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Creating a Centralized Secure Log Server With syslog-ng and Stunnel

This paper covers the installation and configuration of syslog-ng and Stunnel on machines running the Solaris 8 Operating System SPARC Platform Edition, but the procedure also generally applies to older and newer versions of the Solaris OS on both SPARC and x86 platforms. Each of the reference machines discussed comes...

Tags: Sun Solaris 8, Sun Solaris, Tcp/Ip, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Processors, Software, Networking, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components

White papers 2004-09-01

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Ellison rips IBM, shows off Sun-Oracle benchmarks, offers $10M prize

Ellison should have ripped M$ and Inhell tooIBM is less dangerous to the Oracle and the world than M$ and Inhell.RE: Ellison rips IBM, shows off Sun-Oracle benchmarks, offers $10M prizeFairly typical of desperation attempts, use wordsnot real proof through history."Unbreakable"And that one did not turn out too well...Your trolls...

Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, DB2 Databases, Oracle Corp., IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM DB2

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

The! meaning! of! bing!

they're all dyingcan three men dying in a boat save one another, well I guess cannibalism could work.HP: has cut their printer line so much that I have to wait a month to get a printer shipped direct from themIntel: actually the strongest of the bunch, but your right their...

Tags: Backups, PRODUCTIVITY, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-08

Two ActiveX vulnerabilities make IE a toxic choice

Two ActiveX vulnerabilities make IE a toxic choiceDude, you are the man.I just posted this at Ed Botts article.http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12354-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=66708&messageID=1260493Next I hit HOME, and VOILA, see you have just posted what I've been complaining about. GOOD JOB !LOL, let me feed your click-bait[i]I used to be a big fan of IE,...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, toxic choice, ActiveX, ActiveX vulnerability, Mozilla Firefox, vulnerability

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0: Virtual Developer's Delight

Windows 7 Ultimate RC 64-Bit Edition virtualized on Fedora 11, 64-Bit using Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0 With little fanfare, Sun Microsystems released version 3.0 of xVM VirtualBox, the Open Source and multi-platform desktop virtualization tool for Unix, Linux, Windows and Mac. The new...

Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Developer, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenGL 2.0, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Hardware, Virtualization, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-30

OpenSolaris 2009.06: Getting Better All The Time

OpenSolaris 2009.06: Getting Better All The TimeWatch Out Microsoft: Coming at ya from all sides!Nobody can tell me otherwise, OpenSolaris is a thing of beauty--ZFS, ZFS Slider, Dtrace, Containers, GNOME Nimbus interface, xVM Hypervisor LDOMS, and new CrossBar Network Virtualization.There's some serious $hit going on here I wish were in...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, OpenSolaris, OpenSolaris 2009.06, software, Getting Better

Discussion threads 2009-06-07

McAfee: Welcome to the United States of Zombie PCs

McAfee: Welcome to the United States of Zombie PCsWouldn't it be best to inform peopleIf they have zombie PC's in their homes? I mean, it isn't like the ISP's couldn't see that "Hey, this data is shooting to a known zombie PC site.... let's inform the person who uses this...

Tags: Zombie PC, McAfee Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

Oracle: A complete industry in a box

Near the end of this morning's announcement (at 5:30 a.m. Pacific time) of Oracle's lightning acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle co-president Charles Phillips gave a glimpse of what lay in store. The merger of Oracle, with its wide range of database and enterprise software, with Sun, with...

Tags: Hardware, High-performance, Leadership, Management, Operating Systems, Oracle Corp., Servers, Software, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Tools & Techniques

Blog posts 2009-04-20

IBM's potential purchase of Sun: Here's why it makes sense

IBM's potential purchase of Sun: Here's why it makes senseRE: IBM's potential purchase of Sun: Here's why it makes senseMs X Yahoo Version 3.0?Exciting!Wow! This sounds like a great combination. I hope it happens.I don't get it.Lots of blathering about open source, but the thing about open source is that...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., potential purchase, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgrade

Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgradeAnecdotal evidenceThis is the Nth time you use this particular setup of the two 690s as a basis for comparison between AIX/Power and Solaris/Whatever. As stated in another post the problems with that system has nothing to do with AIX but with design.I can counter...

Tags: Blade servers, Databases, Enterprise software, Recruitment & Selection, Storage, PCI, P690, T5440, Oracle Real Application Cluster

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgrade

Lets start with yesterday's low end example: you have a Sun 490 from a few years ago (4 x 1.8Ghz USIV, 16GB, 2 x 146GB) that's still under support. It works, but it's obsolete - and support costs are outrageous: your predecessor signed up for full 24 x 7 Gold...

Tags: Stored Procedure, Disk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sybase Inc., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-04

Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgrade

Lets start with yesterday's low end example: you have a Sun 490 from a few years ago (4 x 1.8Ghz USIV, 16GB, 2 x 146GB) that's still under support. It works, but it's obsolete - and support costs are outrageous: your predecessor signed up for full 24 x 7 Gold...

Tags: Stored Procedure, Disk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sybase Inc., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-04

Some general considerations for small systems change

Let's assume a scenario under which the older system you're thinking about upgrading is relatively small, support costs are high, and you can't obviously transfer its workload to some other, larger, machine with adequate idle capacity. Specifically, lets assume you have a Sun 490 from a few...

Tags: Risk, Staffing, Vulnerability, Intel X86, Tolerance, Sun Sparc, Unix Skill, Linux, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Processors, Operating Systems, Security, Open Source, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-03

Upgrading older systems

Upgrading older systemseBay "support"At FORD, we had many legacy machines in differing states of "decay". One was a NVH (Noice/Vehicle Harmonics) platform - which consisted of a specialty input card (ISA bus?) that connected hundreds of different sensors on a vehicle to check noise levels. A new card was pretty...

Tags: T5440, P550, Sun Microsystems Inc., P690, older system, Upgrading, Ford Motor Co., eBay Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-03-02

News to know: Congress; Newser; Apple; VMware; High-speed rail

Harry Fuller: Confronting Congressional hypocrisy The U.S. is losing it Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Newser Versus The New York Times, Revisited: Who's Copying Whom? Andrew Nusca: Apple director: 'no change' in Jobs' plans Sam Diaz: No Twitter blasts...

Tags: Google Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, U.S. Congress, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Sam Diaz, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Cloud Computing, E-mail Providers, Strategy, Hardware, Internet, Management

Blog posts 2009-02-26

Windows Vs. Red Chief

Windows Vs. Red ChiefGood one....Now do Linux. Oh, that's right. Linux doesn't tell you what's wrong. It just sits there waiting for you to try something else...and something else...until you get it right. RE: Windows Vs. Red ChiefThat is one of the worst blog posts I...

Tags: Blogging, Operating systems, blog, L'unix, Red Chief, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-02-25

Everybody loves virtualization

Everybody loves virtualizationOne of my pet peevesVirtualization is useful for testing and development environments. It makes no sense whatsoever for production environments.UNIX has a very nice scheduler that is built to handle hundreds/thousands of processes at a time. It automatically doles out CPU and memory and I/O resources. It has...

Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Utility computing, Operating systems, UNIX, virtualization, Sun Solaris, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

Migrating From Solaris 9 Enterprise on Sun Fire V440 With Bind 8.3.3 to Solaris 10 Enterprise on Dell PowerEdge R900 With Bind 9.3.5-P1

The Dell PowerEdge R900 is an excellent server for upgrading critical Domain Name Service DNS servers from BIND 8 running on Solaris 9 to BIND 9 running on Solaris 10. This Migration Guide reviews the approach that Principled Technologies PT and Dell recommend for a tested and validated migration of...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Sun Solaris 9, Sun Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems Inc., BIND, Sun Fire, Dell PowerEdge, Principled Technologies, Dell PowerEdge R900, Sun Solaris, Domain Names, Servers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Hardware

White papers 2009-02-10

Sun rise or Sun set?

Sun rise or Sun set?Sun's gradual demiseNot that I think that Sun is going to die, necessarily, but it has experienced a huge demise from what it what it once was - a huge hardware company that got huge on super expensive big iron servers. At one time, Sun...

Tags: Linux, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-01-29

First look - Internet Explorer 8 RC1

First look - Internet Explorer 8 RC1Still no Speel checkWell it looks like theey still didnt add speel check to IE8. That was one of the main feetures that keeps me in firefox.I do like that it is quite a bit faster than previous versions of IE. Also some of...

Tags: Web browsers, IE8, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8 RC1, Internet Explorer 8, First Look, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-01-27