• Records tumble in Proteas' win - Ooo, that's got to have hurt Bangladesh. They were savaged by South Africa • Researchers discover gene that blocks HIV - Looks promising if it turns out to be a viable option for the future. • Low-tech Magazine: A world without trucks - Some Western…
• Solaris Features: Service Management Facility - A great introductory tutorial on Solaris 10's "Service Management Facility" (SMF). • PIN Entry Device (PED) vulnerabilities - So Chip And PIN is not quite a secure as the banks would have you believe, and something as simple as not trying to save a …
I spent most of this week upgrading all the software on my work machine and in the process went through the laborious steps up recompiling Gaim. I started with some instructions provided on one of the internal pages here at work and got Gaim 1.5.0 to build successfully, and then went on to build Gaim 2.0.0 Beta 1.
Yesterday, Sun released build 27 OpenSolaris out into the wild for all to download. This release brings another world first, and a change in the way sysadmins manage their storage, for this release now includes ZFS - the filesystem that WILL change the world. Say "Good-bye" to the days of fsck, silent data corruption and pain-in-the-arse over-complicated storage admin (ala …
Seems OpenSolaris is gaining a lot of popularity since Sun made is public and now there's a new distro called Nexenta OS which is a GNU/Solaris install instead of a GNU/Linux install. For those that aren't too techie minded - when you hear someone talking about Linux, they are actually refering to GNU/Linux. This is an operating system made up …
Cool, a new LiveCD distro based on OpenSolaris is available - BeleniX. This is pretty much the same idea behind all the Linux LiveCD distros like Knoppix, just with OpenSolaris as the underlying kernel.
A quick tip for all Solaris 10/OpenSolaris users... some companies have a strict requirement to know exactly what each and every startup script does on their system. With releases of Solaris 9 and earlier, one would check the rc scripts. This is time consuming and may not give an accurate description or one liner. Solaris 10/OpenSolaris makes things much easier...
Here's a good write up on how to configure Solaris 10 to use NAT (with ipfilter) in the global zone to filter traffic to the private interfaces in the non-global zones.
Yesterday, I finally got myself on the path to OpenSolaris. I spent a fair part of my day off sorting out my home PC so I could install the latest release of Solaris Express (Solaris 11 snv_19). This is needed as a base to which I'll eventually build OpenSolaris.
The process was pretty painless, which was surprising as I was expecting…
