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Evolving security for social networks
News Users may be the weakest link in securing a network, but technology can help pick up where human discretion leaves off, says Symantec CTO.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, Security, threat management, information privacy, question mark, social networking, software, Symantec Corp., network
Tiny MediaBook Extreme
Reviews Despite its 933MHz desktop CPU, the MediaBook Extreme fails to outshine current 750MHz SpeedStep notebooks.
Globbing wildcard characters with zsh
Techguide Vincent Danen explains globbing with wildcard characters, and how using globbing in the z shell (zsh) yields powerful results.
Disabling the firewall in Server 2008 Core Edition
Techguide For Windows Server 2008’s Core Edition, the default firewall configuration is one of the things most administrators want to turn off after installation.
Tags: Networking, Operating systems, Hardware, Microsoft Windows Firewall, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, question mark, Netsh, Server, Use Case, Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Finjan offers free SecureTwitter browser plug-in
News New SecureTwitter plug-in can protect people from worms, Trojans, and other malware attacks spread through Twitter, Gmail, MySpace, and other sites.
Tags: Security applications/tools, Twitter, Site, Finjan Software Inc., Plug-in, Web Browser, Social Media, question mark, Web browser plug-in, Facebook
400 IT jobs to go at Barclays
News The bank has cut hundreds of permanent and contractor posts, and unions warn more retrenchments may follow.
Tags: Banking, Human resources, IT Management, Barclays Plc., question mark, globalization, London, Silicon.com, recession, job
Two undocumented SQL Server procedures you should know
Techguide Here's a look at how you can use two built-in system stored procedures to iterate through SQL Server tables and databases.
Tags: Servers, Software, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server, Backup, Database, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, question mark, stored procedure, Chapman Co.
Potential Pirate Bay buyer could lose P2P partner
News Peerialism was supposed to be a linchpin of the new Pirate Bay, but the company is owed money and hasn't been made privy to vital details. CEO is losing confidence in deal.
Tags: Web sites, Grokster Ltd., P2P, question mark, technology company, File-sharing, network, president, acquisition, Web sites
Making sense of Live Mesh
Techguide Justin James gets Microsoft's general manager of Live Services to shed more light about Live Mesh, and shares why he is now more open minded about Live Mesh.
Tags: Web services, Protocols and platforms, Data centers, Data Management, Microsoft Corp., Security, Cloud Computing, Blockbuster Inc., Server, British Airways Plc.
Teradata: Fending off rivals with focus on data warehousing
Techguide Teradata has been increasingly mentioned by the likes of Oracle and Hewlett-Packard so much so you have to wonder what all the hubbub is about.
Tags: Data Management, Data centers, Databases, Medicare, Wells Fargo & Co., data mining, entertainment, data warehouse, Teradata, Data centers
Search text with new Perl-like regular expressions
Techguide Oracle 10g Release 2 contains new Perl-like regular expressions. If you're developing scripts against Oracle 10gR2, check out these nifty shortcuts for searching text.
Microsoft partner: Vista less secure than XP
News Security company Kaspersky claims that Vista's User Account Control will be so annoying that users will disable it.
Tags: Security, Microsoft Windows
Internet will never be secure: Expert
News The complexity of the Internet is increasing more rapidly than our ability to secure it, according to Internet security expert Bruce Schneier.
2004: The year of controlled spending?
News Companies are predicting bigger IT budgets next year - but how much bigger and what technologies and trends will drive tech investment during the next 12 months?
Netscape 6 finally ships after 32-month gestation
News More than two and a half years after unveiling its source code to the world, Netscape Communications will release a browser built on that open source later today.
