In a busy 'Patch Tuesday', Microsoft fixed 25 security flaws--mostly in Windows--with its latest patch drop, even fixing a nasty zero-day in the Help system.
<b>The Register:</b> "Google is "very confident" that the newly open-sourced VP8 video codec will stand up to the sort of patent attack Steve Jobs warned of when he defended Apple's decision to shun VP8's predecessor, the open-source Ogg Theora."
With Microsoft and Google already having already released fixes for critical security bugs this week, Adobe is getting ready to join the party as it readies an important patch for its Adobe Flash Player software.
Your compiler assumes by default that almost every function might throw an exception. As a result, it might generate suboptimal code. C++0x now lets you explicitly annotate functions that never throw with the [[nothrow]] attribute. Find out how to use this attribute to write efficient and self-documenting code.
Before you can decide whether SSD are the right backup choice for your organization, you must understand the choices that complement it, such as SAS and RAID controller choices.
<b>Handle With Linux:</b> "QNAP VS-5020 VioStor NVR (Network Video Recorder) is a high performance network video surveillance system for high-end IP-based real-time monitoring and video recording"
Google poised to release new and improved Google Docs & Spreadsheet service as it makes a stronger push in the enterprise market against Microsoft Office.
Rebecca Bond discusses a few of the options available in IBM DB2's new CLPPLUS command line processor that you can use to connect to databases and to define, edit, and run statements, scripts, and commands.
<b>Linux User and Developer:</b> "However, it is my impression that many people, including some Ubuntu users, do not know how the distribution is made. Most are familiar with the principle that Ubuntu is largely based upon the Debian distribution, but not a great deal beyond this."
<b>Network World:</b> "In this first-of-its-kind test, we invited cloud vendors to provide us with 20 CPUs that would be used for five instances of Windows 2008 Server and five instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux – two CPUs per instance. We also asked for a 40GB internal or SAN/iSCSI disk connection, and 1Mbps of bandwidth from our test site to the cloud provider."
Microsoft releases two 'critical' patches for Windows and Office in May's Patch Tuesday drop, making things a little easier for IT administrators compared to last month.
One might expect Oracle to be doing everything in its power to discourage customers from moving away from UNIX. Yet the company seems determined to hawk Linux.