Slideuments
Interesting article about the spreading nuisance to generate Powerpoint Presentations consisting out of several slides for topics easily summarizeable in a few sentences: Toyota chief: refrain from using PowerPoint. The...
5 Million Downloads
Virtualbox was downloaded 5 million times in one and a half year. At the moment Virtualbox 1.6 gets downloaded 10000 times a day. Virtualbox isn´t an everyday usage product like...
Mission critical
You need a good explanation for the word “mission critical” for you manager and an example, why redundancy is a good thing? Okay … i have one … ISS toilet...
Less known Solaris features: On passwords
The JET tutorial isn´t complete, but shorten the time a little bit for you, i wrote a tutorial about a small but nevertheless important topic - passwords: Part 1: Introduction...
Less known Solaris features: On passwords - Part 4: Conclusion
These are some simple tricks to make your system more secure, just by ensuring that the keys to your server are well-choosen and not simple ones. But as i stated...
Less known Solaris features: On passwords - Part 3: Using a password policy
User have the habit to break any security policy. At least as long you don’t enforce it. One of the most annoying habit from the view of the security people...
Less known Solaris features: On passwords - Part 2: Using stronger password hashing
Many people are unaware of the fact, that only the first eight characters of a password are used in the default configuration of Solaris. Don´t believe it? Let´s try it....
Less known Solaris features: On passwords - Part 1: Introduction
The password is the key to the system. When you know the username and the password, you can use the system. If not … well … go away. You can´t...
Mac OS X 10.5.3 out now
There is a new update for MacOS X 10.5. You find the release notes for 10.5.3 in the Knowledge Base: About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update. And the release...
Solaris Preso in MUC
200 Slides in 45 minutes. And i was only 4 minutes over the time at the end. I wasn´t aware of the fact, that i´m able to speak that fast,...
No blogging or LKSF today ...
… as i´m celebrating my “half of Joergs expected MTBF” birthday this evening… ;)
Elektrolux
Jetzt weiss ich endlich, was damit gemeint ist, wenn gesagt wird, das Geräte von Elektrolux für den A…. wären: Wie Logos wirklich entstehen, könnt ihr hier sehen: Logólogos
On GPUs and CPUs
I assume many of us played a while with raytracing programs at a point of our contact with computers. But i think almost all of us stopped to play with...
747 breaks at start
I didn´t believed, that something like that happens: A freighter 747 starts to take off, pilot rotates the machine, hears a strange sound, aborts the take off and the whole...
links for 2008-05-25
animals on the underground (tags: art cool design funny map web)
Kris erklaert: "Warum root logins boese sind?"
So möchte ich auch mal erklären können: Warum eigentlich ist “PermitRootLogin yes” in sshd_config evil?. Bei Solaris gibt es für solche Zwecke Privileges und RBAC, erklaert in diesem Tutorial: Less...
Debian openssl problem
I´ve suspected in a coffee kitchen discussion with a customer after a presentation a few days ago, that the Debian openssl vulnerability will haunt us for a while and hit...
Infoworld reviews X4150
Paul Venezia of Infoworld tested the Sun Fire X4150 and was quite pleased with the performance - Lab test: Sun’s X4150 shows the beef: All in all, it's a very...
Really early preview of the JET tutorial.
Just to give you an impression of the upcoming JET tutorial i´ve uploaded a really early version of the tutorial. You can download it here. The Jumpstart tutorial starts at...
aviation.c0t0d0s0.org
I will kill of aviation.c0t0d0s0.org in the next few days. I simply didn´t had enough time for a second blogging workflow. I will integrate that special interest blog into the...