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Webmin going into Solaris!

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It has been approved for Webmin to go into Solaris 10. Webmin is a nice web based tool which let's you configure and administrate a system, over the web. I was shown a demo of this and it's very nice, and it will be a very nice addition to Solaris x86 and Solaris SPARC.

Sun is really changing the way they do things, and things are clipping along at the speed of light! Congrats to those that worked through the process of getting this software included in Solaris. Look for it on the Companion CD for Solaris 10

( Sep 05 2004, 11:27:48 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [3]

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Hi, Hmmm, that mathematic's question *was* hard. Then again, who's to say somebody won't write an AI bot to parse human language and bypass it? Still, why would somebody that smart bother spamming on a blog. Then again, for all you know, I could be an AI =). Great to see webmin going in - will it be in the next build of Sol Express? Speaking of which, do you know when the next build will be, and also whether it will have ZFS? (Lot of questions, I know, but I can't wait to check this stuff out.) Bye, Victor NB: How about putting some nice, good ol' calculus for the mathematic's question =) ?

Posted by Victor Hooi on September 05, 2004 at 10:28 PM PDT #

Victor,

Unfortunately there was a lot of porno SPAM to many blog comments, so that's the reason for the math. It changes so it would be hard to write code for it. It uses fractions sometimes, but easy enough for a human to calculate (IOW, it's obvious;-).

No, Webmin will not be in the next Solaris Express build I don't believe, but it's possible it could get in the SX release after that, I'm not sure yet as it hasn't been putback. No, ZFS will not be in the next Solaris Express build, definitely not. Webmin will go in before ZFS. Suffice to say that ZFS is a well talked about project and really is revolutionary for what it does. This is a feature for Solaris 10 to really set it apart from the "competition". It will be difficult for some of the commodity OSs to get the type of support that ZFS adds. Not impossible, but it will take a long, long time, IMO...many of Sun's brightest engineers are working on it, for whom I have a LOT of respect, and I have worked with a lot of great engineers in my time...OTOH, Sun has great engineers that worked on DTrace, N1 Grid Containers, Service Management Frameworks, and the 64 bit Opteron port, just to name a few.

We have one of the best engineering departments in Silicon Valley, which from my standpoint, leads the industry. Simply put, we kick @$$.;-)

Posted by Alan DuBoff on September 06, 2004 at 12:59 AM PDT #

Regarding the Math Question - to automate around this, all you need to do is use a programming language with an "eval" function, like Perl.

Some sites use a dynamically generated images with funky backgrounds and some text, and ask users to type in the text as a bot spoiler. Java seems to be popular for this ^-^. (though I've also heard some people have now resorted to paying poor people in 3rd world countries to get around such things...)

If members of the public could register (optional to posting) that could help reducing spam a bit, as well as spoofing, and also anti-repudiation.

Posted by Chris Rijk on September 06, 2004 at 06:56 AM PDT #

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