Entries tagged with 'Microsoft'

Links of interest for 30 Apr 2008 - 14 May 2008:

Brussels: Uniform Interface to Driver Administration Through dladm(1m) - Finally!!! A unified simple and easy way to configure network interface settings like auto-neg, duplex, mtu etc on Solaris. Currently only in OpenSolaris and Nevada though.
OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up [...]

Links of interest for 1 Feb 2008 - 14 Feb 2008:

Major Linux security hole found - Ooops. This is going to be around for some time and I wouldn't be surpised if a worm is created to capitalise on this vulnerability in the not too distant future.
How one clumsy ship cut off the web [...]

It’s been less than a week since Windows Vista hit the shelves and we’re already hearing of problems and new bugs. Today the tech news sites are all getting very excited about the new vulnerability in Vista’s Speech Command utility, purely from a “Oooh, a vulnerability ALREADY” perspective, but no one has given a [...]

You can’t make this shit up: Microsoft’s Jim Allchin is claiming that Vista’s new lockdown features are so capable and thorough that he is comfortable with his own seven-year-old son using Vista without anti-virus software installed. I wouldn’t be so sure - being this cocky is just inviting hackers to find great big holes. [...]

It seems Microsoft is really getting into the swing of the “if you can’t beat em, join em” expression with the latest news that they’re going to be signing a new partnership with Novell. Could this be quite innocent and actually an attempt improve the interoperability between the two operating systems as advertised or could [...]

Hee hee. I love it when Microsoft inadvertently get serious on security:
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