Archive for 'Linux'
I am out of the matrix
Posted on 15. Aug, 2010 by Amit Jindal.
This evening when I started booting my reformatted laptop, I realized that I am no longer at status quo. Reminds me of the conversation in Matrix. At first Neo’s new world seems rather unreal to him, and he begins to doubt that he has entered a new world at [...]
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World’s nastiest trojan fools AV software
Posted on 18. Sep, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
Once again on Microsoft Platform: One of the world’s nastiest password-stealing trojans evades detection by the majority PCs running anti-virus programs, according to a study that examined 10,000 machines. Zeus, a stealthy piece of malware that sits on a PC and waits for users to log in to bank websites, is detected just 23 per cent of [...]
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PC Invader Costs Kentucky County $415,000
Posted on 08. Jul, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
Increasingly Windows users are seeing attacks that are more sophisticated and using techniques unheard before. These attacks continuously point out to a single aspect of windows. And they say it out LOUD. Windows is NOT secure. Period. Then why don’t people get it? PC Invader Costs Ky. County $415,000 Cyber criminals based in Ukraine stole $415,000 from the coffers [...]
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Hot! - London Stock Exchange to abandon failed Windows platform
Posted on 04. Jul, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
When massive infrastructure relies on non-linux/non-unix, this should be expected. Although windows is good for quick upstart, major infrastructure simply cannot rely on it. Here’s what computerworld wrote: Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the [...]
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IBM Releases Open Source Machine Learning Compiler
Posted on 03. Jul, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
IBM is one of those companies that I admire. Through the years, IBM has done quite lot to promote Open Source and provide quite a big list of projects in the community. “IBM just released Milepost GCC, ‘the world’s first open source machine learning compiler.’ The compiler analyses the software and determines which code optimizations will [...]
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The Hidden Cost of Using Microsoft Software
Posted on 01. Jul, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
Yet another Microsoft Issue that is often hidden from those who purchase Microsoft only products and infrastructure. The TCO is not only upfront investment. It should also be lost productivity, time and money is cleaning someone else’s mess. “Detractors of free software like to point out it’s not really ‘free,’ and claim that its Total Cost [...]
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German Foreign Ministry: Cost of Open Source desktop maintenance is by far the lowest
Posted on 14. Jun, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
According to German Foreign ministry: ‘Cost of Open Source desktop maintenance is by far the lowest’ Open source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations, says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry. Schuster was one of the participants in a [...]
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Non-biological Computer Viruses for a species known as windows
Posted on 14. Jun, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
How true, According to SecurityFocus columnist Scott Granneman: To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. It surprises me that the number of viruses/malware for windows is in such HUGE numbers. And they are on serious rise! In 2007 Symantec [...]
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Mono Migration Helper for .NET
Posted on 09. Apr, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
Mono project has recently introduced Mono Migration Analyzer (MoMA) for analyzing issues when migrating your applications to Linux. From MoMA website: The Mono Migration Analyzer (MoMA) tool helps you identify issues you may have when porting your .Net application to Mono. It helps pinpoint platform specific calls (P/Invoke) and areas that are not yet supported by [...]
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Virtualization at Aquevix
Posted on 22. Jan, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
We at Aquevix believe very strongly in energy conservation. Virtualization of various servers is a sure shot way to achieve this. Currently we have most of our servers as virtualized instances on XenServer platform. Our base setup is as follows: Server with Quad core Xeon 4-8 GB RAM per server Hardware raid card with 128/256 MB RAM 4x 250 GB [...]