March 6, 2011
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I prefer Google’s Android over Apple’s iOS for smartphones. I’ll take my Droid 2 over an iPhone 4, even though my carrier Verizon, now supports the iPhone. But, if Google can’t do better with its malware mess, I may be forced to change my mind.
March 4, 2011
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Two weeks ago, as unrest grew in Libya, the Libyan government turned off the Internet, and began to kill off its rebellious citizens. Afterwards, the Internet slowly came back on, but now, according to Arbor Networks, Libya’s Internet has been shut down as if a switch has been flipped.
Which, all things considered, might have been exactly what happened. You see Libya’s Internet is owned and controlled by the government through a telecommunication company Libya Telecom & Technology. Even its site is down now.
March 4, 2011
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Oh my God! There are security holes in Ubuntu 10.04! The sky is falling! Bill Gates is the maker of the one true operating system; forgive us Bill for we have worshiped at the feet of false Penguin idols. Oh please, give me a break!
Linux, like all other operating systems and software, has security holes. Always has, always will. No one ever said Linux was perfect. It’s not. It never will be.
What makes Ubuntu and Linux better than most of their competitors aren’t that they are flawless. It’s that when bugs are found, they fixed as fast as possible and then the fixes are pushed out to users immediately. There is no monthly Patch Tuesday. If there’s a significant problem, its tracked down and fixed. Period. End of statement.
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March 3, 2011
by sjvn01
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Color me confused. I don’t know why anyone would attack WordPress, the popular home of almost 18-million blogs, but they did, and for several hours on March 3rd, WordPress was out of commission.
According to Sara Rosso, VIP Services Engineer at Automattic, WordPress.com’s owner,” WordPress.com is currently being targeted by an extremely large Distributed Denial of Service [DDoS] attack which is affecting connectivity in some cases. The size of the attack is multiple Gigabits per second and tens of millions of packets per second.”
She added, “We are working to mitigate the attack, but because of the extreme size, it is proving rather difficult. At this time, everything should be back to normal as the attack has subsided, but we are actively working with our upstream providers on measures to prevent such attacks from affecting connectivity going forward.”
The attack began at approximately 6 AM Eastern time. WordPress started recovering by noon, and by about 3:30 PM the system was back to normal.
March 3, 2011
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Juniper Networks announced today, March 3, that the networking company was releasing a new suite of products and services that delivers what its calls the “first Converged Supercore” for service and content providers: Juniper’s Converged Supercore This is an integrated end-to-end packet transport solution optimized to deliver the switching and transport technology.
There’s no question that there’s a need for a next generation of core networking technologies for Internet Service Providers (ISP)s and content delivery networks (CDN)s. We have the basic technology now in IEEE 802.3ba, which sets down the technical guidelines for 40 Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) and 100GigE Ethernet and we also have the customer demand for that kind of speed.
March 2, 2011
by sjvn01
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I have a confession to make. I use Linux more than I do any other operating system by a wide margin, but I also use a lot of Apple products. In house at the moment are two Mac Minis; a MacBook Pro, a pair of iPod Touches, and, oh yes, an iPad mark 1. I know I’m not the only Linux or Windows guy who likes his Mac stuff too. In recent months I’ve been to both open-source and Windows tech. shows and I’ve seen MacBooks, iPhones and iPads everywhere. Now, with the iPad2 on the runway, if Android, MeeGo, webOS, and yes Windows too, want to play a sizable share of the tablet market, they need to make moves now or the iPad 2 is going to run them over.
First, while the iPad 2 doesn’t look to me like a great upgrade over the first model of the iPad, it further extends its lead over the existing tablets. I’ve seen and played with, to name a few, the Motorola Xoom; the Fujitsu Stylistic Windows 7 slate; and a host of other, older Android tablets. None of them are competitive yet with the first iPad, never mind the iPad 2.
So is it game over for iPad’s would-be competitors? No, but here’s what I think Google, Intel, HP and Microsoft need to do to make a fight of it.