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I was reading this article recently, and noted that this seems to basically provide a small subset of the functionality of Sun Secure Global Desktop (SSGD) while having performance described as: If you’ve ever used VNC for desktop sharing over a network, it will feel very familiar. There’s the same kind of JPEG artefacts that hang [...]

The Jabber/XMPP server at ra.purplecow.org is going down, to be replaced with an identical service at interact.purplecow.org. All welcome.

Don’t forget the highly useful Coolstack packages have now been released in the 1.3 incarnation. http://cooltools.sunsource.net/coolstack

Fault: Sun Java Enterprise System Calendar chews an entire CPU core and returns an HTTP 401 to all requests. Diagnostic criteria: An httpd process will be hammering identical logs so fast they’ll be rotating before you can read them. Look for something like: [23/Jul/2008:21:40:41 +1000] HOSTNAME cshttpd[PID]: Account Notice: Closed session 6kNPKqo+K9I opened by USERNAME from [IP] Root [...]

Sun released their new Convergence integrated Mail, Calendar and IM web application yesterday - and it’s pretty damn impressive. There is a little work to getting it rolling if you’re not upgrading to the latest JES Mail & Calendar at the same time, but it works reasonably well and is possibly the finest webmail/cal out [...]

There’s been a lot of banging on about Sun’s future and direction moving forward of late. This tosser manages to join the group of completely uninformed plonkers throwing their tuppence in. Here’s my take on it. This is pretty obvious, and based solely on what my customers ask for, demand, want and hope for. Sun should stick [...]

As everyone probably knows by now, a new DNS cache poisoning vulnerability has been announced recently. Just a reminder that you should probably be getting your resolvers updated. Information is available: http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/index.php http://www.doxpara.com/ (includes a little test thingy) http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113 Packages with an updated BIND release (9.5.0-P1) available for Solaris here: SPARC i386 Sun have patched their included BIND. SPARC - 119783-06 i386 - 119784-06 Thanks to [...]

This probably works with PINE as well. You’ll want to edit .pinerc in your home directory. Edit the smtp-server entry to point to your outbound SMTP server: smtp-server=your.smtp.relay.address Edit the inbox-path entry to something like: inbox-path={your.mail.server.address/your_imap_account_username}INBOX Edit the rsh-open-timeout entry and set it to zero: rsh-open-timeout=0

I’ve built packages for the replacement for PINE from UW. Alpine has removed some source constraints (important to some people, I guess), has some new features and otherwise seems to be an incremental upgrade on PINE. These packages were built on Solaris 10, so they should be fine on OpenSolaris / Nevada (Well, SXCE/SXDE) as [...]

So after discussion that made it appear that the Rudd government might abandon their arguably pointless censorship proposal, this article http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,24833959-5014239,00.html states that they’re looking to increase their scope to cover “peer-to-peer” technologies. The interesting point here is blocklist and DNS based strategies won’t work here, which pretty much guarantees the only options for review will be Deep [...]