Monthly Archives: June 2004
Hard Times for a Hard Drive
My Sony VAIO Digital Studio came with two 100GB Maxtor ATA drives. This may seem like a lot, but its probably the bare minimum...
Maxtor Unveils 300GB SATA II Hard Drive
Maxtor Corp. this week announced its new line of native SATA MaXLine III hard drives. The new 7200 RPM SATA II drives offer native...
Industry Group Calls Microsofts Custom NT 4.0 Support Victory
While the planned obsolescence of Microsoft Corps Windows NT 4.0 comes as no surprise, still, some customers have been slow to hear the warning...
MSN Hotmail Joins Storage Race
Microsoft on Thursday will make official its plans to join the Web-based e-mail storage wars by increasing storage for users of its MSN Hotmail...
Financial Institutions Mixed on NT 4.0 Demise
The end of life for Windows NT 4.0 arrives at the end of June and Microsoft Corp. refuses to extend its support for the...
Cut-Rate Windows Named XP Starter Edition
Microsoft has decided on an official name—"Windows XP Starter Edition"—for the stripped-down, cut-rate version of Windows that it first began offering in Thailand last...
OASIS Approves Security Spec for Apps, Web Services
To help companies better handle the influx of application and Web service security alerts, the OASIS standards consortium on Wednesday announced the ratification of...
Exhibitor Shortage Puts Brakes on Comdex
This falls Comdex show has been canceled as the organizers of the marquee IT event seek greater participation from large IT companies and evaluate...
Ten Tips for Not Losing Your DBA Job
Make backup and recovery a priority. Set privileges on data files. Read everything. Trust nothing.Those are some of the tips from Robert Freeman, author...
NAI Denies Microsoft Sale Rumor
Network Associates Inc. officials denied Wednesday that they are actively looking to sell the company—to Microsoft Corp. or anyone else.NAI recently has shed all...