QNX (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
"There is a discussion at osnews.com about a simple question: "Should ZFS Have a fsck Tool?". The answer is simple: No. I could stop now, as this answer is pretty obvious when you work a while with ZFS, but i want to explain my position. And i want to ask a different question at the end."
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
SignaCert was one of the first whitelisting products available, and it now boasts more than 1 billion predefined file signatures as part of its Global Trust Repository service. It also offers file authenticity ratings, wide platform support, extensibility through XML, and excellent documentation. SignaCert's significant weakness is that it does not natively block file executions -- the only product...
grep answers unix (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Operating System: Solaris 10 (Generic_139555-08 on Sun v240) non-global zone Error keywords seen: ssh: connect to host 10.210.33.12 port 22: Connection refused Nov 3 11:19:57 myzone inetd[2081]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Unable to read debug property from config property group. scf_simple_prop_get() failed: entity not found Nov 3 11:19:57 myzone inetd[2081]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Property 'connection_backlog'...
QNX (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
ZFS has received built-in deduplication. "Deduplication is the process of eliminating duplicate copies of data. Dedup is generally either file-level, block-level, or byte-level. Chunks of data - files, blocks, or byte ranges - are checksummed using some hash function that uniquely identifies data with very high probability. Chunks of data are remembered in a table of some sort that maps the data's...
QNX (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
One of the advantages of ZFS is that it doesn't needs a fsck. Replication, self-healing and scrubbing are a much better alternative. After a few years of ZFS life, can we say it was a correct decision? The reports in the mailing list are a good indicative of what happens in the real world, and it appears that once again, reality beats theory. The author of the article analyzes the implications of not...
pro-dz (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
VLC Media Player 1.0.3 Multilanguage Portable | 15.12 Mb The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-platform multimedia player, VLC media player, which...
OS Galaxy (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
News is popping up that will interest those interested in the Sun/Oracle deal. I've made peace with Jonathan Schwartz but those who haven't will no doubt love to bash on his pay. The first data I've seen in a while comes fresh from the AP: Sun CEO's pay package cut by a third in '09 . According to the article, his 2008FY compensation was $11.1 Million, and it looks like 2009FY will come in at only...
TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
VMware Workstation is powerful virtualization software for software developers/testers and enterprise IT professionals that runs multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC. Users can run Windows, Linux, NetWare, or Solaris x86 in fully networked, portable virtual machines - no rebooting or hard drive partitioning required. VMware Workstation delivers excellent performance and advanced...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
With revenue down slightly during its latest fiscal quarter, Symantec said Wednesday that it was starting to see some stabilization in enterprise spending. Symantec reported revenue of US$1.48 billion for its second fiscal quarter, which ended Oct. 2. That was ahead of the consensus analyst estimate recorded by Thomson Reuters, but down 3 percent from the same quarter a year ago. Excluding charges,...
Smart Card Alliance (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
PIV smart card middleware and is first to be validated with NIST SP 800-73-2 specification Peculiar, Missouri, USA, Munich, Germany, 27 October 2009 –charismathics, a global leader in IT security components and smart card middleware, announced today that the National Institute of Standards and Technology has certified the charismathics CSSI PIV Middleware as FIPS 201 compliant. CSSI is the first...
the How-To Geek (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
So you’ve upgraded your XP to Windows 7, Linux, or Mac OS X and decided to keep using Windows XP in a Virtual Machine so you can run those old, incompatible applications that don’t work anymore on your platform. So why does XP look so awful in a VM? The problem is most likely because ClearType is not enabled by default when you setup Windows in a virtual machine. For example, take a look...
eWeek (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
In a white paper, Sun officials tout the work they and Intel have done over the past two years in ensuring that Solaris works seamlessly with Intels Nehalem chip microarchitecture. Intel officials have said they expect server powered by the eight-core Nehalem EX processor will begin appearing on the market in early 2010. Solaris has been to take advantage of the various power, cooling, virtualization...
the How-To Geek (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Sometimes you need a word processing application but not an entire office suite. Today we take a look at AbiWord which is a free word processor for all three major OS platforms. Using AbiWord During installation make sure to associate it with doc and RTF files if you want to be able to open up Word documents from others. From here you can also scroll down in the components window and select from several...
DV Hardware (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
In late August we started asking our readers for any questions they had for NVIDIA about Linux and this graphics company's support of open-source operating systems. Twelve pages worth of questions were accumulated and we finally have the answers to a majority of them. NVIDIA's Andy Ritger, who leads the user-space side of the NVIDIA UNIX Graphics Driver team for workstation, desktop, and notebook...
Techlog (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
The cross platform management packs help you manage your cross platform computers as part of your Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 infrastructure. The cross platform management packs alerts you to problems with components such as agents and services so that you can continuously monitor the servers and clients on which your business depends. AIX Management Pack Guide HP-UX Management...
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