Jim Rapoza

eWEEK Labs saw a lot to like in the first preview of Netscape Communications Corp.s next-generation browser, Netscape 7.0. The new browser, which became available this week in preview form at www.netscape.com, has useful user interface aids, strong standards support and a much improved mail client. However, there arent a whole lot of new ideas […]

Apache Puts on a Coat and Tie”> Covalent Technologies Inc.s Enterprise Ready Server 2.1 takes the popular, powerful Apache Web server and adds much-needed management and configuration features that help to make Apache Groups product more attractive to large-enterprise Web operations. Enterprise Ready Server 2.1, which shipped this month, takes special advantage of the recent […]

A new NAS appliance with interesting design options isnt particularly exciting. What is exciting is 512 petabytes—storage capacity so large you practically laugh saying it. Of course, no NAS appliance currently provides 512 petabytes, but Ateonix Networks (www.ateonix.com) says its NASAS-2040 appliance could support 512 petabytes right now—if only there were drives out there that […]

Foundscan Roots Out Problems The latest version of Foundstone Inc.s vulnerability assessment application provides fast, comprehensive scanning and generates reports that not only detail possible vulnerabilities but also provide a big picture of a businesss entire network layout. Using FoundScan 2.5, enterprise IT managers can identify problems and figure out some of their underlying causes. […]

Covalent Technologies Inc.s Enterprise Ready Server 2.1 takes the popular, powerful Apache Web server and adds much-needed management and configuration features that help to make Apache more attractive to large enterprise Web operations. Enterprise Ready Server 2.1, which shipped this month, takes special advantage of the recent release of Apache 2.0 (click for eWeek Labs […]

Yep. Just a regular, ordinary day. Get up, have some coffee and breakfast, and download and install the latest mega-patch for Internet Explorer. And of course Ill have to do it again tomorrow, since the patch doesnt work as well as Microsoft thought and actually doesnt even fix all the bugs its supposed to. Does […]

Commerce Server Boosts .Net Support”> Microsoft Corp.s Commerce Server 2002 doesnt look like much of an upgrade on the surface, but major improvements in the underlying code and in how the server integrates with other Microsoft servers and with Visual Studio .Net make it a compelling choice for e-businesses—especially for those moving aggressively to .Net. […]

For many of us, CompuServe will always hold a special place as a haven for excellent technical information in the late 80s and early 90s and as the first way we surfed the Web from home. However, the service faded in the late 90s and was acquired by AOL in 1998. Since then, it has […]

Last month, the World Wide Web Consortium released Platform For Privacy Preferences 1.0 as a recommendation. The release of P3P as a W3C standard will be a nice step toward improving the way that privacy information is provided by Web sites, but it probably wont be as effective as many would like. Basically, P3P defines […]

Despite all the attention that worms and security holes get, routers have become one of the most common points of attacks for hackers, mainly due to poor configurations. The National Security Agency publishes free guides to securing Cisco routers, but these guides can be intimidating, especially for IT workers who have limited familiarity with Ciscos […]

Is Senator Fritz Hollings trying to make nice with us Internet folks? Is he throwing us a bone to make up for his backing of the extremely dangerous Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act? (click here to read an earlier column on the CBDTPA) At first glance it would seem so, since Hollings new […]

Microsofts Baseline Security Advisor, released last week, is mainly an interface shell for its command-line HFNet-Check tool, but its one that provides lots of extra information and usability for companies scanning Windows systems and applications for security holes and missing patches. Using the free Baseline Security Advisor, eWeek Labs was able to quickly scan single […]