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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

David Clack Elonex VIA C7 Webbook and OpenSolaris
Jan 8, 6:36 PM
So I'm playing with this Elonex VIA C7 Webbook from the UK. I'm having lots of fun with the SATA hard drive, looks like it will only work on the 80Gb it came with, anything else and the BIOS does not ...
webmink Thursday's Links, January 8th
Jan 8, 5:00 PM
OpenOffice.org vs. Go-OO: Cutting through the Gordian Knot Interesting and reasonably balanced article on the endless and fruitless debate Novell is generating. I'm not aware that the author sought ...
katakai NetBeans 6.5 デモ: Twitter Web サービスを使う (PHP編)
Jan 8, 4:50 PM
Java デスクトップアプリケーションで行なった以下のデモと NetBeans 6.5 デモ: Twitter Web サービスを使う 同じことを PHP アプリケーションでやってみます。以下のチュートリアルにあるように PHP プロジェクトでも Web サービスをドラッグ＆ドロップして使うことができます。ただこれには PHP に PEAR をインストール＆設定しておく必要があります。 PHP ...
tpenta Catching up
Jan 8, 2:46 PM
OK, I've been on holidays so I kind of have an excuse for not blogging this time. Before I go on I have to acknowledge a man who quickly became a good friend in Second Life, who sadly passed on ...
rchrd Yet Another Blog
Jan 8, 1:20 PM
As an experiment, I've started another blog Compile My Code - blogs.sun.com/run Meditations on compiling C, C++, and Fortran
krake KDE PIM Meeting 2009 Preparations
Jan 8, 11:21 AM
The following weekend will see this year's instance of the famous KDE PIM meeting in Osnabrück, Germany, as usual gratiously hosted by Intevation at their shiny new office. I managed to convince the ...
Aaron Tersteeg (Intel) Parallel Programming Talk – Intel Smoke Tech Demo with Orion Granatir
Jan 8, 10:44 AM
Welcome back Clay Breshears! After taking the last few months off to relax and work on a book Clay is back and talking parallel programming again. Thank you to Michael Wrinn who filled in and shared ...
Doug Holland (Intel) Microsoft Releases Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta
Jan 8, 7:22 AM
MSDN subscribers as of last night are able to download ISO images for both the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 beta. I'll have now installed Windows 7 build 7000 on two machines and have Windows ...
bnitz Anti-destruction destructive dtrace script and y2k9
Jan 8, 6:30 AM
Ugly, ugly hack which demonstrates a destructive dtrace script to snapshot the filesystem whenever a destructive command is run (e.g. /usr/bin/rm). It isn't useful except maybe for demos, but the ...
Brian Leonard A Hands on Introduction to ZFS Pools
Jan 8, 6:21 AM
If you have a USB hub and some spare USB sticks, Stefan Schneider , has an excellent 3 part tutorial on working with ZFS pools: Part 1: Getting Started (Pool Creation, Export, Import) Part 2: ...
JC Van Nieuwenhoven Understanding the Security Capabilities of Solaris Zones Software
Jan 8, 12:35 AM
Another good recap of the zones from a security point of view
katakai NetBeans の Maven サポート
Jan 8, 12:00 AM
NetBeans 7.0 からおそらく標準で入ってくると思われる Maven ですが、NetBeans 6.x ではプラグインが提供されています。以下のページを見るとだいたいどういうことが出来るかというのがわかります。 Best Practices for Apache Maven in NetBeans 6.x
anilg Gnome on NCP2
Jan 7, 10:48 PM
I mentioned in a previous post that GUI related packages were being populated into the NCP2 repository. Since pictures are a thousand words: Huge thanks to dtbartle, who has actively been porting ...
jimgris OpenSolaris at CES
Jan 7, 9:20 PM
Nice to see OpenSolaris showing up in Toshiba press releases at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas -- Toshiba Integrates New Technology into Business Laptops and Announces New LED Projector ...
katakai NetBeans 6.5 デモ: Twitter Web サービスを使う
Jan 7, 7:57 PM
前に書いたエントリですが Java デスクトップアプリケーションから Twitter の Web サービスを使う Flash デモ を作ってみました。 NetBeans で Twitter Web サービスを使う
Marcelo Leal Nostalgic II…
Jan 7, 7:03 PM
Looking for a backup (that obviously i did not find), i have saw some funny things in my stuff… ;-) So, i have decided to publish them here, in the name of the old times. FreeBSD 2.2.6 from April ...
Matt Ployhar (Intel) 3 Key Misconceptions in the PC vs. Console debate
Jan 7, 6:21 PM
I'd like to address what I believe are some key misconceptions in the PC vs. Console debate. Since about 2000 I've been tracking PC and Console Hardware and Software sales. I first started doing this ...
danmcd Way to go, Disney!
Jan 7, 5:36 PM
I just read an article stating that Disney will be including a regular DVD with several Blu-Ray releases . As both a new Blu-Ray owner, and a parent of two five-year-old Disney fans, I'm pretty ...
katakai Twitter の検索結果を JavaFX で表示する
Jan 7, 5:18 PM
ほ〜面白いですね。 Twitter の検索から JavaFX で表示するだけの簡単なプログラムです。 Silveira Neto : Reading Twitter with JavaFX NetBeans のプロジェクトもついているので手元で実行できます。 ja_netbeans の発言を表示させてみました。 実行モードを切り替えて スタンドアロン、アプレットで実行してみました。
Barbara Corwin History
Jan 7, 5:11 PM
In December, I updated a list I keep.  Most of these additions were announced when they happened via email of some kind and were logged in the old roadmap .  But I think seeing the list as a list is ...
Doug Holland (Intel) Maestro: Domain Specific Language for Concurrent Programming
Jan 7, 3:55 PM
MSDN Channel 9 has an interesting video on a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for concurrent programming known as Maestro. You can find the video here.
Doug Holland (Intel) Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta
Jan 7, 3:47 PM
According to several sources on the blogosphere the beta releases of the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems could be available this week. With Steve Ballmer introducing Windows ...
Michael Stoner (Intel) Using SSE4.1 for mp3 encoding quantization
Jan 7, 3:16 PM
In this post I'd like to promote the new SSE 4.1 instruction set extension as it relates to the quantization loop I wrote about a few months ago. As you may recall, the modified code from ...
chrisg Access hours for Sun Ray users
Jan 7, 1:46 PM
Having installed a Sun Ray in my daughters bedroom I am now faced with the inevitable problem of her being online all night not getting any sleep and then being generally grumpy. The irony here is ...
Jon Bullinger (Intel) Suggest your Software Post Topics in 2009
Jan 7, 11:19 AM
As the Intel Software Partner Program posts new topics for 2009 we would like to hear your voice. 1.) What topics would you like to hear the Intel Software Partner Program Team blog about? Examples: ...
Gael Holmes (Intel) OUCH! What are the most painful parts of Intel(R) AMT to implement??
Jan 7, 10:13 AM
Ok... Now that I have your attention, I just wanted to let you know that we have posted our first ever Poll in our Manageability Developer's Community Forum page - here.  (Look at the Right Hand Side ...
Gael Holmes (Intel) OUCH! What are the most painful parts of Intel® AMT to implement??
Jan 7, 10:13 AM
Ok... Now that I have your attention, I just wanted to let you know that we have posted our first ever Poll in our Manageability Developer's Community Forum page - here. (Look at the Right Hand Side ...
bobp It's Getting Rather Cloudy Out There...
Jan 7, 6:38 AM
Happy New Year.  2009 appears to be a busy year for clouds .  Virtualization has added several players since VMware momentum appeared a few years ago.  One can now select from an array of h ...
jimgris Learning from Japan
Jan 7, 6:12 AM
A close-up on Japan's 'lost decade' : "By learning the wrong lessons from Japan, the United States and others are stoking renewed inflation and putting off the years of savings needed by their aging ...
Miroslav Kopecky GeeCON Banners
Jan 7, 6:09 AM
Hello Everybody , I have great news for all involved by GeeCON conference. After yestardays meetings showed up very serious change to have Sun Certification Exams here with special discounts for ...