Tom Raftery’s I.T. views

You know the kind of site I’m talking about - the one with all the funny IT support stories? Like the one about the user who thought the mouse was a foot pedal, or the other one who thought the cd tray was a coffee cup holder? - well, I came across a site like […]

Exchange is Microsoft’s highly successful groupware application. Its main competitor in the Windows world would be Lotus Notes.
In the Linux arena, one Exchange’s main competitors is Novell’s OpenExchange. OpenExchange uses the OpenExchange engine developed by Netline Internet Services. Netline Internet Services announced that they are giving away the OpenExchange engine under the GPL Open Source […]

Just read a fascinating article in InfoWorld about a Manila based startup company who are developing software (called David) that, it claims, will allow virtually any Windows application to run on the Linux operating system!
The company, called SpecdOps Labs, has been showing proof-of-concept demonstrations to potential industry partners recently, and last month it enticed TurboLinux […]

RSSCalendar is an idea that when you hear it you wonder why no-one thought of it sooner!
It is an online application you sign up for (sign-up is free!) and once signed up you can invite individuals or groups to subscribe to your RSS Calendar, create calendar events that your subscribers can import into MS Outlook, […]

The city of New York plans to sell space on its 18,000 lamp posts to 6 companies so the can erect wi-fi and cellular antennas.
The move will bring in around $25 million a year for the city according to the New York Post, improve cellular coverage in the city, and create wi-fi hotspots all […]

ZDNet have a report (confirmed on the Novell site) that Novell are to release a new version of their flagship server product SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.
This version will have the 2.6 kernel - the 2.6 kernel works better than previous versions on large multiprocessor systems, […]

There’s a good review of the forthcoming Safari 2.0 on the thinksecret.com site. It contains images of the new version and details af the upcoming features.
There are also links to reviews of the new Tiger Finder, Spotlight and Dashboard.
Looking forward to taking Tiger for a spin when it does eventually appear in 2005. I guess […]

Early Saturday morning (01:00 Jul 31st) Microsoft released Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for July 2004 - this was an unscheduled release, as predicted, to patch three vulnerabilities rated “critical” that could result in an attacker executing code in the context of a logged-on user.
Then, 13:00 on August 1st, Microsoft re-released the update saying it “has […]