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Sunday, September 05 2010 @ 17:17 CEST

AROS Research Operating System

Wednesday, September 01 2010 @ 12:39 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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Old news, but stilll: AROS Research Operating System (AROS - pronounced "AR-OS") is a free and open source implementation of the AmigaOS 3.1 APIs. Designed to be portable and flexible, ports are currently available for x86-based and PowerPC-based PCs in native and hosted flavors, with other architectures in development.

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Solaris 10: password recovery

Sunday, August 22 2010 @ 20:48 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 11

To do password recovery in Solaris 10, you will have to do the following steps:

boot the machine from another medum (net for example)
mount your hard drive
set and export the TERM variable
edit etc/shadow on your hard drive, remove the password in question (root, most likely)
unmount the hard drive
reboot and log in. Don't forget to set a new password!

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Solaris: JET as a network boot server

Sunday, August 22 2010 @ 20:30 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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After setting up my Solaris 10 virtual appliance, I proceeded to install JET. After getting it installed, I had to download a Solaris 10 iso image (for SPARC, as I am going to boot a Blade 1000). Configuring the JET framework (the User Guide is handy) is not entirely straightforward; it wants you to have the "recommended patches" for the OS version you are going to boot / install, and for Solaris 10 that requires a support contract. Simply create /export/install/pkgs and /export/install/patches directories; they are empty, but that doesn't matter if you are only booting from the JET server. When you make your template; only select base_config or you will get error messages later. Edit /etc/dfs/dfstab so that /export/install is shared instead of a subdirectory. Finally do a make_client clientname. It will error out if something is wrong, fix any errors and re-run with the -f flag until there are no more errors.

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Solaris 10 in VirtualBox

Friday, August 20 2010 @ 23:05 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 17

Sun^H^H^HOracle has provided an "Appliance Image" for use in VirtualBox, it works with VirtualBox 3.0 or higher. I already had VirtualBox 3.2.4 (OSE) installed on my FreeBSD workstation, so I just downloaded the image (it was the 10/09 version) and got to it. I based my installation on the notes from Getting Started with a Solaris 10 Appliance Image for VirtualBox. After importing the appliance in VirtualBox, nothing happens until you power on the virtual machine. D'Oh! It will ask about networking (I chose DNS and DHCP, selected my DNS domain etc), root password (set it), but it didn't ask about the hostname. Perhaps this is why it becomes "unknown".

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ZBar bar code reader

Friday, June 11 2010 @ 19:04 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 51

ZBar is an open source software suite for reading bar codes from various sources, such as video streams, image files and raw intensity sensors. It supports many popular symbologies (types of bar codes) including EAN-13/UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5 and QR Code.

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Mollify - web file manager

Sunday, May 23 2010 @ 21:33 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 74

Mollify is a web file manager for publishing and managing files hosted in a web server of your choice. Different users can have access to different files and with different permissions.

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Qubes

Saturday, April 10 2010 @ 23:06 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 77

Qubes is an open source operating system designed to provide strong security for desktop computing. Qubes is based on Xen, X Window System, and Linux, and can run most Linux applications and utilize most of the Linux drivers.

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DavMail Gateway

Thursday, March 25 2010 @ 20:20 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 112

DavMail is a POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/LDAP exchange gateway allowing users to use any mail/calendar client (e.g. Thunderbird with Lightning or Apple iCal) with an Exchange server, even from the internet or behind a firewall through Outlook Web Access. DavMail now includes an LDAP gateway to Exchange global address book to allow recipient address completion in mail compoze window and full calendar support with attendees free/busy display.

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P8TCH - physical bookmark

Saturday, March 20 2010 @ 20:27 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 70

The P8TCH is a clever idea: a physical patch that you can attach to clothing or other things (velcro on the back). Each patch contains a unique QRCode, which is a unique URL on the p8t.ch domain, which you control - you can redirect it anywhere. Very cool!

Tahoe-LAFS

Sunday, February 14 2010 @ 21:32 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 81

This is exciting: Tahoe-LAFS (Wikipedia: Tahoe-LAFS) is a secure, decentralized, data store. Or a P2P filesystem that lets you use the cloud without trusting it. Allmydata.org calls it the first cloud storage system with provider-independent security.
(found via Boing Boing)