21st January 2006 Archive

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• HP confirms plan to attack Sun via Solaris

  We've gone from official to announced, captain

  HP has gone really, really public about its support for Sun Microsystems Solaris 10 operating system by sending out an internal memo. HP has long "officially" supported various versions of Solaris on its Xeon- and Opteron-based servers. Now, however, it's kind of ready to talk about this support. The company this week " …

  Servers 21 Jan 2006, 00:06

• MS, AOL and Yahoo! caved to Feds' fishing expedition

  Inside the DoJ vs Google show trial

  The US Justice Department confirmed yesterday that Microsoft, Yahoo! and AOL have already complied with its request to hand over the details of queries submitted to the search engine - a fact that was disclosed in court documents this week. The DoJ wants the information, not for a criminal prosecution, but as background materia …

  Music and Media 21 Jan 2006, 01:08

• Windows back door rumor is bunk

  No reason not to patch it, however

  Contrary to a recent rumor circulating on the internet, Microsoft did not intentionally back-door the majority of Windows systems by means of the WMF vulnerability. Although it is a serious issue that should be patched straight away, the idea that it's a secret back door is quite preposterous. The rumor began when popinjay …

  Security 21 Jan 2006, 03:22

• Wild Packets

  Good to talk to Chris Bell of WildPackets about networking again (apparently the much-maligned Token Rings are still out there - happy memories). WildPackets' Omni platform is a universal real-time protocol analyser with a GUI interface: its founder came out of Novell, got fed up with the command line and originally developed …

  Developer 21 Jan 2006, 10:23