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When spontaneous line dancing happens, life is lik...

Hinkmond Wong's Weblog | /Java ME and J2ME | May 08, 12:09 PM PDT | By hinkmond

Dontcha just love it when spontaneous line dancing happens and life becomes like a scene from a musical? I do (my wife does too). And, you'll notice that when people such as the ones in this video see a musical breaking out in real-life, at a Belgium train...

Sun's Personalization Design Evolves

Gary Zellerbach's Weblog | /eMarketing | May 08, 11:57 AM PDT | By Gary Zellerbach

In my last post , I displayed an image of a new display widget for personalized content on sun.com web pages. I noted it was a draft, and with good reason -- nobody was ready to sign off on the design at that point! The main issue was that it took up a...

JET 4.7 is available now

c0t0d0s0.org | Solaris | May 08, 11:55 AM PDT | By nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp)

I wrote about JET in my series of "Less known Solaris Features"-tutorials a while ago. JET is a really useful toolkit for the template driven configuration of Jumpstart. There is a new version available of the JET framework. You can download version 4.7 at ...

Oracle DBAs Journey in the Sun Comes Full Cycle

A DBA's Journey in the Sun | /Personal | May 08, 11:40 AM PDT | By George Trujillo

An Oracle DBA's Future is So Bright They've Got to Wear Shades As an Oracle DBA (18 years) focused on enterprise management (OEM) across the Oracle Infrastructure  (Database Server and Fusion Middleware) I ventured into open source with MySQL...

A brand(ed) new zone

c0t0d0s0.org | Solaris | May 08, 11:11 AM PDT | By nospam@example.com (Joerg Moellenkamp)

There are branded zones for Solaris 8, Solaris 9 and Linux 2.4/32bit . And now there is a development in progress for a Solaris 10 brand for zones in Opensolaris. Jordan Vaughan reports about this development in his blog and points to a screencast produced...

Live Search in JSF

Prosthetic Conscious | /General | May 08, 10:48 AM PDT | By jtb

Suppose we have list of things, or a table of things, and a search box. The list should update based on what the user types. Additionally, the search should be live, in that the table updates as the user is typing; they are not required to hit enter, click a...

Observing Intel's "Turbo Boost" feature with Power...

End of Line | /General | May 08, 10:46 AM PDT | By esaxe

One of the most interesting features of Intel's Core i7 and the Xeon 5500 processors (Nehalem) is the ability of the processor to go into a mode called "Turbo Boost". While most modern processors are capable of being power managed to run at various clock...

OpenSSO Fedlet Wins European Identity Award

Rajeev's Blog | /Personal | May 08, 10:43 AM PDT | By rajeev

Fedlet started out as "SAML2 lightweight SDK" 2 years ago with a small prototype with a UI to show levels of integration points. I recall Jamie demonstrating the prototype to customers in Canada and the surprisingly strong positive reactions it got....

Portrix debugs live VoIP service using DTrace

Openomics | /sun | May 08, 10:40 AM PDT | By Frederic Pariente

Hamburg-based Portrix is providing and hosting the telephony software SmartDialer for a large German call center. SmartDialer is based on a Solaris port of the open-source Asterisk package. The application performs very well on the Sun Fire T2000 ...

Wow...

The Anti-Blog Blog | /Sun | May 08, 10:39 AM PDT | By Dave Pickens

Here I thought colleges and universities were all about freedom, creativity and education. From Slashdot: College Threatens to Sue Students Over Email Addresses It's always amazing to see things like this. Now I admit I put my foot in my mouth from...

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