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Verizon on it’s way to being sold?

Given the fact that verizon's total debt nearly matches it's market cap(not it's actual income which is lower) I'm betting Verizon either sells off all it's landlines AND fios lines and then buys out voda here in the us or they get bought out themselves.  They...

Anandtech Begins a Major Upgrade Project

They are jumping right into virtualization.  Their biggest concern is they are hitting the limits of their colos power envelope before they start getting charged.  They are going to reduce their server footprint by about half and hopefully save some power as well....

Is Astaro Heading in the Wrong Direction?

I've been using Astaro since they were at version 4.  I've noticed a disturbing trend.  V4 was, in my opinion, the best version they have ever released.  Version 5 was badly bug ridden upon released necessitating at least 2 updates before it was running decently.  I...

Major Server Donation: Step 1 Server 1

What are the needs that this server can address? At this time the church's website is hosted by powweb on their free package for non profits.  Unfortunately their e-mail services are horrendously unreliable.  We have a business class internet connection with a static...

Why AVG Remains my reccomendation for businesses

Virus Bulletin : News - A third of anti-malware products fail to secure Vista Business Edition, Virus Bulletin reveals. If you look at the linked graphic you'll see AVG proudly near the top with Symantec and Macafee much lower.  Microsoft Security Essentials isn't...

This is Why I Always Bang the Backup Drum

I had my server setup as best as i could.  I had a RAID 1 mirror on both of my drives.  Not only that I had shadow copies being made on the array.  Finally I had everything being backed up to an external hard drive.  Last night my server started acting funny.  Putting...

Apple Continues to Show Microsoft type Arrogance

Of course it does.  As long as folks accept lame excuses for their constant failings and don't walk away from Apple with their wallets Apple has no reason to care. DailyTech - Apple to Customers: Here's a Free Case, Live With iPhone 4 or Get Out.

Possible Security flaw May Compromise Many Websites

It's a long time issue in non internet applications but it was thought the latency of internet communications would protect users from this issue.  While I'm not sure this is either a large issue now or even if it's going to be one it is one I will be tracking to see...

You need to get XP SP3 installed quickly.

If you are running xp 64 bit you are stuck at sp2 and your installation expires in less than a week.  Time for a move to 7. You have less than one week to update Windows XP. Here’s how! - Microsoft SMB Community Blog - By Eric Ligman - Site Home - MSDN Blogs.

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