Collaborate Disseminate
The truth is, our desktop computers today would have been classed as supercomputers only a few decades ago. There was a time when people who needed real desktop power looked …read more Continue reading The Last Sun Sparc Workstation
While the Unix operating systems Solaris and HP-UX are still in active development, they’re not particularly popular anymore and are mostly relegated to some enterprise and data center environments They …read more Continue reading Apple System 7… on Solaris?
Illumos is an OpenSolaris-derived Unix system, and no Unix is complete without a C compiler or two. And with a name like Portable C Compiler (PCC), you would think that …read more Continue reading Illumos Gets a New C Compiler
When the IBM PC first came out, it was little more than a toy. The serious people had Sun or Apollo workstations. These ran Unix, and had nice (for the …read more Continue reading Relive the Glory Days of Sun Workstations
There was a time when “real” engineering workstations ran Linux. Apollo and Sun were big names and Sun’s version was Solaris. Solaris has been an iffy proposition since Oracle acquired …read more Continue reading Solaris might be Free If You Want It
Edgy XSS bypass, hacking fitness tracking in China, Russian hackers love power, leaky backups, Google hates Phishing for Google employees, Apache Tomcat, Solaris vulnerabilities that weren’t really fixed, OpenWhisk fails to beat a vulnerability. … Continue reading Russian Hackers, OpenWhisk, and Tomcat – Hack Naked News #182
Edgy XSS bypass, hacking fitness tracking in China, Russian hackers love power, leaky backups, Google hates Phishing for Google employees, Apache Tomcat, Solaris vulnerabilities that weren’t really fixed, OpenWhisk fails to beat a vulnerability. … Continue reading Russian Hackers, OpenWhisk, and Tomcat – Hack Naked News #182
Edgy XSS bypass, hacking fitness tracking in China, Russian hackers love power, leaky backups, Google hates Phishing for Google employees, Apache Tomcat, Solaris vulnerabilities that weren’t really fixed, OpenWhisk fails to beat a vulnerability. … Continue reading Russian Hackers, OpenWhisk, and Tomcat – Hack Naked News #182
For readers of A Certain Age, this may bring a tear to the eye. Reports have been circulating of the decision by Oracle to lay off a significant portion of the staff behind its Solaris operating system and SPARC processors, and that move spells the inevitable impending demise of those products. They bore the signature of Sun Microsystems, the late lamented workstation and software company swallowed up by the database giant in 2009.
So why might we here at Hackaday be reaching for our hankies over a proprietary UNIX flavour and a high-end microprocessor, neither of which are likely to …read more
Patches are available for a newly discovered Linux, BSD and Solaris vulnerability called Stack Clash that bypasses stack guard-page mitigations and enables root access. Continue reading Stack Clash Vulnerability in Linux, BSD Systems Enables Root Access
