Monday October 29, 2007 Where's the Solaris version of Lightning 0.7??
I received a few comments about when the Solaris version of the plugin will be available. I'm not officially on the team, I'm on the Server-side of Calendar Server engineering. I can however say that I'm hearing on the Sun internal development aliases that the Solaris version of the Plugin is planned for next week.
The plugin for Mozilla Thunderbird 2.x will allow access (via WCAP) to calendars and "to do" lists on our Sun Java Calendar Server.
Technorati Tags: Calendar Server, Mozilla, Lightning, Solaris, thunderbird, wcap
( Oct 29 2007, 06:49:29 AM PDT ) Permalink
Thursday October 25, 2007 Thunderbird Plugin for Sun Calendar Server releases version 0.7
Lightning 0.7 has now officially been released. If you want the Sun Calendar Server (WCAP) version use the link below.
Link to the Plugins
Calendar Weblog listing the improvements
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( Oct 25 2007, 10:23:54 AM PDT ) Permalink
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Tuesday October 23, 2007 Skype's Major Outage Blamed on Microsoft
Skype's service outage should serve as a warning to any company offering services to its customers. The message is clear.. Microsoft Windows Vista isn't ready for 7x24.
The massive outage on August 16 and August 18 caused denied Skype's subscribers access to their accounts and ability to make phone calls. The company is reporting that the cause was due to the standard monthly Windows updates causing Skype's production PCs to reboot unexpectedly.
A report by Ferris Free News Service believes that this outage was due to the standard monthly Windows updates causing PCs running Skype to reboot. These updates were unique because "they FORCED a reboot of unattended PCs" without notice to administrators. All this happened within normal working hours when usage of the popular Skype service was at its peak.
This reboot eventually caused a spiraling failure when after the reboots. The reconnects after the reboots forced failures of their authentication servers that and problems with their network routing algorithms created the "perfect storm."
Further Readings
ComputerWorld's Richi Jennings on the Outage
Technorati Tags: Internet, VOIP, Solaris, sys admin, Windows
( Oct 23 2007, 03:36:13 PM PDT ) Permalink
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Monday October 15, 2007 Comms Suite's Priorities Outlined..
In case you haven't noticed it, Jim Parkinson (our Executive VP for Communication Products) has posted the future priorities for our Communication Suite Products.
JP's Blog Entry: Communicate Products the New Client is coming along!!
Sunday October 07, 2007 Ramping up for CEC in Las Vegas
I'm about to board an airplane to head to Las Vegas for our CEC Conference for Sun Field Folks and Partners. If you are in the area, feel free to stop by one of our two Communications Software booths. I will also be giving a presentation on our next Web Client at the following location.
Session ID: SFT9934
Session Title: Sun Java Communications Suite : New Web 2.0 Client
Track: Software
Room: Skyview East 2
Date: 2007-10-09
Start Time: 16:45
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( Oct 07 2007, 01:10:58 PM PDT ) Permalink
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