nor "that", oh and "the other thing" isn't allowed either. Why release [...]

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 [...]

The latest release of Solaris Express Developer Edition (9/07) is now available, and it’s a marked improvement over the previous release.
This release includes all the latest tools and technologies from Sun that any developer could want for developing C, C++, Java apps and even Web 2.0 applications. And best of all, it’s all nicely [...]

Links of interest for 9 August 2007 - 6 September 2007:

BIND 8 Has been EOLd - ISC have announced BIND 8 is End of Life as of 27 August 2007 and is encouraging everyone move to BIND 9. I wonder if Sun will be backporting BIND 9 to Solaris 8 and 9, or opting [...]

You should read the comments on Jonathan Schwartz’s blog about Sun’s decision to change the stocker ticker from SUNW to JAVA. It’s just pure pointless, and often thoughtless, hostilities. I think there are about 10 favorable comments in all, out of the 335 (and counting) comments so far.
For some reason, people seem to think [...]

As of next week, one of the most actively traded shares on the Nasdaq, will have a new ticker symbol. Sun Microsystems will change it’s ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA.
To quote Jonathan Schwartz…
… SUNW represents the past, and its not without a nostalgic nod that we’ve decided to look ahead.
JAVA is a technology whose [...]

I’d not heard about the Sun Device Detection Tool until I saw this post on Dennis Clarke’s (of Blastwave fame) blog.
Now this is just what Solaris needs in order to help drive adoption. A tool that will analyse your system and tell you if Solaris has device drivers for all the components it’s found. [...]

ZDNET and CNET (Just paraphrasing the ZDNET article) are both reporting that apparently Google’s security team have discovered some very critical flaws in the Java Run Time Environment (JRE) that threatens security on pretty much anything that runs Java.
Hmmm, I have my reservations about this claim. Several things just don’t sit right with me. [...]

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 [...]