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Today we had a technical talk on OpenSolaris 2008.11 by Scott Dickson, the technology evangelist at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Mike Marler, the systems engineer of Sun Microsystems was also present for the technical demo.  A huge crowd of almost 60 students attended the session. A couple of weeks back, Clemson University OSUM Club became a century club with more than 100 members enrolled. We were the first in North America to hit the  100 member mark. In connection with this achievement, we had a pizza party just before the technical talk. The session was commenced by 6:30 p:m and continued till 9:00 p:m.Scott Dickson took us around the features of OpenSolaris like DTrace, ZFS file system, time sliders,virtualization with zones and SMF. His talk ranged from the basics of FOSS(Free and Open Source Software) to the internals of OpenSolaris Operating system. If any of the campus ambassadors are planing for an OpenSolaris session, I strongly recommend to get hold of Scott Dickson.I happened to hear a beautiful comment once the session was done. "It would be great, if we can have him as a faculty!!!". My special thanks to Scott Duckworth (Advisor, Clemson University OSUM Club) and Dexter Stowers, the UNIX administrators of Clemson University for their overwhelming support.Many thanks to Dinitia Hartman and Mike Marler for all the support they have extended to make this event happen.Special thanks to the Clemson University OSUM Club members for making the event a huge success. Clemson University OSUM Club has a whole lot of plans for the Summer. Stay tuned with Clemson University OSUM Club

Let's drive INNOVATION!!!!!

 We have set up a virtual laboratory in Sun Wonderland to conduct a collaborative product development process. We have used Wonderland 0.4 to develop the virtual lab. The virtual lab contains a web browser, an excel sheet and a white board. The initial testing in the collaborative environment turned out to be wonderful, except for some small issues with the audio bridge. We have just streamlined our research process in wonderland. The users were provided with the URL and was asked to log in from various locations in the university. People interacted with the web browser and the other shared applications. The only concern which people had was the lag while using Shared applications.