Archive for July, 2008

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How Secure Is Your Companies Network?

SAN FRANCISCO — “A disgruntled city computer engineer has virtually commandeered San Francisco’s new multimillion-dollar computer network, altering it to deny access to top administrators even as he sits in jail on $5 million bail, authorities said Monday.
Terry Childs, a 43-year-old computer network administrator who lives in Pittsburg, has been charged with four counts of […]

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15Jul2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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What Is A Virtual Server?

Today’s IT organizations face the costly management of server sprawl. This includes the hardware, maintenance and people resources needed to manage, operate and administer those servers on a daily basis.Virtual  server consolidation and containment solutions allow enterprises to enable workload isolation and granular resource control for all of the system’s computing […]

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11Jul2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Microsoft Offers Free Vista-to-XP Downgrade Help

Computerworld — “Microsoft Corp. Monday said it would offer free technical support to small businesses that buy new PCs with Windows Vista in the next three months, its latest attempt to convince users that moving to Vista is a good idea. And if those efforts are for naught, Microsoft will help those users downgrade from […]

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10Jul2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Sun Takes On Data Boom With Expanded Storage Lineup

“With many organizations scrambling to meet exploding demand for storage capacity without constantly expanding their IT staffs, Sun Microsystems continues to push open-source software as a solution, along with a new series of storage arrays and a hybrid server-storage platform.
The company says it is trying to tackle twin problems plaguing some storage-intensive enterprises, such as […]

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9Jul2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Google Protocol Buffers: Open Source Data Interchange Format

“Today we have something special for all you coders: we’re releasing one of our most widely-used internal development tools. We call it “Protocol Buffers.” It’s the way we encode almost any sort of structured information which needs to be passed across the network or stored on disk. We thought Protocol Buffers might be useful to […]

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8Jul2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Control Your Child’s Computer Use Without Them Knowing

As an avid reader of many web development blogs, I came across this open source script written on how to control  your child’s use of certain programs. Whether it be surfing the web, chatting on AIM, or playing a specific video game. This parent, who is also a programmer, took it upon himself to […]

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3Jul2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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How Can Google Apps Save Your Business Millions?

With Google Apps nearing the venerable age of 17 months, we have already seen more than 500,000 organizations adopt Apps as part of their business, with another 3,000 signing up every day. Many of those customers are small- and medium-sized businesses, but more and more large enterprises are also opting for the cost savings and […]

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2Jul2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued