Wednesday, August 27, 2003

Sun[tm] ONE Message Queue 3.5 Enterprise Edition, Beta

Beta release of Sun MQ 3.5. The feature list describes lots of technical details, especially considering their clustering approach. eg info about every cluster node (broker) must be available to the client for load balancing and fail-over.

here are the release notes.

interesting:

  • enhanced auto-reconnect
  • broker memory management
  • monitoring via special JMS destinations
  • resource adapter for integration with j2ee server

Monday, August 25, 2003

Recovering a Lost BIOS Password

Google Answers: Recovering a Lost BIOS Password

really good answer -- bios passwords don't seem to offer a lot of protection!