Government security experts are warning consumers that using Energizer's DUO USB battery charger could leave their Windows PCs open to attack from hackers.
<b>Standards Blog:</b> "Frank was leaning back in his cubicle chair, feet up on his desktop. That way he could keep an eye on Carl Cumming’s office down the corridor. The guy must have the bladder of a camel, he thought. Wouldn’t he ever need to relieve himself?"
<b>DaniWeb:</b> "Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse in the world of software patents, a reliable source sent me this response from Steve Jobs about a patent pool that's forming and aiming to nail the open source codecs projects."
<b>OMG! Ubuntu!: </b>"Whether you intend to download and install Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1 or not the following meerkat-themed wallpapers will certainly get you in the Maverick-y mood."
<b>HowtoForge: </b>"This article describes how you can monitor your Postfix mailserver with the tools Mailgraph and pflogsumm. Mailgraph creates daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs of sent, received, bounced, and rejected emails and also of spam and viruses, if SpamAssassin and ClamAV are integrated into Postfix."
<b>HowtoForge: </b>"CIITIX-WiFi is a turnkey solution to your WiFi hotspot needs. Built onto the rock solid stable debian linux, setting up a secure (TTLS) WiFi hotspot is just a minute away."
Need specialized small business software but worried it won't work with your QuickBooks, Salesforce or other business platform? Laurie McCabe explains the benefits of app stores.
<b>Serverwatch:</b> "This article will look at running the Apache HTTP, FreeRADIUS and FreeNAS servers. We'll review the process of installing and using each inside Windows."
<b>Phoronix:</b> "The AMD FirePro V8800 features 2GB of GDDR5 video memory with 147.2 GB/s of bandwidth, 1600 Stream processors, four DisplayPort outputs, ATI Eyefinity support, DirectX 11.0 / OpenGL 4.0 support, OpenCL 1.0 capable, a full 30-bit display pipeline, Multi-View display support..."
<b>Mark Shuttleworth:</b> "One of the driving mantras for us is “less is more”. I want us to “clean up, simplify, streamline, focus” the user experience work that we lead."
<b>Standards Blog:</b> "iBall.com CEO Chad Derwent sat alone in his office in Silicon Valley. Outside his open door, rows of empty, silent cubicles stretched from one end of the office floor to the other."
<b>Phoronix:</b> "...for those impatient ones today we have published an extensive set of tests comparing the performance of Mac OS X 10.6.2 against a development build of Ubuntu 10.04. This is our first time exploring how Canonical's Lucid Lynx can compete with Apple's Snow Leopard."
CrazyEgg handles Web analytics colorfully, plus a site for downloading free books and a way to time presentations -- and anything else -- down to the second.
Hewlett-Packard debuts new products and a unified communications alliance with Microsoft as part of a renewed effort to win over more of the SMB market.
<b>Howtoforge:</b> "Apache can be a big offender when it comes to resource usage, so a nice alternative is nginx, a fast, light-weight and efficient http server that supports PHP via PHP-FastCGI."
With more than 20 million Google results for "SEO Company," finding a good SEO company can be overwhelming. This SEO guide offers advice on what to look for when hiring an expert for your small business ecommerce Web site.
<b>Nicholas Pië</b> "In this benchmark i will be looking at how different WSGI servers perform at exactly that task; the handling of a full HTTP request."
You can make OpenOffice.org, the cross-platform, open source productivity suite, even more productive by adding extensions. We've got six that will make it a small business software powerhouse.
<b>Focus:</b> "Linux is far more than just a fringe OS. In fact, it's running in quite a few more places than you probably suspect. Below are fifty places Linux is running today in place of Windows or Mac."
<b>Enterprise Storage Forum: </b>"CTERA Networks is giving the Linux Ext3 file system additional data protection in the form of new snapshot capabilities. The file system is also the basis of the company's Cloud-Attached Storage appliances, the C200 and CloudPlug."