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BREAKING: Michael Dell drops Linux
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rodtrent
http://rjdohnert.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/breaking-michael-dell-drops-linux/
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More on the System Management turned Linux discussion...
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rodtrent
The discussion still continues in the forums… http://www.myitforum.com/forums/m.asp?m=168758
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In the forums: Zenworks/ConfigMgr comparison turns into a Linux discussion
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I posted about a really great discussion in our forums a while ago. jjgleason, who is a Zenworks user, made a fair comparison between Zenworks and ConfigMgr. It was a really great post. User jvdm responded...
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Virtual Machine Additions for Linux 2.0
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rodtrent
Qualified distributions now include: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (update 6) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (update 6) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server...
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Tsk, tsk...Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Passes 1000 Vulnerabilities
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http://blogs.technet.com/security/archive/2007/10/16/red-hat-enterprise-linux-4-passes-1000-vulnerabilities.aspx
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Phishers getting better organised, using Linux
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rodtrent
"The vast majority of the threats we saw were rootkitted Linux boxes, which was rather startling. We expected Microsoft boxes," says CISO Read the rest…
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Vixta...looking for a lawsuit?
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rodtrent
Those open source kiddies are at it again. They built an “Aero” interface for Linux and named it “Vixta”, complete with sidebar gadgets. http://www.vixta.org/
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Windows users believe in God.
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rodtrent
…Mac users ignore God, and Linux users create their own god. Funny comments for this blog post .
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A prediction that didn't measure up
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rodtrent
In August of 2003, Siemens Business Systems said that Linux would have a 20% desktop market share by 2008. http://www.linux.com/articles/30873
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Linux now more popular than a 9 year old OS
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http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/IndustryNews.aspx?articleid=4031&zoneid=71
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Microsoft now has an Open Source web site
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http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/default.mspx
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Is there a story within a story?
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Novell Linux Chief Leaves for Google
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MisterHouse - Open Source software to control your home
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rodtrent
MisterHouse is an open source home automation program. It's fun, it's free, and it's entirely geeky. Written in Perl , it fires events based on time, web , socket, voice, and serial data. It...
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Microsoft XML Paper Specification Essentials Pack
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With the XPS Essentials Pack you can quickly begin reading and generating XPS Documents. It contains XPS Viewer EP to read XPS Documents and the Microsoft XPS Document Writer to output files to the XPS...
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Security by Obscurity is dead
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37845
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Bryan Richard says Novell wouldn't want Altiris
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http://www.linux-mag.com/content/view/2842/
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Altiris Adds Linux Patch Management
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Salt Lake City, Utah-based Altiris said today that it has added new Linux patch and virtual server management capabilities to its Altiris Server Management Suite. The new Linux patch management support...
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Interesting results from those that uninstalled Firefox...
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From: https://survey.mozilla.com/results Reason for uninstalling Total Plugin compatibility (Flash, Adobe Acrobat, Windows Media Player, etc.) 1123 Performance (load delays, memory usage) 1767 Hard to...
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New Firefox vuln...
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Firefox Sage Extension Feed Script Insertion Vulnerability
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Firefox wanted speed and stability -- instead they got Adobe
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rodtrent
Firefox users beware: Adobe has opened the source code of the ActionScript Virtual Machine, the high-performance ECMAScript implementation used in Adobe's ubiquitous Flash Player. Adobe has made the source...
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Novell wants to know...
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rodtrent
Novell wants to know what you think of the recent deal between them and Microsoft…take the survey… http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/18041.html
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This is a crazy way to look at a security vuln
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PCWorld Australia has this article posted: Mozilla pledges to fix second minor Firefox 2.0 bug This is a vuln, after all — NOT a “minor” bug. And, read how the first paragraph is laid...
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First Firefox 2.0 Vuln reported
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A newly discovered vulnerability, which the CTO of security services firm Secunia described this morning as affecting Internet Explorer 7.0, can also affect not only IE6 but Firefox versions 1.5 and 2...
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Press Release: SoftMaker Office 2006 for Linux and FreeBSD in public beta
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SoftMaker Office 2006 for Linux and FreeBSD now in Public Beta Testing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nuernberg, October 30, 2006 German software vendor SoftMaker...
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Is Firefox 2.0 a dud?
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Is Firefox 2.0 a dud? Are users better avoiding it and waiting until a future build? Are too many of the new features buggy and incomplete and is the browser overall more unstable that previous versions...
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This is cool -- if you want to spend the time...
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rodtrent
Top Firefox 2 config tweaks http://www.lifehacker.com/software/firefox-2/geek-to-live-top-firefox-2-config-tweaks-209941.php
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Double-clicking on the address in the Address bar produces nothing
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rodtrent
I use this function quite a bit in IE, for either copying an address or selecting the entire field so I can enter a new address. When you double-click on the address in the IE Address field, the complete...
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3 days -- about 10 add-ons, and Firefox is working the way I want it to
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rodtrent
OK…what does a busy person do, who wants to upgrade to Firefox 2.0 and have it work the way they want? They download and install the new version one free night, and then spend the rest of the time...
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Oops -- spoke too soon.
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rodtrent
I just opened the myITforum.com Web blogs in both Firefox and IE7. IE7 = 4 seconds. Firefox = 11 seconds.
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Speed - Firefox versus IE7
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rodtrent
I’m really impressed. It appears that the Firefox folks have spent a lot of time fixing the speed problems that plagued Firefox in the past. Firefox is still about a second and a half behind IE7...
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