Posts tagged with: windows

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 3 Nov 2008 - 10 Nov 2008: Fishworks: Now it can be told : The Observation Deck - Bryan Cantrill's recount of the road to Fishworks and Amber Road. Fishworks Hardware Topology - Eric Schrock gives an intro to the chassi subsystem at the heart of the technology behind the Sun Storage 7000 series. Hybrid Storage Pools in the 7410 : Adam Leventhal's Weblog - Wow, the Fishworks guys have been busy blogging like crazy. Adam's got a great detailed report on the Hybrid Storage Pools in the biggest of the Sun Storage 7000 server -... 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 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 21 Mar 2008 - 25 Mar 2008: Paper Enigma Machine - What a brilliant idea, and a great teaching tool too. Sun turns to lasers to speed up computer chips - Now this would be brilliant if Sun research proves to be a success. Sun's continually proving it is light years (excuse the pun) ahead of everyone else in the processor business and this is just another example. Australian WiMAX pioneer trashes technology as "miserable failure" - I wonder how many more people are going to come forward now and bring their problems to light. All... Continue reading ►

I didn't know this until I read this post on Lifehacker, but check out the icon OS X Leopard shows for PCs running Windows that you may be browsing from your Mac: Continue reading ►

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 11 September 2007 - 27 September 2007: The Best Minimalist WordPress Themes · plaintxt.org - Some of the best minimalist themes I've seen. 5 tools every PHP programmer should know about - Some very interesting tools here. Can't say I'd have a use for all of them, but certainly a few. It's time to pay attention to Sun's x86 server biz - This can only bode well for Sun if The Register is praising it's new x86 machines. A lot of potential Sun customer's read El Reg, so this is a nice bit of free advertising.... Continue reading ►

This came as a surprise to me: you can now get Safari (the Mac web browser) for Windows. Whilst it's only in beta at the moment, it's good to see another good FREE browser become available for Windows. The more good FREE browsers for Windows there are, the better (I've been having a nightmare with my new design on my personal site and IE 6). Update: Well, that didn't take long. It's already broken. Continue reading ►