Jim Mauro is our guest speaker, talking about DTrace and all things performance, at the next New England Open Solaris User Group (NEOSUG) meeting on Sept 10th in Burlington, MA.
Read all about it here: OpenSolaris NEOSUG.
Hope to see you there. Please register if coming so we can plan the refreshments…
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Just Announced – 5th NEOSUG Meeting featuring Jim Mauro
Fifth NEOSUG Meeting – special guest speaker – Postponed
Postponed until September – You are Invited !
The New England Open Solaris User Group (NEOSUG) Meeting
Topic for this meeting: Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Performance, Observability and Debugging
(The Abridged Version)
Please RSVP at : https://www.suneventreg.com//cgi-bin/register.pl?EventID=2337
What: New England OpenSolaris User Group Meeting (NEOSUG)
When: July 24,2008 6:30-9:30 pm (registration opens @5:30)
Where: Sun Microsystems Campus
1 Network Circle
Burlington, [...]
Fourth NEOSUG Meeting
Just announced: the Fourth NEOSUG meeting. It will be on Nov 1 starting at 6:30 at the Sun campus in Burlington, MA. This month’s meeting has two great topics and some fun.
Talk 1: The Solaris 8 Migration Assistant is a software technology that enables a Solaris 10 Container to behave like a Solaris 8 system. [...]
Solaris 10 Update 4 (Aug 2007) is available
Sun, rather quietly, has released Solaris 10 update 4. It’s available here. Note that it’s currently only available for download. Media kits are not yet available.
Teaching at SANSFIRE
Update – the participation of Usenix at SANs conferences was postponed so I won’t me making this conference.
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I’ll be teaching my Solaris 10 Administration Workshop and Solaris 10 Security Workshop at the SANSFIRE conference – the major SANS event. It’s in Washington D.C. this year. USENIX and SANS are working together to provide more training [...]
See you at Usenix ‘07?
Just a couple of weeks until Usenix ‘07 in Santa Clara, CA. Hope to see some of you there. I’m teaching two courses there and taking some vacation time as well. Solaris 10 Admin and Solaris 10 Security.
From the Usenix Ad:
2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
June 17-22, 2007, Santa Clara, CA
Early Bird Registration Deadline: June [...]
My Latest Column at SysAdmin Magazine
Just released at SysAdmin Magazine (both in print and on the web) is my latest column. This being part one of a two parter on virtualization. Here is the link. Also in this same issue of SysAdmin is an article by my colleague, Chris Page, about the cluster technology that is part of Oracle’s RAC [...]
Solaris 10 + zero-day attack
SANS has reported a verifiable zero-day exploit for Solaris 10 and beyond (Nevada et al). There is a vulnerability in telnetd that can allow attackers to login without a proper account and password.
Note that in recent releases of Solaris Nevada which are “Secure by default”, telnetd is disabled during installation. Earlier releases have telnet [...]
Nexenta within Parallels on Mac OS X 10.4.8
This is rather esoteric, but I’ve seen posts asking for a solution to this problem so thought I’d document my experience here.
Problem – Trying to install Nexenta (Elatte) Alpha 6 within Parallels on the Mac. Nexenta is an open source distribution of Solaris that has the Solaris Nevada kernel and the Debian userland. It installs [...]