<b>IT World:</b> "Look around you. If you're in an office or coffee shop where people are using Windows, chances are someone's PC is now, or recently has been, part of a botnet."
<b>LWN.net:</b> "The deployment of Linux on the desktop and in the server room is well served by the general-purpose distribution. In the embedded world things are very different: although Linux is used widely, the concept of the general-purpose distribution is much less in evidence."
L-Soft's Listserv has been providing email list management to enterprises nearly as long as Windows has been an OS. Despite a complicated setup and configuration, for organizations looking for mailing list power and flexibility, Listserv is one for the short list.
As the transition from Yahoo's advertising system to Microsoft's adCenter approaches, users of Yahoo's tools wonder aloud whether key features they like will make the transition, too.
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "OpenOffice.org isn't the only game in town for open source word processing. One of the best, and underexposed, open word processors is AbiWord."
<b>IT World:</b> "The Linux marketplace has matured. The heavy lifting has been done," she said. "Working with the CodePlex Foundation is addressing the next generation of challenges."
The MySQL EXPLAIN statement provides insight into MySQL's query execution plans. This video demonstrates how you can use this powerful feature to boost your MySQL database performance.
The MySQL EXPLAIN statement provides insight into MySQL's query execution plans. This video demonstrates how you can use this powerful feature to boost your MySQL database performance.
<b>Tech Source:</b> "Do you feel jealous of your Android-using friends? Are you sick and tired of your iPhone's locked up OS? Are you fearless enough to install Android on the iPhone?"
Two new products, Forefront Protection 2010 and Active Directory Federation Services 2.0, are designed to provide secure collaboration for users of Microsoft's SharePoint.
The latest Sun customers to need reassuring from Oracle are the StorageTek data tape customers, who are told of Oracle's long-term commitment to the technology.
<b>Zona-M:</b> "How do you quickly create a spreadsheet where, for example, every other line has a background of a different color? Here are a couple of methods"
<b>Packt:</b> "In order to demonstrate Django's rapid development potential, we will begin by constructing a simple, but fully-featured, e-commerce store. The goal is to be up and running with a product catalog and products for sale, including a simple payment processing interface, in about half-an-hour."
In a bid to make its Bing search engine more social networking-oriented, Microsoft adds Facebook feeds and also shows off updated tools for Webmasters.
<b>Hubfolio: </b>"Getting access to your remote Ubuntu desktops through an ISA HTTP proxy can be a pain. This article shows you how to create a HTTP tunnel that will allow you to bypass even the most restrictive proxies and firewalls."