Posts tagged with: fud

Links of interest for 9 Mar 2010 - 21 Apr 2010: C language inventor spurns Google's language exam - Hey, maybe Google has a point, maybe Ken's gone crazy and forgotten everything, but highly unlikely. Apache Foundation Hit by Targeted XSS Attack - Wow!! What a detailed account of what happened. It's quite refreshing to see such an open account of a system hack. Nobody Killed OpenSolaris — Stop the FUD! - Nice to see someone outside of Sun/Oracle is actually seeing sense. Multicore requires OS rework, Windows architect advises - Errmm, I must be missing something here: doesn't Solaris... Continue reading ►

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 time. Time will tell what they do with all their net technology. Microsoft will soon unveil free anti-virus software - Kind of ironic, yet potentially a brilliant business plan: you produce some software that becomes an easy target for viruses, then release your own... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 14 Oct 2008 - 1 Nov 2008: Multicore Bollocks - Hmmm, for someone who's head of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, he certainly talks a load of old cobblers about multicore CPUs. Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009 - Sounds like there will be more need for ZFS then, that's why Sun are working on some awesome storage products coming to market very soon. Watch this space. Anatomy of an attack: The New York Times on Solaris - Blowing that NYT and Computerworld article to pieces in an analytical manner. Good read, regardless of which side... Continue reading ►

It didn't take long for some overly zealous Linux troll to start spreading the FUD about ZFS. This fool sent an email to the fedora-list@redhat.com mailing list entitled "Ten Reasons To *NOT* Use ZFS". I haven't read this much FUD in a long time, and I'm not the only one who agrees. Razvan Corneliu Vilt gave a great response, and he doesn't even use Solaris/OpenSolaris. It is blatantly clear from this email that this guy has some big issues with Sun and was using any excuse to add to his list of issues, without thinking about them in context.... Continue reading ►