Timothy Dyck

Its been a rocky road for the Linux 2.4 kernel, which originally used a memory management system that was significantly more intricate than the one used in Linux 2.2. The new design hid a number of bugs that have proved hard to remove. The worst problems have been for users running heavy workloads that use […]

Samba, the Windows-compatible file and print server, takes a major manageability step forward with Version 2.2.2, providing new flexibility for administrators who want to use Unix servers as Windows file servers. The open-source Samba (downloadable from www.samba.org) also makes it easier than ever before to integrate Unix workstations into a Windows environment. The 2.2.2 update, […]

If finding bugs in distributed applications feels more like luck than anything else, Casts Cast Application Mining Suite 4.0 may be something to try. This source code and database schema analysis package provides impact analysis and code dependency reports, as well as a graphical display of how distributed components interact. I used the software to […]

Do something. Do anything. Thats the message we have for organizations committed to Microsoft Corp.s IIS Web server. When eWeek Labs went looking for ways to brace Internet Information Services flimsy walls, we found several methods in addition to manual hardening. These include Microsofts free IIS Lockdown and URLScan tools and three higher-end products: eEye […]

Samba, the Windows-compatible file and print server, takes a major manageability step forward with Version 2.2.2, providing new flexibility for administrators who want to use Unix servers as Windows file servers. The open-source Samba (downloadable from www.samba.org) also makes it easier than ever before to integrate Unix workstations into a Windows environment. The 2.2.2 update, […]

As much as we think software and business-process patents are harmful to the industry as a whole, patents are core to the R&D processes of many companies. Aurigin Systems Aureka Silver lets companies discover what their competitors are trying to patent or have patented, as well as find out which other patents cite their own […]

There arent a lot of changes in the newest update of Red Hat Inc.s Red Hat Linux, but the biggest change—the addition of a journaling file system—is an important advance for the operating system. eWEEK Labs tested final code of Red Hat Linux 7.2, which starts shipping next week and costs $60 for 30 days […]

As I was testing BEA Systems WebLogic for a Review in the Oct. 1 issue, I learned about PentaSafe Security Technologies VigilEnt Security Agent for BEA WebLogic, the first app server security auditing tool Ive seen. I installed Release 1.1 of the tool, which started shipping at the end of August, and let it run […]

The increasing sophistication in the application server market is easy to see in the latest releases of IBMs WebSphere 4.0 Advanced Edition and BEA Systems Inc.s Web-Logic Server Premium Edition 6.1. WebSphere 4.0, which started shipping in August, and WebLogic 6.1, which started shipping at the end of June, both provide sophisticated engines for building […]

In what was otherwise an unfortunate cinematic accident, the 1995 movie “Johnny Mnemonic” shows some pretty cool scenes of Keanu Reeves using his hands to manipulate data. Three students at the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center, University of California, Berkeley (bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/~shollar/fingeracc/fingeracc.html), have put some fact to that fiction by building a motion-sensing glove that can […]