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    December 2021

    • This is so me: "Don't spend 6 minutes doing something...

    November 2021

    • Speeding Up My ZSH Shell

    January 2021

    • I’ve spent most of this last week being forced to...

    June 2020

    • I made a new thing today: GitHub Linguist Free Colour...

    November 2019

    • Listened to one of the best keynotes I’ve ever heard...
    • The early part of this Twitter thread brings back so...
    • How earth can you differentiate that many teeny tiny icons...

    January 2018

    • Yay! Worked out what was killing my Firefox 58 &...
    • Jeez, I've written some hacky code in the past. Just...

    December 2017

    • Forcing myself to use the new, and apparently super-speedy, Firefox...

    November 2017

    • You know you've been on call too many times when...
    • Using Lava Lamps for Security

    May 2017

    • Today I finally took the time to learn and use...
    • Jekyll JSON Feed Plugin

    August 2016

    • Sort an Array of Strings by Severity in Ruby

    July 2016

    • Using `<details>` on GitHub

    June 2016

    • My First Pair Programming Session

    May 2016

    • Time to Activate POWER MODE

    March 2016

    • @lildude is No Longer a GitHub Enterprise Support Engineer

    February 2016

    • Cool Weather Report in Your Terminal

    January 2016

    • Switching to Email-only GitHub Notifications
    • Python Moves to GitHub

    June 2015

    • Pridify Your GitHub Contributions Graph

    May 2015

    • Just a quicky to say this site is still alive...

    November 2014

    • Octocat Primed

    August 2014

    • This afternoon I shall mostly be teaching myself FreeIPA.

    April 2014

    • How the Guardian uses GitHub to audit GitHub
    • The Heartbleed OpenSSL issue is pretty serious, but I'm amazed...

    March 2014

    • Hee hee, just had an old lady in a coffee...
    • Attention managers of developers: incentivising by lines of code written...

    February 2014

    • Invite for GitHub's Atom Editor

    January 2014

    • I went out especially yesterday to get screws for the...
    • Aaagh, I've been away from the CLI for too long......

    December 2013

    • I am Now a GitHubber
    • The Guru Has Left The Building

    November 2013

    • Docker - A Friendly Interface to Solaris-like Zones on Linux
    • Solaris 11's Bobcat
    • How to Limit Upgrades Beyond a Prescribed Version of Oracle Solaris
    • Just discovered a faster, prettier, simpler and more efficient tool...

    October 2013

    • OSX Migration Assistant is clearly guessing when it tells me...
    • This is pretty impressive. Moving Bender from Futurama rendered in...
    • You'll never guess where the UK's tech capital is. Hint:...
    • I've finally got Spotify apps working from behind a proxy...
    • How the Bible and YouTube are Fueling the Next Frontier of Password Cracking

    September 2013

    • DTraceToolkit 0.XX Mistakes

    August 2013

    • HOWTO Interpret, Understand and Resolve Common pkg(1M) Errors on Solaris 11

    July 2013

    • CVE-ID Syntax Change

    June 2013

    • FiOS Customer Discovers the Limits of “unlimited” Data: 77TB a Month
    • Construction of the Encrypted Password String On Solaris
    • Why Sun's NIS Will Never Die

    May 2013

    • pkgask(1M) Can't Find Interactive Request Script
    • Twitter Launches Two-factor Authentication
    • How to Build a Web-Based Storage Solution Using Oracle Solaris 11.1

    April 2013

    • How ZFS Continues to be Better Than btrfs
    • HOWTO: Update Java 1.4.2 on Solaris 10
    • Solaris 11 SRU Naming Convention Change
    • Habari 0.9.1 Released and New Habari Site Design
    • How to Use an Existing Oracle Solaris 10 JumpStart Server to Provision Oracle Solaris 11 11/11

    March 2013

    • Oracle Solaris Extended Policy and MySQL
    • How to Build a Secure Cluster Using Trusted Extensions with Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1

    February 2013

    • Hot off the press: Solaris 10 1/13 (S10u11) is now...
    • Jailbreak for iOS 6.1 now available: https://evasi0n.com Works for me...

    January 2013

    • I Learnt the Logic Behind The Numeronyms g11n and i18n Today
    • For webdevs: checkout the pretty impressive HTML5 experience demos at...
    • Defeating AES Without a PhD
    • Just signed up for my free 50GB of encrypted storage...
    • What's Up With the flag Field in /etc/shadow on Solaris 11.1?
    • Welcome to 2013

    December 2012

    • Merry Christmas 2012

    November 2012

    • Great Solaris and SPARC Infographics
    • 592 Days Uptime on Joyent Accelerator Zone

    October 2012

    • Building zsh On Joyent SmartMachine
    • Using svcbundle to Create SMF Manifests and Profiles in Oracle Solaris 11
    • Oracle Solaris 11.1 Now Available for Download & Update
    • Solaris 11 SRU / Update Relationship Explained
    • Things might suddenly start looking a bit odd with errors....

    September 2012

    • CIS Solaris 11 Benchmark v1.0.0
    • HOWTO: Check for Invalid Entries in /etc/vfstab
    • HOWTO: Get xterm on Solaris 11 Without installing the Whole of the solaris-desktop Group
    • I'm Speaking At Oracle OpenWorld 2012

    August 2012

    • Why Passwords Have Never Been Weaker
    • Sun Demonstrated Touch Screen Inertial Scrolling... in 1992

    July 2012

    • Are Indian High Schoolers Manning Your IBM Help Desk?
    • Reinitialize Live Upgrade Now Made Easy
    • How to Manage ZFS Data Encryption
    • HOWTO: Configure Your Raspberry Pi With VNC Without Ever Connecting It To A Keyboard & Monitor
    • Oracle Now Releasing Critical Patch Update Advisories in CVRF Format
    • Zone Delegation on Solaris 11

    June 2012

    • How to Create Multiple Internal Repositories for Oracle Solaris 11
    • How to Set Up a Load Balanced Application Across Two Zones
    • How to Configure Oracle Solaris 11 Using the sysconfig Command
    • Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit (aka SUNWjet) Now on OTN

    May 2012

    • My Raspberry Pi Has Finally Arrived
    • Solaris Package Dependency Tool Now Available

    March 2012

    • Don't Forget the ZFS "aclinherit" Property
    • What Has Happened to My Chrome App Icons?

    February 2012

    • HOWTO: Find Out if a Vulnerability/CVE is Fixed in Solaris
    • Z E V O: ZFS For Mac is Slowly Coming Back

    January 2012

    • My Oracle Support's Improved HTML Interface

    November 2011

    • Updating Solaris 11 With an SRU via ISO is So Easy
    • Solaris 11: End of Support for Legacy Hardware
    • Useful Solaris 11 Posts and Documents You Should Read
    • HOWTO: Upgrade from Solaris 10 to Solaris 11

    October 2011

    • Cisco AnyConnect Client Failing on Ubuntu 11.10
    • Dennis Ritchie: The Passing of a Computing Giant

    September 2011

    • HB-Cumulus 1.9
    • Security Vulnerabilities in HB-Cumulus 1.4 and Lower

    August 2011

    • Interesting Links for 21 Apr 2011 - 16 Aug 2011
    • HOWTO: Set Resource Controls Using Projects Instead of ulimit(1)
    • Password Strength

    July 2011

    • HOWTO: Determine If You Are in a Solaris Zone and its Type
    • Habari is Now on GitHub

    June 2011

    • Happy World IPv6 Day

    May 2011

    • Fixing iTunes Hang on Startup on My Mac
    • HOWTO: Disconnect from a Zone's Console Without Dropping Your SSH Connection
    • HOWTO: Configure Ubuntu's Unity Launcher

    April 2011

    • ZSH Command Completion in Solaris 11 Express
    • Interesting Links for 24 Feb 2011 - 08 Apr 2011
    • Habari 0.7 is Go Go Go

    March 2011

    • Conundrum: Simultaneous Public and Private Mercurial Repositories
    • Oracle Solaris 11 Compatibility Checker Tool
    • The IE6 Countdown, Finally

    February 2011

    • Wow!!! That was quick. The guys pushed out Habari 0.7...
    • Habari 0.7 RC1
    • Solaris/Windows/Linux on Your iPad
    • Edging Towards Habari 0.7
    • Interesting Links for 19 Nov 2010 - 04 Feb 2011

    January 2011

    • HOWTO: Download the Old Sun Software on Oracle
    • Speaking at Collaborate 11
    • Oracle Solaris 11 Express 2010.11 SRU1 Now Available

    December 2010

    • Merry Christmas 2010
    • HOWTO: Download Solaris Patch Clusters from My Oracle Support
    • Habari 0.6.6 Security Release

    November 2010

    • Habari 0.6.5 Security Release
    • Upgrade OpenSolaris to Solaris 11 Express
    • Interesting Links for 30 Oct 2010 - 16 Nov 2010
    • Solaris 11 Express Root Password Gotcha
    • Oracle Solaris 11 Express 2010.11 Out Now
    • Just a quick update to say I've just updated the...

    October 2010

    • Split Screen Editing in NetBeans
    • Interesting Links for 30 Sep 2010 - 27 Oct 2010
    • Is Apple Becoming the Next Microsoft?

    September 2010

    • Interesting Links for 07 Sep 2010 - 30 Sep 2010
    • OpenIndiana is Now Available
    • Live Upgrade to Solaris 10 9/10 And Auto-reg
    • Solaris 10 9/10 is Now Available

    August 2010

    • A New Look And Code Base For lildude.co.uk
    • Right-align a HTML List With the Bullet on the Right
    • OpenSolaris Distro is Dead
    • Links for 26 Jul 2010 - 6 Aug 2010
    • Matching CVE Numbers to Solaris Patches
    • Illumos - It's Not a Fork, But I Could Be

    July 2010

    • Solaris Support On NON-Sun Hardware
    • PSARC 2010/291: zonestat - Now That Will be Useful
    • Links for 6 Jul 2010 - 23 Jul 2010
    • Just pushed out a little update to HB-Cumulus. This update...
    • Improved Java Plugin Browser Experience On Solaris
    • Ping(1M) on OpenSolaris Easter Egg

    June 2010

    • Links for 20 May 2010 - 30 Jun 2010
    • Oracle's Next Gen x86 Systems
    • Java 4-Ever Trailer
    • Auditing and OpenSSH On Solaris

    May 2010

    • Do One Thing Towards Habari 0.7 Today
    • Automatic Updates for Thunderbird and Firefox on Solaris and OpenSolaris
    • Links for 22 Apr 2010 - 19 May 2010
    • Redesigning My Blogs With HTML5

    April 2010

    • Starting Another Move To Habari
    • Habari Gets Mozilla Account Manager Plugin
    • Links for 9 Mar 2010 - 21 Apr 2010
    • I'm Now A Member of the Habari Project Management Committee
    • Habari HOWTO: Set Number of Posts for Home Page Different from Default

    March 2010

    • Thunderbird 3 is a Greedy Pig
    • Is it just me or has NWAM lost the "M",...
    • Oracle's "All or Nothing" Approach To Support
    • Back in Action

    February 2010

    • Links for 27 Jan 2010 - 14 Feb 2010

    January 2010

    • The End of An Era
    • Page Speed on Firefox 3.6
    • Links for 6 Jan 2010 - 26 Jan 2010

    December 2009

    • Merry Christmas 2009
    • HB-Cumulus 1.5
    • PHP FastCGI, Lighttpd and Memory Leaks
    • EU Give Oracle The Thumbs-Up
    • Upgrading VxVM and/or Solaris using Live Upgrade
    • NIS+ Is Finally DEAD!!!
    • Links for 5 Nov 2009 - 2 Dec 2009
    • Just a quick update to say that Habari introduced some...

    November 2009

    • Free Solaris 10 Patching Best Practices Training
    • Spam Fighting in Habari
    • Can't Install pkg On OpenSolaris snv_127
    • Links for 17 Oct 2009 - 2 Nov 2009

    October 2009

    • ZFS Has Virus Scanning Functionality Built In
    • Oracle Bashing IBM
    • Links for 26 Sep 2009 - 14 Oct 2009
    • microblog-purple Pidgin Plugin on OpenSolaris
    • SmugMug Media Silo Plugin 1.0 Now Available
    • Solaris 10 10/09 Released

    September 2009

    • HB Audio Player 1.1
    • HB-Cumulus 1.4
    • Links for 2 Sep 2009 - 24 Sep 2009
    • HB Audio Player 1.0 Now Available
    • Migrating From Wordpress to Habari
    • Oracle Advert For Sun Customers
    • Sun In Limbo For a Bit Longer
    • Links for 28 Aug 2009 - 1 Sep 2009

    August 2009

    • Solaris 10 Patch Cluster Improvements
    • Looks like the DoJ are happy for the buyout to...
    • Links for 20 Jul 2009 - 15 Aug 2009

    July 2009

    • Spotify On OpenSolaris
    • Sun Stockholders Approve Oracle Merger
    • Ultra Verbose patchadd(1M)
    • Links for 3 Jun 2009 - 14 Jul 2009
    • HOWTO: Correct Permissions of a Covered Mount Point Without Remounting

    June 2009

    • Installing the Recommended Patch Cluster With Zones Parallel Patching
    • HOWTO: Use xclipboard With Gnome
    • Solaris Zones Parallel Patching
    • The Key to Live Upgrade Success
    • OpenSolaris 2009.06 Has Been Released
    • Links for 12 May 2009 - 1 Jun 2009
    • Updating to OpenSolaris 2009.06

    May 2009

    • This one made us laugh today: someone made a silly...
    • HB-Cumulus 1.3
    • The Sun Name Will Remain
    • Habari 0.6.1 has just been released. It's only a minor...
    • Oracle Won't Abandon SPARC, Says Ellison
    • SS7000 Simulator On Virtualbox

    April 2009

    • Oooooo, this one slipped out onto the public download servers...
    • Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" Now Available
    • Larry Ellison to Become My New Big Boss
    • Ultra 20 Graphics Card Not Seen OpenSolaris snv_108 and Later
    • HOWTO: Update Ultra 20 BIOS From a USB Stick
    • SSH Attacks Going Strong
    • Habari 0.6 Now Available
    • Links for 25 Mar 2009 - 2 Apr 2009

    March 2009

    • Sun Modular Data Centre In Simulated Earthquake
    • Links for 15 Mar 2009 - 24 Mar 2009
    • HOWTO: Install Habari on Mac OS X Leopard, From Scratch
    • ZSH Prompt Colours in OpenSolaris snv_109 and Later
    • Jonathan Schwartz Lets You Know How Sun Ticks
    • IBM In Talks to Buy Sun - Huh?
    • Links for 13 Feb 2009 - 10 Mar 2009

    February 2009

    • OpenSolaris snv_108 on VirtualBox
    • ZFS 2GB Swap
    • I Got Started with JavaFX
    • 1234567890
    • Links for 29 Jan 2009 - 12 Feb 2009
    • HB-Cumulus 1.2
    • Windows 7 On VirtualBox
    • OpenSolaris Now Available for SPARC
    • Mercurial Precommit Isn't Entirely "Pre"
    • Cracking 4096-bit RSA Encryption

    January 2009

    • Links for 6 Jan 2009 - 29 Jan 2009
    • IPv6 Vulnerability in Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris
    • OpenSolaris on Distrowatch
    • Project Crossbow Now Available for OpenSolaris
    • The New Macbook Wheel
    • Effect of Noise on Disk Performance

    December 2008

    • HB-Cumulus 1.1
    • Toshiba To ship OpenSolaris
    • Links for 12 Dec 2008 - 24 Dec 2008
    • OpenSolaris Gets Terminator
    • NetBeans 6.5 is a Great PHP IDE
    • Announcing HB-Cumulus 1.0
    • Links for 2 Dec 2008 - 8 Dec 2008
    • OpenSolaris 2008.11 is Now Available
    • Links for 14 Nov 2008 - 1 Dec 2008

    November 2008

    • OpenSolaris 2008.11 RC2
    • Don't Use SXCE Build 102
    • 64-bit Flash Player For Linux - Why?
    • Links for 3 Nov 2008 - 10 Nov 2008
    • Sun is Changing Storage Forever
    • OpenSolaris 2008.11 Release Candidate
    • ZFS Developers Have a L33T Sense of Humour
    • Links for 14 Oct 2008 - 1 Nov 2008
    • Solaris 10 10/08 (aka Update 6) is Now Available

    October 2008

    • Growing a ZFS Root Pool
    • New 24" iMac on Order
    • OpenOffice 3.0 for Mac PPC
    • Links for 12 Oct 2008 - 14 Oct 2008

    September 2008

    • Mapping Sun Keyboard Shortcuts in Opera
    • HOWTO: Migrate a UFS Root Filesystem to ZFS
    • Links for 18 Sep 2008 - 24 Sep 2008
    • Update OpenSolaris to Build 97
    • Links for 3 Sep 2008 - 11 Sep 2008
    • HOWTO: Setup Habari Multi-Site on Joyent
    • Links for 12 Aug 2008 - 3 Sep 2008
    • Quick Tip: If you've got a badly behaving application that...
    • Google Chrome: A New Open Source Browser

    August 2008

    • SQL Injection Attack
    • Solaris Teaches Good Grammar Too
    • ludelete of BE Holding GRUB on Solaris x86 Fixed
    • Following a comment received the other day, I've added examples...
    • Blastwave: What a Shame

    July 2008

    • Local Shared Object: Flash Cookies You Didn't Know About
    • Links for 1 Jul 2008 - 30 Jul 2008
    • Habari 0.5 Released
    • Happy SysAdmin Appreciation Day
    • Install Habari on Joyent
    • Update OpenSolaris To Build 93 (aka Preview of 2008.11)
    • Outage = My Bad
    • purple-remote Now in Nevada Build 93
    • Make Your Mac Sing
    • HOWTO: Fix "ORA-27102: out of memory" Error on Solaris 10

    June 2008

    • I can say I am now a Sun Certified System...
    • Links for 19 May 2008 - 19 Jun 2008
    • Got more news on Firefox 3 for OpenSolaris. Contributed builds...
    • It's Firefox 3 Download Day
    • OpenSolaris snv_90 Update Pain Free
    • OpenSolaris Update to Build 90

    May 2008

    • Links for 30 Apr 2008 - 14 May 2008
    • Well, I'm on my way to contributing to Habari and...
    • Solaris Live Upgrade and Patches
    • OpenSolaris 2008.05

    April 2008

    • Solaris 10 5/08 Live Upgrade Gotcha
    • Links for 10 Apr 2008 - 29 Apr 2008
    • Already Starting to Help on Habari
    • Habari: First Impressions
    • Update on Wordpress Autoload Option Experimentation
    • Experimenting with Wordpress Option Autoloading
    • Wordpress is a Memory Hog
    • Firebug for Firefox 3

    March 2008

    • I was a little slow on the uptake, but Wordpress...
    • lildude.co.uk is now running on Wordpress 2.5 RC2. Hopefully this...
    • Links for 21 Mar 2008 - 25 Mar 2008
    • Time to Live By The Seat of My Pants
    • Links for 5 Mar 2008 - 12 Mar 2008
    • phpSmug 1.0.10 and 1.1.7 Now Available
    • MySQL Preferences Pane on OS X Leopard
    • Links for 20 Feb 2008 - 1 Mar 2008

    February 2008

    • Synergy On Solaris
    • Fixed a tiny typo I made by including an extra...
    • I've updated phpSmug to improve the caching and to take...
    • HOWTO: Setup Your Own OpenID Provider
    • lildude.co.uk Now Takes OpenIDs
    • OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 on VirtualBox
    • Links for 1 Feb 2008 - 14 Feb 2008
    • I forgot to take into account the ImageKey returned by...
    • I've updated phpSmug to support the new security features introduced....

    January 2008

    • I've been meaning to sort this out for ages, but...
    • Links for 13 Jan 2008 - 27 Jan 2008
    • Sun to Buy MySQL
    • MacBook Air
    • Links for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008
    • I've just updated the 1.0.x and 1.1.x branches of phpSmug...

    December 2007

    • I've just updated to jEdit to jEdit 4.3-pre12 and wow,...
    • Compiling Devilspie 0.22 on OpenSolaris/Nevada
    • I've updated the example.php file in the phpSmug 1.0.x to...
    • Moving Time
    • Apple Smugness
    • HOWTO: Create a ZFS Filesystem OS X Leopard

    November 2007

    • It seems there is a packaging bug in the current...
    • Time Machine is Missing a Trick
    • I was going to provide details for compiling GAIM 2...
    • Finder Hang After Leopard Upgrade
    • Bye Cisco VPNClient, Hello Shimo
    • Links for 9 Nov 2007 - 22 Nov 2007
    • HMRC: Ideal Candidate for Sunray
    • Playing With Safari 3
    • Dell to Offer Solaris & Support
    • Links for 18 Oct 2007 - 7 Nov 2007
    • First Milestone of Project Indiana Now Available

    October 2007

    • GMail via IMAP So Far
    • NetApp Getting it With Both Barrels
    • Gmail Gets IMAP Support
    • phpSmug 1.1.1 Now Available
    • Links for 28 Sep 2007 - 13 Oct 2007
    • I've made a small update to phpSmug by changing the...
    • HOWTO: Convert MySQL RC Script to SMF Service
    • phpSmug: Hello World

    September 2007

    • Links for 11 September 2007 - 27 September 2007
    • Autoload Objects in PHP5
    • SXDE 9/07 Now Available
    • I've finally updated my ZFS cheatsheet to reflect all the...
    • Opera 9.5 Alpha Niggles
    • QuickTip: You can find full details on configuring the MySQL...
    • HOWTO: Dynamically Set IPFilter Rules for RPC Services
    • Links for 9 August 2007 - 6 September 2007
    • Patent Trolls At NetApp
    • Solaris 10 8/07 (aka update 4) is Now Available.
    • HOWTO: Build and Install E17 on Solaris 10

    August 2007

    • Sys Admin Magazine Ceases Publication
    • JAVA Ticker Not Going Down Well
    • Bye SUNW, Hello JAVA
    • New Solaris Installer Now Generally Available
    • IBM To Distribute Solaris
    • Sun's UltraSPARC T2 is Here
    • Links for 3 August 2007
    • GPL vs CDDL, Again
    • Links for 19 July 2007 - 2 August 2007

    July 2007

    • Sun Micro Posts a PROFIT
    • Sun Device Detection Tool 1.1
    • Watch this space at 13:00 Pacific Time (20:00 GMT) for...
    • Thunderbird May Be Set Free
    • Yahoo's YSlow Plugin
    • Links for 9 July 2007 - 18 July 2007
    • New Solaris Installer Coming Soon
    • The Latest Java Flaw
    • HOWTO: Patch Solaris 10 Wanboot Miniroot Image
    • Links for 29 May 2007 - 7 July 2007

    June 2007

    • This is a good example of an unprofessional rant and...
    • Safari on Windows
    • You know open source software has got to be good...

    May 2007

    • HOWTO: Multi-boot Solaris, RHEL, SLES and Nevada
    • HOWTO: Change Wordpress Table Prefix
    • Links for 17 May 2007 - 25 May 2007
    • Mails Queueing in MSP only Mode
    • On the Road to Ruby on Rails
    • Starting Ruby on Rails
    • Links for 9 May 2007 - 13 May 2007
    • HOWTO: Disable NFSv4 on RedHat Enterprise Linux 4
    • NFSv4 On Linux is Broken
    • As I mentioned earlier when this whole AACS key issue...
    • ZFS: Rampant Layering Violation
    • Links for 25 April 2007 - 5 May 2007
    • Network.com Open to the World
    • Most Newsworthy 16 Digit Number

    April 2007

    • WU-FTPD Files and Directories With Spaces
    • Links for 14 April 2007 - 23 April 2007
    • Sun Announces Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers
    • Links for 9 April 2007 - 13 April 2007
    • E17 Running on Solaris 10
    • Links for 1 April 2007 - 8 April 2007
    • Why oh why is Wordpress to pedantic about it's plugins?...
    • Wordpress 2.1.3 Breaks is_home()

    March 2007

    • New Direction for Sun Security Blog
    • Hardware Upgrade
    • Oooo, look who's joining Sun. I didn't see that one...
    • Adobe Flash 9 For Solaris
    • HOWTO: Add and Use a Tape Drive in a Zone
    • It looks like Microsoft's Vista is hitting rejection from a...
    • New DST Comes Into Effect This Weekend
    • Solaris Trusted Extensions vs RHEL5's LSPP
    • Sun is taking a leaf out of Ubuntu's book and...

    February 2007

    • Today, 24 February 2007, marks the 25th birthday of Sun...
    • Patchadd Dry Run
    • No GPLv3 OpenSolaris, For Now
    • Sun Optimised AMP Stack
    • One of the comments on Slashdot for the Solaris Telnet...
    • Telnet/login Vuln in Solaris 10/OpenSolaris. Disable Telnet NOW!!
    • :after CSS Property For IMG Tag
    • Windows Vista Speech Remote Exploit Bug

    January 2007

    • Migrating from iPhoto to iView Media Pro
    • Sun Shares Jump Follow Profit Announcement
    • IP Instances Integrated into Nevada
    • HOWTO: Create a Solaris 10 RAM Disk Image
    • Well, that didn't take long. Just the other day Linden...
    • HOWTO: Disable Timeout Alert in Lightning/WCAP Extension

    December 2006

    • OpenSolaris Community Will Beat Linux in 2007
    • Merry Christmas
    • My Answers to Outstanding OpenSolaris Questions
    • Solaris 10 has completed its Common Criteria evaluation at EAL...
    • Sceptical about Running Your Business on OpenSolaris?
    • ISVs Want Solaris-like Consistency in Linux
    • Download Solaris 10 11/06 Now
    • Some people have far too much time... some guy has...
    • Solaris 10 Just Got Better
    • 1st Class WiFi Support in Solaris
    • Google Oops

    November 2006

    • Free Solaris 10 and Sun Studio Software Media Kit
    • DARPA Carelessly Hands out Cash to IBM & Cray
    • Firefox Gives Away Passwords for Free
    • Is this a hint at things to come following the...
    • Java.net Now Active - Go Get OpenJDK
    • Java is Now Open Source
    • Vista Won't Need Anti-Virus
    • Someone's got a good sense of humour. How's this for...
    • Lildude.co.uk is now being hosted on TextDrive. The transfer was...
    • Microsoft Befriending Linux
    • Moving to TextDrive

    October 2006

    • Trusted Extensions Developers Guide Out Now
    • Microsoft Get Serious on Password Security
    • Free Website Monitoring With mon.itor.us
    • Site5 is Run By Children
    • Jonathan Schwartz has answered a stack of the common questions...
    • vold is Dead
    • Look what may be coming to a Solaris release near...
    • More Project Blackbox
    • Data Centre In A Box
    • Novell and Red Hat have concrete plans to build "container"...
    • Improve Thunderbird Filters
    • YouTube Sale: An Old Cliché
    • Sun Back In Supercomputers
    • Woohoo! I'm going to save myself a bomb - I've...

    September 2006

    • I Broke Google
    • Apparently Google is Testing OpenSolaris. Just imagine the rate OpenSolaris...
    • ZFS Cheatsheet
    • Cooliris Plugin
    • Confused by the incompatibility between CDDL and GPL? Well check...
    • The Most Secure OS in the World
    • Sun Rocked Last Quarter

    August 2006

    • Yup, it's true. Sun has boughtHewlett and Packard for $6000...
    • Ben Rockwood has a great write up on getting, the...
    • It's the 25th birthday of the IBM Compatible PC today....
    • Cooool. Mac OS X Leopard will have DTrace built into...
    • Now this has some potential if initiated correctly. Jim Connors...
    • RedHat Kernel Crash Dumps
    • Outage This Morning

    July 2006

    • Just my luck, the weekend I'm working, Bloglines decide they...
    • Tags
    • Joyent Love ZFS
    • HOWTO: Compile GAIM On Solaris 10
    • Akismet .htaccess Extension
    • Wooohoooo... it looks like Sun Microsystems is getting back on...
    • Sun is Pushing OpenOffice in Redmond
    • Ooops, looks like Fish weren't too happy with a recent...
    • I was quite pleased to find out that the protocol...
    • Thumper From Sun is A Beast
    • Debugging Wordpress
    • Upgrade Your Old Solaris 2.6 Systems Now!
    • Linux Troll Attempts to Debunk ZFS

    June 2006

    • Woohooo!!! Sun has finally made it into the top 10...
    • 10 People Who Don't Matter
    • HOWTO: Prevent Sendmail From Using DNS
    • My First OS X Panic
    • ZFS is Now Officially Available
    • Since 2003 Denmark has been issuing "free digital signatures" to...
    • OpenSolaris Now Secure By Default.
    • Don't Force Network Links, Auto-Negotiate
    • Fyodor (writer of nmap) has done it again. He's asked...
    • Happy 1st Birthday OpenSolaris
    • Welcome To My Tech Stuff
    • HP's Server Require Jet Engines for Cooling
    • Google Browser Sync

    May 2006

    • Oooh, looks like Google is cooking up something new -...

    December 2005

    • What do All the Services on Solaris 10 do?

    August 2005

    • HOWTO: Customise Thunderbird Date Format

    July 2005

    • Compiling Devilspie 0.10 on Solaris 10

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