Links for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008

12Jan08

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 OS X from one of the ZFS developers at Apple.
2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Platforms - And the award for the Most Innovative Server OS goes to... well, Solaris 10 of course. Who else?
shimmer - A great alternative to port knocking, which may actually come in useful, however it does have a dependency on time, so be careful. Any time difference of over 3 mins can get you blacklisted from your own systems.
Top 10 Secure Coding Practices - CERT Secure Coding Standards - Some very useful coding practises here.
IPv6: coming to a root server near you - This has got to be a sign IPv6 is about to finally take hold. Watch it, it'll creep up on you if you're not ready for it.
Spicebird - This collaboration tool (email, RSS, IM, Wiki, Blog etc), based on Mozilla code, looks very promising.
Set the Time Machine backup interval - Every hour seems a bit excessive to me, and using an application to make this change is overkill. This tip shows exactly how simple it is to change the backup interval
Update on the Sun/NetApp ZFS patent litigation - Things are looking good for Sun. It seems NetApp's suit is slowly being pulled to pieces before it even gets to court.
Devil's Pie Usage Examples - The best source of Devil's Pie usage documentation I've found. Well worth a read if you're just starting with Devil's Pie
TransMail Trusted Edition Demo - This looks pretty impressive and as far as I know is the first ever commercial product developed specifically for Solaris Trusted Extensions. This could be very useful in the trusted desktop market
OpenSolaris Soon to Run on IBM Mainframes - Wooohooo!!! OpenSolaris is soon to run on Big Blue's Big Iron. This is fantastic news and adds even more weight to the strength of OpenSolaris
Best Web Gallery - CSS & Flash Design Inspiration - An awesome collection of brilliantly designed web sites. A great place to browse if you're short of inspiration.