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MS Corrects IE Patch Download Glitch

Less than 24 hours after pushing out patches for three critical Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, Microsoft has re-released the bulletin to correct a glitch that...

Founders Strive to Do No Evil in GPL 3 Process

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—With patent pressures growing in the computer industry, the licensing foundation for a majority open-source projects is under review. On Wednesday, industry...

Torvalds: How to Keep Linux Kernel on Course

The rapid pace of Linux development appeared to hit a roadblock last year with the industrys decision to forestall development of the Linux 2.7...

Toolmakers Respond to Boom in Scripting

Using scripting in the right parts of an application stack, to do the right things, is a complex and subjective challenge of finding the...

Building the IT Stack We Really Want

In an eWEEK column last autumn, I proposed "a new default: to configure system privileges from the bottom up, instead of starting with wide-open...

JBuilder Helps Keep Mercy Ships Afloat

When Mercy Ships conducts its missions of mercy in ports around the world, it owes a great deal to Borland Software Corp.s JBuilder, which...

Mercy Ships Has Helped Millions

Mercy Ships brings help and healing to poor nations around the world, according to Kelvin Burton, Mercy Ships chief technology officer. Founded in 1978, the...

Scripted Development Answers

Every enterprise IT constituency craves the attractive user experience and low life-cycle costs that can flow from the use of scripting languages—notably JavaScript, Perl,...

Sun Polishes Java Studio Creator

Java Studio Creator 2, expected to ship this fall from Sun Microsystems Inc., combines an improved pure-Java integrated development environment with a greatly expanded...

Pings & Packets from eWEEK Labs – 4

ClearContext Plug-In Prioritizes E-mailsIve been spending a couple of months working with ClearContexts $30 ClearContext Inbox Manager plug-in for Microsoft Outlook.Although ClearContext Inbox Manager...