http://www.rc.au.net/blog Rod's 2.0 weblog world of wonder Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:20:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In January of this year a number of work colleagues were looking at network media players which supported high definition material and specifically ones which supported material in MKV (Matroska) containers. I did a little reasearch at that time and... it appears there are a number of players based on the Sigma ... http://www.rc.au.net/blog/2008/04/03/hd-media-player-with-mkv-support-popcorn-hour-nmt-a-100/ In my last post I had installed SXCE Build 84 on my Sun Ultra 24 workstation in the hopes that I could get xVM working - however build 84 still contained the 3.0.4 Xen codebase. Last night I installed SXCE Build 85 and behold it includes the 3.1.2 Xen codebase and ... http://www.rc.au.net/blog/2008/03/27/solaris-express-community-edition-build-85/ As a continuation of my journey to OpenSolaris on my new Sun Ultra 24 Workstation I'm posting another update on my experience so far. Previously I mentioned I had installed OpenSolaris SXDE (79b) however I was unable to get xVM to work. I thought I would give the newer Community Edition ... http://www.rc.au.net/blog/2008/03/19/opensolaris-fun-on-an-ultra-24-workstation/ I ordered a new Sun Ultra 24 Workstation (Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme QX6850 3GHz, 6GB RAM, 250 & 750GB HDs) a few weeks ago and it has now arrived. I planned to run Solaris Express Developer Edition (08/01 - Build 79b) on this machine and then run a number ... http://www.rc.au.net/blog/2008/03/14/sun-ultra-24-workstation-with-opensolaris-compiz-xvm-virtualbox/ I’d not heard of VirtualBox until I attended the Sun Tech Days Australia Developer Conference earlier this week. Since it could run on OpenSolaris (and OS X), I thought I’d give it a try and test both VirtualBox AND the latest release of the OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 (Indiana). VirtualBox installs ... http://www.rc.au.net/blog/2008/03/09/opensolaris-developer-preview-2-indiana-under-virtualbox-on-macbook-pro/ I attended the Sun Tech Days Australia event here in Sydney this week along with the Community Events day on the last day. I primarily attended the Solaris and OpenSolaris tracks and found some good nuggets of information there. Some of the most interesting information I heard were from the Virtualization ... http://www.rc.au.net/blog/2008/03/07/sun-tech-days-opensolaris-and-virtualbox/ MayDay! Sneakier, More Powerful Botnet on the Loose A new peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet even more powerful and stealthy than the infamous Storm has begun infiltrating mostly U.S.-based large enterprises, educational institutions, and customers of major ISPs. Truecrypt 5.0 released The popular open source privacy tool, TrueCrypt, has just received a major update. The ... http://www.rc.au.net/blog/2008/02/08/20080208-daily-security-reading/ Report - 51 Percent Of Malicious Web Sites Are Hacked The number of legitimate Web sites that have been hacked and seeded with code that tries to infect visitors PCs with malware now exceeds the number of sites specifically created by cyber criminals. Drive-By Pharming In the Wild Symantec reported Tuesday that the ... http://www.rc.au.net/blog/2008/01/30/20080130-daily-security-reading/ Retrospective: 10 Security Blunders Every year gets its share of major, jaw-dropping security blunders. This is a retrospective for the 21st century so far, with special attention on 2007. Zero-Day Exploit For Apple's QuickTime Posted Vulnerability affects both Windows and Mac OS X versions of Apple's QuickTime software. Polish teen derails tram after hacking ... http://www.rc.au.net/blog/2008/01/16/20080116-daily-security-reading/ Thinking fast-flux: New bait for advanced phishing tactics Years ago, attackers would often have one or two really important machines that were the centerpiece of their criminal money-making schemes. The bad guys, thus, often faced one or more single points of failure in their criminal infrastructures. So, how have today's enterprising ... http://www.rc.au.net/blog/2008/01/10/20080110-daily-security-reading/