From Linux to Windows: The Series
A new security initiative from corporate has forced a change in how I do things, at least on my company laptop.
I’ve been running some form of Unix on my work desktop and laptop for something like 8 years now. CentOS Linux (a free Red Hat Enterprise clone) has been the latest distro, and probably [...]
FAST disappearing
Well, at least there won’t be any new Linux or Unix versions of the once-popular (now Microsoft) FAST ESP search server. From the Horse’s Mouth:
With our 2010 products scheduled for release in a few months, we’ve just started to plan for our next wave of products. As a part of that planning process, we have [...]
The Website is Down: Sales Demolition
I cannot emphasize this strongly enough:
USE HEADPHONES!
Recall where it all began, the classic:
The Website is Down
More can be found at thewebsiteisdown.com.
VMware buys Zimbra
A couple of years ago I did a brief piece on Zimbra, the Microsoft Exchange “replacement” that Stanford University had chosen as its new messaging platform. It turns out I wasn’t the only one that noticed, because Zimbra is now the property of VMware. As reported in The Register:
With the acquisition, Byun says, VMware is [...]
Securing the system
“Malicious cyberactivity is occurring on an unprecedented scale with extraordinary sophistication.”
That’s a quote from Dennis Blair, the U.S. Directory of National Intelligence, at a Senate hearing today.
Unfortunately, nearly all efforts to defend our networks focus on the networks rather than the software that runs on them, the software that we all interact with directly.
Layer 7 [...]
White House goes open source
Looks like its “mission accomplished” for open source advocates who helped elect the new administration in Washington. Tim O’Reilly has the details in a blog post, Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal.
Of course both the popular, and much of the “technical” press got some of the details wrong, but the bottom line is that [...]
Furlough Post #1: A Windows Virus on Wine
In the idle time I have while watching my two H1N1 infected children deal with fevers, coughs and runny noses (Note: the fevers broke today), I’ve taken to randomly browsing the web and found some interesting and amusing stuff.
This officially 2nd day of a five-day furlough (or “unpaid leave”) from an employer that’s been hit [...]