by jcannon on July 11, 2006
So, this weeks tech tip is about memtest, and yes, I am sure there are some that might scoff at this....But I think we have a tendency to loose sight of the basics. For instance, last week we had quite an interesting time debugging a problem that occurred intermittently and we where not able to find a way to consistently reproduce the problem. We ran through all kinds of things until we decided for... more
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by jcannon on July 10, 2006
When I first started writing software, my only understanding of the term ‘license’ was that it was something I needed to drive a car or to catch fish. As my career progressed, I learned that software also has licenses that describe – ideally - how the author of the software wants his or her creation to be used (terms, conditions, permissions, etc.).... more
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by jcannon on July 07, 2006
Sam talks with Fernando Cima from Microsoft Brazil's Security Center of Excellence about the challenges and progress being made in securing and maintaining today's mixed network environments. More specifically, the focus in this discussion is on Server and Domain Isolution. Before Microsoft, Fernando worked for the Brazilian government, as well as with Linux and FreeBSD security projects.... more
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by jcannon on July 07, 2006
It’s only been three months to the day since Port 25 launched. Exactly 73 interviews, posts and tips later we are only just getting started on delivering on our promise of technical and interoperability insight from the lab...... more
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by jcannon on July 06, 2006
Linux Format reported on Port 25 recently with the tagline “Reports of snowballs seen in hell as Microsoft offers to work with Linux developers,” which I thought was funny. It’s apparently getting even colder down there as we’ve now announced an open source project that adds support for ODF to Microsoft Word 2007.... more
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by jcannon on July 06, 2006
Last week, we released two new utilities to help customers achieve UNIX / Windows Interop. The first is a set of utilities and the SDK for the Subsystem for UNIX Architecture (SUA) in Vista Beta 2 & Longhorn. For those unaware, SUA is a native subsystem residing on top of the Windows kernel, just like the Win32 subsystem. It provides the basic infrastructure to run UNIX-based applications and scripts... more
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by jcannon on July 05, 2006
Free open source management projects have existed for years, as illustrated by nagios and webmin, and exist as BYOC (bring your own console) free alternatives to commercial management systems from HP, BMC, CA, IBM and Microsoft. In the last few years, we've seen a rise in commercial software companies moving to support Linux and heterogeneous environments...... more
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by jcannon on July 03, 2006
We had to buy our own combination padlocks on our lockers in my high school. I used to forget the combination all the time (—I still have nightmares about that). I finally solved this by writing my combination in hex on the back of the lock. (I figured there was only one other kid in my class who would know what 0F was in base-10, so if anything was ever missing, I’d know where to look.)... more
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