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c0t0d0s0.org | February 09, 11:00 AM PST | By nospam@example.com (del.icio.us)

Japanese plane seat maker admits falsifying safety data - ASDNews - Be the first to know (tags: aviation ) BA 777 crash: Quick flap retraction avoided ILS collision ...

Medialib (SUNWmlib) and Adobe flash plugin for Fir...

Netbooks Plus Java | /OpenSolaris | February 09, 10:30 AM PST | By David Clack

Hi All,  So I'm just playing with B132 on the Acer One 8.9". Even though I downloaded the flash plugin from Adobe and installed it to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins it would not show up in firefox. I found out in the end that you need to...

Hello world!

Vlad's blog | /Personal | February 09, 09:32 AM PST | By Vladislav Safronov

Hello world post ;) Привет мир!

Installing and running Fluidsynth on OpenSolaris

George Drapeau's Weblog | /General | February 09, 09:23 AM PST | By drapeau

I'm a sucker for a good multimedia package.  I love playing with software that does movie playback on encoding, audio playback, transcoding...you name it, I love playing with it.  So naturally I was pretty psyched to see that somebody has contributed...

Oracle Encryption and the Solaris Cryptographic Fr...

SPARC, Solaris, Performance und der ganze Rest | /Solaris | February 09, 08:17 AM PST | By Stefan Hinker

In release 10gR2, Oracle introduced Transparent Data Encryption [ 1 ] - a feature that allows the encryption of individual columns of a table.  In Release 11gR1, this was extended to tablespaces [ 2 ], allowing the creation of encrypted tablespaces which...

Retrieving MAC Address in Solaris using C as a non...

paulie's world in blog form | /Sun | February 09, 08:02 AM PST | By Paul Johnson

I needed to find a way to get the physical (MAC) address using C. From what I could gather from searching opensolaris.org, there are two methods for retrieving it: libdlpi and arp . libdlpi is the more elegant solution as it requires a simple call to...

Migrating from VMware to VirtualBox: Oracle Enterp...

The Fat Bloke Sings | /VirtualBox | February 09, 07:33 AM PST | By TheFatBloke

There are a growing number of people asking the question: how do you move a VMware virtual machine to VirtualBox. So it is about time the Fat Bloke rolled up his sleeves and showed us how. (BTW you can click on screenshots below to magnify) People...

Gmail all'attacco di Facebook La posta di Google è...

Walter Moriconi's blog | /Mercati e Trend - Storage e non | February 09, 07:22 AM PST | By Walter Moriconi

GOOGLE ci riprova: nonostante i tentativi falliti degli ultimi anni, l'azienda di Mountain View non si rassegna all'esclusione dall'enorme mercato dei social network e si prepara a trasformare il suo servizio di posta elettronica Gmail nell'arma per...

MySQL University: MySQL Galera Multi-Master Replic...

mysqlf | /Sun | February 09, 06:01 AM PST | By Stefan Hinz

This Thursday (February 11th, 14:00 UTC), Seppo Jaakola & Alex Yurchenko will talk about MySQL Galera Multi-Master Replication . Galera provides synchronous multi-master replication and uses a certification-based replication method for replicating...

Tokyo2Point0 020810

Jim Grisanzio | /Tokyo2Point0 | February 09, 05:33 AM PST | By jimgris

I went to the Tokyo2Point0 event last night. There were 250 people there with another 150 online, so it was a packed time for sure. Really nice to catch up with a bunch of people. I haven't been to one of these events in many months. Just been too busy....

Some early comments about Power7

c0t0d0s0.org | English | February 09, 05:32 AM PST | By nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp)

At first, i have to admit, that the Power7 seems to be an impressive CPU. However this is the classic game of leap frogging. So i'm not overly scared about Power7. RF is in the pipe. Follow-ons in development. I didn't thought that IBM would stand still after...

☞ Leaving a bad taste

Simon Phipps, SunMink | /Links | February 09, 04:08 AM PST | By webmink

Study links soda, pancreatic cancer Looks like another damning finding against high sugar diets. Too late for me, but maybe you can cut back and live longer. (tags: Sugar Fructose Soda Drinks health Research ...

GlassFish ESB : Cars Online Part 3 - Calculating D...

The Crooked Stick | /Java CAPS/GlashFish ESB | February 09, 03:22 AM PST | By Dante

Read the original article at The Crooked Stick Up until this blog the trail has not been GlassFish ESB (Open ESB) specific but this entry will delve into the first of the Business Processes that have been written to back the functionality...

Commercial Data Mining Software on the NetBeans Pl...

Geertjan's Blog | /NetBeans IDE | February 09, 01:28 AM PST | By geertjan

Yet another NetBeans Platform application comes from South Africa... the Maltego client , a "frontend used to graphically allow you to look at various inter-relationships between data". Maltego itself is an open source intelligence and forensics...

Software Testing - for whom do we test ?

John M's Blog | /QA & Testing | February 09, 12:27 AM PST | By John Morrison

Posted at - http://www.techmanageronline.com/2010/02/software-testing-for-whom-do-we-test.html

Japan OpenSolaris Community at OSC

Jim Grisanzio | /OpenSolaris | February 09, 12:14 AM PST | By jimgris

The OpenSolaris Community in Japan will participate at the Spring Tokyo Open Source Conference with three talks from Keiichi Oono, Kenichi Mizoguchi, and Masafumi Ohta on February 27th. See Ohta-san's announcement in Japanese and English .

A day of mixed feelings

Alan Hargreaves' Blog » Work | Work | February 08, 11:46 PM PST | By Alan

While I am relieved to find out that I will be offered a job in the new combined entity, it is with some sadness that I find myself today farewelling a number of folks that I have known for some time (some who have been with Sun locally for more than my almost...

TOTD #121: JDBC resource for MySQL and Oracle samp...

Arun Gupta, Miles to go ... | /General | February 08, 11:00 PM PST | By arungupta

This blog clearly explains how to configure the MySQL sample database ( sakila ) with GlassFish . Even though the instructions use a specific database but should work for other databases (such as Oracle, JavaDB, PostgreSQL, and others) as well. The second...

TOTD #121: JDBC resource for MySQL and Oracle samp...

Arun Gupta, Miles to go ... | /General | February 08, 11:00 PM PST | By arungupta

This blog clearly explains how to configure the MySQL sample database ( sakila ) with GlassFish . Even though the instructions use a specific database but should work for other databases (such as Oracle, JavaDB, PostgreSQL, and others) as well. The second...

Hudson News - Oracle, New Blog, Twitter Feed, Wind...

The Aquarium | /Hudson | February 08, 10:56 PM PST | By pelegri

Catching up on Hudson news in the last couple of weeks: The most important change is that on Jan 27th, during the Strategy Presentations around the completion of Change in Control of the acquisition of Sun, Thomas Kurian indicated that Oracle...

Auth Update: Early

Jim Grisanzio | /OpenSolaris | February 08, 08:42 PM PST | By jimgris

We had planned to update auth.opensolaris.org this week, but Alan and Martin finished this phase of the work early and deployed the upgrade last Friday. It's always cool to get something done, tested, and out the door early . This latest version of...

HTML5 Semantic Tags

driscoll's blog | Web Design | February 08, 06:06 PM PST | By driscoll

Over the weekend, I was reading Mark Pilgrim's great book on HTML5 - and when I got to the part about the semantic tags , I thought it might be worth a quick mention. In case you've missed out on HTML5 in general (and don't want to take the time to read...

Simplifying Publisher Configuration

Transitive | /Personal | February 08, 03:46 PM PST | By Shawn Walker

Changeset 1736 in the pkg(5) gate made the following changes:   11522 pkg should require publisher prefix to match repository information   7156 client image api needs image creation interface   12744 update_publisher over-zealously testing...

Creating a kiosk app with JavaFX, Sun Ray, Solaris...

Leroy Kelley | /Personal | February 08, 02:41 PM PST | By leroyk

I set out to see how easy or doable it would be to create a kiosk system that could be used in a Minority Report type of display. Let me state this experiment is in its very very non-Minority Report stage. The first stage of this experiment was simply to...

"Getting It" and Making It Better

Learning Is Forever | /Organizational_Improvement | February 08, 02:17 PM PST | By Sandy Elvington

I watched the premier of Undercover Boss last night. The program is based upon a CEO/President going undercover in his or her own company to see what it's really like on the front line. Lemme say – I LOVED the show. The first show was about...

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