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Critical Look at Mac OS X Server and UNIX Architecture Mac OS X Server is built on a fully compliant UNIX foundation and regretably often suffers f 5 Vote(s)
Paul Murphy (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
The most important thing to know about the appliance computing culture is that it's not interested in computers or computing - these things are seen purely as means to an end: a business end.
Paul Murphy (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Any application, including e-voting applications, that run on programmable gear in user hands can be subverted. It may generally be difficult, the bad guys may usually get caught, but no auditor can ever prove that it has not been done - and that's why most states are now throwing away their investments in e-voting technology.
Paul Murphy (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
When someone signing himself as "Dr. Dog" attacked the Sun Ray desktop solution recently he made the three most common mistakes - confusing applications with applications delivery, invoking the sunk cost fallacy, and valuing IT risk over business risk.
iTWire - Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
What's the big deal about Linux? Isn't it at heart just a PC-based version of UNIX – the ‘70’s hit operating system which has outlived the predictions of its demise...
Paul Murphy (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Just how bad are "power users" from both an IT and auditor standpoint? A fiairly good academic study of 3,744 disclosure documents admitting error concludes that only about 8% of companies can do financial statements directly from their financial systems, with the rest massaging the data in spreadsheets - unauditable, uncontrolled, error prone spreadsheets presumably weilded by power users.
Iitechtalk (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
*_The UNIX Time-Sharing System*_* UNIX is a general-purpose, multi-user, interactive operating system for the larger Digital Equipment...
Paul Murphy (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
When neither the auditors nor top management understand that IT can greatly reduce certain classes of compliance risk, it's up to us to take that ball and run with it - to bigger budgets, greater executive credibility, and better run businesses.
macZOT! (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
The GUI for Fink: Phynchronicity Normally: $24.95 ZOT Price: $13.95 Click to MacZOT Phynchronicity is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the Fink Unix-software package management system on Mac OS X. Fink is a powerful command-line tool for installing and [...]
Paul Murphy (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
When I read a report showing an overwhelming security advantage for Windows over both Linux and MacOS X, I didn't immediately believe it and when I looked more closely I ended up with more questions than I started with - including a zinger: did Microsoft find and fix bugs in XP code for use in Vista, but not report or fix those bugs in XP?
QNX (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
"In many ways the virtues that have brought Linux from a Unix look alike pet project to a competitive operating system are the same as the ideals behind DefCon. The community stood on each other's shoulders and developed piece after piece of software to fill in the gaps that were found through use. Programmer's built on the ideas of others creating tighter and tighter code to support an increasingly...
Frank La Vigne (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Bill Hill works at Microsoft Research and gets philosophical about which OS is the most important. Think it's Windows? Unix? Linux? Mac OS? Not even close. It's the human mind or "Homo Sapien 1.0" as Bill Hill calls it. Bill Hill - Windows is not the most important OS I mentioned this in my talk last night and linked to it , but the message is so good that it bears repeating. When you're building...
OS News (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
"I recently had the opportunity to interview Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of the extremely secure Unix-like operating sytem MINIX 3. Andrew is also the author of Operating Systems Design and Implementation, the must-have book on programming and designing operating systems, and the man whose work inspired Linus Torvalds to create Linux. He has published over 120 works on computers (that's including...
Lifehacker (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Wired's newly-revamped Webmonkey site has an informative guide on seeing, changing, and understanding file permissions in Unix-like systems. These are the kind of operations and syntax that can often confuse and put off first-time Linux users or command line neophytes on OS X systems, but Webmonkey details the commands you need to change permissions on however many files for whichever users you need....
Paul Murphy (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Use the wrong tool for the job long enough and you'll become convinced that what you know how to do defines the job - and that tools which do it right must therefore be wrong. Sound absurd? It is; but it's true too - and the basis for a lot of negative decisions about open source.
