November 16, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Test Center Tracker: Apple updates, Linux failures, fast storage, and cracks for crackers
Apple updates survivor's guide: Tom Yager offers a guide through the flurry of fixes (count em, 23 updates) that Apple released this week. Where else but in Enterprise Mac.
Rock and a hard place: Randall Kennedy tried to love Ubuntu Desktop, but he could not. Read about his week-long adventure on planet Linux in Enterprise Desktop. And now back to Windows... and a fight with Vista SP1.
How fast can storage go? Mario Apicella discusses DataDirect Networks' and SGI's approaches to increasing the G's. See Storage Insider.
Your underwear is showing: Intruders don't always need fancy tools to worm their way into your network; sometimes the door is wide open. Roger Grimes reveals the many ways in, and what you can do to plug the holes in today's Security Advisor.
Posted by Doug Dineley on November 16, 2007 10:44 AM
November 02, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Shacking up with Leopard: Apple's OS X Leopard hit the North American market one week ago this evening, prompting Tom Yager to swing by the Apple store, MacBook Pro in hand, then make a beeline for an isolation chamber (the local Holiday Inn) for an intensive evaluation. (Nothing gets between Yager and a new Mac OS.) While we wait for the resulting review, you can track his progress on Enterprise Mac. For the quick-and-dirty on what Leopard will mean to users, the best places to start are two of Tom's recent posts to Ahead of the Curve, "Apple OS X Leopard: A beautiful upgrad" and Tom's "Leopard: Not an OS, but a system you operate".
Small (and cheap) project management: If Microsoft Project is more than enough, free and open source OpenProj might be just enough. Curt "Dr. Gantt" Franklin takes the tidy project manager for a spin in SMB IT.
Help your datacenter help itself: The self-checking and "phone home" features in many server and storage systems use the Axeda ServiceLink service-monitoring system. A new offering from Axeda, called ServiceLink for Datacenters, brings these remote access links under a central management portal -- reducing the risk of data exposure, reports Storage Insider Mario Apicella.
Welcome to Estonia: If you think your business is immune to the kind of massive distributed denial of service attack that shoved Estonia off of the Internet, think again, advises our Security Advisor, Roger Grimes.
Posted by Doug Dineley on November 2, 2007 12:05 PM