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EclipseWorld Classes
I’m going to be running a few classes on developing and debugging Perl and Python applications using Eclipse at the EclipseWorld conference being held in New York, August 29th-31st, at the Roosevelt Hotel. The class programme is available for Tues…
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Resigning from LinuxWorld Magazine
If you have completely and utterly missed all the fuss over the last week, then you won’t know about the problems at LinuxWorld and more specifically Sys-Con regarding the publishing (and endorsing) of an a particular article. I wont link to it, f…
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IIS vs Apache, Comparing Apples and Oranges
Note: This post was originally part of my LinuxWorld blog; now migrated here after my resignation. Fudging tests to make your company or product look better is not new, but there are certain companies and organizations which seem to have a better …
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BSD on POWER Now Online
My first article for Free Software Magazine becomes freely available online. Here’s the intro: When you think of the PowerPC processor, chances are you???ll think of just two platforms and, by association, two operating systems. Apple???s Mac OS X, wh…
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Free Software Magazine by RSS
Free Software Magazine – another of the groups which gets my undivided attention for at least two articles each month – have changed the way they release articles from previous issues. No longer will we get one massive slap of pieces; instead we’l…
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Windows Server 2003 R2 Coming
Windows Server 2003 R2 (the official name of the next ‘update’ of the server operating system). It’s currently at the R2 Beta 2 level, and only available to a private testing group, but according to this post (Julius Sinkevicius, Senior Product Ma…
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Sun v40z Benchmarks Out
Note: This post was originally part of my LinuxWorld blog; now migrated here after my resignation. When I did the review of the Sun v40z, I said at the time that it was a fast machine, whether it was running Solaris or Linux. Now some more officia…
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Gentoo Part 2
OK, so it takes some time – this is old hardware – but I’m happy to say that the new mail server, running Gentoo on SPARC, is running perfectly. Note: This post was originally part of my LinuxWorld blog; now migrated here after my resignation. It’…
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Phishing – The Next Generation
Note: This post was originally part of my LinuxWorld blog; now migrated here after my resignation. In this piece over at New Scientist is the news that some of us have been expecting for a while – Phishing has moved on from simply redirecting peop…
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‘Full’ Review of Solaris 10
OK, I don’t particularly appreciate the multi-page reviews you get at some sites, but I think it’s a stretch to call 819 words a ‘full review’ of anything. Yet that is what we have here. It was even picked up by Slashdot as such, goin as far as to…