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Tuesday, June 08, 2004

Linux system backup for Windows network admins. What you do to back up your computers depends on the value of your data and how far you're willing to go. You can hold users responsible for their own backups. Alternatively, you can create and store backups on floppy disks, CDs, tape drives, and so on. You can back up part or all of the data, even in real time. [NewsForge]
11:59:21 AM

Province of Ontario moving students to StarOffice. Sun Microsystems scored a big sales win Monday, landing Canada's elementary and secondary schools as its latest customers for the open source-based StarOffice 7 office productivity suite. The Ontario Ministry of Education acquired StarOffice licenses for all the province's 72 public and Catholic school boards, making it potentially the largest StarOffice 7 delivery in North America. As a result, about 2.5 million students eventually will have access to one of the leading alternatives to Microsoft Office. [NewsForge]
8:46:41 AM

Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD. FreeBSD is often overlooked when people discuss the relative success of the rival operating system platforms in use on the Internet. However, it has a secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites sine July 2003. [Netcraft]

Because it ain't all about the penguin...

8:40:49 AM

Infected Windows PCs Now Source Of 80% Of Spam

Infected Windows PCs Now Source Of 80% Of Spam

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 08, @07:41AM
from the targets-of-opportunity dept.
twitter writes "The Register is reporting a study by Sandvine.com that blames Microsoft Zombies for 80% of all spam. The study goes on to claim that 90% filtering is not effective given the unprecedented volume and that sophisticated trojans are able to drop spam directly on end user's computers despite current efforts. Just another cost of supporting Microsoft, I suppose."

[Slashdot]

I believe this. Take a look at the headers from some of your more persistant spam: they often originate from a cable/DSL connection somewhere. Seems to me a lot of this could be stopped by ISPs firewalling SMTP and mail servers checking MX records.

8:31:36 AM

CPU-based security for Windows XP, Red Hat Linux coming. The upcoming Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 will support new CPU-based security protections designed to stop incoming malicious executable code from being triggered. [Computerworld News]
8:26:39 AM

AMD "Sempron" To Replace Duron Chip. Advanced Micro Devices plans to develop a new line of processors that will serve the needs of the basic PC market, the company said Monday. [Extremetech]
8:25:44 AM

PHP 5 Release Candidate 3 Released!. The third (and hopefully final) Release Candidate of PHP 5 is now available! This mostly bug fix release improves PHP 5's stability and irons out some of the remaining issues before PHP 5 can be deemed release quality. Everyone is now encouraged to start playing with it! There are few changes changes since Release Candidate 2, which can be found here. [PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor]
8:21:10 AM