• 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…
Woohoo!!! Sun's shares have cracked $5 for the first time in a long time. Currently trading at $5.06. Lets hope things keep going up and we'll see $10 in no time.
In testing the new Sun Fire T2000 and Solaris 10 zones, a user attempted to see if they could break a zone to see if it would break the whole machine. Essentially, the user followed the "Solaris Containers Consolidating Servers and Applications" guide and ...
• Created pset0 with min and max of 1 cpu • Created pool0 and added the…
Searchopensource.com published a good story about how Linux was used to send the NASA Rover to Mars. This was picked up very quickly by people on one of the internal aliases due to the following excerpt:
"Our personal view is that Linux, period, is only for the desktop. We don't run our main servers on Linux, because there are too many…
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 …
