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- An idea about teaching Linux to the MCSE community
- An idea about teaching Linux to the MCSE communityIt's not about shellsIt's about where things are and what they're called.Remember we can have the scripts configure gnome to look like windows and pop up wintel like menus too.Put the cart before the horse.You'll need to get them all into the...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Unix, server, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- Microsoft: Vista SP1 will break these programs
- Microsoft: Vista SP1 will break these programsNYT ReaderI had the NYT Reader installed when I ran the SP1 package. I also kept all my peripherals (7 USB devices) connected during the upgrade and it went surprisingly without errors and finished in 19 minutes. NYT Reader and all my other apps...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), NVidia Corp., Dxdiag, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, SP1, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Select group of testers get new builds of XP SP3, Vista SP1
- Select group of testers get new builds of XP SP3, Vista SP1Performance of XP-SP3 vs Vista SP1What would be interesting is an unbiased comparison of performance of XP-SP3 vs Vista SP1. I wonder if we'll see this. Stuff like network performance, multimedia rendering and speed, disk performance, application performance and...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), sp-3, error message, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, XP SP3, Select Group, Microsoft Windows XP, SP1
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- Realistically deploying Edubuntu
- I'm on an Edubuntu users mailing list where, more often than not, veteran users can answer questions for new users. I usually give it a quick skim for any new features or fixes and then leave it to accumulate like so many other pieces of information in my Gmail...
- Tags: Thin Client, Video Editing, Server, Video, RAM, Thin Clients, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Gartner puts phishing tab at $3.2 billion
- Gartner puts phishing tab at $3.2 billionI hate to say it, but...The government is not doing enough. NONE of the governments, especially in the countries where this stuff comes from. As I read it, China, Russia and Germany are the hot spots for this crap. That and...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, government, software, phishing, Gartner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- WANdisco Security for CVS (exe)
- Prevents unauthorized access attempts and alerts security administrators immediately when they occur. Allows access control to be implemented at the CVSROOT or SVNROOT, branch, module, directory, or file levels. Role based access control allows separation of user privileges and project resource definitions. Unique access privileges can also be defined for...
- Tags: Role-based Access Control, Access Privilege, IP Address, CVS Corp., Authentication, LDAP, Networking, Security, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2007-11-02
- News to know: PC satisfaction; Nokia batteries; VMware IPO; Flash VOIP
- Notable headlines:Customer satisfaction down among PC buyers.Nokia announces product advisory for BL-5C battery.AP: VMware prices IPO at $29.Ed Bott: The Vista RAM puzzle: Is 2GB enough?Larry Dignan: Classmates files for $125 million IPO.Ryan Stewart: Flash based VOIP is finally here.Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Shared Source licenses are now in...
- Tags: VoIP, Nokia Corp., PC, aQuantive Inc., Battery, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, IPO, Web Design, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- UK National Identity Scheme (NIS): "Costly white elephant"
- Chalk up another massive IT problem for Her Majesty's government in the UK. According to InterGovWorld and the Financial Times, the UK has bidding has opened on a controversial multi-billion pound identity card program called the National Identity Scheme NIS.Back in February, the Tories asserted that they would scrap the...
- Tags: Information Technology, U.K., Secretary, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- Symantec puts price tag on anti-botnet tool
- Symantec puts price tag on anti-botnet toolNorton 359, anyone?Wait, wait, wait. A product they have the temerity to name "360", suggestion a complete "circle" of protection, doesn't include botnet protection? Perhaps they should have named it "Norton 359"!?i stopped using anything from Symantec years agoi stopped using anything...
- Tags: SECURITY, Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, tool, Symantec Corp., Norton Co., SpyBot
- Discussion threads 2007-07-17
- University Delivers Credential Synchronization to Heterogeneous Systems, Drives Innovation
- American University of Beirut AUB is a prestigious Middle Eastern university with a worldwide reputation for academic excellence. The university and its affiliated teaching hospital use a variety of application and operating systems, and the IT staff needed a way to give users easy access to all systems, exchange data...
- Tags: Innovation, Backbone, University, Interoperability Backbone, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Leadership, Strategy, Operating Systems, Telecommunications, Software, Enterprise Software, Management
- Case studies 2007-03-06
- Can Dell change the Linux market?
- Can Dell change the Linux market?Red Hat/Dell Server Certification.Red Hat and SuSE had since some years ago (I think from 2002) Dell certified Servers.Almost all the Server series where Certified for Red Hat and SuSE but only the enterprise/supported distributions.Dell is not blind to the market requests ...And also there...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, desktop, Dell Computer Corp., Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-02-26
- A fifth MS Word zero-day?
- A fifth MS Word zero-day?Microsoft admit that their products don't work??Frtom the article : "This is why Microsoft's pre-patch guidance is so blunt: "Do not open or save Word files that you receive from un-trusted sources or that you receive unexpectedly from trusted sources."Linux users do not have to...
- Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Office, Operating systems, gorilla, data-mining industry, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, operating system, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2007-01-31
- Snarky Juxtapositions
- Snarky JuxtapositionsSnarky is the right word MurphYou are comparing a group of mismanaged Windows PCs with an ideal Sun Ray deployment.In a properly managed Windows environment the application would be deployed automatically from a server and no human interaction would be required.I recently did an upgrade of a piece of...
- Tags: Desktops, PC
- Discussion threads 2007-01-25
- New 'botworm' exploits Symantec flaw
- New 'botworm' exploits Symantec flawVistaThis coming from the company who was screaming that Microsoft not letting them into the kernel under the 64 bit version of Vista would make everyone in the world insecure. Who cares about Vista's code, fix your own damn stuff first Symantec!PatheticOk... the SECURITY software...
- Tags: SECURITY, Symantec Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-15
- Ellison offers full support service for Red Hat Linux at half the price
- Ellison offers full support service for Red Hat Linux at half the priceService at 1/2 the priceYes, the world of open-source they can do it cheaper this is sure to hurt RedHat overall in the market...I will be surprised to see how RedHat competes in this market now since their...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Inc., Oracle Corp., Linux
- Discussion threads 2006-10-25
- Who's afraid of identity?
- Solaris 10 contains two enormously significant new, user accessible, technologies: dTrace and ZFS. Both of these throw out years of accumulated work-arounds to deliver simple, elegant, solutions that fit right into the best Unix design tradition of doing one thing, and doing it extremely well. Identity management needs a...
- Tags: security
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
- Study of Network on Chip Resources Allocation for QoS Management
- The increasing complexity of integrated circuits and application requirements drive the research of new on-chip interconnection architectures. A network on chip draws on concepts inherited from distributed systems and computer networks subject areas to interconnect IP cores in a structured and scalable way. The main goal pursued is to achieve...
- Tags: QoS, Network, Allocation, Computation, Chip, Science Publications, Networking, Network Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware
- White papers 2006-10-18
- Rivals skirmish with Microsoft over Vista security
- Rivals skirmish with Microsoft over Vista securityQuestion about that...The three "L"s, isn't that Symantec's company mantra on their programs for Windows? The Mac versions don't install nearly as dirty as the Windows versions do, and those Windows versions have only become worse over the last 5 years (I swore I...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., security, Vista security, Microsoft Windows, Symantec Corp., operating system
- Discussion threads 2006-09-19
- Virtualization
- VirtualizationIts a whole lot simpler than thatThe overriding driver for virtualization is because its simpler. Simpler to give every app/project its own "machine" - since combining 2 or more on a single server is JUST TOO HARD for admins to manage, and TOO DIFFICULT for bean counters to handle...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, bean-counter, information technology, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2006-05-22
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