Letting users loose on system integration?
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Is that really such a good idea? Reg Reader Studies There has been a lot of talk in recent times about portal frameworks and other technologies that allow end users to "compose" their own applications and essentially perform their own development and system integration, in the front end at least.â¦
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A vendor is pushing products designed to let admins manage whole infrastructures from a Windows computer. By Larry Greenemeier. In a bid to help systems administrators extend their Windows-management tools
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Discovers virtualisation just as everyone else is trying to forget it
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Blog: Popular add-ons could have their update process hijacked by man-in-the-middle attacks.
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Not surprisingly, the company advises against using vLite, or other tools that make changes to which components of the OS are installed. Such changes could make a system unstable or prevent future updates from installing properly, it says.
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You can plan a new network, install everything, get it configured just so, and get your management act together, but with security, you're likely to be constantly rethinking your solution.
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No one is forcing anyone to put their work into the public commons. But, once you do, you need to accept that you no longer can wholly control how it is used. The open-source software world understands this to its benefit.
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The security message is closing Linux migration deals. Now it's up to us to deliver the secure environment people want.
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Sometimes developers just don't think about how much trouble they'd cause with a rewrite of existing software. They think that moving up to the latest and greatest is the way to go, and that it makes perfect sense to say out with the old and in with the new. Aaron Wormus disagrees. Well, sometimes - it depends on the circumstances, really.   At ZendCon I talked about "Planning a PHP 4 to PHP 5 codebase rewrite, a practical approach". The talk was based on my own experience, as well as famous discussion of the topic such as Joel Spolsky's "Things you should never do" and the examination of "famous" platform rewrites.   Aaron gives an example of a large company making a move from a COBOL system out to C for a mission critical system. Based on his tale, they didn't put the thought needed into making this move - new development time, keeping old developers on staff, etc - besides the fact that customers don't like change and making a move to another platform is almost definitely going to be noticed by them.
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Restrictive hardware and convoluted rights management crimp consumer choices.
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The trials and tribulations of application dependency in a virtualized, hosted world.
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This organization uses standard hardware and software builds throughout the enterprise, so everything that works during testing should work fine for users -- shouldn't it?
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Is this the right book to introduce Microsoft power users to Linux?
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Back in February, Ralph Green asked me to speak at the North Texas Linux Users' Group. I discussed Linux administration and then took questions. Some one in the audience asked me about Mono. I gave a cavalier answer having a bias against it. Then someone else in the audience said that I needed to get my facts straight. read more
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Give your system more oomph by disabling the services that Windows activates automatically, whether or not you actually need them.
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New industry standard should offer cooler, quieter systems--so why isn't anybody rushing to embrace it?
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This paper introduces some techniques for making backups without needing to stop the business applications. It also describes ways to simplify and reduce the cost of system operations.