Sean Michael Kerner

There’s little disagreement that managing power consumption for energy-hungry enterprise devices are key issues in the networking world. There is, however, debate about how best to go about it. And at the moment, a good deal of that argument is centering around Cisco’s EnergyWise initiative, which promises to eventually be able to manage a wide […]

Microsoft today released its monthly Patch Tuesday update, targeting eight vulnerabilities spread across Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser, Exchange mail server, SQL database server and Office applications. At the top of the patch list is Internet Explorer, which is receiving an update rated “Critical” by the company, designed to close a pair of vulnerabilities. Microsoft […]

From the ‘people in glass houses‘ files: Anti-virus vendor Kaspersky was hacked over the weekend allegedly a victim of a SQL injection attack. It’s a disturbing development from my point of view and points to a security issue that can affect nearly anyone — even those who should know better. SQL injection is in my […]

From the ‘one more thing to consider‘ files: President Obama has a lot of things to do to fix America. The open source community (or at least 14 open source vendors) want Obama to consider using open source technology as part of the fix. In an open letter published this morning, open source vendors make […]

Last week was sure an interesting one for MySQL. First, we learned that found Monty Widenius was leaving Sun. A day later, the other shoe dropped as former CEO Marten Mickos decided he’d had enough fun in the Sun, too. With $1 billion dollars of Sun’s money invested in MySQL, is this a cause for […]

From the ‘penguins included‘ files: If you’re not using a Linux powered cell phone yet, you might be sooner than you think. The LiMo Foundation today announced that at least six major operators will be delivering Linux based mobile phones in 2009. LiMo is group focussed on providing a standard Linux based operating platform for […]

From the ‘everyone should use this‘ files: There comes a time when for whatever reason a system (Linux or Windows) won’t boot. It was during during one such emergency years ago that I discovered the System Rescue LiveLinux CD. System Rescue is a bootable Linux operating system that will show you what partitions are on […]

From the ‘bad to worse‘ files: According to reports allegedly confirmed by both the 451 Group and blogger I have not yet been able to independantly confirm this myself but i’m working on it). Suffice it to say this does not bode well for Sun in my opinion. At least from a public perception point […]

From the ‘slowdown affects everything‘ files: It looks like the current economic slowdown is having a negative effect on the domain name business – at least insofar as it is reflected in the latest results from VeriSign. During VeriSign’s 4Q08 earning call Jim Bidzos – Executive Chairman and Interim CEO provided some color commentary on […]

Norway’s browser vendor Opera wants the world know who has the fastest browser on earth. With Opera’s introduction of its new JavaScript engine called Carakan, the browser maker is claiming it’s ahead of the pack. However, the big horses of browsers are pushing speed performance, too, including Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome as well […]

From the ‘high octane‘ files: Google is updating its Chrome  dev-channel browser to version 2.0.160 with a long list of fixes and improvements. At the top of the list (in my view at least) is the 0.4.9.3 version of the V8 JavaScript engine which includes a new regular expression engine called Irregexp. Google claims it’s […]

From the ‘It was only a matter of time‘ files: I met MySQL founder Monty Widenius last year in Portland and he wasn’t particularly thrilled with Sun at the time – he was however publicly hopeful that things would improve for him. Apparently they didn’t. Widenius has now officially resigned from Sun. Widenius has now […]