Walkthrough to Opensolaris 2008.05 RC2
You can download a test image of Opensolaris 2008.05 Release Candidate 2 (the distro formerly and still better known as Indiana). It starts to look really good. Just to give...
Phoronix reviews Opensolaris 2008.05
A really positive review of the upcoming Opensolaris 2008.05 release at phoronix - OpenSolaris 2008.05 Gives A New Face To Solaris: Sun Microsystems still has some work to do in...
solaristutorials.org
As the old link to the list of my tutorials was a little bit long and hard to remember, i had to change this. All tutorials are available at solaristutorials.org...
Probleme des anderen Geschlechts
Als Mann hat man es ja relativ einfach, was die Ausstattung mit Bekleidung angeht. Farbliche Bemalung der Haut findet nicht statt, jedenfalls bei einem Grossteil der Männerwelt. Ausserdem ist das...
Ksplice
Interesting concept: Ksplice: Rebootless Linux kernel security updates. As long a patch doesn´t change data structures in the kernel, ksplice can update a running kernel. Ksplice allows system administrators to...
Automated exploit generation
A really interesting article about Automatic Patch-Based Exploit Generation: Attackers can simply wait for a patch to be released, use these techniques, and with reasonable chance, produce a working exploit...
Milax 0.3
The Opensolaris distribution Milax 0.3 was released yesterday: MilaX is a small size Live CD distribution which runs completely off a CD or a USB pendrive. It is based on...
Practical Dtrace
Ben Rockwood shows in the blog of his company, how dtrace can help you to find bottlenecks in a fast an efficient manner: DTrace, MySQL, Ganglia, and Digging for Solutions</blockquote>...
Less Known Solaris features: fssnap
An ever reoccuring problem while doing backups is the problem, that you have to keep the state of the backup consistent. For example: You use the cyrus imapd for storing...
Signal
OSnews about Solaris Filesystems
OSNews published a good and positive article about the filesystem choices at Opensolaris - Solaris Filesystem Choices: True, some of these features can be found in any enterprise-ready UNIX OS....
links for 2008-04-22
Modifying and Respinning a Bootable Solaris ISO Image (tags: Solaris ISO) Gary Voth Photography: The Forgotten Lens About 50mm lenses (tags: photography) BigAdmin Feature Article: Patch Management Best Practices (tags:...
Solaris as a storage OS
Otmar Meier of otmanix.de wrote a nice summary of all the features in Solaris making it a good choice for storage systems: Solaris als Storageserver. Sorry, it´s in german, but...
What people think about necrophiliacs?
(found via graphjam. Thanks to Chris for the tip)
An Google Ad too far on Facebook
I can´t remember, that i allowed Facebook to advertise on Google Search pages with my name. When i search for “Jörg Möllenkamp”, this Google Ad appeared: I´ve tried the same...
Jupiter
Official informations about UltraSPARC VII aka Jupiter is a little bit sparse at the moment, but a look at Opensolaris and opensolaris.org yields some interesting informations. Bob Hueston collected the...
links for 2008-04-21
Gerhards' Weblog: Amazing easy - Solaris 10 as iSCSI target (tags: iSCSI Solaris)
Mysql and Sun
I planed to write an article about this “Sun will close the source of Mysql” nonsense. Alec Muffet summarizes the real story of this Enterprise/Community Edition discussion on his blog...
links for 2008-04-20
BigAdmin Feature Article: Sun Java System Directory Server 6.0 as an LDAP Naming Service: Part 1 -- Installation and Configuration (tags: ldap solaris sysadmin tutorial sun howto directory) Bringing identity...
Kampnagel
Nicht nur eine Theather- und Zappelbude: