Posts tagged with: networking

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 13 Feb 2009 - 10 Mar 2009: Speeding to a Halt - Wow!!! OpenSolaris shutdown taken from about 41 seconds to a mere 7. Brilliant work here by Dan Price. Anatomy of Storage on the GRID - First Joyent, now MediaTemple. It's great to see large, popular ISPs moving across to OpenSolaris and ZFS to power their grid, hosting and storage offerings. HP Joins Solaris Community (Live Free or Die) - This is brilliant news, for Sun and all those HP customers running Solaris (and I know of some big banks on this list). Now I... Continue reading ►

I've anxiously been waiting for this update email to say the snv_105 changes are now available for OpenSolaris. Now I can get playing with the cool new Project Crossbow networking functionality as Ben did here and here. I could have played with this when it first came out, except I took the decision to move 100% across to OpenSolaris on my machine at work instead of running the SXDE builds. No more dual boot. Just 100% OpenSolaris.

Links of interest for 12 Oct 2008 - 14 Oct 2008: ZFS & MySQL/InnoDB Compression Update - Real world ZFS & MySQL compression testing from the guys at SmugMug. Success with OpenSolaris + ZFS + MySQL in production! - Woohooo!!!! Another happy OpenSolaris + ZFS customer. Nice one Don. NetApp faces Sun lawsuit loss - Looks like NetApp's patents are falling apart. BT's 21st Century network, er... isn't - I guess the UK will be last on the IPv6 bandwagon :-( Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder - I have my own reservations about "cloud computing", some of... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 30 Apr 2008 - 14 May 2008: Brussels: Uniform Interface to Driver Administration Through dladm(1m) - Finally!!! A unified simple and easy way to configure network interface settings like auto-neg, duplex, mtu etc on Solaris. Currently only in OpenSolaris and Nevada though. OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up - Great plug for OpenSolaris 2008.05 that has just been released. Microsoft Has Developed Windows Forensic Analysis Tool for Police - A bit more on the COFEE tool - looks like it's just MS bundling up a bunch of freely available tools in an... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 20 Feb 2008 - 1 Mar 2008: MySQL InnoDB Performance Tuning for the Solaris 10 OS - It's not been long since the finalisation of Sun's acquisition of MySQL and performance tuning docs are already starting to come to light. Network in a Box (Creating real network on your laptop) - Create a real network comprising of Hosts, Switches and Routers as a Virtual Network on a any computer using OpenSolaris (w/ Project Crossbow) and zones. Pretty impressive stuff here, and full instructions too. Playing with ZFS, USB memory disks and VMware Fusion - Demo ZFS... Continue reading ►

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,... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 9 August 2007 - 6 September 2007: BIND 8 Has been EOLd - ISC have announced BIND 8 is End of Life as of 27 August 2007 and is encouraging everyone move to BIND 9. I wonder if Sun will be backporting BIND 9 to Solaris 8 and 9, or opting to run their own patch stream until these OSes are EOLd. NetApp Hits Sun With Patent Infringement Lawsuit - I can't help feel this is NetApp showing it's fear of ZFS and Sun's future products based on ZFS. Why else would they file the patent... Continue reading ►