435250
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
Samba developers are to be offered access to Windows protocols thanks to an agreement with Microsoft.
http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=10991
431854
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
Apple has matched the patch count of last month's massive update, fixing another 41 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X.
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=10971
424632
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
The Dutch parliament has approved a plan that will mandate the use of open standards and open source within government organisations. http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/open-source-business/news/index.cfm?RSS&newsid=6677
424614
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
The New York Stock Exchange is investing heavily in x86-based Linux systems and blade servers as it builds out the NYSE Hybrid Market trading system that it launched last year.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/infrastructure/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=6673
423033
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
Microsoft has released the preview of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to the general public. However, the company has not made it easy for users, requiring them to go through an elaborate process involving multiple reboots before they can download it.
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=10924
421123
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
It is generally accepted that 2008 will be the year of the GNU/Linux desktop just like 2007, 2006 and all the years before them. But jokes aside, there is clearly something obsessive about the open source world's preoccupation with the desktop. This makes the Linux Foundation's 2007 Desktop Linux Survey results all the more welcome, because they provide a factual basis to discuss the state of the sector.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=259
421107
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
Western Digital has built a new range of drives with software that limit the user's ability to share files.
http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?newsid=10903
419453
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
Researchers at Google and the Georgia Institute of Technology are studying a virtually undetectable form of attack that quietly controls where victims go on the Internet.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/security/cybercrime/news/index.cfm?newsid=6600
418227
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
Having established itself as the leading enterprise Linux vendor, Red Hat is in a pivotal phase of reinventing itself as a broader open-source software provider and a long-term technology leader a la Microsoft and Oracle. It's a tall order, and among other things it will take a business plan that lets the company move smoothly through this make-or-break stage.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/applications/news-analysis/index.cfm?articleid=877
418137
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
The latest version of web application framework Ruby on Rails has just been releaseed. Version 2 of the framework is built on REST (Representational State Transfer) web services instead of SOAP web services. There is also a new set of security enhancements.
http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsID=10879
415073
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
Hackers have succeeded in breaking into the computer systems of two of the USA's most important science labs, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?RSS
413635
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
There's a scene in the 2004 movie Mean Girls in which the most popular girl in the film's fictional high school finds out that a friend who now is a fast-rising social rival plans to throw a party without inviting her.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/kernel-systems/in-depth/index.cfm?articleid=856
409299
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
A top Red Hat executive has accused arch-rival Novell of reselling a beta version of the company's open source code.
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=10828
