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Friday Tips #27

Happy Friday! If you're been following this blog, you saw last week's tip on accessing applications and desktops with Oracle Secure Global Desktop over a cellular connection using just HTML5 on an iPad. This week's question concerns HTML5 in desktop browsers:

Question:
Does Oracle have plans to support HTML5 when using desktop browsers for Oracle Secure Global Desktop?

May 10, 2013 2:00pm

Oracle Solaris Security Recommended Reading

A few recent security-related items you may not have seen yet:

First off, we have a new paper on achieving compliance with security standards using Oracle Solaris 11:

May 10, 2013 1:57pm

Configuration of Isoqlog on QMAIL Server

Configuration of Isoqlog on QMAIL Server

May 10, 2013 2:28am

dtrace

DTrace Introduction

DTrace is Solaris 10's Dynamic Tracing facility. It allows us to peer into the innards of running processes and customize our view to exclude extraneous information and close in on the source of a problem.

DTrace also has capabilities that allow us to examine a crash dump or trace the boot process.

May 10, 2013 12:30am

DISK CRITICAL - /root/.gvfs is not accessible: Permission denied

I was getting Nagios Error to access /root/.gvfs on CentOS release 6.3 (Final) Operating System.

May 09, 2013 11:14pm

Compiling SamTools

Taken from Cufflinks – Getting Started
SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) format is a generic format for storing large nucleotide sequence alignments. SAM Tools provide various utilities for manipulating alignments in the SAM format, including sorting, merging, indexing and generating alignments in a per-position format.
SAMTools (0.1.19)
Step 1: – Download SAMTools
Step 2: – Unpack and compile the SAMTools

May 09, 2013 9:24pm

Configuration of Bridge Network on Ethernet Card in Debian using XEN

Configuration of Bridge Network on Ethernet Card in Debian using XEN

May 09, 2013 2:21am

Why Use Xen?

At the Linux Foundation Collaborative Summit in April, the Xen Project announced that it was now a Collaborative Project of the Linux Foundation.  But as people attended some of the Xen-related conference sessions, one question always seemed to be asked: “Why should I use Xen?”

May 09, 2013 2:00am

iostat

iostat

As with most of the monitoring commands, the first line of iostat reflects a summary of statistics since boot time. To look at meaningful real-time data, run iostat with a time step (eg iostat 30) and look at the lines that report summaries over the time step intervals.

For Solaris 2.6 and higher, use iostat -xPnce 30 to get information including the common device names of the disk partitions, CPU statistics, error statistics, and extended disk statistics.

May 09, 2013 12:30am
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