Recent Articles
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New iPAQ Packs GPRS, WLAN, Bluetooth
Analysts continue to predict the demise of the PDA, frequently citing Sony’s exit from the market, but Hewlett Packard Corp. is moving in a different direction. The company is introducing six new iPAQ models in its Pocket PC line, including its first phone/PDA combo. The iPAQ h6315, which is being introduced in partnership with T-Mobile,…
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Integrating Windows and Linux Desktops
It departments charged with integrating Linux clients among the Windows desktops they’re running can make life easier by administering Linux user accounts with Microsoft Corp.’s Active Directory. Samba, the open-source project for providing Windows-compatible file and print services, makes this possible, but it doesn’t make it easy. After some time spent consulting documentation and tweaking…
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New Apps Let Servers Mind Themselves
Enhanced server management software from Opsware Inc. and SWsoft Inc. is designed to help businesses push the automation of certain IT tasks, such as patching and provisioning, deeper into their data centers, resulting in reduced costs and increased efficiencies. Opsware, of Sunnyvale, Calif., this week will unveil an upgrade to its namesake data center automation…
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Making Web Servers Safer
As you no doubt know, the latest Internet Explorer exploit, Download.Ject, escalates security problems to the lose-your-life-savings point for users. Do business with an infected bank site and user keystrokes get logged and sent to a “bad guy” server. Yow! As of this writing, nobody knows exactly how the Windows-based IIS was infected, except the…
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Creating a Data Backup Server
As more and more of your life’s records and memories are stored in digital form, it makes sense to explore the best ways to keep them secure. All methods have drawbacks, some of them glaring. Floppy disks are all but dead as a format. ZIP disks are expensive for their capacity. CD/DVD backups are great—if…
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Shared-Hosting Perils
Shared hosting can be a cost-efficient solution for many Web sites, but you may end up paying a different sort of price. As always when sharing with strangers, there’s a risk of the unknown. A well-designed and -managed operating system along with other system software may be able to protect applications and users from one…
