Here is a blog entry that was sitting in my Drafts folder for a
long time (just because I didn't realize :). Anyway, it shows how
to install Open
Solaris 2008/11 on Virtual Box. The original install was done using
Virtual Box 2.0.6. I installed Virtual Box 2.1 this morning and
the image was easily recognized by the updated Virtual Box.
Here are the basic steps.
Create a new VM ...
As part of the previous step, create a new Virtual Disk mapping
to the downloaded Open Solaris image ...
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Jan
13
2009
Jan
12
2009
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An outcome of the recent trip by Kohsuke to Japan was last week's Adoption Story with Ratuken (Home, Wikipedia) one of the largest internet companies in the world - their site is currently ranked by Alexa as #62 Worldwide and #5 in Japan. |
The Adoption Story ( …
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Dec
19
2008
Red Hat increases its service levels. Linux Foundation appoints Ted Ts’o CTO. Sun delivers VirtualBox update. Novell cancels BrainShare. BBC enables iPlayer for Linux. And more.
Note: This is the last 451 CAOS Links post of 2008. We’ll be back with a bumper holiday special on January 2. Happy holidays!
Official announcements
Red Hat Increases Service Levels and Reduces Costs
for Customers with Extended Update Support Red Hat
Linux Foundation Appoints Ted Ts’o to Position of Chief Technology Officer Linux Foundation
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Dec
19
2008
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L' "Aquarium Paris" is an event that took place in Paris, France last week (December 12th). The lineup of speakers and topics was quite impressive and the slides are now available. A new age with the list of GlassFish-related events is available here. |
Topics covered include GlassFish v3, Java EE 6, Jersey, OpenSSO, Grizzly Comet, OpenMQ, OpenDS, JavaFX, OpenESB/Fuji, MySQL, partners XWiki, Valtech, Nuxeo and IzPack's despot Julien Ponge. Some are in French but the majority of the slides are in English.
Alternatively, …
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Dec
19
2008
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Since I'm still in the mood for a break (I'm planning to start my holiday break early next week - and I'm not planning to spend it like last Xmas break)... a pointer to Sacha's post: SUN: (Sound?) Open Source Business Model? and John's followup: When you hit them and they smile, you know you did something right . I think … |
Dec
04
2008
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SIP technology, the basis of Project SailFin, is consolidating its position as the leading standard for setting up and tearing down converged multimedia communication sessions. Communication Service Providers are investing in Service Delivery Platforms (SDP) to leverage the … |
Dec
01
2008
A compilation of news of interest:
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JSF 2.0 went into Public Review Draft and Jim has posted more entries in his series showing how to take advantage of the new functionality. In the first one, he describes how to write an AJAX-aware Editable Text Component - sources are here. The second is a SwitchList - sources for … |
Nov
27
2008
…is the title of this post written by Tim Bray a few days ago in which he outlined the directions he would like to see his employer take to improve its fortunes.
He also invited others to continue the thought process. Many have already done so (I’ll include the best in tomorrow’s CAOS Links post) and given my recent constructive criticism of Sun’s open source strategy I feel compelled to provide some answers as well as questions.
I’m sure there are lots of things Sun should be doing with relation to storage and servers and processors and client devices, but I’m going to stick to what I know. What would I do?
Light a fire under MySQL
When Sun announced its acquisition …
Nov
27
2008
GlassFish and MySQL student contest winners
are announced!
Kolli Bharath from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and
Communication Technology, India (review, project) and Tomas Augusto
Muller, Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil
(review, …
Nov
17
2008
The Diameter protocol is designed to provide an Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) framework for applications. The Diameter base protocol is defined by RFC 3588. The 3GPP standards body has adopted Diameter as the primary signaling protocol for AAA and mobility management in the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS).
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In an IMS architecture, an application server like SailFin will use Diameter to communicate with HSS (Home Subscriber Server). HSS is a central subscriber database that performs AAA and helps in … |