Posts tagged with: apple

Links of interest for 6 Jul 2010 - 23 Jul 2010: Oracle Solaris Support on HP Proliant and BladeServers - c0t0d0s0.org - I think Oracle may have seen the light and realised there's actually good money in offering Solaris support on 3rd party hardware. Time will tell if this is extended to other vendors. /dev/dump: Please Be Patient - Be patient folks. Looks like we'll be hearing a bit more from Oracle re OpenSolaris in early August. WordPress And Thesis Go To Battle. Mullenweg May Sue. - The outcome of this will be interesting and certainly tests the interpretation of... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 17 Oct 2009 - 2 Nov 2009: ZFS Deduplication : Jeff Bonwick's Blog - Deduplication has just made its way into ZFS and Jeff provides a great explanation on what dedup it and why you need it, along with details on how to use it with ZFS. ZFS for MacOS X - One door closes, and thanks to Open Source, another opens. Apple cans ZFS project - It doesn't say much, but it speaks volumes. Monty, Stallman, MySQL, Oracle, and Sun: Open Letter Wars - Finally. Someone taking a subjective and clear headed view of the... Continue reading ►

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 to hp - The Inquirer - [Updated: My initial comments here have been removed as I may give people the idea that I actually have insider info on this. I DON'T.] New attack cracks common Wi-Fi encryption in a minute - ... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 20 Jul 2009 - 15 Aug 2009: HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment - This is a brilliant display of some of the cool things you can do in HTML5 (Requires a browser that supports HTML5 like Firefox 3.5) How To Hijack 'Every iPhone In The World' - Oooops. Just as well I don't have an iPhone. Why does 1.6 beat 4.7? - BestPerf - People always forget the details, and it's often these details that competitors deliberately leave out too. Triple-Parity RAID-Z : Adam Leventhal's Weblog - ZFS has just got triple-parity RAID-Z support. Why? Alan... Continue reading ►

Ahead of today's Macworld keynote speech it's been revealed Apple will be introducing a revolutionary new laptop with no keyboard. Instead it'll have a giant touch wheel... Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard You've got to love The Onion.

Links of interest for 2 Dec 2008 - 8 Dec 2008: Sun shows Microsoft how it's done - Now I would never had predicted this: someone saying that Sun has done something on the desktop environment better than Microsoft. I must admit the Time Slider is pretty damn awesome and I think it may put Apples Time Machine to shame too. Contributing OpenSolaris Packages at OpenSolaris.org - More information on the new OpenSolaris repositories, how pkgs are being automatically added and how you can contribute to the repository. Webcast of What's New in OpenSolaris 2008.11 - Some cool new features... Continue reading ►

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 may have a new competitor. Now how long before we get a Solaris/OpenSolaris version? iPhone passwords not worth the paper they're written on - Ooops. This certainly won't help Apple make inroads into the business market. The latest Xeon and OpenSolaris -... Continue reading ►

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 an SDK if you can't develop to your heart's content? I was really Snap Sun decision launches Java at iPhone - Cool. No hopefully people will start creating some useful Java apps for the iPhone (and other phones) and not just games. Acid3 Test Released... Continue reading ►

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 for 75 million people - Just goes to show how fragile the internet really is. Given that it only took a ship to take out most of the emerging markets, imagine the chaos terrorists could cause if they took out the cables for the... Continue reading ►