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- Google looks like mobile Linux break-out
- Google looks like mobile Linux break-outI tend to doubt that it willPeople use mobile phones for telephone calling and more recently for MP3s. I seriously doubt embedded linux will do anything at all for the desktop linux movements since most people I know don't know and don't care about...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, music industry, Linux, Google Inc., mobile, mobile Linux break-out, Google Looks, break-out, Mobile Linux, phone, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
- Discussion with Red Hat's Joel Berman and Nick Carr - 1st take
- I recently had the opportunity to speak with Red Hats Joel Berman, Product Management Director for Virtualization products, and Nick Carr, Director of Public and Analyst Relations. First of all, thanks guys for generously giving of your time to bring me back up to date on Red Hats views of...
- Tags: virtual processing software, virtualization, virtual machine software, clustering software
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Cuba going open source
- Cuba and Venezuela are shaking off the yoke of US hegemony by jettisoning Microsoft products for open source, AP reports. "Its basically a problem of technological sovereignty, a problem of ideology," said Hector Rodriguez, who oversees a Cuban university department of 1,000 students dedicated to developing open-source programs....
- Tags: Government technology, International, Linux/Unix, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- What operating system has the most vulnerabilies?
- What operating system has the most vulnerabilies?Vulnerability of PDAs'Small' operating systems such as Windows Mobile/ Pocket PC, Symbian and othes are increasingly hosting financial transactions but have not yet received the attention they will need to continue on down this path with relative safety.Figures can't lie, but liars can figureThe...
- Tags: SECURITY, operating system, vulnerability, LINUX/UNIX, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-12-30
- Block OS fingerprinting on linux/unix systems
- When an attacker attempts to penetrate a targeted Linux/UNIX system, the first task involved is usually to discover which OS the system is running and then compromise it with known exploits. If you can thwart an attacker from identifying the OS, then you can make it much harder and more...
- Tags: LINUX/UNIX, Attacker, Operating System, O'Reilly Media Inc., Networking, Network Security, Operating Systems, Security, Software
- Book chapters 2005-03-25
- Monitor and manage logs in linux/unix
- This book chapter, excerpted from O'Reilly's Linux Server Security, 2nd Edition, explains a variety of best practices for managing log files on Linux/UNIX systems. Learn how to set up and use syslogd and syslog-ng, as well as how to test your logs with logger, how to manage files with logrotate,...
- Tags: LINUX/UNIX, Monitor, O'Reilly Media Inc., Linux, Open Source, Monitors & Displays, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components
- Book chapters 2005-02-17
- Schwartz spreads pricing ideas beyond Sun software
- Schwartz spreads pricing ideas beyond Sun softwareLinux will kill Solaris and they know it.First Unix then Windows.Kill... Kill...KillSun is accountable for its own future and isn't bright. Never liked Sun that much, but Mr. Scott's arrogance brought down Sun to it's knees and worse, to lik MS A$$.UltraSparc is been...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Processors, software, pricing strategy, Sun UltraSPARC, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Linux, Schwartz, LINUX/UNIX
- Discussion threads 2004-06-01
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- Putting the XP into the OLPC
- So, Microsoft has managed to get in on the OLPC bandwagon and put XP in front of millions of eyeballs in the developing world. But is this move about the children's education, or it is about recruiting more Windows users. What's important to note is that Microsoft...
- Tags: Team, One Laptop Per Child Project, Team Management, Microsoft Windows XP, Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too
- Microsoft's agreement to offer Windows XP on OLPC's XO laptop is appropriate and long overdue. It was pure hypocrisy for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to publicly decry the so-called "Digital Divide" while privately refusing to support the XO simply because Linux was a supported operating system. ...
- Tags: Operating System, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Gates Foundation, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Open Source in 2013
- <satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...
- Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?
- The One Laptop Per Child program will put XP on its XO laptop and children in the developing world will have a choice between Windows and Linux. On the surface, a little choice isn't going to kill anybody. In fact, choice is good. And if some poor...
- Tags: Operating System, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, XP Screen, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Stonesoft Security in Virtual Environments
- As I mentioned in the post, Virtualization and security, quite a number of suppliers focused on security in virtualized environments have come forward to speak with me in the past month. Stonesoft is one of those companies. Mark Boltz, Senior Solutions Architect, and Greg Mead, Solutions Architect, both of Stonesoft,...
- Tags: Network, Environment, Stonesoft, Stonegate Management Center, Security, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Introduction to BIT
- This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...
- Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Verdiem spruces up its Survey PC power management software
- Verdiem, one of the better known developers of power management software that counts Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Microsoft among its close partners, has delivered an impressive upgrade to its Surveyor technology. According to the Seattle-based company, the focus was on providing IT managers with even more configuration flexibility than previously available....
- Tags: Software, Power Management, PC, Power Consumption, Survey, Verdiem, Desktops, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO
- Microsoft's participation in the One Laptop Per Child OLPC initiative has been fraught with mystery and disinformation from the get-go. But on May 15, Microsoft officials finally gave the OLPC project Redmond's official blessing. Up to this point, OLPC Chief Nicholas Negroponte preannounced Microsoft's every move on...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Patent reform dead for 2008
- The death of the Patent Reform Act in the Senate spells hard times for open source. That's because one of the act's main aims was to end "forum shopping," the practice of filing lawsuits in, say, the Eastern District of Texas, which never saw a patent plaintiff...
- Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Off Topic: Integrating mobile devices can be a challenge
- I've been working through a project for a KG client that involves running through the same script on Windows XP, Mac OS X (10.5) and Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. I mentioned the overall parameters of that effort in the post Off Topic: Desktop evaluation - Linux, Mac OS and...
- Tags: Microsoft ActiveSync, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Mobile Device, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS, Linux, Desktops, Handhelds, Software, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- What's wrong at OpenSolaris
- The OpenSolaris community just released the first complete "Project Indiana" edition of the OS - and in that process demonstrated why community enthusiasm for the product seems to have weakened recently. It's a great product -everything from ZFS to a new package management system...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Intel X86, Developer Argument, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- With the Quickness: HD Moore sets new land speed record with exploitation of Debian/Ubuntu OpenSSL flaw
- So, for those who haven't heard, a Debian packager modified the source used for OpenSSL on Debian based systems Debian and the whole of the Ubuntu family to remove the seed used for PRNG Pseudo Random Number Generator used when creating SSL keys. Well, HD Moore set a new record...
- Tags: OpenSSL, SSH, Debian, Key, Flaw, HD, ID, Ssl/Tls, Operating Systems, Open Source, Security, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
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