Monthly Archives: July 2004

French Ministry chooses Mandrake

Mandrakesoft issued an announcement recently that the French Ministry of Equipment is to use Mandrake as their distro of choice in their project to move their servers away from proprietary software (Windows). 1500 Mandrake servers are being rolled out to … Continue reading

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Microsoft Money users ‘locked out’

While Microsoft Money is an application that resides on a computer’s hard drive, the service also integrates online access to information and services. Users can upload their personal finance files onto the Web and access the information over the ‘net … Continue reading

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Critical Internet Explorer patch release imminent

According to an article in eWeek Dean Hachamovitch, who heads the Microsoft IE development team, said in a weekly security-focused Webcast, that a fix for the vulnerability exploited by the Download.Ject attacks in June will arrive sometime next week. The … Continue reading

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CA to release Open Source version of Ingres

I read in InfoWorld today where CA have announced that they intend to release a version of ingres at LinuxWorld in San Francisco under its own CA Trusted Open Source License (CA-TOSL) next Wednesday. Tony Gaughan, senior vice president, CA … Continue reading

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Downloadable web security classification

I came across a downloadable pdf document while browsing the Net-Security site today. The document has 50 pages of attack classifications as well as an appendix on HTTP Response Splitting and another on Web Server/Application Fingerprinting. Yet another document to … Continue reading

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OS X maintenance and troubleshooting

I found a really good article on OS X maintenance and troubleshooting today. The article is for the maintenance of OS X 10.2 and 10.3 and the tools recommended, if they don’t already come with OS X, are freely downloadable! … Continue reading

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