Saving yourself some pain when replacing failed cluster disks.
VMware made a splash in November when it released the free VMware Player, which lets users run pre-built VMware virtual machine configurations on client PCs. Now the company has taken its efforts a step further, teaming with Mozilla and Canonical (the makers of Ubuntu Linux) to create a pre-built virtual machine for the Firefox Web browser.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/13/2005
Attackers are already exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Internet Explorer that Microsoft released a patch for Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/13/2005
The Redmond giant competes squarely with partners on two fronts that might have other partners shaking in their boots, wondering who'll be next.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 12/13/2005
Microsoft shipped at the end of last week Service Pack 1 for Visual FoxPro 9.0, a quiet update that fixes 200 or so bugs but that adds no new features to the revered database development tool.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/13/2005
Several vendors release patches after vulnerabilities are found by Protos.
Admin encounters a showstopper as he tries to implement RCP over HTTP on an Exchange server.
Wave of new developer and IT exams in beta testing during December.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/08/2005
All of the noise and attention surrounding the release last month of Firefox 1.5 appears to have helped the alternative Web browser’s market share, even if those gains are still only in fractions of percentage points.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/08/2005
Microsoft plans to post two security bulletins for Windows next Tuesday, and at least one of them addresses a critical vulnerability.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/08/2005
XenSource announced this week that it is shipping version 3.0 of its Xen system virtualization environment built on the open source Xen hypervisor.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/08/2005
Microsoft officials plan to appeal an antitrust ruling against the company by South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/07/2005
FullArmor is shipping PolicyPortal, a Web services-based tool designed to automatically enforce Active Directory Group Policy settings on computers that are disconnected from the directory, either temporarily or permanently.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/07/2005
Keep your objects in order with a couple command-line tools.
Why iSCSI will doubtless lead the way in tomorrow's SAN/NAS installations
- By Bill Heldman
- 12/07/2005
Microsoft plans to ship the second beta test version of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP early next year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/07/2005
Microsoft is shipping a free software add-in designed to enable retailers to transfer point-of-sale data, such as transactions and purchase orders, directly into their financial management software.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/07/2005
Expand the size of a VMware virtual hard disk file when it runs out of space
While IBM has previously endorsed the OpenDocument standard, this week it decided to put its money where its public relations message resides and announced that the next version of its Workplace Managed Client will support the format.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/06/2005
To encourage new virtualization scenarios in Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition, Microsoft will sell the new OS with a half-price version of its server virtualization tool.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/06/2005