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Sun Unveils RAID-Less Storage Appliance
Posted: November 10th, 2008, 11:26pm CET by ScuttleMonkey
Tags: sun
pisadinho writes "eWEEK's Chris Preimesberger explains how Sun Microsystems has completely discarded RAID volume management in its new Amber Road storage boxes, released today. Because it uses the Zettabyte File System, the Amber Road has eliminated the use of RAID arrays, RAID controllers and volume management software — meaning that it's very fast and easy to use." -
U-Turn On UK ID Cards
Posted: November 10th, 2008, 8:41pm CET by ScuttleMonkey
Tags: security
An anonymous reader writes "The UK appears to be watering down its national ID card system, with the revelation by the government that it will now only check the cards against a central biometric database in a minority of cases. Critics are saying it not only renders the whole scheme pointless, but will pose a security risk by making it far easier to use copied or cloned cards. 'But an Identity and Passport Service spokesman denied the system would be vulnerable to fraud: 'The majority of instances where people use their identity cards will be day-to-day situations where the cards offer a convenient method of proving identity such as a young person proving their age to buy alcohol,' he said.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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DNS Inventor Tackles Flaw
Posted: November 10th, 2008, 4:57pm CET by ScuttleMonkey
Tags: security
nk497 writes "Dr Paul Mockapetris is looking to fix the flaws in the Domain Name System he helped invent. 'It was never meant to be the only security mechanism for naming data on the internet, but was intended for additional security measures to be added to it later.' The flaws, first uncovered by security researcher Dan Kaminsky over the summer, lets attackers redirect genuine URLs to malicious ones — a problem Mockapetris believes could be solved using digital signatures."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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(Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks?
Posted: November 10th, 2008, 3:17pm CET by ScuttleMonkey
Tags: programming
careysb writes to mention that in the same vein as '*nix tricks' and 'VIM tricks', it would be nice to see one on regular expressions and the programs that use them. What amazingly cool tricks have people discovered with respect to regular expressions in everyday life as a developer or power user?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Ioke Tries To Combine the Best of Lisp and Ruby
Posted: November 10th, 2008, 7:22am CET by timothy
Tags: programming
synodinos writes "Ola Bini, a core JRuby developer and author of the book Practical JRuby on Rails Projects, has been developing a new language for the JVM called Ioke. This strongly typed, extremely dynamic, prototype-based, object-oriented language aims to give developers the same kind of power they get with Lisp and Ruby, combined with a nice, small, regular syntax."Read more of this story at Slashdot.