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OpenSolaris Cancelled, Self-Wiping drive, Browsers Private Mode, Is SAS Dead?
[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express
This memo was circulated internally within Oracle (and subsequently leaked). Basically, the open source development model has now been axed and OpenSolaris is officially now dead. A very sad day indeed.
It seems that Oracle has no room for OpenSolaris in its...
Read More Azure Test Drive, Bye Google Wave, Hotmail Face Lift, Softlayer / The Planet Merger
Windows Azure No Cost Test Drive for Devs
Limited to US developers, the first 500 to sign up each month will get a full month's pass good for the one calendar month. In addition, you'll get free phone, chat and email support through the Front Runner for Windows Azure program.
Looks...
Read More Free: AVG Rescue CD
AVG has joined other AV providers by making available a free rescue CD. AVG Rescue CD is a portable version of AVG anti-virus built on top of a Linux distribution (Live-CD), Rescue CD is meant to help clean deep infections from systems that may no longer boot normally. Equally...
Read More Google Public DNS
Google effort to speed up the web Google now includes its own Public DNS as an alternative to ISP provided servers.
The service follows the DNS Standards set forth by the Internet community and is not intended to compete with OpenDNS which provides filtering and many other features, but also...
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