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Microsoft IE7's zero-day hole
Microsoft warned of a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 that has been targeted in attacks, and released fixes for eight holes in Windows and Office as part of Patch Tuesday. Read more »
Office 2010 business launch in May
Microsoft has said that it plans to finalise the code for Office 2010 next month and, as expected, it kicked off a program enabling those who buy Office 2007 in the coming months to get a free upgrade to the new version. Read more »
Latest Firefox beta offers file-handling feature
Mozilla, determined to release Firefox 3.6 before year's end, is also determined to squeeze as many features as possible into the new browser. Read more »
Mozilla: Firefox 3.6 won't be late
Mozilla may have released the first beta of Firefox 3.6 nearly two months late, but the organisation believes the final version will still arrive on schedule before the end of the year. Read more »
Mozilla releases first beta of Firefox 3.6
Those keen to try out Mozilla's latest browser -- and its new process to update the software more frequently -- now can try Firefox 3.6 beta 1. Read more »
Firefox 3.6 to be pushed through as a minor release
Mozilla is hoping to push through Firefox 3.6 as a minor release, so users can get the update faster. Read more »
Browser rivals gaining on IE
After resetting its methodology to better account for global variations, market analyst firm Net Applications' browser usage statistics have resumed an earlier trend in which Internet Explorer's main rivals edged ahead. Read more »
64-bit Snow Leopard defaults to 32-bit kernel
Apple's OS X 10.6 operating system Snow Leopard by default loads with a 32-bit kernel, despite running 64-bit applications. Read more »
Highly exploitable Linux kernel bug found, patched
A hole has been found in Linux kernel versions stretching back eight years that is 'as trivial as it can get to exploit', according to the Google employees who discovered it. Read more »
What made Microsoft open up to Linux? Ask Novell
Microsoft's move to offer several Linux drivers owes a lot to a key programmer at Novell. Read more »
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Introducing Linux virtual containers with LXC
This article makes the case for using Linux Resource Containers (LXC), which provide the ability to create containers to virtualise processes or systems isolated from the host operating system. Read more »
10 reasons you'll want to install Ubuntu 9.04
Ubuntu's most recent release offers numerous improvements over an already solid OS. In fact, it could be the best overall release of a Linux distribution we've seen. Read more »
How to create a Blue Screen of Death
Feeling nostalgic about the Microsoft Blue Screen of Death, which used to plague desktops in the bad old days of Windows? No need to keep those feelings locked away. This handy guide will show you how to force your PC to recreate the infamous error. Read more »
Mine /proc for system information
The /proc virtual filesystem is one of the most interesting virtual filesystems available on Linux. Here you can see more information about your running system than you would know what to do with, including system information, memory information, CPU information, and much more. Read more »
Infinite list tricks in Haskell
Haskell uses a lazy evaluation system which allows you define as many terms as you like, safe in the knowledge that the compiler will only allocate the ones you use in an expression. In this article we use simple sequences as lists of infinite length in a number of different ways to demonstrate how you can use this approach. Read more »
A Quickstart to Haskell
Haskell is a functional programming language, in some ways similiar to ML or Erlang. Programming in functional languages can be a bit of a challenge to people used to standard, imperative methods. Don't fret, Builder AU's got you covered with this short quick start to Haskell. Read more »
Find sequence gaps using Oracle's analytic functions
Sequences of values occur frequently in database tables. Whether generated naturally as part of the data, or assigned by an Oracle sequence object, the intent is to number the rows with a unique, ever-increasing number. Gaps in this numbering may occur for various reasons. Read more »
Synchronous message passing in Erlang
Erlang uses asynchronous message passing to enable communication between processes. For all of its advantages, asynchronous message passing can give you no assurances that the messages it sends are received. If your program needs those kind of guarantees, then you should go for a synchronous messaging approach. Read more »
Four cool new features slated for SQL Server 2008
SQL Server 2008 (code named Katmai) is scheduled to launch in February of next year, and the code isn't slated to be released to manufacturing until Q2 2008. But database gurus don't have to wait to get a sense of what's to come because Microsoft recently released SQL Server 2008 to the community for preview. Read more »
Try this workaround for time-out issues in kernel 2.6.17 and higher
Because of a recent change in TCP window scale settings in Linux 2.6.17 kernel and higher, you may have had some problems connecting to certain Web sites. We'll show you a quick workaround. Read more »
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Outlook 2010 technical preview
Microsoft's workhorse Outlook program gets an update in the 2010 suite, but is it enough to upgrade? We look at an early version. Read more »
Watch Windows 7 RC in action
Microsoft impressed many with its Windows 7 beta, and the new Release Candidate looks even better. More than mere bug fixes, the Windows 7 Release Candidate improves on device management and search-term highlighting, and includes support for a virtual XP mode to run older programs. Read more »
Worst 2008 predictions
We check up on the worst guesses for what would happen this past year. Read more »
Five services you can turn off in Windows Server 2003
Disabling unnecessary Windows Server 2003 services can strengthen your server security. Unfortunately, there are over 100 services to consider. In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler shows you how to disable Windows Server 2003 services and discusses five services that you may want to turn off. Read more »
Charney: 9/11 attacks made security an asset
Until 9/11 security was simply a cost, says the VP of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group – the stock exchange being knocked out suddenly changed this. Read more »
Torvalds: release timing was a mistake
Linus Torvalds, Linux kernel co-ordinator, admits that the timing of the Linux 2.6.24 kernel was a mistake. Read more »
Blog (135)
iPhone OS 3.0 makes an entrance
-- iiPhone OS 3.0 and Firefox 3.5 release candidate get launched this week. More in this week's Roundup. Read more »
Google Earth adds Mars roving
-- While you might never become an astronaut and have the chance to ride a Mars Rover on the Red Planet, Google has now rolled out an Earth-bound alternative for the masses. Read more »
The festive season not so festive
-- This is still meant to be the festive season, isn't it? When they say you should show goodwill towards your fellow (hu)man, I don't think they meant redundancy payments. Read more »
Blog against poverty
-- Worldwide Blog Action Day is 15 October, in 2008 the goal is to raise awareness and conversation around the worldwide topic of poverty and in the process raise money for the cause. Who's in? Read more »
Going the extra step but not the extra mile
-- I've always been a big fan of going the extra mile with error messages, it's a good way to show that you actually care about the product to take the time to customise it even when things are amiss -- and yes, things will go wrong, you will not create the perfect application. Read more »
WordPress updates to 2.6, adds Gears support
-- Blogging platform WordPress updated to version 2.6 yesterday. It's the latest major release since 2.5, which debuted back in late March and adds nearly as many new features as it does bug and security fixes. Read more »
SEO is voodoo
-- Anyone who claims to know everything about search engine optimisation is either a fool or a liar. Read more »
Hope you are seated
-- With projects winding down for the year, have you accidently found yourself fulfilling promises you never thought you'd keep in 2007? Funnily enough, this week has been full of news of projects we thought had retired to the beach house for the summer. Read more »
Wireless theft -- what's the harm?
-- Hand up if you have logged in to use some poor schmuck's unprotected wireless connection to overcome a bandwidth drought? Read more »
This week's news regex: Open[A-Za-z]+
-- If there were announcements to be made this week, many of the usual suspects chose Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco as the place to make them. Read more »
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Google launches Apps Marketplace
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