Archive for September, 2007
Famed ‘$100 Laptop’ Now $188
The vaunted “$100 laptop” that Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers dreamed up for international schoolchildren is becoming a slightly more distant concept.
VMworld Shines Spotlight on Virtualization
VMware’s dazzling Wall Street debut last month aimed a spotlight on virtualization, the rapidly evolving technology that provides a logical view of computing resources, rather than a physical view. This week (Sept. 11-13), the beam stayed focused, as nearly 11,000 people attended the company’s annual VMworld Conference and Expo at San Francisco’s Moscone Center.
SCO Group Files for Bankruptcy
The SCO Group Inc., licenser of the Unix operating system, filed for bankruptcy protection Friday, drained by unsuccessfully filing lawsuits claiming its software code was misappropriated by developers of the open-source Linux operating system.
Coming to a Windows Server 2000 Computer Near You: ‘Clippy’s Revenge’
“It looks like you’re using me as an attack vector for hacking into a business network, would you like some help?”
ProCurve To Challenge Cisco’s Dominance?
Don’t look now, but Hewlett-Packard Co.’s ProCurve division might be picking up some enterprise switching ground against rival — and enterprise switching king — Cisco Systems Inc.
Cisco Joins 802.11n Fray
Cisco Systems Inc. threw its hat into the 802.11n ring, announcing a new Unified Wireless Network offering that includes an industry first: the Aironet 1250 Series Access Point, which is the first shipping enterprise-class 11n access point available on the market, along with a 48Gbps Catalyst 6500-based wireless local LAN controller system, and version 4.2 of its Unified Wireless Network.
Storage Solutions for Midsize Enterprises
A panel of industry experts will discuss finding the right storage solutions for Midsize Enterprises. Specifically, you will learn how to consolidate existing IT infrastructures and deploy virtualization solutions to increase storage utilization. Sign up now for this free hour-long webcast. Event Date: Tuesday, September 18: 11:00 am (PDT)/2:00 pm (EDT)
Certificate problems with OCS 2007 - part 1
Oftentimes when deploying OCS 2007 to complex environments something doesn’t work as expected. Even more often the culprit is either a certificates issue or AD (and thus, often a DNS) issue.
One of my colleagues had problems when connecting Office Communicator to OCS 2007, using Access Edge. Thus the workstation was outside the company’s LAN (and AD), and was running Windows Vista with Internet Explorer 7.0. Most companies choose to deploy OCS 2007 with private certificates, i.e. generating their own rather than shelling out the hard-earner dollars to companies like Verisign.
The problem here is that while the workstation is able to connect, you will see a problem with authentication. Debugging this through OCS 2007 Logging Tool (which, I might add, is excellent) it all boils down to certificate problems - the client doesn’t have the CRL (Certificate Revocation List), and IE7 always enforces that by default.
Fix? Uncheck “Check for server certificate revocation” -option from IE7 > Tools > Internet Options > Advanced.
Certification for Freelancers and Home Based…
Certification for Freelancers and Home-Based Business Owners Written by admin on September 4th, 2007 in careers-employment. No Comments When we think of technical certification, most of us think of the seemingly endless jumble of letters that follow the names of information technology experts-MCSE, MCSA, A+, CCNA
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CISSP, Magic Incantation or Nonsense?
Certifications… Blood pressure is already rising at the mere mention of the word, but stick with me. I have held a few certifications through the years: from ASE Master Auto Technician and Master Heavy Truck Technician many years ago; to MCSE+I on NT 4.0 and CCNA later (one obsolete and the other
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