Windows Server 2008
Over the next few (several?) months, I will be reviewing the HP’s entire series of small business servers.
I will use a real-world business for each review scenario, and report on the performance and ROI each server brings to small and medium businesses...(read more)
Light posting for the past several weeks due to being sick and completing a major migration at the day job.
I’ll be retro-posting on issues on my mind during that time.
The Microsoft SharePoint Administrator’s Toolkit v2.0, the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, and the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 (eval) have been released into the wild by Microsoft.
At LogikLabs, we use the MDOP, and are...(read more)
According to a yum-yum on Cnet, it is a problem with people, not the code.
Say what now?
Describing Phalanx2 as "a self-injecting kernel rootkit designed for the Linux 2.6 branch that hides files, processes and sockets and includes tools for sniffing a tty program and connecting to it with a backdoor."
Okay…..
This drone then goes on to try to explain that while Linux may be ‘inherently more secure than Windows, as long as admins fail to secure it, it will be just as vulnerable.
That so, Sherlock?
Isn’t it amazing how the cattle try to moonwalk away from the truth every time?
Listen, dodo, that explanation holds true for every operating system.
However, since Microsoft has made ‘Secure by Design’ an architectural priority in Windows, the attack surface has decreased, and the number of vulns reported for Windows has been the best of any OS these past couple of years.
Contrast that to your stuff, yoyo!
You can now see why Linux, however much these clown bray about it, can never get traction with regular humans.
Can you imagine telling a business owner that the reason some criminal in some former Cold War country made off with their data is because it’s all about the people, not the code?
If you installed Linux as the operating system for your business, or your clients' business for that matter, he's right: it's your fault!
Linux, the favorite of the ‘live-under-the-stairs-in-my-grandma’s-basement’ crowd.
Not ready for business, Linux is!
They were?
Weren’t they Linux systems?
That supposedly unbreachable system?
To compound it all, the intruders gained access to systems used to sign Fedora packages.
How titillating!
How does that old adage go again? Something about people, glass house, and stones?
Heal yourself, Red Rodent, before trying to mouth off!
Really, though, who didn't see this coming?
Who?
The unwashed mob that is known as freetards collectively by the rest of the human race (and affectionately as the Linux-heads by the open source proletariat), really, truly, wanted this to work.
Why?
Actually, why not?
When Microsoft and Cisco announced an agreement last year to co-ompete, people wondered if it was real or fluff.
I lauded the agreement as two giants letting their constituencies know what the planks in their relative platforms were. (Hey, it's the election season.)
Last week, the first fruits of the new arrangement was announced: the embedding of Windows Server 2008 into a line of WAAS appliances manufactured by Cisco.
Earlier today, Microsoft released Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solutions Accelerator.
This free tool, first blogged about here , will enable you to do the following:
Free downloads of:
I have been testing Microsoft Windows Vista™ SP1 for the past several months.
Windows Vista SP1 is a worthy compatibility and optimization pack to Windows Vista. It is NOT a replacement for Windows Vista.
Contrary to the either uninformed writings of some so-called tech pundits, and the unprepared CYA rants of lazy IT administrators, it was NOT necessary to wait for SP1.
Today, I received my first quad-core review system, a Dell PowerEdge 1900 server powered by dual Intel Xeon E5310 processors.
Now I know why Jon Schwartz was made CEO of Sun, Inc.!
In my post here, I alluded to Sr. Schwartz's admirable intelligence and relative youth as being advantageous to Sun, while warning him to avoid the pitfalls of his boorish predecessor.
Since then, J Schwartz had delivered.
For beta 1 of this mid-market product, we tested on 3 discreet systems.
We will be testing the CTP on both the same three systems, and in a virtualized environment as well.
I am stoked about this product!
In my NetworkWorld.com post here, I repeated Microsoft’s position that free and open source and Linux (hereinafter referred to as foux) infringes on no less than 235 Microsoft patents.
The open source crowd's invidiousness over Microsoft's patents, and indeed, it's (Microsoft's) entire IP portfolio and good fortune reached a defeaning crescendo this past week, with everyone and their shadows weighing in.
A little backgrounder:
In the May 14, 2007 issue of Fortune magazine, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith, and licensing chief, Horacio Gutierrez informs users about the exact number of patents that are being infringed upon by the foux crowd.
