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Open-Source Your White Boxes into Sales
Great minds think alike. Last week, I told you that you could make your white box systems more attractive to buyers by adding third-party security programs. And what happened? This week, Hewlett-Packard and Dell announced that they were adding third-party security softwareto their systems. So it is that now, it’s not just a good idea…
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Does a SAN File System Fit the Bill?
With storage needs growing exponentially in virtually every industry today, many organizations have jumped on the storage and server consolidation bandwagon, installing NAS (network-attached storage) systems to manage their growing needs. But for some, this method has become increasingly inefficient as more servers are added throughout the organization, making the process more complex and unwieldy.…
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Putting Products to the Security Test
Effective security testing of new IT products is constrained by staff shortages, inadequate equipment and crunched time—in short, by a scarcity of resources. But even with all these hurdles, security testing can—and should—be done and done well. eWEEK Labs has access to some of the most advanced test gear, expertise and vendor support available, but…
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Building a Safer PC
When it comes to building PCs for your customers, you have a couple of choices. You could preload the computers with just the bare basics. That’s what the mass-market retailers do, and they make some money from PC sales—not a lot, but some. Or, you could preload your customers’ PCs properly so that their machines…
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Fall Processor Forum 2004 Wrap-Up
We trust you’ve read all of Mark Hachman’s excellent news reports located in our Fall Processor Forum main page. Mark provided insights on the upcoming AMD dual-core Opteron, Transmeta’s just-released TM8800 (aka “Efficeon 2”), and VIA/Centaur’s 64-bit-capable “CM” processor due in early 2006, along with various embedded processor news. In this wrap-up report, we’ll discuss…
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Inside the JPEG Virus
The Watch The end of summer lull for viruses and worms continues. We’re still seeing new versions of RBots, and a new Bagle, but nothing with teeth. The big news appears to be the anticipation of a viral exploit of the JPEG vulnerability that Microsoft patched earlier this month. Within days of the release of…
