Friday January 26, 2007

The Open MPI Community has announced the availability of Open MPI 1.1.3, a bug fix release. Users of earlier versions are encouraged to upgrade, if possible.

This release should not be confused with Sun's upcoming, supported Solaris release of Open MPI, which will be based on the Open MPI 1.2 source base. An Early Access version of Sun's release is currently available for free download here.

The first meeting of the New England OpenSolaris User Group will be held from 5:30pm to 8pm on Wednesday, January 31st on Sun's campus in Burlington, Massachusetts. Sign up here for this free event.

The first half-hour is for registration and refreshments. The main agenda will include an introduction to the OpenSolaris project, a technical overview, and an "Ask the Experts" Q&A session. It should be an interesting event, even for those already familiar with Solaris. There are something like 60 projects running within the OpenSolaris community and I'm sure I don't know what most of them are. As an aside, I was excited to see a Fuse on Solaris project--I think that would be an interesting and useful addition.

I'm attending--hope to see you there!

Fake "free wifi" has been seen recently at several airports, including O'Hare, LAX, and Laguardia. While these wireless networks, which have names like "Free Wifi," do give you access to the Internet, they are actually peer-to-peer networks that route your network traffic through their machines, allowing them to snoop any data you transmit, incuding usernames and passwords. Worse, if you have file sharing turned on, you may be exposing yourself to far bigger problems.

Read the details in this Computerworld article.