Entries tagged with 'Windows'

Links of interest for 3 Jun 2009 - 14 Jul 2009:

“Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?” FUD - Thankfully someone's being sensible about the FUD that made it's way into the news this week. Oracle is not going to kill OpenSolaris.
Oracle’s Virtualization Gold Mine - Looks like Oracle is counting on Virtualization big [...]

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 3 Nov 2008 - 10 Nov 2008:

Fishworks: Now it can be told : The Observation Deck - Bryan Cantrill's recount of the road to Fishworks and Amber Road.
Fishworks Hardware Topology - Eric Schrock gives an intro to the chassi subsystem at the heart of the technology behind the Sun Storage 7000 [...]

Links of interest for 12 Aug 2008 - 3 Sep 2008:

Carpetbomb bug tarnishes Google Chrome - Ooops. How on earth could the Google chaps have missed this one?
Google Chrome Considered Harmful - Hmmm, the bad news about Google Chrome is starting to come to light now.
Google Chrome, Google’s Browser Project - Oooo, sounds like Firefox [...]

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 [...]

I didn’t know this until I read this post on Lifehacker, but check out the icon OS X Leopard shows for PCs running Windows that you may be browsing from your Mac:

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 [...]

This came as a surprise to me: you can now get Safari (the Mac web browser) for Windows.

Whilst it’s only in beta at the moment, it’s good to see another good FREE browser become available for Windows. The more good FREE browsers for Windows there are, the better (I’ve been having a [...]