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John D Groenveld | 8 Feb 06:35
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Firefox 10.0

In case you missed it as I did, SFWfirefox v10.0 is up:
<URL:http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/10.0/contrib/>

Works for me both with Chuck Rozwat and company's Adobe Flash 
powered MOS and the recently upgraded supporthtml.Oracle.COM.

It also works with Java 7u2's libnpjp2.so.

$ /usr/jdk/jre1.7.0_02/bin/java -version
java version "1.7.0_02"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_02-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 22.0-b10, mixed mode)

<URL:http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp>

John
groenveld <at> acm.org

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Bob Friesenhahn | 7 Feb 01:11
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Oracle Emails

I did sign up for all the Oracle mailing lists a year ago and never 
received any messages.

This past week I keep receiving "Oracle Security Alert" emails which 
apologize that the mail might already have been received before 
("received twice") because Oracle (the database company) does not know 
how to send email.  Instead of receiving the message "twice" I have 
received at least eight copies of this mail aready.  Some of the 
emails seem like they have gone through a 20 year old email system 
(IBM mainframe?) since they have been rendered useless by 
reformatting.

Are others seeing the same?

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen <at> simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

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palowoda | 3 Feb 00:24
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Oracles public cloud


For the past three months Oracle has had the website:
http://cloud.oracle.com

I've registered for the services but haven't heard anything back.  Question has or is anybody using these
services?  Is it possible to transfer Amazon cloud configurations over to Oracle's cloud?

---Bob

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Marion Hakanson | 1 Feb 01:16
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Re: Sun Directory Server Download

jdg117 <at> elvis.arl.psu.edu said:
> <URL:http://www.oracle.com/us/sun/sun-products-map-075562.html>
> <URL:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/id-mgmt/overview/index-085178.html> 

In addition to that, the identity management stuff was spun off by Sun
into open-source projects, e.g. OpenDS, OpenSSO, and so on.  Since Oracle
took over, those have been taken on by (or morphed into) the ForgeRock folks,
who have OpenDJ, OpenAM, and OpenIDM.  There's forgerock.org and forgerock.com,
depending on your needs.

My own experience was with the old Sun JES Directory Server and Access Manager,
and then about a year ago we tested out OpenDS.  The latter is Java-only, and
very much easier to install and manage than the old JES stuff.  So I'd be
checking out the new OpenDJ if it were up to me....

Regards,

Marion

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dkeane6666 | 31 Jan 22:37
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Sun Directory Server Download

I'm looking for the Sun Directory Server, on the MOS web site down loads but I don't see it.  I remember that it
used to be bundled in( Sun ONE Directory Server) but all I have with the Sol 10 Update 10 are the client libs
SUNWlldap and I don't see it on the media.

Looking at the Docs they say its:
For information about installing and configuring the directory server, see the Sun Java System Directory
Server documentation, that is included with the Sun Java Enterprise System... I don't see anything in the
JavaEE about the Directory Server.

I don't have any hands on experience with installing|configuring an Ldap server so I wanted to play with it...

Thanks
Dennis

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Joerg Moellenkamp | 26 Jan 08:21
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Re: MEDIA: Joyent rakes in $85m to build out SmartOS clouds

I remember the Stevenote, when Jobs announced this white box and talked about a breakthrough-device and
everybody thought  "WTF?!?? Jobs is insane". Nice device surely, however a singing hard disk was hardly
innovative. The big innovation was a different thing ... the iTunes Music Store. Nobody believed you
could really big time of money out of selling music online, iTunes showed it otherwise. 

iPhone is the same. I own one and now i have a third excuse for being not available due to my phone not ringing
("I'm in a car","I'm in aircraft","I have an iPhone. Bad antenna"). However App Store was the single
innovative step that made out of a mediocre telephone a great device with a well working eco system of
content providers.  I think the most underestimated innovation is the App Store, they have a great update
mechanism. When Apple thinks they want to go from ARM  to x86 for example they just have to load new versions
of the software into the appstore and when user update to a new ARM system, they just have to press update  in
the App Store app next time. Together with tightly controlled interfaces a change of processor
achitecture is much easier than in the past. The user interfac
 e is innovative. The packaging is innovative. But not the phone itself (compared to other mobiles, the
processors are relative low-cored and low-speeded nowadays) ... technological not that interesting
besides of the usage of glass instead of plastic for the display.

Regarding Linux and Solaris and innovation i won't comment. And yes, the innovation "Graphical User
Interface" wasn't an innovation made by Apple. The innovations of Apple were at other places like really
think about user machine interaction and making a hard set of rules out of it and implementing it on a
hardware that was affordable by users. But the innovation "Graphical User Interface" was already made.

With your definition being the first-mover with taking all the risks to integrate an unproven
implementation of an invention into it's product is equally innovative than the ones just taking a
ready-made product that already proofed feasibility and put it in their product. I'm not a fan of this
definition. Wikipedia writes "Innovation differs from invention in that innovation refers to the use of
a new idea or method, " To use my radar cruise control analogy .... the first one to implement radar to do
adaptive cruise control in a car is innovative. But after this a method or   idea isn't new, as the others are
just reimplementing the idea or method. That doesn't mean that the reimplementation or integration in an
existing system doesn't need it's own share of innovation.
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John D Groenveld | 24 Jan 01:27
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MEDIA: Joyent rakes in $85m to build out SmartOS clouds

Catching up on my asks of the Google Oracle and saw some Illumos action.
ElReg hack (and Sam Palmisano and company flack?) Timothy Prickett Morgan
on Joyent's good fortune:
<URL:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/23/joyent_85m_venture_funding/>
ElReg hack Chris Mellor on Nexenta's:
<URL:http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2012/01/18/nexenta_c_round/>

Kudos to the Illumos community: Innovate or Die!
John
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palowoda | 23 Jan 10:51
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Which version of standard Java 7


Well I was having a friendly conversation with someone that I thought I would know the simple answer too but I
got basically stumped. If your a large organization and you plan to move to Java 7 clients do you deploy the
OpenJDK version or the Oracle version and why?  I suppose when Oracle makes Java 7 standard on Unbreakable
Linux and Solaris 11 it's not going to matter anymore. But than why would the OpenJDK distributions need to
exist for other platforms?

---Bob

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David Comay | 19 Jan 23:45
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Re: Welcome to Solaris 2012

>> Sorry, why do you think S11 is not binary compatible with S10?

> Because Oracle spokespersons publicly said so to our FOSUG. Good
> enough for me to believe it.

If you could let me know privately who spoke at FOSUG, I'll try to
find out what they were referring to.

>> As with
>> previous Solaris releases, binaries should be compatible provided
>> they're relying on public, stable interfaces (which, OpenSSL alas, was
>> not one.)

> Which is a joke in itself. Sun has restricted binary compatibility to
> such a small subset of what constitute an operating system that
> practically, it has become less useful than the best-effort policy of
> entreprise Linux distros.

As I said, OpenSSL wasn't part of the compatibility guarantee given
how the upstream community tended to break binary compatibility with
each release. We're more comfortable that they're not likely to do so
with the 1.x branches and as such, we're going to extend that
guarantee but with releases prior to 1.0.0, we're not able to do in a
sane manner

That said, I'm sorry you think the remaining  binary compatibility
effort to be a joke. We take it seriously and we try to extend the
list of libraries and other interfaces include when it's appropriate
to do so. For a great deal of applications, they fall into it. For
things that consume purely private interfaces (think lsof), then
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John | 19 Jan 20:17
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Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 Bug or New Feature

During the Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 installation process, the non-root user who is given administrative
privileges is automatically created with a UID of 60004. After booting the newly installed system, any
new user created, in which the new user's UID is not specifically specified, will have an incremental UID
starting with 60005.

All versions of OpenSolaris and Solaris 11 Express had a user base UID of 101. Also Solaris 10 update 10 has a
user base UID of 101.

Incidentally Solaris 9 has a user base UID of 1001 and Linux generally has a user base UID of 501.

So is the Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 method of creating user's UID's a bug, should start at 101, or a new feature,
now starts at 60004?

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palowoda | 19 Jan 12:59
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Is this true?


With all the news about SOPA and PITA(sp?) I almost missed this one.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2139854/oracle-tries-android-patent-lawsuit-google

What really? Oracle wants to drop the Java lawsuit for judge shopping. I haven't seen any other sources
mentioning this. If true I can't believe Oracle hiring their lawyers from "You too can be a legal expert in
just a week with an online degree". Say it isn't so.

---Bob

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