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Chrome now works on Linux, crudely

Google is tight-lipped about the Linux version of its Chrome browser, but the company's programmers have proved a bit more forthcoming with a brief announcement that they have a crude version of Chrome working on Linux. Read more »

Windows 7 Server gets its day

After two weeks of focus on the desktop version of Windows 7, it's server counterpart finally got a day in the sun. Read more »

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OLPC: Windows vs. Linux

On the outside, the Windows version of the XO laptop looks just like the Linux model. But simply booting up the device shows that the Windows version bears little resemblance to the original One Laptop Per Child device. Read more »

Red Hat gets hacked

Red Hat warned on Friday that a network attack compromised some servers last week that are involved with both its commercially supported and free versions of Linux. Read more »

Microsoft in 'trouble' as Bill Gates leaves

A Harvard University dropout who ushered in the home computer age and made billions of dollars along the way will have his last official day of work at Microsoft on 27 June. Read more »

Facebook admits it's the in thing for spammers

The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's security chief has revealed. Read more »

Legal schmegal: Aussie iPhone will still be locked

After research conducted by two Queensland legal academics ignited debate yesterday over whether Apple will be allowed to lock the iPhone to an exclusive carrier, Trade Practices experts have agreed that to do so might contravene regulations, but it will make little difference to the company. Read more »

SP1 enhances Vista kernel with new APIs

Microsoft has revealed more information on changes to the Vista kernel as part of the release of Service Pack 1, but has denied that the enhancements amount to an "upgrade" or "re-engineering". Read more »

Mozilla gets new head honcho

Mozilla Corp., the for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, has promoted chief operating officer John Lilly to chief executive, the organisation behind the Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird e-mail software said. Read more »

Transistor hits 60th birthday

Sixty years ago, on 16 December, scientists at Bell Labs--William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain--built the world's first transistor and nothing has been the same since. Read more »

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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 »

Try command-line looping for added efficiency

Using loops, you can take often-used commands that would normally be executed in sequence manually, and have them done automatically. This article tells you what you need to know about getting started with loops. Read more »

10 ways to make Linux boot faster

On those infrequent occasions when you need to reboot Linux, you may find that the process takes longer than you'd like. This article gives you a number of tricks you can use to reduce boot times. Read more »

Scripting out DHCP reservations in Windows Server 2008 with Netsh

Scripting out DHCP reservations can save a lot of time for large pools of reservations. See how the Windows Server 2008 Netsh tool can help out in this regard. Read more »

Are you going to upgrade to Windows Server 2008?

There is a lot of hype in the IT industry when it comes to new releases of products. Look at the iPhone, Windows Vista, WiMax, OS X Leopard. This article digs through the hype to help you make a decision for yourself whether migrating to Windows Server 2008 will be worth it in the next 18-24 months. Read more »

GUI scripting with Zenity

Meet Zenity, a tool that allows you to create GUI prompts for shell scripts. 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 »

Scripting the remove and disable mailbox attributes in Exchange 2007

This article describes how you can disable or remove the e-mail attribute from the Windows account yet retain the account. Read more »

Use prototyping to visualise project requirements

Prototypes are built early in the development lifecycle, and they're used to provide valuable insight into the look, feel, and general workflow of an application. Read more »

Getting started with Windows Server 2008 Core edition

The Windows Server 2008 Core edition comes with significant changes. This article provides a quick rundown of the Core edition's capabilities and limitations. Read more »

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Sysadmin hijacks San Francisco while Torvalds attacks security circus

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This edition of the Weekly Roundup looks at how one man has taken over the network of the city of San Francisco, take a glance at a local news start-up and Linus Torvalds calls out the IT security sector. Read more »

The typical Linux conference geezer

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Asking delegates to pick their distribution, shell and editor of choice gives us a chance to gain some insight into the average Linux conference attendee. Read more »

You shall be replaced by a small shell script

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week's roundup covers OSDC, Google's attempt to get school kids into open source, the roel of automation in software development, why we hate salespeople and more. 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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