News Archive

  • OpenSolaris Cancelled, Self-Wiping drive, Browsers Private Mode, Is SAS Dead?

    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...

    Full Story

  • Azure Test Drive, Bye Google Wave, Hotmail Face Lift, Softlayer / The Planet Merger

    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...

    Full Story

  • Free: AVG Rescue CD

    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...

    Full Story

  • Google Public DNS

    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...

    Full Story