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Lots of OpenSolaris community members are talking about Solaris and OpenSolaris in their blogs. We've been aggregating all of those we know about here. If you are blogging about OpenSolaris and would like to get your blog added to the collection, send mail to add-my-blog AT sun DOT com for consideration* with the following information: (1) your full name, (2) your OpenSolaris registration ID, (3) your blog's address, and (4) your blog's RSS/Atom feed.

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30 Most Recent Blog Entries

Doug Holland (Intel) The Devil's Field Guide to the PDC
Oct 15, 4:21 PM
If you're going to be attending Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference check out The Devil's Field Guide to the PDC for the insiders scoop on the conference.
jimgris 99
Oct 15, 3:43 PM
Updated to OpenSolaris build 99 yesterday. So far so god. Get it here .
Lance Atencio (Intel) Access Monitor & Audit Log - What's in a name
Oct 15, 2:52 PM
You may be familiar with the new feature in AMT 4.0/5.0 that allows an AMT user to be setup to monitor selected events independent of the administrator ... but what is this feature called? Not too ...
benr at cuddletech dot com Sun Open-Ponytail Beta 1 Expected Soon
Oct 15, 2:42 PM
As many of you know, I've been a ponytail innovator for years, in fact I've expended effort in the other areas of long-hair R&D. Thus I'm excited about Sun's forthcoming project... Now, you might say ...
Miroslav Kopecky SunSPOT simulator
Oct 15, 1:40 PM
This will be only brief topic around SPOT simulator called Solarium.  Solarium you can run for device simulation. You can create more than one SPOTs and play with them. Solarium is the part of ...
Miroslav Kopecky ACM international collegiate programming conest
Oct 15, 1:10 PM
I'm glad I get opportunity to help with this contest in Prague [LINK] .  Main sponsor of this event is IBM but it does not matter. Because this is the contest. Main Link
Deirdre' Straughan Storage News: Oct 15, 2008 - NWS Merges with ON, Lots More Koolaid, What to Do with a 2GB Drive, Credit Default Swaps
Oct 15, 9:43 AM
Author: John Forte Repository: /hg/onnv/onnv-gate Latest revision: 4e95154b5b7a16513e57f8d50e5b4e52320a6608 Total changesets: 1 Log message: 6745433 Merge NWS consolidation into OS/Net consolidation ...
Stephen Lau Songbird on OpenSolaris b99
Oct 15, 8:51 AM
Upon seeing comay’s tweet, I updated my OpenSolaris machine to the newly posted b99 packages and had the pleasure of typing: $ pfexec pkg install SUNWsongbird joyous day. This is our first ...
williamxue Jon Bon Jovi & Pavarotti - Let it Rain
Oct 15, 7:51 AM
帕瓦罗蒂和邦乔维的十年前的合唱，很大气，很有力量。  It's amazing song, Do you that you drift into a beautiful quiet place in your soul? Lyric Last night I had a dream that there would be a morning after Long days, sunshine, ...
Luca Morettoni nwam sotto controllo
Oct 15, 6:28 AM
bobp Have you ever heard of Credit Default Swaps?
Oct 15, 5:08 AM
Have you had enough yet of all the discussions, opinions, suggestions, agendas and lunacy regarding the stock market?  I've been watching for a while what is the ultimate effect of credit default ...
Naoyuki Yamada T5440 を発表しました
Oct 15, 1:18 AM
先日、サンは、Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 を発表しました。 T5440 は、高さ 4U の筐体(見た目は、X4600 と一緒)に UltraSPARC T2+ プロ セッサを最大で 4 ソケット、メモリを最大 512GByte 搭載可能なマシンです。 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 さてここでクイズです。 UltraSPARC T2+ プロセッサが ...
williamxue Firefox3中安装Firefox2的扩展插件
Oct 15, 12:29 AM
很多Firefox2的扩展或插件在Firefox3中无法安装使用，以下是常见的几中方法，使得旧版本的扩展可以在新版安装。不能安装旧版插件的原因是版本的检查不匹配。所以解决的方法就是跳过版本兼容性的检查。 方法一：修改插件里的支持版本信息 ...
yongsun Changing UID and GID on Mac OS X Leopard
Oct 15, 12:06 AM
$ id uid=501(yongsun) gid=501(yongsun) groups=501(yongsun),98(_lpadmin),81(_appserveradm),79(_appserverusr),80(admin) $ sudo dscl . -change /Users/yongsun UniqueID 501 1000 $ sudo dscl . -change ...
Deirdre' Straughan Sun Open Storage: Mike Shapiro Speaking at the Open Storage Summit
Oct 14, 11:00 PM
53 mins download Sun Open Storage iPod Version
Doug Holland (Intel) More Effective C#
Oct 14, 10:58 PM
In 2004 I worked with Bill Wagner on Effective C# as a technical editor, the first book in the series for the C# developers provides 50 tips to improving your use of the C# programming language.  ...
katakai Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 for Solaris
Oct 14, 9:27 PM
Thunderbird の 2.0.0.17 です。少し遅れて SPARC, x86 版ともに いつものところ に用意されてました。 Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 リリースノート Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 is available for Solaris platform. tarball and pkgs for Solaris SPARC & ...
katakai NetBeans 6.5 final l10n-kit, new repository, status and validation pages updated
Oct 14, 9:02 PM
There are 3 important things for NetBeans translatedfiles community who are working on NetBeans 6.5 release. Final l10n-kit is ready: I prepared the l10n-kit for final translation. There are two ...
tdh Trying to examine snoop output for DS to MDS communication
Oct 14, 5:56 PM
I decided to do a massive snoop session as I brought 2 DSes online with 2 storage pools each. I wanted to see the transactions go across the wire. Then I found out that snoop doesn't know about our ...
Michal Bielicki First polish OpenSolaris Conference, October 24/25 in Szczecin, Poland
Oct 14, 12:21 PM
On October 24th/25th you are welcome to visit the first OpenSolaris Conference in Poland, organized by the Polish OpenSolaris Usergroup. The event is free to visit for everyone, bit there is a ...
Miroslav Kopecky IN BETA: Netbeans IDE Certification Exam
Oct 14, 10:48 AM
Hi All , I know it is little bit late to blog about this chance to become to be Certificated Specialist but I got this news latte. Maybe here will be other chance in the future so I decided  to blog ...
tdh Data structures for DS_REPORTAVAIL
Oct 14, 8:40 AM
A DS communicates the data server storage associated with it to the MDS. (We'll look at this in more depth later.) It does that via an RPC call -- DS_REPORTAVAIL. Here are the associated structures ...
Deirdre' Straughan Storage News: Oct 14, 2008 - ZFS at SmugMug, ZFS Screenshots, Available Presentations
Oct 14, 8:39 AM
Success with OpenSolaris + ZFS + MySQL in production! - "I’m a Linux geek, have been since 1993 ( Slackware !). All of SmugMug’s datacenters (and our EC2 images ) are built on Linux. But the current ...
chrisg Bromptons on Eurostar
Oct 14, 8:10 AM
When taking a Brompton on Eurostar make sure you have a cover for it or they won't let you on the train. Quite why I don't know since I do have a cover and believe it or not could not be bothered to ...
webmink OpenOffice.org and archiving
Oct 14, 4:01 AM
At the ODF Workshop last week, a number of the delegates were asking about the right way to handle archiving of their documents. Obviously ODF offers a baseline file format that promises long-term ...
timf ZFS on your desktop - screenshots
Oct 14, 2:46 AM
Nice screenshots Erwann! Take a peek here .
qyjohn 为家乡祈福
Oct 14, 2:20 AM
雨还在下，风仍在吹。 我没有亲见，只是听说，有两位乡亲已经在洪水中失去生命。我没有亲见，只是听说，文昌境内的多座水库已经超过警戒水位，水库附近的一些村庄已经开始撤离。在未来48小时内，海南地区仍将有大规模的持续降水。 此时此刻，对于我们这些有心无力的游子来说，除了为家乡祈福还能够做什么？
bartm Talking IPS and more... (6th NLOSUG Meeting)
Oct 14, 1:17 AM
Thursday Oct 9th 2008, NLOSUG met again. Some 25 people (80% non SUN) gathered at  SUN Microsystems Nederland headquarters to learn about the OpenSolaris Image Package System , to discuss OpenSolaris ...
webmink links for 2008-10-14
Oct 14, 1:04 AM
Steal This Comic xkcd points out that anyone who engages in the DRM-haunted part of the music market is bound to break the law in the end. Sun's 4-chip CMT system raises the bar If you remember ...
jimgris Storage Video in Chinese
Oct 14, 12:36 AM
Nice to see the Storage community on OpenSolaris doing videos in Chinese. Here's Sun engineer Victor Li -- Solaris iSNS 介绍和使用 (中文视频) .