http://www.pn288.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:07:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is difficult for an established server vendor to accept, but I suspect it's an opportunity for any new entrant to the market. On the Linux side, this includes both Novell and Ubuntu. Yes, Novell has been around for a long time, but its server sales are still nascent. As ... http://www.pn288.com/index.php/2010/09/04/the-virtualization-opportunity-threat-for-linux-ve/ In case it's not abundantly clear by now, I'm a bit obsessed with MP3 players. Today's deal: the 4GB SanDisk Sansa Connect, which sold for $250 when it debuted about 9 months ago but can now be had for just $89.46 shipped. Find more deals, coupon codes, and bargains on ... http://www.pn288.com/index.php/2010/08/29/get-sandisks-wi-fi-mp3-player-for-89-shipped/ Current CEO Andy Astor will take on the global business development role and focus on building out new markets. Congrats to EnterpriseDB for scoring such a high-profile executive and to Ed on his new role. EnterpriseDB, known for its products based on the open-source Postgres database, today announced that it has named ... http://www.pn288.com/index.php/2010/08/24/red-hat-veteran-joins-enterprisedb-as-ceo/ (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET News) Flickr currently has more than 30 million registered users, 3 billion page views per month, and 60 million unique users per month, she said. It doesn't change another core part of Flickr, though, the pages that house each photograph. That will be changed in a future update, ... http://www.pn288.com/index.php/2010/08/24/flickr-revamp-spotlights-photos-social-features/ ms08-062: Important MS08-063: Important Microsoft on Tuesday released its October 2008 security bulletin. The four critical bulletins concern Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Host Integration Server, and Microsoft Excel. The patch for Internet Explorer is cumulative. MS08-061: Important Exploitability index: 1-3. Microsoft recommends that customers apply this update immediately. Titled "Cumulative Security Update for ... http://www.pn288.com/index.php/2010/08/24/microsoft-fixes-20-flaws-with-11-patches/ In any event, financial analysts awaiting Apple's earnings conference call later this afternoon will probably attempt to get an answer out of COO Tim Cook or CFO Peter Oppenheimer. Late last year, investors had wondered what Apple was planning to do with all its cash. Now they have some ... http://www.pn288.com/index.php/2010/08/24/apples-latest-chip-gamble/ BTW--I am going to make an effort to move into more technical and more start-up stuff (again) since the rest of the world seems to only write about the iPhone SDK. Trend No. 4: SOA and IAM are growing together It took awhile, but now, finally, not only vendors from both sides, but ... http://www.pn288.com/index.php/2010/08/24/top-10-trends-in-identity-management/ PGP released its whole-disk encryption utility for Windows in May 2005. A perpetual license for PGP Whole Disk Encryption 9.8 for Windows costs $149. Jon Callas, PGP's chief technology officer, told me on Monday that the software is "in active development" and will run on Intel-based Macs. Callas didn't want to ... http://www.pn288.com/index.php/2010/08/24/pgp-whole-disk-encryption-for-mac-os-x-is-in-act/ Amazon.com User Reviews (4.5 stars out of 237 reviews) CNET Review (Review on its way, but check out the user section, 8.8 average rating from 12 users.) There's something to be said about a product still going strong after 23 years in this evolving industry. Price: $35 with free shipping on Amazon. ... http://www.pn288.com/index.php/2010/08/24/my-headphones-are-better-than-yours/ Shorter Gartner (tip o' the antlers to Daring Fireball): Oh, man, we were so high when we wrote that! http://www.pn288.com/index.php/2010/08/24/um-nevermind/