How much Solaris memory?

It’s a dumb but simple thing, but I can never bloody remember how to do it:

How do you find out how much physical memory is on Solaris?

Simple answer:

prtconf

Which also tells you gobs of other useful stuff as well. I usually use “top” because where I’m at we . . . → Read More: How much Solaris memory?

A moment of mourning…

Time to hold a moment of mourning. It appears that WPA (fortunately not WPA 2 yet) has been cracked:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9119258&source=NLT_AM&nlid=1

http://www.itworld.com/security/57285/once-thought-safe-wpa-wi-fi-encryption-cracked

I realize Erik Tews is probably a good person and all and probably believes he’s helping the world by finding this vulnerability before the “real” hackers do, but ultimately I’m . . . → Read More: A moment of mourning…

The unfortunate truth about Exchange

Up until the last year my workplace used IMAP servers running on Linux and Solaris to manage and deliver mail. Then we decided because of the collaborative benefits, particularly with mobile devices like Blackberrys, to move to Exchange. The results have been dramatic, and this chart made by Google to espouse their GMail product reflects . . . → Read More: The unfortunate truth about Exchange