1. Adapter Type 10 hours ago   permalink

Feeds.vmware.com

Power on the virtual machine. If you are prompted to change the adapter type assigned to the virtual machine, allow the changes. For information on changing the SCSI controller using the GUI option see, Change the virtual SCSI controller of a virtual machine (1002149).

2. 2011…with a Bullet 23 minutes ago   permalink

Administrator / DrunkenData.com

First post of a new year.  Here’s the obligatory season’s greetings: Now that that is over with, let’s get down to 2011 business. Welcome (back) readers of DrunkenData.com.  This will be post number 1596 and will kick off another year of questions, information and tirades aimed at improving my understanding of the products and ...

3. ZFS Encryption for USB sticks on Solaris 11 Express 2 hours ago   permalink

Paul Johnson / Sun Bloggers

USB memory sticks are easily lost, so to keep your data safe, it's best to use the new encryption feature of ZFS available since snv_149 (ZFS version 30). Here's how to take advantage of it. [paulie@adrenaline ~]$ uname -a SunOS adrenaline 5.11 snv_155 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris Get the device id for the USB stick using rmformat. [paulie@adrenaline ~

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4. Intel releases miniature 80GB SSD 1 hour ago   permalink

Computerworld Storage News

Intel recently announced a mini solid-state drive that is one-eighth the size of its current 2.5-in SSD, but that can hold as much as 80GB of data and achieve up to 200MB/sec. throughput.

5. Cover Story: Tools for Trouble-Free Computing 3 hours ago   permalink

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Maintaining a computer is much like maintaining a marriage--healthy ones require both regular attention and occasional extra effort. Neglect either your spouse's or your PC's needs, and you risk having to get along by yourself.

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6. Nothing, redefined 5 hours ago   permalink

Sharky / Computerworld Blogs

It's a hot, humid day at this Mediterranean office when an IT pilot fish gets a call from a user complaining that his PC is constantly freezing. read more

7. Despite anti-Oracle hysteria, firm is an Open Source powerhouse 5 hours ago   permalink

Www.techeye.net

By the time you read this, we´ll be in 2011, and 2010 will be remembered as the year where the IT press used Oracle as its favourite punching bag. This scribbler thinks that despite anti-Oracle hysteria, there´s reasons to think that the database giant has become an Open Source powerhouse, as most -if not all- of Sun´s open ...

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8. Cloud Engines, Inc. Receives $15 Million in Financing 7 hours ago   permalink

David / VMblog.com

Cloud Engines, Inc., the company behind personal cloud solution Pogoplug, has received $15 million in financing from new investors Softbank Capital and Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP) and existing investor Foundry Group. The capital will be used to continue to expand the global distribution of the Pogoplug service and devices.

9. NCKU Cloud Computing Service Initiates in January, 2011 7 hours ago   permalink

David / VMblog.com

Before the Cloud Computing Service of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, initiates in January, 2011, its inauguration ceremony was held at 9:30am, December 31st, in the first floor of Computing and Network Center, Cheng-Kung Campus. ...( read more )

10. Wikipedia meets $16M fundraising goal ... the hard way 7 hours ago   permalink

Paul McNamara / Paul McNamara

Annual appeal to donors raises needed funds and renews old questions Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced over the weekend that his organization has reached its $16 million annual fundraising goal. The good news, according to Wales, is that the donations will enable Wikipedia to remain free of advertising. Read more

11. 2010 top blog entries and other stats 7 hours ago   permalink

Alexismp / Sun Bloggers

Wishing you a successful 2011 and sharing the obligatory stats for 2010 : The #1 entry on this blog for 2010 is "GlassFish 3.0.1 is out - Delivering on the community roadmap promise" (June 2010, accounting for more than 7% of the traffic). Other top entries include : • "Using the EJBContainer API with or without Maven (but with GlassFish v3)"

12. SupportWLDDInContainers 16 hours ago   permalink

Wikis.sun.com

Weblogic does provide following two provider agnostic value add features for JPA development according to their doc. We do not have either of them available in v3.

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13. Invoices For Barack Obama On The NetBeans Platform 21 hours ago   permalink

Geertjan / Sun Bloggers

Time to send Barack Obama some invoices? Here's the way to do so: The above is a free NetBeans Platform application that you can find here: Download the sources (or the binaries, which are available there too) from there and then open your app in NetBeans IDE: Then simply run it (no need to set ...