Sun Tech Days February 25, 2007
Posted by Ananth in General, Sun.5 comments
I was a part of the largest developer conference in Indian History last week and was speaking about Solaris technologies.
Disable Telnet - Now ! February 13, 2007
Posted by Ananth in General.3 comments
Some embarrassingly bad code in OpenSolaris has been exploited. Here is kcope’s original description of the attack
(Warning: Do NOT read further unless you are a sysadmin wishing to secure your systems. Using this exploit on systems that you have no business logging into, is a Federal Offense. The author disclaims all responsibility of this publicly available information)
BeleniX Live DVD February 7, 2007
Posted by Ananth in Open Source, Operating Systems, Solaris.add a comment
Moinak announced the BeleniX Live DVD last night.
Now BeleniX has it all - It can run off a CD, DVD, USB and Hard Disk [ Floppy Disks won't be supported and Blu-Ray needs some time 
]
The news generated nearly 12000 page-hits yesterday - our biggest since the birth of BeleniX !
Treasure Trove of Math Books February 5, 2007
Posted by Ananth in Mathematics, Rants.add a comment
Most of the books referenced from here are excellent.
http://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html
Everytime once in a while, I wonder: [1] How would life be without the World Wide Web? [2] What would have Euclid done if he were here today ?
