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.
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.
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>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."
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday hands IT administrators 11 fixes to implement, of which five are deemed critical, addressing a total of nine critical vulnerabilities.
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.
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.
<b>Netstat -vat:</b> "With VP8, the promise from Google is a video codec on par with H.264 that will be available royalty-free. It's a good idea, but there might be a problem."
<b>Linux.com:</b> "Today we are announcing the 2010 Linux.com Linux Gurus and want to thank them and the rest of the Linux.com community for their important contributions to the site."
With over 100,000 new activations a day, Google's Android software is hot, but the finished version of Google's newer Chrome OS hasn't shipped yet. What's Google's strategy?
<b>Ksplice:</b> "We think that it’s important for developers and system administrators to be more knowledgeable about the attacks that black hats regularly use to take control of systems, and so, today, we’re going to start from where we left off and go all the way to a working exploit for a NULL pointer dereference in a toy kernel module."