Opera just announced the release of Opera 10.10 . This latest version of Opera's desktop browser now includes Opera Unite , the company's browser-based web server. With Unite, users can share photos, music, notes, websites, forums and calendars - but unlike standard web apps, these apps are hosted on the user's computer. When Opera first talked about Unite, it claimed that this service would "reinvent...
Sun and Ashbourne Technology Group are now offering a secure, cost-effective computing solution for educational institutions that can be delivered anytime, anywhere via the Internet -- providing a rich, virtual desktop experience for all leading Operating Systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris to nearly any client device, including Sun Ray thin clients and other platforms...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the availability of a new cloud-based Desktop as a Service for educational institutions. Sun and Ashbourne Technology Group are now offering a secure, cost-effective computing solution delivered anytime, anywhere via the Internet that provides a rich, virtual desktop experience for all leading Operating Systems,...
Ten Things You Can Have for Nothing Freeware caution: always scan free downloads of anything for bugs and other threats before dumping the programs into your hard drive. ALEX Personal Knowledge Base is "a very simple tool to organize your knowledge, notes, ideas and other information" (OS: Windows32/64, Linux32/64, OS X, Solaris, AIX and etc.) Eldy is "the first easy software dedicated...
Lots of folks have switched to Mac, its the most commonly used laptop in the Bay Area now. Sometimes people give me flack for using it, but I'll tell you why I use a Mac laptop: It just works! When going to a client site, a conference, or just a cafe, there is nothing more embarrassing than spending 20 minutes trying to get your l337 *NIX laptop to connect to wireless or properly DHCP or work with...
However, a powerful pair of trends--driven almost as aggressively by Microsoft as by the rest of the industry--are working to expand the viability not only of Linux but of Mac OS X, Solaris and other platforms yet unknown or uninvented: a shift to Web-based applications and WaaR, or Windows as a Runtime. - My review of OpenSUSE 11.2 rounds off another semi-annual check-in with what I regard as the...
Once Upon a Cybercrime… Editor's Note: Wow. 50% of American's do not know what phishing is. That's gonna be a tough hurdle to overcome if banks take the educational vs. elimination approach. Also, make a mental note of the fact that keyboards, keystrokes and typing are almost always depicted in a cybercrime illustration...so when do we start swiping and eliminate typing? Recently ESET commissioned...
Sun Ray Software 5 Debuts New Software Client Enabling Centralized Desktop Access From Windows PCs SANTA CLARA, Calif. November 10, 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the availability of Sun Ray Software 5, which brings remarkable enhancements to the virtual desktop experience and helps to increase data center efficiency. Sun Ray Software 5 is a secure, cost effective solution...
ISLANDIA, N.Y., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA (Nasdaq: CA) today announced CA Encryption Key Manager (CA EKM), a z/OS®-based comprehensive solution that unifies and automates the management, storage, distribution, and documentation of encryption keys for multi-vendor mainframe and distributed environments such as Linux®, UNIX®, Windows® and Solaris®. By doing so, CA EKM can...
CA today unveiled key-management software that helps automate the storage and distribution of encryption keys for multi-vendor tape encryption purposes. Cool new products of the week CA Encryption Key Manager is z/OS-based software (it also runs on Linux, Unix, Windows and Solaris platforms) that can support the IBM TS1120 and TS 1130 tape encryption devices as well as the CA Tape Encryption subsystems...
"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."
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...
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'...
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...
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