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IBM Offers ‘Virtual Architecture’ for BladeCenter Systems
IBM is looking to increase speed and efficiency in its blade servers by offering, along with a number of partners, a series of networking tools and management technologies. The Armonk, N.Y., company is calling the new product offerings within its BladeCenter H systems “virtual fabric technology,” which reflects the combination of Ethernet connectivity fabric with…
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Taking Least Privilege to the Max
Symantec is arguing that Windows Vista’s User Access Control features are too intrusive, and perhaps they have a point. There’s no reason to assume Microsoft got things perfect. Windows has a rich history of third parties adding value and making it better. One of my favorite improvements on user access control in all current versions…
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Can Java Become an Important Linux Language?
When you think programming languages and Linux, the languages that tend to come to mind are C, C++, Perl, PHP, Python and, lately, Ruby. But, Java probably doesn’t enter your mind at all—that’s because until recently Java was a proprietary language. Sun, however has now liberated Java under the GPLv2 open-source license. I think that…
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University of Idaho Reports Computer Thefts
The theft of three desktop computers from the Advancement Services office at the University of Idaho in November may have put personal data of university alumni, donors, employees and students at risk. An internal investigation by the university revealed that six months prior to the theft, the stolen hard drives contained datasets with names, addresses…
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Developers See SPOTs Before Their Eyes
The runaway success of Nintendo’s motion-sensitive Wii game controller, with December sales of nearly 1 million units, turned out to be merely a prequel to January’s debut of Apple’s iPhone, a device that redefines expectations, if not quite yet realities, for handheld device interaction and connectivity. Developers are on notice: The next generation of personal,…
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Ubuntu 6.10, OpenSUSE 10.2 Rise to (and in Some Ways Above) Microsoft’s Vista Challenge
While the eyes of the IT world have spent years squinting to see Microsoft’s slowly unfolding vistas, the companies and individuals that drive open source have been steadily building a case for broader adoption of Linux-based operating systems. Two of the best all-around Linux distributions to emerge from this process are OpenSUSE 10.2 and Ubuntu…
