by wwarren | Sep 8, 2010 | Vendors
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...
by wwarren | Aug 31, 2010 | Cloud Computing, Hardware, Intel
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....
by wwarren | Aug 28, 2010 | Vendors
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...
by wwarren | Aug 19, 2010 | Security, Security Alerts
Yet another reason to not use Facebook. In their latest non-security decision others can now tag you as being somewhere even if you don’t want them to…or if you aren’t even there. Like this is a good idea. Here’s how to turn it off(other...
by wwarren | Aug 16, 2010 | Church, NPO's
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...
by wwarren | Aug 15, 2010 | Church, Hardware, Intel, Linux, NPO's, Open Source
You can read about the donation here. I have three IBM x335’s on the way with dual p-4 xeon 2.8 ghz cpu’s, dual 36 gig 10k rpm SCSI drives with hardware raid 1, 4 gigs of ram, all the cables needed including ILO, and rails. All for the cost of shipping....
by wwarren | Aug 14, 2010 | Security
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...
by wwarren | Aug 7, 2010 | Microsoft, Office, SBS 2008, Security, Security Alerts, Server 2008, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
Microsoft has released the fix for the LNK issue. this coming Tuesday is going to be a monster patch day with a total of 37 issues fixed in 14 patches.
by wwarren | Aug 3, 2010 | Apple, Security, Security Alerts
It’s either that or incompetence. At this point I’m not sure which it is. How To Prevent iOS From Automatically Loading PDFs [Vulnerability].
by wwarren | Jul 31, 2010 | Microsoft, SBS 2008, Security, Security Alerts, Server 2008, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
Normally I advocate caution in major patches. This hole however is so important that i am going to immediately patch and then workaround any issues this is going to cause. Again on mOnday htis patch gets released. PATCH IMMEDIATLY!!! Read the previous advisories I...
