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    comment []  trackback []

How to Create a JavaScript Web Page Screen Saver. This JavaScript tutorial shows you how to implement a screen saver on a web page. It activates after a timeout, hides the current content of the page, creates an attractive display and more. By Guyon Roche. 0608 [WebReference News] 11:54:28 AM    comment []  trackback []

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    comment []  trackback []

freshmeat.net: Project details for html_scrub freshmeat.net: Project details for html_scrub - html_scrub filters HTML to eliminate or warn you about certain tags, as specified in a configuration file. It is designed mainly for people who receive HTML files from contributors and must screen out certain tags in order to apply site standards. Developed for use with Geeklog on the Groklaw site.  Could be handy. 8:46:05 AM    comment []  trackback []

New Apple Gizmo Combines WiFi, iTunes, Printing. Apple Computer did it again on Monday, combining 802.11g wireless, a USB print server, a WiFi repeater and bridge, and the ability to stream music wirelessly to consumer-electronic equipment. [Extremetech] 8:42:41 AM    comment []  trackback []

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    comment []  trackback []

Custom eBay RSS Feeds Custom eBay RSS Feeds:"You can generate your own custom RSS feed for your favorite eBay search. Once you click the Generate button below, your RSS feed will be generated for you. After it's created, simply copy the RSS location and paste the URL into your favorite RSS Aggregator. " Sweet.  I know someone who might be interested in this... 8:38:13 AM    comment []  trackback []

Directory of RSS Aggregators Sub-directory of all reviews so far. [Scripting News] 8:32:30 AM    comment []  trackback []

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    comment []  trackback []

eBay is the latest tech giant to support RSS 2.0. The announcement comes from their senior manager of developer relations, Jeff McManus. There's a feed for special offers and announcements, and one for system status messages. Thanks to Micah Alpern for the pointer. Internet News has the story too. [Scripting News] 8:27:41 AM    comment []  trackback []

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    comment []  trackback []

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    comment []  trackback []

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    comment []  trackback []

Ars System Guide: Small Form Factor systems. The Ars Technica System Guide returns. This month, we introduce the Small Form Factor Hot Rod and Ultimate Budget Box. [Ars Technica] 8:20:12 AM    comment []  trackback []