In all honesty, I'm glad this regulatory dance is over. We've all been having a little itch in our brains about this. Even if any of us have had real work to do , we've been at least a little ...
Folks often wonder if the printer they have (or are planning to buy) will work with OpenSolaris. The good news is that BigAdmin maintains an HCL for printers known to work with OpenSolaris . ...
Been on the moon lately? Out of touch? No problem. You can catch up on everything today at 9 a.m. California Pacific time when Oracle articulates the new strategy of Oracle+Sun. Finally, after all ...
EU Oracle Sun Investigation: Carlo Piana?s Feedback To summarise: MySQL was always Free software, always had these problems (some would say never open source in spirit) yet still thrived at the heart ...
McNealy's bittersweet memo bids good-bye to Sun : "Scott McNealy, the smack-talking co-founder and long-running leader of Sun Microsystems, has bid adieu to his company in a memo that mixes nostalgia ...
Hi All, So I've been playing with this AT&T HTC 8925 phone, it's really cool. Google Android is actually installed on the Micro SD Card :-) Windows Mobile starts up then fires of an exe program ...
I'm pretty sure this is not what the AI team had in mind when they gave us bootable AI. But in my quest to see what the oldest piece of gear I can run OpenSolaris, here's a fun one: ...
Sun Ray on OpenSolaris build 131 requires the same workarounds I previously mentioned . There is one more that helps with both 130 and 131. With the new gdm set up the login screen now runs ...
Mozilla, HTML5 video and codecs Excellent start to an explanation of Mozilla's position on H.264 and patent-encumbered CODECs. Still plenty of remaining questions, which will hopefully be addressed ...
Spent some time cleaning up the content in the Website Community yesterday. The transition to auth/xwiki is over, so I rewrote a lot of the content we had pointing to the project management docs and ...
Hi All, So I just got my hands on an AT&T HTC Tilt2 8925 with Windows Mobile removed and Google Android 2.0.1. I'm having to restart the device a lot :-) But what I'm able to use looks functional, ...
"We don't want our babies to die, and we want our children to go to school." That's what motivates Greg Mortenson to build communities because that's what women tell him in Afghanistan and Pakistan. ...
Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and Thunderbird 3.0.1 for OpenSolaris and Solaris platform are available from the opensolaris site. http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+desktop/development
Will Google stand up to France and Italy, too? The issue at stake here is what some call "common-carrier status" for networks. Regardless of the excuse - be it China's hatred of protest, Italy's ...
U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google Schneier points out that the feature China hacked in GMail was only there because the US government demanded it "for security", and that building trapdoors for ...
Hi All, Here is a pointer to the Poulsbo drivers for Fedora 11. I've tested them, and they work well. Dave http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/poulsbo/i586/
The first two images are from the bathroom at the Sun building in Yoga looking down on the rooftop tennis court and hot tub next to the Tomei Expressway. Then these two are from my office (which is a ...
Hi All, Just did an image-update on a B128a install to B131. suspend / resume is working again, compiz is fine also without /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Looks like engineering has been busy. Dave
Some images from the OpenSolaris Night Seminar in Tokyo earlier this evening with presentations from Junko Yoshida, Mami Sueki, and Shoji Haraguchi . Hundreds more images from the OpenSolaris ...
Chris updated our implementation of XWiki yesterday to v2.1.1, which fixes a bunch of bugs we had been living with while using v1.8. The current bug list for hub is on defect.opensolaris.org , so ...
Added a few shots of a few sections of Tokyo Tower the other night ... I like this old tower much better than the new one being built , but I suppose life moves on.
It is customary to toast a new birth in champagne, but here I diverge with tradition. To Sun and to the new Oracle/Sun combination, a toast in single malt scotch. Salut ! 22 years with Sun, much of ...