Posts tagged with: network

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 desktop environment to a user over the network and consumes very little power. Think of a mix between the ease and simplicity of the old green and black dumb-terminals and the full functionality of your normal desktop and a whole lot more.  Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 9 July 2007 - 18 July 2007:  Continue reading ►

Solaris is another step closer to the complete implementation of Project Crossbow. On 19 January, the IP Instance project was integrated into Nevada with the intentions of making IP Instances available through S10U4.  Continue reading ►

A new WiFi architecture has been integrated into Nevada Build 54 which will pave the way for some pretty cool features in the future, and also will start to bring Solaris inline with (and dare I say, overtake) the likes of Linux on the WiFi front.  Continue reading ►

With the recent outages and performance issues I've been having, I decided to find a tool that I can use to monitor the status of my websites that doesn't actually rely on these sites. The idea being that I can gather enough stats to take back to Site5 showing them how poor things have been, if the problems persist.  Continue reading ►

The more I read about it, the more I like the idea of Project Blackbox.  Continue reading ►

Being a predominantly OS and Comms engineer, I get a lot of network calls. One very common issue is duplex mis-match. People are happy and eager to adopt new technology and constantly demand better performance from the kit they have, however they still insist on following archaic administration practices, like forcing switch settings and then start screaming when they're getting crap performance on their new flashy gigabit interface.  Continue reading ►

Fyodor (writer of nmap) has done it again. He's asked the members of the nmap-hackers mail list to share their favourite security tools. This year Fyodor has devoted a whole site to the 2006 results. It's a very interesting read and has some pretty cool tools, some of which I've never heard of before.