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Announcing Laptop Solaris
Regular readers will know I’ve been a long term fan and user of Solaris, but things in the Solaris space have changed recently. I haven’t used Solaris as a desktop operating system for about 7 years, but for a long time, despite working at an agen…
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Wireless networking in OpenSolaris
No sooner have I started this blog – designed to cover my experiences of using Solaris 10 as the main operating system on my Sony laptop – than the folks at Sun develop the wireless kit to make using a wireless network on your OpenSolaris box avai…
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Planet MCslp
The MCslp sphere is beginning to expand slightly and to make it easier to monitor everything that I’m doing I’ve decided to aggregate all of the different areas that I’m currently involved in into a single blog. In the spirit of the various ‘plane…
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Welcome to MCslp Map Works
Hello! I’m just about to start working on a some new examples of working with Google Maps and Google Earth. As part of that, I’ve decided to set up a new website, both to host the examples and to act as a repository for informaiton on how I’m doin…
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Solaris 10 Review
I have a new review up on LinuxToday about my experiences of using Solaris 10 over the last few months. As the article says at the start, I’ve been using Solaris since the original SunOS was redeveloped and rebranded as Solaris in the early 90s, a…
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What is the semantic grid?
Whether you call it the Semantic Web or Web 2.0, it is obvious that in the web as we know it is changing. We have moved on from static web pages and simply links and will be moving towards more dynamic content, more intelligent links and better wa…
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Free IRC Clients
I have a new article up at Free Software Magazine on free, terminal (i.e. non-GUI) based IRC clients. Here’s the extract: In this article I???m going to look at a staple application of many user???s lives. No, not a web browser, but an IRC client. Int…
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You’ve got grid!
One of the problems with gaining a wider usage of the grid and extracting more potential CPU cycles and resources out of machines is to make use of those machines that are not permanently connected to your network. For example, laptops and noteboo…
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Build grid applications based on SOA
To the casual observer, you’d think that the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Grids are going in completely different directions. In fact, the two are more similar than people realize. But to make effective use of the technologies that both…
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Understanding WSRM
The Web Services Reliable Messaging (WSRM) standard is an extension of the web service model to allow secure communication of information between web services clients and servers. By secure, I don’t mean in terms of security or encryption, but ins…