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Interesting Links for 21 Apr 2011 - 16 Aug 2011

Thank you Joyent! - Some very useful contributions made to Illumos by Joyent. Pity Sun wasn't quite so accepting of changes in the past. There are some really useful changes here that really should be in Solaris. Who knows, maybe they'll be incorporated one day. The Cloud is not a Silver Bullet – stu.mp - A great explanation as to why the recent Amazon outage affected so many sites. In short: bad planning by the sites that used Amazon's services. The Usability of Passwords (by @baekdal) #tips - A good discussion on the use of easy to remember passwords being as secure as complex passwords without the unnecessary agro of trying to type the complex passwords. End of Feature Notices for Oracle Solaris 11 Express - Take note of this list of EOLd features when considering upgrading to Solaris 11 Express, especially for older SPARC machines. The Observation Deck » KVM on illumos - This is pretty impressive and something I think would be great in Solaris itself. I've downloaded the ISO. Time to get playing.

Interesting Links for 24 Feb 2011 - 08 Apr 2011

Cussing in Commits: Which Programming Language Inspires the Most Swearing? | Webmonkey | Wired.com - Some people have far too much time on their hands. What a topic to research. As a matter of principle, I don't swear in any of my commits, even my own hidden repos. Z-410: How ZFS is slowly making its way to Mac OS X - Nice to see even though Apple have decided against ZFS on the MAC for the moment, someone else hasn't. Nine traits of the veteran Unix admin | Unix - InfoWorld - A pretty good synopsis of the traits of a veteran Unix (not Linux) admin. I have every single one of these traits. Java creator hangs his shingle at Google - James Gosling heads to Google. It'll be interesting to see how this affects Java as a while and Android. The Cicada Principle and Why It Matters to Web Designers » HTML & CSS, Layout » Design Festival - I'm a geek for things involving maths. I think this idea of using primes for creating some sort of randomness in tilling background images is a great one. Time to see how I can use it myself.

Interesting Links for 19 Nov 2010 - 04 Feb 2011

ZFS Encryption: What is on disk? - Good explanation of is stored encrypted and unencrypted on the disk with ZFS encryption. Changes in Security Policies for Sun Product Lines - Well worth reading if you're wondering how Oracle plans to handle security issues in Sun products. Haavard - Is the removal of H.264 from Chrome a step backward for openness? - A well stated response to Ars Technica's long article on Google's decision to remove H.264 support from Chrome. I agree with this article. This is definitely NOT a step backwards. Secure Deployment of Oracle VM Server for SPARC - A great Oracle whitepaper on securely deploying LDOMs. Get 50% discount on an Oracle Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000/M8000 - Trade in your HP Superdome for an Oracle M8000 or M9000 and get 50% off the purchase price.

Interesting Links for 30 Oct 2010 - 16 Nov 2010

Oracle: Google 'directly copied' our Java code - Interesting. Looks like Oracle may have a case here. Looks like a simple decompile using jad produces the exact code highlighted by Oracle earlier this week. Introducing ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express - Assured delete with ZFS dataset encryption - Having my secured cake and Cloning it too (aka Encryption + Dedup with ZFS) - What's new for the Administrator in Oracle Solaris Express 2010.11 - c0t0d0s0.org - A great summary of a very lengthy document courtesy of Joerg Moellenkamp.

Interesting Links for 30 Sep 2010 - 27 Oct 2010

DTrace book coming soon : Brendan Gregg - I'll be adding this to my list of must-get books. Apple To Remove Java from Mac OS X? - Looks like Apple may finally be coming round to thinking that it's much easier for Oracle/Sun to maintain the JRE than do it yourself. As a user of Java, I'm quite interested in this as now we should find the OS X JRE keeping up with the JRE for other operating systems. SunSolve Retirement Notice - October 2010 : Miriam Brace's Weblog - Take note SunSolve users. You'll need to migrate across to My Oracle Support so best do it sooner rather than later. Adobe Releases Its Own HTML5 Video Player - Is this a sign Adobe's Flash is under pressure from powers-that-be with big $$? Running Batch Workloads on Sun's CMT Servers - A great post pointing out a very common mistake and assumption people make with Sun's CMT servers. A little bit of tweaking of your batch workload for the underlying hardware goes a long long way.

Interesting Links for 07 Sep 2010 - 30 Sep 2010

Oracle hires former HP's Hurd, Phillips leaves | Reuters - HP last month, Oracle today. The Register predicted something like this would happen when Ellison stepped forward to defend Hurd. Time will tell how Hurd's arrival impacts Oracle's hardware ambitions. NetApp - Company - News@NetApp - NetApp and Oracle Agree to Dismiss Lawsuits - Good to see everyone has put their toys away and come to an amicable agreement. No idea what the agreement it, but there is an agreement somewhere. Oracle Outlines Next Major Release of Oracle Solaris - Oracle Solaris 11 and Solaris 11 Express press release to whet your appetite of what's to come. The first public release of Solaris 11 Express should be available later this year and I can say the internal builds are already starting to look like what I'd imagine Solaris 11 will look like. LibreOffice - A fresh page for OpenOffice - The H Open Source: News and Features - This is a good and balanced article that is worth reading. It'll be interesting to see what Oracle decide to do, especially as they seem to be concentrating on their own JavaFX based cloud Office suite. HP gooses Integrity server virt with PA-RISC emulation • The Register - Why would you want to emulate dead hardware on dead hardware? Not sure I understand the logic behind this one short of trying to make a quick buck which won't work in these times.
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