May 15, 2008
by sjvn01
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Sometimes, people do such stupid things that words almost fail me. That’s the case with a Debian ‘improvement’ to OpenSSL that rendered this network security program next to useless in Debian, Ubuntu and other related Linux distributions. OpenSSL is used … Continue reading
April 25, 2008
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I hate Vista, but since one of the things I do is track operating systems, I keep it running on one (1) system. One of the things I find remarkably disagreeable about this junker of an operating system is that … Continue reading
December 5, 2007
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Like it or lump it, Microsoft’s Active Directory is a very popular network directory, and thus, management system. It’s been possible to use AD for Linux, but it was never easy. Now, Likewise Software, formerly Centeris, a leader in mixing … Continue reading
March 9, 2007
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Spring forward; Fall back,” That’s the way the saying goes. Some years I get it backwards, but I eventually catch on. I’ve never had to worry about my PCs getting it wrong before, though. Now, with the recent changes in … Continue reading
February 12, 2007
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Microsoft and Novell on Feb. 12 unveiled more specifics regarding their joint technical roadmap. As expected, the two companies are collaborating on four areas of technology that address significant problems faced by enterprises: virtualization, Web services for managing physical and … Continue reading
November 2, 2006
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Microsoft and Novell have announced a set of broad business, legal, and technical collaboration agreements to build, market, and support a series of new solutions that will make Novell’s Linux and Microsoft’s Windows products work better together. First, the two … Continue reading