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HOWTO Interpret, Understand and Resolve Common pkg(1M) Errors on Solaris 11 8 Aug 2013 | 05:58 pm
Solaris 11 has been out on the market for nigh on two years and it's an absolutely brilliant evolution in the history of Solaris, however I've come to notice one common issue that really shouldn't be ...
CVE-ID Syntax Change 23 Jul 2013 | 01:08 pm
Due to the ever increasing volume of public vulnerability reports, the CVE Editorial Board and MITRE determined that the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®) project should change the syntax of...
FiOS Customer Discovers the Limits of “unlimited” Data: 77TB a Month 7 Jun 2013 | 09:19 pm
Yes, Virginia, there is a limit to what Verizon will let you do with FiOS' "unlimited" data plan. And a California man discovered that limit when he got a phone call from a Verizon representative want...
FiOS Customer Discovers the Limits of “unlimited” Data: 77TB a Month 7 Jun 2013 | 09:19 pm
Yes, Virginia, there is a limit to what Verizon will let you do with FiOS' "unlimited" data plan. And a California man discovered that limit when he got a phone call from a Verizon representative want...
Construction of the Encrypted Password String On Solaris 7 Jun 2013 | 04:02 pm
Ever looked at the password encrypted using an algorithm other than crypt_unix(5) in the /etc/shadow file on Solaris and thought "How is that string constructed?" No? Why not? Well, you will now :-) L...
Why Sun's NIS Will Never Die 5 Jun 2013 | 12:34 pm
While NIS has strikes against it, we also need to take into consideration that it works, and it works well. It's a small, clean service that is easily made redundant, and it ties in easily with just a...
pkgask(1M) Can't Find Interactive Request Script 30 May 2013 | 08:55 pm
Here's one that doesn't come up very often, but when it does, it catches people out. In an attempt to automate the installation of Solaris pkgs on Solaris 10 and earlier, people turn to the pkgask(1M...
Twitter Launches Two-factor Authentication 23 May 2013 | 01:35 pm
So Twitter announced yesterday that they have now enabled optional two-factor authentication. "Great!" you may think, but think again... it seems Twitter has gone their own way and made it a right PIT...
How to Build a Web-Based Storage Solution Using Oracle Solaris 11.1 1 May 2013 | 02:01 pm
Create your own Dropbox clone using Solaris 11.1... This article describes a PHP-based open source solution that uses AjaXplorer, Oracle Solaris 11.1, and Apache Web server (although other Web server...
How ZFS Continues to be Better Than btrfs 19 Apr 2013 | 12:40 pm
The reality is that, today, ZFS is way better than btrfs in a number of areas, in very concrete ways that make using ZFS a joy and make using btrfs a pain, and make ZFS the only choice for many worklo...
