69914
submission
freaktheclown writes:
Apple introduced the long-rumored iPhone today as a 3-in-1 widescreen iPod, mobile phone and "internet communicator." The iPhone features a 3.5-inch touchscreen (with a "multi-input" input method), up to 8GB in flash memory, the ability to sycn songs and videos with iTunes, WiFi and Bluetooth. It will run on Cingular's GSM network and be available in June of this year.
69834
story
mattaw writes
"From analysis by Groklaw it seems that SCO may owe Novell nearly all the SCOSource licensing fees, and has been hiding the fact for 3 years. Imminent. Inevitable. Bankruptcy. Those are the words from Novell's lawyers. Perhaps the IBM/SCO case could close earlier than planned? Perhaps we can finally be rid of this specter once and for all?"
69890
submission
thesandbender writes:
I've inherited my companies DST patching project and I have to schedule upgrades for 7000+ servers over the course of the next few weeks. Of course each group inside the company has different SLA's and outage windows. I need to somehow turn the pile of spreadsheets I have into a database and create a schedule that spreads the load over our pool of system administrators. There is no way I can reasonably accomplish this by hand and there will be updates every day I'm sure.
Does anyone know of a rule based scheduling system where I provide the available outage windows and a priority ranking for each system and the scheduler will recommend the order in which they should be upgraded? Even software for other industries/applications that could take a few steps out of the process would be appreciated.