Posts by Matthew Wood

Did Sun's total package kill the IBM deal?

Save Ferris! uhh I mean Solaris!

'IBM doesn't need MySQL - it has DB2. It doesn't need Solaris - there are other Unices which are at least as good.' Would that be AIX? I keeed! Ok I'm a bit biased; but Solaris is the bee's knees when it comes to "enterprise" OS. It has kernel architecture that Linus and friends have only discovered in the past few years. It was multi-CPU (and now core) aware when FreeBSD and Linux were still in diapers. It has stability up the /dev/yinyang and wow shit like ZFS is awesome (if you're an admin, obviously management has no clue about it).

I'm not referring to OpenSolaris, which is a great project, but convincing people they should run Solaris on the desktop..welllll. There are (too) many Linux distros that do that just fine.

I'd hate to see Solaris fall by the wayside as the Betamax of OSes: better than the rest but outdone by the blind cult of the VCR (aka Red Hat). Has anyone looked at what Red Hat charges for an enterprise OS license lately? Cmon people don't let them get away with that shit!

Busted! Conficker's tell-tale heart uncovered

thanks for the scanner

thanks much to the guys for banging this together! The one thing it needs: a ping test first and then discard further testing of that address if there is no response. I've seen that if you hit an IP that isn't returning port-unr or simply isn't on the network...the scanner seems to sit forever trying the SMB port.