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Virus downs London hospitals
Three London hospitals have had to shut down most of their computer systems after being struck by a virus. Read more »
OLPC's Bitfrost: Privacy disaster, or security haven?
Faced with a young, tech-inexperienced user base, the One Laptop Per Child foundation set out to build an easy to use security system, Bitfrost — but did it create a privacy threat that tracks users' identity instead? Read more »
MySQL backtracks on closed-source plan
Sun has backtracked on previous plans to release important backup features for its MySQL database under a proprietary licence, following widespread criticism from the open-source community. Read more »
Ubuntu gets served by enterprise
Canonical, the Linux distribution maker best known for the Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system, has taken the wraps off a new release of the server edition of its product. Read more »
Sun criticised for MySQL Enterprise shift
Sun is to begin offering certain MySQL features, beginning with some backup functions, solely to its enterprise subscription customers, the company announced this week. Read more »
Service links Gmail and Outlook, bypassing Exchange
If you like Microsoft's Outlook e-mail client software but hate the expense of licensing and running Exchange Server, there is another alternative: a subscription service that effectively lets people dump Exchange in favour of Google's cloud-computing infrastructure. Read more »
Safari 3.1 update fixes 13 security flaws
Apple has released Safari 3.1 for users on Mac OS X and Windows. Along with new features are 13 security updates, most of the fixes address cross-site scripting flaws. Read more »
OS X Leopard gets 'secure' Parallels Desktop
Parallels has begun testing its virtualisation software for Apple's latest operating system, Leopard. Read more »
Seagate to pay refund over gigabyte definition
Seagate Technology, the world's largest hard-drive maker, is offering customers a five percent refund on drives bought during the last six years following a lawsuit over the definition of a "gigabyte". As an alternative, customers can choose to receive free backup software. Read more »
Leopard hits the shelf on October 26
After much speculation, Apple has confirmed that the next version of its Mac OS X operating system, "Leopard," will hit stores on Friday, October 26, at 6 p.m. Read more »
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Take advantage of undocumented SQL Server iteration procedures
Here's a look at how you can use two built-in system stored procedures -- sp_msforeachdb and sp_msforeachtable -- to iterate through SQL Server tables and databases. Read more »
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 »
50 significant moments from internet history
We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »
Help! My SQL Server Log File is too big!
Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. This article discusses the perils of not handling SQL Server log growth properly, and what can be done to correct the problems. Read more »
Enabling the Windows Server Backup feature in Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 replaces NTBackup with a new tool called Windows Server Backup. Be prepared for a learning curve. Read more »
10 surprising things about Windows Server 2008
When you take a look at Windows Server 2008, you'll discover big changes -- including some legitimate improvements. This article outlines a few of the unexpected aspects of the new OS, both good and bad. Read more »
Using Mirrored Media Sets in SQL Server 2005
Mirrored Media Sets is a new feature in the Enterprise Edition of SQL Server 2005. It enables the creation of redundant copies of a backup file to reduce the possibility of a backup device malfunction. Here's how you make it work. Read more »
An outage: Lessons learned
This article talks about two outages that occurred at a college and lessons learned from them. Read more »
GUI scripting with Zenity
Meet Zenity, a tool that allows you to create GUI prompts for shell scripts. Read more »
Practical tips for setting up a UPS
Today I'm going to share some pointers I learned from my previous experiences in buying and setting up a UPS for a mid-size server room. Read more »
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Firefox 3 add-ons to make you a better Web developer
-- Firefox might be a fast browser but it's extensions can transform it into a powerful development tool for Web developers and designers. Here are 10 of the best to get you started. Read more »
Melbourne clichés: Things of stone and code
-- It's fair to say that the weather in Melbourne has changed as often as speaker's laptops have failed -- and I'd expect nothing less. Read more »
Hypervisor price tag: 500 million dollars!
-- In this week's roundup we look at Citrix's purchase of XenSource, whether Sharepoint is Microsoft's new platform for lock-in, as well as a plethora of Google news. Read more »
Anti-social Web 2.0 to save your bacon
-- Even if you don't buy into the whole "social" part of Web 2.0, it's still useful if you are an endemic procrastinator. Read more »
Google destroys Security Through Obscurity
-- Google Labs' new Code Search makes it easier for hackers to find database
username and password details by entering strings that are commonly used
within configuration files. Read more »
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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 »
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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 »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending 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 »
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Interplanetary Internet a possibility
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
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Yang's resignation: The talk of Silicon Valley
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.