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Red Hat: Crisis to boost open source

The global economic crisis would provide a boost for open source software, Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst claimed during a visit to Sydney this week. Read more »

Google RatProxy looks for cross-site flaws

Google released a free tool Tuesday that should help Web developers find and fix cross-site vulnerabilities. Read more »

Google votes on whether to protect free speech

For the second year in a row, Google shareholders will be asked to hold the Web search giant accountable for protecting free speech, regardless of international borders. Read more »

Quarter of all Aussie software is illegal

Australia's software piracy rate is dropping, but not as aggressively as some in the industry would like. Read more »

IPv6 migration begins as ICANN updates servers

The great migration from IPv4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version of the Internet protocol. Read more »

Open source community site goes open source

Ohloh, the prominent community site for open source developers, is making itself open source, including its full suite of tools and even the Web site itself. Read more »

Microsoft Office goes online with Workspace

In a salvo fired squarely at the online productivity tools offered by Google, Microsoft has released a beta version of Office Live Workspace -- a free Web service that allows users to post Word, Powerpoint, Excel or PDF files directly from within their Office application onto the Internet. Read more »

UK government in massive personal data loss

The UK government has admitted that its Revenue & Customs department has lost the details of 25 million individuals after two disks went missing in the mail. Read more »

Red Hat targets server messaging market

Red Hat has plans for a new private beta test of open source messaging software to begin next month, with hopes to reinvent a section of the server market currently ruled by proprietary vendors. Read more »

BEA under pressure to get financials in order

BEA must get its financial restatements up to date if it hopes to keep its biggest shareholder from taking control of a possible buyout, legal experts say Read more »

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More New SQL Server 2008 Features

Microsoft updates SQL Server on a pretty regular basis. Its newest version, SQL Server 2008, includes some new features not found in older versions. Here's a list of some of them. Read more »

Audit data using SQL Server 2005's COLUMNS_UPDATED function

This article looks at how the SQL Server 2005 COLUMNS_UPDATED function works and then discusses how to parse out the field names. Read more »

What does a DBA do all day?

Data integrity is a DBA's number one responsibility, but do you know what else they do all day? Read more »

Delegate privileges to users with sudo

One of my favourite tools is sudo, a program that many users will be familiar with. Both Ubuntu and OS X popularised sudo by making efficient and default use of the program. Sudo allows regular users to perform commands as other users. Read more »

What's new in SQL Server 2008

SQL Server 2008 will be released in 2nd quarter of 2008. SQL Server 2008 will also be part of a joint launch with Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 on February 27, 2008. Read more »

Capture an Oracle 10g audit trail in XML format

The Oracle database has long had the ability to audit selected types of operations against the database, storing the audit trail in a system table. This table, SYS.AUD$, resides in the data dictionary. On some operating systems, you can also write audit records to the operating system's own event logging subsystem. Read more »

Establish a patch management policy

Patch management is an issue that will always plague your organisation's network -- there will always be patches, updates, and security fixes to apply. Read more »

Top 10 reasons to avoid IT salespeople

Like the rest of us, salespeople and consultants are only doing their job -- but why do they have to be quite so annoying? Read more »

Pinpoint vulnerabilities on your system with Nessus

Fixing vulnerabilities is an ongoing process that requires diligence -- it's not something you can ever cross off your task list. However, there are plenty of excellent tools available that will assess your systems for known vulnerabilities. Let us introduce you to one of the best. Read more »

Restore your SQL Server database using transaction logs

Most DBAs dread hearing that they need to restore a database to a point in time, especially if the database is a production database. However, knowing how to do this is of the utmost importance for a DBA's skill set. I'll walk you through the steps of how to restore a SQL Server database to a point in time to recover a data table. Read more »

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CodeGear Q&A

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- CodeGear is the new name for Borland's developer tools business. Builder AU spoke to CodeGear about the handover and direction of the developer tools business under the new banner. Read more »

Try… Catch… Win!

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- As a .NET developer, there are a few “best practices” that you should always consider. And one of the biggest is that every application you write should include error trapping to trap critical and non-critical errors that may occur. And the .NET framework makes it easy to use “Try… Catch” statements to intercept any errors that occur and allow you to handle the exception. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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