The Microsoft cellphones will be designed for heavy users of social network sites, according to the person who asked not to be identified as the devices have not yet been announced.
What happened to the old "sysadmin" of just a few years ago? We've split what used to be the sysadmin into application teams, server teams, storage teams, andnetwork teams. Now look at what we've done -- knowledge is so decentralized we must invent new roles to act as liaisons between all the IT groups.
<b>Begin Linux:</b> "This is part two of a three part series on distributed monitoring. You can usehttp://newsadmin.linuxtoday.com/ passive service and host checks to allow non-central Nagios servers to collect data from a network of machines and then transfer that information to a central Nagios server."
The Free/Open Source software world offers great thundering herds of excellent security software; Cynthia Harvey presents a sampling of 50 FOSS applications for everything from anti-malware to forensics to Internet gateways to networking monitoring, and then some.
<b>Polish Linux:</b> "Filmaster.com, a social network for film lovers, has recently presented a new movie recommendations engine. The algorithm that generates recommendations is open source and has been released under AGPLv3 license."
<b>Linx Pro Magazine:</b> "Ask any knowledgeable mobile user, and she will tell you that the best way to securely access the Internet in public places is through a VPN (virtual private network) connection. So if you enjoy sipping coffee at a local cafe while checking email and browsing the Web, a secure VPN connection is a good solution..."
Opinion: Are you ready for the age of mobile, cloud-based workers? Columnist Jeff Vance argues they'll be every bit as disruptive, and important, as the arrival of the Internet itself.
In the latest edition of its monthly security ritual, Microsoft patches two bugs, both deemed "important," and issued an advisory about a flaw recently discovered in the Internet Explorer browser.
<b>Tech Drive-In:</b> "Miro 3 is released! For starters, Miro is widely popular open source internet television application. Miro can automatically download videos from RSS-based channels, manage them and play them."
<b>Anita Borg Institute:</b> "The Anita Borg Systers Pass-It-On (PIO) Awards honor Anita Borg’s desire to create a network of technical women helping one another."
<b>10 Things:</b> "Legislation that affects the use of Internet-connected computers is springing up everywhere at the local, state and federal levels. You might be violating one of them without even knowing."
<b>Mass High Tech: </b>"Karen Tegan Padir is an evangelist. Her gospel is open source software, and she recently changed denominations when she left Sun Microsystems Inc., where she was in charge of running the departments that determined the future of such ubiquitous Internet software as Java and MySQL."
As more people, including etailers involved with Internet marketing opportunities, flock to social networking sites, the more they need to be aware of cyber crime – and learn to avoid being scammed.
As more people, including etailers involved with Internet marketing opportunities, flock to social networking sites, the more they need to be aware of cyber crime – and learn to avoid being scammed.
As more people, including etailers involved with Internet marketing opportunities, flock to social networking sites, the more they need to be aware of cyber crime – and learn to avoid being scammed.
<b>Howtoforge:</b> "Ubuntu Tweak is a tool that lets you change hidden Ubuntu settings, for example: hide or change the splash screen, show or hide the Computer, Home, Trash, andNetwork icons, change Metacity, Nautilus, power management, and security settings, etc."
Software giant makes the unusual step of releasing an "out-of-band" security fix for a flaw in versions 6 and 7 of Internet Explorer, deeming the vulnerability serious enough that it had to act before the next Patch Tuesday.
<b>SiliconRepublic:</b> "Network software giant Novell has claimed it is the first Linux vendor to achieve 5,000 certified ISV applications and has increased its Linux market share against Red Hat, according to IDC."
<b>Serverwatch:</b> "The Apache HTTP Web Server is the most widely deployed Web server on the Internet today, which means that vulnerabilities in the open source server can have a devastating impact. That also makes security updates like the new 2.2.15 release critical, since it addresses several security vulnerabilities in Apache's flagship HTTP Web server."
<b>Cyber Cynic: </b>"Much as I hate to admit it, Microsoft does some things better, much better, than Linux. Number one with a bullet is how Microsoft helps programmers and ISVs (independent software vendors). MSDN (Microsoft Software Developer Network) is a wonderful online developer resource. Linux has had nothing to compare."
SolarWinds products are geared to customers who need a scalable, easy-to-use network management solution for 250 to 10,000 managed elements, and at an affordable price point.
With Internet Explorer 9 entering Platform Preview release, Sean Michael Kerner compares Microsoft's developer preview philosophy versus that of Mozilla, and comes up with a hands-down winner.
<b>Linux User & Developer: </b>"Besides being a HDD player and a full gigabit ethernet network streaming NAS box, it's also a media server (including Samba, NFS, UpnP, Bonjour and myiHome) and plays host to the MSP Portal, not to mention other third-party media server apps."
<b>Packt:</b> "In this article by Bethany Hiitola, author of Getting started with Audacity 1.3, we will learn all the details of using third-party internet telephony software such as Skype to record telephone interviews. We will also cover how to set up a timed recording."
Network security software vendor SonicWall is warning Internet users that it's seeing a dramatic increase in new phishing scams related to the upcoming IRS tax filing deadline.