Tuesday, August 10, 2010
New data comparing ineffectiveness of antivirus products
There’s really no good news here for antivirus vendors, or their customers.
Cyveillance, which touts itself as “a world leader in cyber intelligence”, has a press release announcing a study that seems to reveal the (really) bad news.
[T]raditional antivirus (AV) vendors continue to lag behind online criminals when it comes to detecting and protecting against new and quickly evolving threats on the Internet. Cyveillance testing shows that even the most popular AV signature-based solutions detect on average less than 19% of malware threats. That detection rate increases only to 61.7% after 30 days.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
A pleasant surprise: partimage and gparted to the rescue
The new Dell laptop here at home took a dive this week. Completely unresponsive to the power button, except for a very low volume whir from the cooling fan. After running the gauntlet of Dell’s support phone tree (as usual the automated system erroneously identified the our hardware as out of warranty when it still has another 9 months to go), we got hooked up with a very nice tech who quickly determined that we needed a full replacement. “Equivalent or better”, or words to that effect.
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Thursday, August 5, 2010
Who said using Java isn’t any fun?
So, last week Eclipse broke because Oracle pushed a new update for Java that changed the company name field from “Sun Microsystems” to “Oracle”. The comments attached to a Slashdot story about the problem were merciless. Being predominently a Linux geek publication, the expected animus to Java in general was right out front. Here’s a sampling:
Lemme guess, you’re sweating bullets wondering if you’re going to spend all night pissing on fires while the C guys laugh at you and drink beer?
When to fix the time in an Oracle AS infrastructure
If time ever gets out of sync on an Oracle AS infrastructure cluster, that’s a severe enough situation that you should feel comfortable just going ahead and making the fix one server at a time.
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Managing replication agreements in DSEE 7
This is another (see my original DSEE 7 Cheat Sheet) short article on getting things done with Oracle’s Directory Server Enterprise Edition (a/k/a Sun DSEE) version 7. In this post I provide some common commands for managing replication agreements with the product.
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