Tech News
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Sell your old Windows CD-ROM
Published: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 | By: DennisA California court has held that any software CDs that you recieved bundled with your computer purchase is sellable. In other words, that set of Microsoft Works, or even the Windows CD itself, sell it to someone who needs it or wants it. I still have my Windows 95 CD from the LAST whole computer I bought . . .
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Ah . . . youth
Published: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 | By: DennisA 16 year old in Mumbai (used to be called Bombay), India just passed the CISSP examination and is now a certified security professional. Seems his age, or lack there of stirred up some controversy. Regardless, I'm glad to see kids headed in the right direction.
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Happy Holidays
Published: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 | By: DennisWe here at Ninja Lane would like everyone to have a happy holidays. Whatever you celebrate, whatever you believe, just enjoy this time. Our best wishes go out to all of you, your families and friends.
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HP and Compaq move forward
Published: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 | By: DennisHP has notified the European Union of all things merger. Canada ratified the merger last thursday, and the U.S. may balk, but can probably be persuaded. Two things stand in the way of this coming together. The Hewlett Family, and the Packard Family. It could be interesting.
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Caldera produces a suitable replacement for MS Exchange
Published: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 | By: DennisGreat news for small to mid-size companies!
Caldera has come up with a solution that takes the place of Exchange. Anyone who has spent the time to set up Exchange knows about all frustrating stuff you have to do. And with Caldera's Solution, you are now paying less than $30 a seat for use. 
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MCI Networks cracked
Published: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 | By: DennisSome of MCI's networks and internal data were easily available to a gentleman of the security minded persuasion. It seems that none of MCI's customer's networks were compromised, but I think that has more to do with the cracker than MCI.
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Sistina releases ver 5.0 of GFS clustered file system
Published: Sunday, December 23, 2001 | By: DennisGFS, the project of Matt O'Keefe and his company Sistina which brings relatively inexpensive clustered file systems to Linux, has released version 5.0. With this release, it is hoped that a bit more market share will be captured by the MUCH cheaper alternative.
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Vacation Time
Published: Friday, December 21, 2001 | By: DennisChristmas is almost here and I will be away on my vacation seeing some family for the holiday. While I'm gone my good friend Breakdown will be filling in for me to make sure everything is running smoothly.
Take care and be safe this next week, I'll see you all next year. (Maybe sooner) -
Security Hole in Everything but Win2k
Published: Thursday, December 20, 2001 | By: DennisI'm not going to say much about this except if you are running XP, 98, 98se and/or ME patch your system or be labeled a loser. It would appear if you are still running Win2k you are fine. The patch for XP is listed at the bottom all other O/S's can be found here
How much do you want to bet that someone at Microsoft got demoted today? -
XP Sales Lower than Expected
Published: Thursday, December 20, 2001 | By: DennisXP Sales are low and really I'm not surprised. Retail sales reflect how many boxes of the new OS left the shelves and many analysts think that users will prefer to get their OS with a new computer than to buy an upgrade for their old one.
Personally I think low sales could be due to the product activation or simply that some computer users don't believe they need to upgrade.
