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Microsoft Blue Hat v7

Microsoft Blue Hat v7 - Nate McFeters's pics from Microsoft Blue Hat v7 in May '08. by Nate McFeters

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Nate McFeters, tech action, Microsoft, Blue Hat, v7, nate, mcfeters

Image galleries 2008-05-06

Hackers in Seattle for Microsoft's Blue Hat, ToorCon

White hat hackers have descended on Seattle for two semi-private security conferences where new attack and exploitation techniques are being discussed.The first is the Spring 2007 edition of Microsofts Blue Hat Security Briefings where researchers are invited to Redmond "to share knowledge and to educate and help protect customers against...

Tags: Botnets, Browsers, Data theft, Digital rights management, Exploit code, Hackers, McAfee, Metasploit, Microsoft, Passwords, Patch Watch, Pen testing, Punditocracy, Responsible disclosure, Viruses and Worms, Vulnerability research, Wi-Fi security, Windows Vista, Zero-day attacks

Blog posts 2007-05-10

Additional Resources

Who's a candidate for Desktop Linux? Your Kids.

My kids know Linux, OSX, and XP, and will obviously learn Windows 7, butskip Vista, though they will have contact with Vista. My son prefers OSX, my daughter Ubuntu.But, just like every kid should be taught at least two languages at home, they should also learn multiple OSes. Learning multiple...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, desktop Linux, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Optical storage: RIP

Vintage Zip DriveI've actually got a Zip 100 SCSI drive sitting around with a ton of disks. Cost a ton when it was new, but now it's just an antique paperweight...Optical storage is not a dead endSSD drives are never going to catch on for some big things, like PC...

Tags: Games, SSD Drives, SSD, optical media, hard drive, CD, game, Cd/DVd, storage, Optical Storage

Discussion threads 2009-10-11

Who's developing Linux?

A few questionsI'm not very surprised, but I do have a few questions.1. With Academia you mean not a company, but universities all over the world? Linguistically, it would appeal to the classical Latinist in me... :-)However, in that case, I'm a bit disappointed by the lack of kernel input...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux Kernel Development, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

News to know: AOL; Microsoft; Apple; SAP; Google

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Time Warner preps for AOL spin-off; Google's 5% stake worth $283 million Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: European...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, America Online Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Palm Pre, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-07-28

How safe are your CD-Rs?

How safe are your CD-Rs?Perhapsits his reader and not the diskRE: How safe are your CD-Rs?Have had branded CD-Rs fail in three years of time-frame.There have also been times when CD is unreadable right after burning even though the burner software good brand just verified that the data got written...

Tags: Consumer electronics, Branding, disc, CD-R, CD, DVD, Taiyo Yuden

Discussion threads 2009-07-20

Michael Jackson's death themed malware campaigns spreading

Michael Jackson's death themed malware campaigns spreadingLeave it to the scum of the world...... to use any and everything to scam users at the drop of a hat. What is even sadder is that people who are genuinely mourning Mr. Jackson's death are being subjected to even more potential loss.Never...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Michael Jackson, malware campaign, malware

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

iPhone 3G S expectations: 500,000 units sold over the weekend

iPhone 3G S expectations: 500,000 units sold over the weekendiPhone 3G service wide area outage / interruptionJune 18, 2009: iPhone 3G and Edge network went completely down at approx 1:00 AM EST. I called AT&T Support first thing this morning (approx 9am EST) and they reported being UNAWARE of any...

Tags: Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, HERE ARE, Apple iPhone, 3G, Apple iPhone 3G

Discussion threads 2009-06-18

A-DATA's NH92 'world's slimmest' portable HDD

Today seems to be a day of superlatives on ZDNet, and A-DATA has thrown its hat into the ring with what it calls the "world's slimmest portable hard drive." A-DATA's fashionably-named NH92 is just 12mm -- or 0.47 in. -- thick and tips...

Tags: Hard Drive, A-Data Technology Co., Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?

Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?Jboss would complement Websphere?Really? Is that like how MySQL is going to complement Oracle's flagship product? Doesn't make sense to me, these products are in direct competition with eachother.I think the biggest threat to RedHat's business model is CentOS. Smart...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Storage, IBM Corp., Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., X64, Linux, Sun T2, server

Discussion threads 2009-05-15

A question about Linux

A question about LinuxHP retortThe longest in-use SysV UNIX today is ... HP-UX. In order to understand it, one needs to be free of Solaris bigotry. HP-UX and Solaris have 2 separate strategies - both at the kernel level and at the "OS application" level.HP tries to run "everything" though...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, HP IgniteUX, Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-04-25

Alpine iDA-X305

As the saying goes, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!" That seems to be the approach taken by Alpine Electronics when designing its new iDA-X305 digital media receiver. Based on the already impressive iDA-X100 receiver, the X305 keeps the same single-DIN size, rotary encoder-based interface, and lightning quick browsing...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Advertising & Promotion, Search Mode, phone button, X305, Alpine iDA-X305, knob, Alpine

Product reviews 2009-04-16

Sun to IBM: We're willing to talk again; Big Blue not interested

Sun to IBM: We're willing to talk again; Big Blue not interestedI hope IBM know what they're doingIf they play chicken with Sun to get a bargain on the yummy pieces, they still risk throwing Java into years of uncertainty and customer defection. And that'll hurt part of IBMs business...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Financial accounting, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, stock

Discussion threads 2009-04-16

How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.

Twitter's "Fail Whale" logo is cute, but solving the popular service's availability and scalability issues will be paramount if the web is to rely on it as a communications medium. So, I've been Twittering for a while. I was skeptical of the service...

Tags: Client-server, Scalability, Twitter, IBM Corp., Storage, Mainframes, Databases, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-10

Open Source Haggadah, chapter 2

Last Passover, I spoke of the Commandments that companies should follow in order to be good Open Source citizens. Also read: Open Source Commandments I Also read: Open Source Commandments II My, what a difference a year makes -- or maybe...

Tags: Ubuntu, Novell Inc., Richard Koman, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Open Source, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Can you have an Open Cloud Manifesto without Amazon, Google, Salesforce and Microsoft?

IBM and other players on Monday will launch its Open Cloud Manifesto, a call to make cloud computing "open as all other IT technologies." But the list of companies that didn't sign on to the manifesto is telling. Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce never signed on. Google was on a preliminary...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Standards, Manifesto, IT Industry, Quality, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-29

Countdown to Philly ETE 2009

The Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise 2009 conference starts Thursday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I'll be attending the conference this year, and speaking at a session on Android development. Keynote speakers include: Michael Tiemann, Vice President of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat and...

Tags: Author, Ed Burnette, Co-author, Open Source

Blog posts 2009-03-23

What happens for Linux if IBM does buy Sun?

Rumor has it, IBM is looking at buying Sun. No surprise that we're seeing consolidation in a down market, but will this mean consolidation in the open source space? I'll let others speculate on the affect it might have on the hardware market, but I'm curious what...

Tags: OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2009-03-18

IBM's potential purchase of Sun: Here's why it makes sense

IBM is reportedly in talks to buy Sun Microsystems for $6.5 billion and the deal is long overdue. The companies mesh on the open source software front, Sun is struggling and IBM can consolidate some server market share.  First, the headlines. The Wall Street Journal is reporting...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Matt Asay, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-18