Month: July 2004

  • French Ministry chooses Mandrake

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    Tom Raftery
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    Mandrakesoft issued an announcement recently that the French Ministry of Equipment is to use Mandrake as their distro of choice in their project to move their servers away from proprietary software (Windows). 1500 Mandrake servers are being rolled out to replace 2000 NT servers and to serve 60,000 client PCs. There is no news yet…

  • Microsoft Money users 'locked out'

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    Tom Raftery
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    While Microsoft Money is an application that resides on a computer’s hard drive, the service also integrates online access to information and services. Users can upload their personal finance files onto the Web and access the information over the ‘net while away from home. However, some users of the service found themselves locked out of…

  • Critical Internet Explorer patch release imminent

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    Tom Raftery
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    According to an article in eWeek Dean Hachamovitch, who heads the Microsoft IE development team, said in a weekly security-focused Webcast, that a fix for the vulnerability exploited by the Download.Ject attacks in June will arrive sometime next week. The release is due next week a couple of weeks ahead of the next scheduled Microsoft…

  • CA to release Open Source version of Ingres

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    Tom Raftery
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    I read in InfoWorld today where CA have announced that they intend to release a version of ingres at LinuxWorld in San Francisco under its own CA Trusted Open Source License (CA-TOSL) next Wednesday. Tony Gaughan, senior vice president, CA said that this iteration of Ingres, dubbed r3, will outperform Microsoft’s SQL Server database, and…

  • Downloadable web security classification

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    Tom Raftery
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    I came across a downloadable pdf document while browsing the Net-Security site today. The document has 50 pages of attack classifications as well as an appendix on HTTP Response Splitting and another on Web Server/Application Fingerprinting. Yet another document to be read and added to your web security library!

  • OS X maintenance and troubleshooting

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    Tom Raftery
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    I found a really good article on OS X maintenance and troubleshooting today. The article is for the maintenance of OS X 10.2 and 10.3 and the tools recommended, if they don’t already come with OS X, are freely downloadable! You can’t say better than that!

  • Seagate to offer 5 year warranty on hard drives

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    Tom Raftery
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    For anyone who has had a hard disk crash and burn (and who in the tech world hasn’t) the latest announcement from Seagate that it will offer a 5 year warranty on all drives manufactured since June 1st 2004 is the best of news. This should spur the competition to similar offerings and eventually lead…

  • Microsoft to dabble in Open Source once more?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Interesting article in Microsoft Watch on how Microsoft appear to be getting ready to release more products to the Open Source community. Maybe if they released Internet Explorer, the open source community might fix it for them!