Entries tagged with 'networking'

Links of interest for 28 Aug 2009 - 1 Sep 2009:

Apache.org Compromised via stolen SSH keys - Best bit: "… we restored from a ZFS snapshot to a version of all our websites before any accounts were compromised." Now how's that for an advertisement for Solaris and ZFS?
Oracle is likely to sell sun’s hardware business [...]

Links of interest for 13 Feb 2009 - 10 Mar 2009:

Speeding to a Halt - Wow!!! OpenSolaris shutdown taken from about 41 seconds to a mere 7. Brilliant work here by Dan Price.
Anatomy of Storage on the GRID - First Joyent, now MediaTemple. It’s great to see large, popular ISPs moving across to OpenSolaris [...]

I’ve anxiously been waiting for this update email to say the snv_105 changes are now available for OpenSolaris.
Now I can get playing with the cool new Project Crossbow networking functionality as Ben did here and here.
I could have played with this when it first came out, except I took the decision to move 100% across [...]

Links of interest for 12 Oct 2008 - 14 Oct 2008:

ZFS & MySQL/InnoDB Compression Update - Real world ZFS & MySQL compression testing from the guys at SmugMug.
Success with OpenSolaris + ZFS + MySQL in production! - Woohooo!!!! Another happy OpenSolaris + ZFS customer. Nice one Don.
NetApp faces Sun lawsuit loss - Looks like NetApp's [...]

Links of interest for 30 Apr 2008 - 14 May 2008:

Brussels: Uniform Interface to Driver Administration Through dladm(1m) - Finally!!! A unified simple and easy way to configure network interface settings like auto-neg, duplex, mtu etc on Solaris. Currently only in OpenSolaris and Nevada though.
OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]