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Monthly Archives: September 2005
IT manager mistakes
Linux-Watch.com points to an IT manager’s Journal article, Avoiding some common Linux admin mistakes, that point to IT problems that happen in all shops: failing to document, failing to plan on problems and having to react to them, failing to … Continue reading
Microsoft VFP 9 Service Pack One available for Public Beta
Alex Feldstein reports Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9 Pulic Beta released. “Microsoft announced that the public Beta of SP1 for Visual FoxPro 9.0 is now available for free download on msdn.com. The download page has a text file download with the … Continue reading
Allchin announces future retirement, Microsoft re-orgs
Two related Computerworld News postsL Allchin says farewell in e-mail to co-workers. “On the same day it unveiled a major reorganization, Microsoft Corp. also announced that Jim Allchin, group vice president of platforms at the software company, would retire at … Continue reading
There is no throat to choke. There never has been.
In InfoWorld: Application development, Ephraim Schwartz editorializes The end of ‘one throat to choke’?. “OK, first let’s dispel two myths foisted on us by big-name software industry personalities.” Instead of one throat to choke, one stack to manage, Benioff would … Continue reading
Here it comes again: a new Bagle trojan horse attack (Windows only)
Alex Feldstein blogs New Bagle worm is making rounds?. SANS Internet Storm Center reports that a new Bagle worm variant is making rounds. Make sure that your antivirus is up-to-date and enabled. Preliminary information is: The file arrives as a … Continue reading
Drew and Brent remembered
The FoxPro Advisor web site carries this touching remembrance of Drew and Brent written by my co-author for the Hacker’s Guide series, Tamar E. Granor.
Email slower than Parcel Post
If you’ve sent a message and I haven’t responded, it’s possible I haven’t seen it. Please contact me directly. My upstream mail forwarding service has become really slow on relaying traffic. Witness this nine day (Ow!) delay: Received: from m1.dnsix.com … Continue reading
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Sad News: Drew and Brent Speedie
Very sad news: Drew Speedie (third from left) and his son, Brent Speedie (right) passed away while on vacation in Yellowstone. Drew was a very talented man. He worked as the technical editor of “Hacker’s Guide to Visual FoxPro 3″ … Continue reading
Lies, damned lies, statistics
OSNews posts Firefox vs. IE security: Is Two Greater Than Five?. “A recent blog post on ZDNet contends that Firefox is not as secure as promised by counting exploits. Joseph Huang contends that severity and the number of unpatched vulnerabilites … Continue reading
Farewall, MacWorld Boston, we hardly knew ye
OSNews notes IDG Pulls Plug on Macworld Boston. “Two years after the East Coast version of the Macworld Expo made a controversial move to Boston, IDG World Expo is pulling the plug on the event. IDG announced plans in October … Continue reading