2014

The $year++ just took place. So i just wanted to wish you a nice 2014. I made some new years resolutions. Like loosing the same amount of weight as in...

Eventankündigungen für Düsseldorf, Frankfurt und Wien

As the first three events are in Germany and take place in german language, i will now switch over to german. Zusätzlich zum gestern angekündigten Event in Hamburg möchte ich...

Oracle Breakfast am 28.1.2014: "Service Management Facility"

This is an announcement for an event in Hamburg taking place in german language. So the rest of the text will be german. Es ist wieder ein Oracle Breakfast in...

tcp_init_wnd_chk

Not everything in the world is brand-new and sometimes your brand new server has to communicate with a really old TCP/IP enabled device. As such devices are sometimes really limited...

Solaris Tech Day with engineering speakers in Frankfurt on December 3rd

It’s not that frequent that you have bunch of engineers of Solaris in Germany for a day of presentations. However … on December 3rd they are in Germany. I just...

Solaris 11 Security presentation

The mails with the slides for the attendees of the Oracle Breakfasts should be out by now, so i want to link people to the presentation i’ve held at the...

Markus Flierl about Solaris

Markus Flierl , VP in charge of Solaris Engineering at Oracle, wrote an interesting article about his impressions from the OOW2013 in “Impressions from Oracle Open World 2013”. At first...

Oracle Runner

Okay, i know this will annihilate productivity for today, but just in case you have some brain cycles to spare: Here is a small jump and run game called Oracle...

Handling of IDRs in Solaris 11

Interesting article about stuff you have to know when you have to use IDR (Interim Diagnostics / Relief) on your system: “Top Tip: Managing Solaris 11 IDRs”.

Using X.509 support for SSH on Solaris 11.1

Since Solaris 11.1 the ssh implementation of Solaris supports the usage of X.509 certificates. There is a tutorial of a colleague that explains the setup however when i linked to...

Solaris 11 Security presentations

That was really cool in the recent days. I made my 4 “Solaris Security 11” events as part of the Oracle Business breakfast series talks in the last 2 weeks....

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Oracle Business Breakfast "Solaris 11 Security" in München und Düsseldorf

Ich möchte noch mal auf die beiden Vorträge zum Thema “Solaris 11 Security” hinweisen. In Hamburg und Berlin liefen sie ja schon, in Düsseldorf und München findet der Vortrag diese...

::linkbuf for 13-Sep-2013

The 6 Weirdest Things We've Learned Since 9/11 | Cracked.com

9/11

12 years and one day after NineEleven. It’s okay only to remember the victims of Nineeleven on 9/11 of each year. But on all other days we should remember that...

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Schneier on Security: iPhone Fingerprint Authentication (tags: security )

Cause and effect

Sometimes i would like to be able to do the jedi mind trick. Like “This isn’t the performance issue you are searching for”. Because it would be easier to convince...

Fingerprint Scanner

The new iPhone has a fingerprint scanner and some people are already complaining that this isn’t good decision of Apple in this “NSA here, NSA there” times. Perhaps it’s really...

Never underestimate ...

Never underestimate the tendency of the audience and the time you spend with the discussion to discuss NSA stuff when you do a security presentation these days. I made my...

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