New report cites source close to investigation claiming that hackers in China were able to compromise the password service that acts as gateway to Google's Web products and services.
<b>Enterprise Networking Planet:</b> "What happened to the old "sysadmin" of just a few years ago? We've split what used to be the sysadmin into application teams, server teams, storage teams, and network teams."
<b>Handle With Linux:</b> "This is the Dreambox, a Linux powered price winning digital television receiver. While it may not look like much at first, wait till you hear what special features it supports (some unofficially) ."
Learn how to deliver dynamic content by building a meaningful Business Intelligence Application, utilizing only what is available on the client's desktop, when a Data Warehouse BI Application, SQL Server and SSIS/SSRS aren't an option.
<b>Scott Adams blog:</b> "So here now, exclusively for you blog readers, the totally unfinished first drafts of those comics. You will never see these in newspapers."
<b>The H Open: </b>"The Linux Mint development team have announced a release candidate for what will become Linux Mint version 9, code named 'Isadora'. "
SQL Server Service Broker (SSBS), introduced with SQL Server 2005 and enhanced in SQL Server 2008, allows you to write queuing/message based applications within the database itself. This article discusses SSBS' important features and how to use it in different scenarios.
<b>Tip of the Trade:</b> "While investigating its use to sys admins, I came across this photo of someone using it to read shared docs from a server room."
Security-software vendors say hackers for months have been repeatedly targeting top-tier executives and government officials using the World Cup soccer tournament as a lure.
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "Linux was a resounding failure on netbooks, so what makes this French start-up firm think it can succeed with an Ubuntu Linux derivative?"
<b>Linux Links:</b> "To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 8 top quality open source astrology applications. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone interested in intuitive perception."
<b>Tech Drve-In:</b> "So here we are continuing our addiction with free and opensource wallpapers. Android operating system is spreading like wildfire."
Virtually Speaking: Following on its recent release of VirtualBox, Oracle is now refreshing the Sun Ray client and the Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
Our patent system is so under-funded, its mission, criteria and processes so broken and ill-suited to today's economy that the best solution is to just dismantled the patent office and start over.
Tip of the Trade: Finding a way to ignore files or directories in Subversion so they are not included in svn status output is easy; figuring out the exact syntax is not. Here's are way to simplify this Linux server management quagmire.
<b>IT World:</b> " One of the files that the average Unix sysadmin rarely looks at, almost never changes and yet depends on every time he or she reboots a system is the /etc/inittab file."
In keeping with its mantra of simplifying IT, the firm offers up new storage and server virtualization products with rapid deployment and provisioning at the heart of their design.
Adobe Systems says it will have a fix to a major exploit in its popular Flash Player later this week and fixes for Reader and Acrobat by the end of the month.