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 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 1 Feb 2008 - 14 Feb 2008:

Major Linux security hole found - Ooops. This is going to be around for some time and I wouldn't be surpised if a worm is created to capitalise on this vulnerability in the not too distant future.
How one clumsy ship cut off the web [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 11 September 2007 - 27 September 2007:

The Best Minimalist WordPress Themes · plaintxt.org - Some of the best minimalist themes I’ve seen.
5 tools every PHP programmer should know about - Some very interesting tools here. Can’t say I’d have a use for all of them, but certainly a few.
It’s time [...]

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 [...]

Sun has released Solaris 10 8/07 (aka update 4) into the wild. You can grab a copy for yourself from the download site.
There are a lot of enhancements and some new functionality in this release. Most notably IP Instances, so each of your zones can have their own IP stack, and Branded Zones, which allows [...]

Links of interest for 19 July 2007 - 2 August 2007:

OS X is Now Officially UNIX - Now you can legitimately call OS X “UNIX with a pretty face”. OS X has been certified to UNIX03 standards, like Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.
Bubble 2.0 Coming Soon - Dvorak believes we’re in for another pop. Maybe, maybe [...]