Andy Patrizio

A planned patch for one of the security fixes released earlier this month will be delayed as Microsoft continues testing to insure it works properly. Patch MS06-042 was a fairly comprehensive fix that came out on August 8 as part of Microsoft’s  monthly Patch Tuesday. MS06-042 was fairly comprehensive, plugging multiple holes in Internet Explorer […]

The antivirus community is crying foul over a consumer magazine’s tests of their products, which included creating 5,500 dummy viruses to see how well the AV programs handle the unknown. Consumers Union, the well-respected consumer product testing organization and publisher of Consumer Reports, decided it was pointless to test antivirus programs against already known viruses. […]

It may be August, but they’re having a snowball fight in Hell right about now. The head of Microsoft’s  open source lab extended a very public offer to the Mozilla community to work to insure Mozilla software will run properly on Windows Vista. Sam Ramji, director of the Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft, posted […]

STANFORD, Calif. — As Intel pursues its multicore strategy, the company is looking for a little help in developing adequate benchmarks to test the forthcoming chips. Both Intel  and AMD  are charging forth into multicore technology. But Intel seems more anxious to cram a few dozen cores into a chip, while AMD is going slower […]

You might say Boeing was a bit optimistic in 2001 when it launched Connexion, its in-flight Internet access program called Connexion. Back then the company predicted the market for in-flight connectivity could grow to $45 billion a year in the next decade. To quote Homer Simpson, doh! Five years later, Boeing  announced it is abandoning […]

Resistance is futile. You will be compiled. As part of the 40th anniversary of the legendary science fiction series Star Trek, Google has set up shop in Las Vegas at the 5th Annual Official Star Trek Convention for Trekkies looking to sharpen their programming knowledge. The Google  booth, which has a starship bridge motif, features […]

A federal judge today ordered the Bush administration to cease all warrantless wiretapping of calls between Americans and suspected foreign terrorists. U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, based in Detroit, rejected President Bush’s claim that he had the inherent power to authorize the program. “There are no hereditary Kings in America and no powers not […]

The latest MSDN Solution community site from Microsoft is for architects and designers interested in software-as-a-service (SaaS) development issues. The community site is a little light on content at the moment but will expand with more articles on best practices and case studies, podcasts and eventually sample code and patterns, according to Microsoft . The […]

Microsoft  has been screaming for users to get the patch to fix vulnerability MS06-040. And now it’s warning them they might want to wait before fixing MS06–042 — or at least be careful. Patch MS06-042, a fairly comprehensive fix, plugs multiple holes in Internet Explorer 5 and 6, several of which could allow for remote […]

Retail giant Best Buy’s technical support arm, Geek Squad, has quietly emerged as not only a leading technical support force but also as an influencer for security software it deems the best. That’s the conclusion of one analyst firm and software vendors interviewed by internetnews.com. While the Geek Squad commercials are often hokey, its popularity […]

This is why Microsoft never gives out the details on vulnerabilities before Patch Tuesday. Since issuing a patch for a serious vulnerability last Tuesday, a number of exploits have hit the Internet, hoping to take advantage of computers that have not yet been patched to close the vulnerability. Bulletin MS06-040 is a buffer overflow exploit […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems  said it plans to publish the first bits of the Java platform under an open source license in October, with the rest due next year. The Santa Clara, Calif., systems vendor will release the JavaC compiler and the Hotspot virtual machines by the end of the year, said Laurie Tolson, […]