Thursday, September 27, 2007

BerkeleyDB , SFS and TSocks

Although it is really useful and popular in academia, there is an ongoing chaos with BerkeleyDB. I am not sure if there is a commercialization process behind the scenes (I mean removing the project from the open source etc., after takeover of sleepycat) but it is highly possible nowadays that you will get a "404 page not found" error on BerkeleyDB related web page. Anyway, BerkeleyDB owner company Sleepycat has been taken over by Oracle and hopefully the stable downloads are from here any more.

SFS (Self-certifying File System, I prefer Secure File System) is a popular file system with fine authorization and sharing (in a decentralized manner) mechanisms. More information here.

I just discovered TSocks. It is a really useful tool for Socks based connections. Tsocks wraps the application that requires Socks connection and takes it through the way it knows. You can find the details here.

Stay tuned...