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“Security” issues

“Security” issuesPoor programming and poor programmers.Software producers have convinced everyone it is the nature of software to have security problems. Why has the world bought that scenario? I still say that software companies need to be held financially accountable for the damages their software causes its users. Microsoft should have...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, security, SunOS 5.10

Discussion threads 2009-01-26

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Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player;

Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player;Bye, MySQL nt.RE: Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player;Its altogether different area and will not be very easy for Oracle to go thorugh entire integration process. I hope Oracle keeps its focus in what it does...

Tags: Programming languages, OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Now Let, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., hardware, Oracle-buys-Sun, hardware player, Java, MySQL, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

A plea for open source help

A plea for open source helpYes - butYes Drupal could do this (and I think bugzilla might be adaptable, but don't know how hard that would be) - and so could cocoon.However: I don't think this guy is looking for a development project (and if he were, I'd think about...

Tags: open source, Drupal, open source help, Bugzilla

Discussion threads 2009-03-25

Researchers demo BIOS attack that survives hard-disk wipe

Researchers demo BIOS attack that survives hard-disk wipeI wonder if EFI can be infected?This sounds like a pretty nasty problemlet's hope antivirus vendors find a way to defend bios.RE: Researchers demo BIOS attack that survives hard-disk wipeThe BIOS can be flasheddoes that fix it?Abut Linux is secureThey could not infect...

Tags: BIOS, BIOS attack, hard drive, attack

Discussion threads 2009-03-23

Taking notes on your Linux laptop

Taking notes on your Linux laptopNo, but certainly part of the MS enabled ecosystem.His post reads exactly as someone who is desperate to downplay Linux while espousing that the only "real" software is Windows based. Be a shame if any of those kids wanted to learn web technologies though,...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Taking Notes, Linux laptop, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-03-12

HP to distribute Sun's Solaris on its Proliant servers

HP to distribute Sun's Solaris on its Proliant serversI'm looking to move away from Solaris.I'm a big Sun guy. I own a number of Sparc and x86 Sun servers running Solaris. However a bug in patch 139139-07 (released in 11/2008) has resulted in a situation where the boot archive becomes...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Patches, HP Compaq ProLiant, Hewlett-Packard Co., server, HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., file system, patch

Discussion threads 2009-02-25

Second guessing at 3AM

Second guessing at 3AMIt's 3 AM...A crisis is happening somewhere in the world. It's 3 AM, and a phone is ringing at the White House. Who do you want answering that phone?...Couldn't resist. :)hey murph here a conceptDeep down inside what your guts telling you.This morning when you...

Tags: Roman

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Linux, cheap PCs and the effect this will have on Microsoft

Linux, cheap PCs and the effect this will have on MicrosoftWell I guess it depends on where the numbers are from..and what does about 2% drop mean in real numbers, which is what it appears has happened to Microsoft. And Mac has gained almost 1.5%.Any numbers on how well (or...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-12-10

Linux, cheap PCs and the effect this will have on Microsoft

Over the weekend a few regulars sent me a link to an article on DesktopLinux.com which looked at the effect that cheap Linux-powered desktop PCs would have on Microsoft.  Should Microsoft fear the cheap PC revolution?  Personally, I don't think so. First, let's set a framework for...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, PC, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-12-10

IBM's Linux contributions

When Joe Barr got his first look inside IBM's Linux Technology Center LTC back in early 2001 he got pretty gung ho about the wonders this would bring to Linux. Some excerpts: I began to see the LTC not just as a cool thing happening in my...

Tags: Expansion, IBM Linux, IBM Corp., LTC, Frye, LTC Team, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-10-12

The state of Unix

The state of UnixHistory strikes once againThe problem seems to me to be the fact that Solaris has primarily been a server OS running on dedicated hardware. Linux has, for some years now, been available as a desktop OS running on general hardware.That difference is enough to explain the difference...

Tags: Operating systems, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Open Solaris, Torvalds, Stallman, Torvolds, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, operating system, Unix

Discussion threads 2007-06-18

Sun hopes for Linux-like Solaris

Sun hopes for Linux-like SolarisWhat I find interesting isthat the "experts" say that Solaris need to be more Linux like to gain market. Aren't these the same guys that have a fit if you say Linux needs to be more Windows like to gain market???Going with Sun IMO would...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Linux, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-09

Rocks, Light, and SunOS 3.1

Rocks, Light, and SunOS 3.1Piggie Pirates!will ruin your dream by spreading MUD much uncertainty and doubt all over it.What has ever become of the Sun and M$ "partnership"? M$ had a golden opportunity to use Solaris in the Xbox360 while "stitching in" their desktop (similar to OS/X and the mac...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Operating systems, UNIX, Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., Intel x86, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-09-06

Rocks, Light, and SunOS 3.1

Last Wednesday I had one of those headaches that result in too much aspirin and an overwhelming need to sit the four year old in front of the automated babysitter pretty much no matter what's on. In this case an episode of Dora the Explora; followed, in his case...

Tags: SunOS 3.1, Sun Solaris, Mb/s

Blog posts 2006-09-06

McNealy pitches Solaris to HP's Hurd

McNealy pitches Solaris to HP's HurdMcNealy = New and slow, Hurd = fast and outdatedHP's philosophy behind HP-UX is wildly different from Solaris. Whereas Solaris and more UNIXes try for common code bases across multiple CPUs - for ease of development, HP-UX "micromanages" most code to put kernel calls in...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Processors, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Itanium

Discussion threads 2006-03-02

Media response to ZFS

Two weeks ago I blogged about the media's unthinking response to an uninformed and ungrammatical Sun press release announcing the Niagara (or UltraSPARC T1) CPU. Sometime later that drew a response from a senior non Sun analyst I frequently exchange email with. Here's part of what he said: Perhaps...

Tags: ZFS, Sun Solaris, file system

Blog posts 2005-11-29

And they said 'WebOffice' couldn't be done..

And they said 'WebOffice' couldn't be done..Supposedly Microsoft....Supposedly Microsoft has also linux versions of some of their software (Office, SQL) running in their labs, there is just no incentive of releasing this yet since they want to sell their OS but when more people switch to linux I am sure...

Tags: Call centers, Help Desk Calls, server, help desk

Discussion threads 2005-11-09

Sun tries $50 million image makeover

Sun tries $50 million image makeoverAdvertising, branding, marketing, moneyWill that help restore a tarnished image? All the fine work Sun's done has been drowned out by naysayers from the open source collaborants from HP and IBM to the closed boxes at MicroSoft and Dell. Aside from the economy and insider...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating systems, MORE COMPETITION, Sun Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Java

Discussion threads 2005-05-31

Schwartz to IBM: Don't lock us out

Schwartz to IBM: Don't lock us outHelp me understandThose applications have been around for a while, yes? Presumably Sun has had access to them? Maybe even during the development of Solaris 10?So if those applications weren't important enough for Sun to make sure that SunOS-X supports them, how...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Schwartz, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-01-14

Sun settles with Microsoft, announces layoffs

Sun settles with Microsoft, announces layoffsNo SurpriseSUN real and only value to IT market was/is? Solaris.That is, until the next lawsuit..Any takers on how long it will be until Sun sues MS again?-DB in 2004In other news...We'll probably hear that Sun has opened up a 3300 employee center in India...The...

Tags: Programming languages, Operating systems, Application servers, Middleware, Microsoft .NET, layoff, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Java, Unix

Discussion threads 2004-04-02