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- News to know: AMD pulls benchmarks; Windows patches; Xbox's $1 billion glitch
- Notable headlines:George Ou: AMD to remove deceptive Barcelona benchmarks on website. David Berlind: In search of...a benchmarking fix.Ryan Naraine: On deck: Critical Microsoft Office, Excel, Windows patches.News.com: Sprint breaks up with high-maintenance customers. See image right: Sprint's Dear John customer letter click to enlarge.Microsoft sings 'O Canada' amid immigration challenges....
- Tags: Security, News to know, Microsoft, Google, General, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- On deck: Critical Microsoft Office, Excel, Windows patches
- On deck: Critical Microsoft Office, Excel, Windows patchesWill they fix this?Probably not.http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windows-Vista-Features-and-Services-Harvest-User-Data-for-Microsoft-58752.shtmlSpyware is okay as long as it's only reporting to Microsoft. lol.Wow! Thanks for that!This is just another to add to my list of reasons as to why my transition from XP will be to Linux.PCLinuxOS check...
- Tags: Patches, Critical Microsoft Office Excel, Windows patch, patch management, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-07-05
- Firefox ANI exploit on the way - no protected mode
- Firefox ANI exploit on the way - no protected modeOpera MAY be immune to this, I am checking atmIf someone has Vista and metasploit, could they please try this exploit with Opera 9.1 / 9.2beta please.Nice deflectionWhile the "ANI exploit" may be exploitable through FireFox it is in fact MS's...
- Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Windows patch, Mozilla Firefox, protected mode, security, Microsoft Corp., operating system, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-04-03
- Microsoft to fix Windows patch
- Microsoft to fix Windows patchThey are addressing it.......................[b]Lets move on, I wish they would patchor actually FIX 1/2 the bugs in Linux ANDmake it work with new hardware.[/b]Microsoft to fix Windows patchIf there's a problem yo Microsoft will solve it, check it while their DJ revolves it. Microsoft recognizes...
- Tags: Patches, Operating systems, UNIX, Linux User, Microsoft Corp., patch, Linux, Windows patch, Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2006-04-21
- Firms urged to use unofficial Windows patch
- Firms urged to use unofficial Windows patch...uh, wait a minute...Let me make sure I've got this straight..."A Microsoft representative advised businesses to wait for a week, as the software giant can't guarantee third-party updates will be effective."...er, so does that mean that Microsoft CAN guarantee that its own updates will...
- Tags: Patches, SECURITY, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., patch, unofficial Windows patch, Windows patch, Ilfak, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2006-01-03
- Windows patch backfires on the security-minded
- Windows patch backfires on the security-mindedDidn't ZDNet already run this story?.WEll since the other isgetting full the spill over should be here soon... ]:)I'm confusedI thought that ZDNet only ever posted things that were pro Microsoft and anti Linux/Mac yet here we have an MS flaw posted not once, but...
- Tags: Patches, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Windows patch, security, patch management
- Discussion threads 2005-10-17
- Slew of Windows patches coming
- Slew of Windows patches comingSlew of Windows patches comingGood, anything to help make Windows more secure is always helpful and wanted. And they are releasing it right on schedule.Slew?Slew? Eight?Then what do you call Apple's monthly updates, one with a whopping 44 patches?http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302163http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302413You MUST be kidding !There are...
- Tags: Patches, Hacking, patch management, rep, security, Windows patch, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2005-10-06
- Windows patch gets its own rumor site
- Windows patch gets its own rumor siteThis guy is an imposter...The secrets of Windows XP SP3 are known to only those with the proper Software Assurance contracts. My rep meets me for breakfast once a week with the latest XP SP3 updates. He delivers them in a folder with the...
- Tags: Operating systems, Windows patch, rep, Mike Cox, Microsoft Windows, service pack
- Discussion threads 2005-08-01
- Microsoft: Windows patch is flawed
- Microsoft: Windows patch is flawedMicrosoft: Windows patch is flawed[i]According to Bryant's post, Microsoft has yet to be notified by anyone who has experienced an attack related to the problem.[/i]Probably because its such a minor issue and so remote to exploit that no one cares. There is no story here.Gee[i]"Microsoft...
- Tags: Operating systems, Patches, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., KB891711, patch, Microsoft Windows 98, Windows patch, computer
- Discussion threads 2005-03-31
- Companies patching security holes faster
- Companies patching security holes fasterHa ha!"The slow rate at which companies update their systems has caused software makers, such as Microsoft, to look for better ways to secure customers that have not patched."There is a way to keep from having to be constantly patching: It's name is *Linux*! And...
- Tags: Patches, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux patch, Windows patch, Linux, patch management, Microsoft Corp., security
- Discussion threads 2004-07-29
Additional Resources
- Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux
- Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...
- Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Mandrake, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- MobileTechRoundup show #141, jkOnTheRun is aquired, Sony Reader, battery life, and more
- I had a good time recording MobileTechRoundup show #141 with the two newest members of the Giga Om Media group, James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel. Don't worry listeners and readers, you will still get the same content from those two and from me here on the podcast for the foreseeable...
- Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Sony Corp., Battery, Sony Reader, Kevin, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XP
- Last October, roughly one year after the release to manufacturing of Windows Vista, I did a comparison of how well Windows Vista was living up to its promise of being more secure than its predecessor, Windows XP. My data source was the Microsoft Security Bulletin Search page, where I tallied...
- Tags: Security, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched
- Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing
- On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)
- Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- iPhone 2.0 jailbreaker for iPhone 2g/3g is available
- The iPhone DevTeam blog has released the development sources for their tool xpwn version 0.3. This tool is the firmware 2.0 version of the team's "cross-platform jailbreaking library/command-line utility". The team claims it has been tested on Linux, Windows XP, and Windows Vista for both the iPhone 2g and the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Productivity, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- A Friday Active Directory puzzler
- We just purchased a new server for our district's central office. Nothing super-special, just a Windows Server 2003 for compatibility with a payroll and HRM application install with lots of storage and a moderately speedy quad-core Xeon. The existing server is out of space, out of resources, recently...
- Tags: Domain, User Profile, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer
- Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer. From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops
- Microsoft has internally released to manufacturing the version of Windows XP that it has tweaked to run on the One Laptop Per Child XO computer. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
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