New study from PandaLabs pins the escalating severity of attacks carried out by relatively unskilled hackers on a thriving black market offering ready-made tools.
Virtually Speaking: With an acquisition, a maintenance release and a significant upgrade planned for later this year, VMware is gunning full throttle for the desktop virtualization market. But it's not the only vendor with desktop virtualization in its cross-hairs.
<b>Systhread:</b> "System Administrators who remember the day when they did not have a graphics display rarely think about wanting to time travel for the pure joy of using a terminal. It is possible, however, to virtually do so by using either all or mostly text only utilities and perhaps a retro looking X windows desktop. In this text a look at a small experiment to see how well that went in one particular instance."
<b>Cyber Cynic:</b> "The Linux kernel panel at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is usually a glimpse into Linux's future, but this time it was also a reflection on how far Linux has come and how its leadership is growing older."
Linux's NetworkManager has evolved into a solid tool that manages wired and wireless Ethernet, mobile broadband, Bluetooth, roaming, IPv6, and offers both a GUI and command-line interface. Joe Brockmeier gives us a tour of the new features in NetworkManager.
HP puts a green spin on enterprise hardware with an environmentally pioneering, ultra-compact business desktop and handsome matching monitor. Does it have the productivity punch to go with its Gaia-friendly features?
HP puts a green spin on enterprise hardware with an environmentally pioneering, ultra-compact business desktop and handsome matching monitor. Does it have the productivity punch to go with its Gaia-friendly features?
<b>Network World:</b> "While most folks are talking about the new features in the desktop version (a more attractive GUI, faster boot time, social goodies like 2 GB of free cloud storage), I hopped on the phone with Carr and asked him what's in it for the enterprise? Is Ubuntu ready to take on Red Hat and Novell?"
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "In a keynote address, Jim Whitehurst explains why open source has become more valuable as an enabler of innovation in the enterprise than a means to cheaper software."
<B>Sascha's Hideout:</B> "Konsole does a brilliant job at being a terminal emulator but it doesn't follow user interface standards set by the majority of KDE apps very well. The remainder of this post is mostly about the menu bar and popup menus."
<b>Free Software Magazine:</b> "My son’s hand-me-down motherboard recently gave up the ghost, and I decided that was a good excuse for an upgrade. Shopping around, I found that multi-core CPUs were finally in my price range, so I decided to build him a quad-core system."
<b>LinuxDevices:</b> "Marvell announced its intent to deliver a $100, Android-ready tablet computer built around a 1GHz Armada 600 series processor. Aimed at students, the "Moby" will offer WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, an FM receiver, and Adobe Flash compatibility, the company says."
Bashish is a theme engine for the Linux terminal, so you can make your console more readable, easier on the eyes, and give useful visual cues. Juliet Kemp shows how to customize your terminal with Bashish.
<b>Info World:</b> "Symantec will acquire encryption specialist PGP and endpoint security vendor GuardianEdge Technologies for $300 million and $70 million respectively, the company said on Thursday."
<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."
<b>Developer.com:</b> "After all, pulling data from a single table is easy, but what if you need to query for data spanning three, four, or even eight different tables?"
Tapas Pal shows you how to encrypt your SQL Server database for a pre-existing, business critical web application using Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), a new full database encryption technique introduced in SQL Server 2008.