In this month’s Patch Tuesday, software giant Microsoft releases one of the largest bundles of security fixes ever, but not one for the latest zero-day.
<b>Spencer Herzberg Blog: </b>"So the goal of this post will be to install a 32-bit chroot of 9.10 in my fresh install of 10.04 as 9.10 is easier to build and test Cyanogen's custom Android rom. I have modified some guides from here and here. I have also elected to use schroot as it allows for easy chroot access."
As rumors swirl of a big announcement with Intel, Google gets ready for its annual Google developers conference this week that will showcase a number of mobile advances for Android and other technologies the search giant is working on.
<b>Royal Pingdom:</b> "So what kind of code names are developers out there coming up with? Here is a collection of code names for software products from companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Canonical, Red Hat, Adobe, Mozilla, Automattic and more."
<b>SF Gate:</b> "Police raided Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's home in Fremont, Calif. last week, seizing computers and other gadgets, as detectives probe how the gadget blog obtained an Apple iPhone prototype, which the blog first published photos and videos of last Monday."
<b>Linux Magazine:</b> "At last year's event participants received Android phones with a free month of service, fueling speculation that this year's attendees may receive some goodies as well."
Microsoft's WebsiteSpark program helps small Web development and design shops with no more than 10 employees succeed by providing the tools and expertise they need to create Web sites and applications for their clients.
<b>Linux.com:</b> "A few weeks ago we looked at some of the GNU utilities that you can use to work with files, check MD5/SHA1 sums and check your disk usage. This time around I want to cover some of the utilities that you'll use for working with text files."
<b>ServerWatch:</b> "Novell, the parent company of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, seems to have slapped a huge "For Sale!" sign on its front lawn. It's sad, but this famous enterprise OS maker may soon be little more than a mildly interesting footnote to history."
Part 1 of "Auditing made easy by Microsoft SQL Server 2008" covered the various components for auditing and the action groups provided by Microsoft SQL Server 2008. This installment illustrates how to create Server Level Audit, test the audit and retrieve the audit records.
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday hands IT administrators 11 fixes to implement, of which five are deemed critical, addressing a total of nine critical vulnerabilities.
The introduction of the xml data type, with its own set of methods for processing xml data, made it possible for SQL Server developers to create columns and variables of the type xml. Deanna Dicken examines the modify() method, which provides for data manipulation of the XML data stored in the xml data type via XML DML statements.
Bash error messages, like so many error messages, can be more cryptic than helpful. But the good news is bash has a built-in mechanism for creating your own customized error messages, and you don't have to be an ace programmer to do it. Ubuntu and openSUSE already use this; Akkana Peck shows us how to do it ourselves.