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Linux Less Secure than Vista? 2007-08-15 11:41:00 I have been hearing a lot lately about how Windows Vista
is being said to be more secure overall than the popular Linux
distros in the market today. After soaking this in and having a chance to think about it, I can come to only one conclusion: Microsoft must believe that vulnerabilities are worse than actual, in motion exploits being used against exiting operating systems.
The Kings of Security Read more:Secure
Improve Security and Control of Your Desktop PCs 2007-08-15 09:07:00 Let hardware-based security and management capabilities do some of the legwork for you, improving security and reducing the need for time-consuming deskside visits. Designed specifically for business, Intel® vPro™ processor technology introduces hardware-based features that reduce tedious, inefficient IT practices with the latest advances in business PC management and security.¹
Read more from Read more:Control
, Desktop
, Improve
Novell Extending to Windows Management 2007-08-15 08:58:00 Novell has become well-known as a Linux vendor, but it has ambitions to be known as a Windows
management vendor, too.
Enter Novell's ZENworks Configuration Management
, released today as a multi-OS tool that enables patch, policy and endpoint security management on both Windows and Linux. The new tool also builds in technology from security vendor Senforce, which Novell acquired just yesterday. ( Read more:Novell
Swisscom IT Services Relies on Red Hat 2007-08-14 20:59:00 RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat
(NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Swisscom IT Services
, a subsidiary of the biggest Swiss telecommunications provider, is relying on the full suite of Red Hat solutions for its standardized Linux infrastructure. Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, JBoss Enterprise Platform and additional
Linux-based laptop for only 150 US 2007-08-14 17:10:00 Medison, a small Swedish PC company, claims they will sell a basic Linux
-based laptop for only 150 US dollars. But the company has been called in question in blogs, forums, and news articles, because the computer shown on the company's web site seems very similar to a laptop from another producer. Two days ago Medison met the Swedish press to straighten things out.
Full story here.
Linux networking stack exposed 2007-08-14 17:06:00 One of the greatest features of the Linux
® operating system is its networking
stack. It was initially a derivative of the BSD stack and is well organized with a clean set of interfaces. Its interfaces range from the protocol agnostics, such as the common sockets layer interface or the device layer, to the specific interfaces of the individual networking protocols. This article explores the Read more:exposed
sidux new version released 2007-08-14 17:04:00 The developers of sidux, a live CD tracking the Debian unstable branch, have announced the release of sidux version
2007-03: "After less than three months of development, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of sidux 2007-03 'Gaia' for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping in a 440 MB lite KDE and a 700 MB full KDE flavors. Our third official sidux release concentrates on overhauling
another DNS setting online checker 2007-08-14 14:49:00 Incase there are still unresolved issues with your DNS settings and things seems to cloud away farther from expectations, there are many ways to check your DNS settings online
, one is from DNSstuff.com .
You can visit their site here. They have more online checking tools available compared to any other sites I found.
Here's a quick shortcut to check your DNS settings via DNSStuff:
http://
VMware rockets; Virtualization hits Wall Street 2007-08-14 11:47:00 Update: As of 11: 15 am. EDT, VMware shares were trading at $51, well above the $29 offering price. MarketWatch is reporting that VMware has the best opening of 2007–assuming the current price holds of course.
Shares of VMware topped out at $55. Original post:
Read more from here.
Source: ZDNet Read more:Street
, Wall Street
Damn Small Linux 4.0 RC1 released 2007-08-14 06:27:00 Robert Shingledecker has announced the first release candidate of Damn SmallLinux
4.0. From the changelog: "New pen drive usbhdd installation script now uses GRUB with DSL on 2nd small partition; removed pen drive usbzip install script, syslinux and mtools; changed default root menu from dfm to chosen WM menu; updated 'Getting Started' to reflect changed defaults; changed kernel from 2.4.34.1 to
traceroute from web 2007-08-14 03:20:00 Traceroute from our own host has been commonly being used to further troubleshoot and gather latency data from our own host to other machines located outside our office. This can be applied to IP address from the web also.
What about tracing back from outside into our own network IP or host?
Here, one simple traceroute site besides from DNDStuff. I have been using this for a long long time and
MX rDNS checking with AOL network 2007-08-13 10:39:00 Hi.
Quick and brief.
We all know AOL requires all connecting MTAs have proper and established RDNS before accepting any incoming email messages from any MX servers. Any incoming emails without correct MX rDNS settings are simple denied from AOL MX servers.
Here's how to check if your newly configured MX RDNS settings had already propagated to AOL network
s.
Visit here this link.
Just enter Read more:checking
online DNS checking and troubleshooting 2007-08-13 07:01:00 If you need further and extra help on resolving some issues with a newly configured DNS server, here's one way that can give some you hint.
Check out this DNS checking
site here
Just enter your domain name there and you'll get your result fast via web.
Registration is not mandatory.
Source: www.checkdns.net
Web Screenshot: Read more:online
uptime website graph 2007-08-13 03:40:00 Here's how to have a long term apache uptime
graph based from website
domain and subdomain done via browser
Fireup your browser and go to this site uptime.netcraft.com. Enter your web address there
A quick short cut would be like this:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.yahoo.com
Sample screen shot:
IP Address map location 2007-08-13 03:39:00 Here's how to get your map country and location based from a given IP address via browser.
Just visit http://www.ip-adress.com/index.php and enter the IP address for further query.
Here's a screenshot of it: Read more:Address
Microsoft DNS Service Under Fire 2007-08-17 09:07:00 Microsoft is confirming "very limited, targeted attacks" against its Windows Server DNS (Domain Name System) Service
.
The attackers are attempting to exploit a vulnerability in the DNS Service that could potentially allow for arbitrary code execution to run with the same privileges as the DNS Service itself. DNS (define) is a core server service that translates IP addresses into domain names Read more:Microsoft
Building the Perfect Gnome workstation 2007-08-17 09:06:00 Last week we took a look at some interesting and useful tasks to perpetrate upon an unsuspecting Fedora installation, including how to do a bare-metal network installation. Excellent reader Earl Robinson pointed out that this works all right for a single PC, but multiple installations need a local mirror, so he sent this great suggestion for easily setting up multiple local installations:
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, Gnome
, Perfect
Internet Explorer for Linux 2007-08-17 05:51:00 Yes, a GPLed InternetExplorer
for Linux
.
What is IEs4Linux?
IEs4Linux is the simpler way to have Microsoft Internet Explorer
running on Linux (or any OS running Wine).
No clicks needed. No boring setup processes. No Wine complications. Just one easy script and you'll get three IE versions to test your Sites. And it's free and open source.
Who is the target public?
WebDesigners that
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