Before I'm accused of being a hater of Linux, let me first convey that I am and have been a huge Linux advocate since the mid '90s. I have much love and respect for the OS and have deployed it in the workplace over the years whenever I had the option. What I no longer have is any hope that Linux will ever be a real contender for the user desktop. Why? Let me expound...
I just finished this very interesting read over at hothardware.com that does a great analysis on the disk performance of Windows 7 and compares it with Vista's. They use various media to draw conclusions - performance of traditional drives compared to solid state drive performance on read/write and random access tests. Solid state drives experienced the largest performance boost, which showed up to a 35% improvement in read performance and up to a 23% boost in write performance under Windows 7.
Here's the direct link: Windows 7 Disk Performance Analysed
Is it possible Microsoft finally got it right?
Full story rrom CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/22/first.mac.botnet/index.html
This warms my heart a great deal. I've never really liked Macs - oh I think OSX is quite nice - I mean to say I don't like closed architecture and being limited to parts and software and, especially, paying a premium for them. What I really dislike are Mac zealots. I equate them to over-zealous religious folk who feel someinternal, unfounded urge to "spread the word." BLAH. Anyway, it is nice to see specific, blatant attacks towards the smaller players on the field for a change, especially Apple. This is just the thing to shut them up and to force Steve Jobs to change those aweful commercials to more accurate and realistc ones.
No system is secured simply because it has an apple, penguin, or window logo. You are only as secure as you make yourself. The average person doesn't get this and this is why I hate commercials that portray a fallacy that just because you use a Mac you have some kind of immunity by default or you're "special." You're special alright - you pick a Mac for the packaging and pay a premium for it. You could buy a PC equivelent - a PC does NOT equal Windows, by the way, even though the vast majority of them come shipped with that OS - that would be far cheaper, faster, and more easily upgraded, but you don't because you are attracted to shiny objects not unlike the fish that grabs the bait from a hook. Oh, an please stop saying that OSX is a "linux." That is incorrect, it has a BSD-like underpinning. That would be like calling a crack whore a high paid escort.
Flame suit on...
If you are studying for a Cisco networking exam, or want to mock up something in a virtual lab before deploying it to production, check out GNS3. It's a graphical network simulator wrapped around the old Dynamips simulation platform. I haven't really put it through the paces yet, but I have gotten it to run a multi-site multi-VRF MPLS carrier network and it worked just like the real thing. The only thing you'll need to get it running is a real Cisco IOS image - so you may need to bribe your friendly neighborhood Cisco guy for one, or else Google a particular image name, like, say c7200-advipservicesk9-mz.124-4.T1.
Very good article over at computerworld highlighting what is sure to make every geek sport serious wood in '09.
I, personally, cannot wait for openSUSE 11.2 and Moonlight, which is an opensource implimentation of Microsoft's Silverlight.
Your bank says all your online transactions are safe. They prove it by showing this little icon in your browser:
So how do they keep the information safe? The answer is something called Public Key Encryption. The details of how it's done can be very complex, but the concept behind it is surprisingly simple.
Have you ever been faced with working behind a firewall that doesn't allow outbound ssh
but would like to do periodic maintenance and/or access email and files from your remote server?
Most companies impose tough firewall settings that make doing these simple tasks impossible - Brower Shell is the answer.
stubble v3 is now running on glFusion.
GlFusion injects style and stability and makes a perfect CMS platform.
It's based on Geeklog and makes updating the site a breeze.
