Interesting post from James on the possibilities of Windows desktop systems being SAML identity providers (IdPs). Currently, a similar mechanism exists for desktop single sign-on from Windows (via SPNEGO , using Kerberos tokens, which, by the way, OpenSSO and Access Manager support directly, no IIS 'bounce' required), but this is limited to a single enterprise's AD infrastructure and can be pretty tricky to deploy. It's easy to imagine IE submitting SAML assertions to service providers at Internet

Linux shop adds Solaris for performance boost Wow - "[...] it turned out that Solaris 10 had a throughput that was 50 times better." (tags: fedora linux solaris solaris10 sun t1000 t2000 ubuntu ) Open Source at Sun Microsystems, 2008 Gartner Analysis. Synopsis: Open source at Sun Microsystems is strong, and Gartner expects an increasing role for open source within its business strategies in coming years. (tags: analysis gartner opensource sun ) BigAdmin Feature Article: Using Kerberos to Authenticate

I've been using VMWare Workstation for several years now (after dumping VirtualPC when Microsoft bought them and promptly dropped support for Linux guest OS integration). As part of my recent upgrade to Windows Vista, I upgraded to VMWare Workstation 6.0 and had to re-enable all of my tricks to get everything working the way I like within the OS (and I had to find them all again as I hadn't written them down as I discovered them previously). So, this time, I've decided to document them here so that