My August 2008 column has been published in ;login:. This month it’s about Solaris System Analysis – a checklist approach to solving a system being “slow” or “busted”. Some ;login: contents is freely available at ;login: August 2008, but my column this month is not one of them. I’ve posted the .pdf here for those [...]
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Column – The State of ZFS
Sorry for the delay in announce / posting this. My June 2008 column has been published in ;login:. This month it’s about the state of ZFS – features, functions, stability, useability, performance, production use, and so on. Some ;login: contents is freely available at ;login: June 2008, but my column this month is not one [...]
Just Announced – 5th NEOSUG Meeting featuring Jim Mauro
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…
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, [...]
Column – The Future of Sun
Since SysAdmin Magazine stopped publishing, I’ve been looking for a new place to write for. The USENIX association publishes a bi-monthly journal called ;login: for its members. In my view the contents there are always top-notch, so I was pleased when they invited me to write a column for them.
Feb 2008 marks the debut of [...]
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.
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 [...]