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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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Shock, Horror, RSS Loading Issues
Not to take anything away from the recent fuss over RSS (mostly generated by the release of Tiger), but the issue is nothing new. It’s interesting to see Om Malik and Chris Holland at The Apple Blog (which I also contribute to) mention the problem…
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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…
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Microsoft Virtual Server to Support Linux
If you subscribe to same sort of news sites I do you will have seen stories like Linux: coming soon to a Microsoft VM near you (Ars Technica), the original source piece at Techworld and the original Microsoft Press Release. Virtual Server 2005 alr…