Entries tagged with 'Security'

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 [...]

Links of interest for 18 Oct 2007 - 7 Nov 2007:

System Profiling 101 : Getting started using sys_diag v.7.04 - A very useful performance gathering script that used Dtrace, amongst other tools to gather performance information
Sun sues NetApp, California style - Well, if the previous case wasn’t enough to let NetApp know Sun are serious, [...]

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 [...]