http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/ Netstat -vat - A command line view of IT. en-us Copyright 2009 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:18:38 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification From the 'Faster' files:A big emerging trend in enterprise IT this year has been the move to the Cloud, for almost everything. One particular area where I'm seeing a strong use of a hybrid cloud/on-premise model is for security... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/blue-coat-securing-local-netwo.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/blue-coat-securing-local-netwo.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:18:38 -0500 From the 'Yum/Apt-Get Update' files:The first update to PHP 5.3 is now available providing 5 security fixes in addition a long list of bug fixes to the popular open source dynamic language.PHP 5.3 was released at the end of... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/php-531-released-for-5-securit.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/php-531-released-for-5-securit.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:28:53 -0500 From the 'Error Correction' files:The public milestone release of Fedora 12 this week had one big flaw in it that is now set to be corrected.One key standard practice on nearly every Linux system I have ever seen or... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/fedora-12-updates-package-inst.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/fedora-12-updates-package-inst.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:06:22 -0500 From the 'Free Software Making $$' files:Mozilla gives its software away for free, yet year after year they keep making money. For the 2008 year, Mozilla is just now disclosing how much revenue it generated and it was another... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/mozilla-earned-786-million-in.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/mozilla-earned-786-million-in.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:57:18 -0500 From the 'Browser Operating System' files:Google today has officially open sourced its under-development Chrome OS operating system under the Chromium OS project.The code is available now at: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/building-chromium-os - I'm currently in the process of trying to build a... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/google-chrome-goes-open-source.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/google-chrome-goes-open-source.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:58:28 -0500 From the 'I Told You So' files:Back in September, Google launched Chrome Frame which embeds a Chrome-type browser inside of a Microsoft Internet Explorer(IE) browser. At the time, Microsoft claimed that Chrome Frame could make IE less secure.Guess what?... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/google-chrome-frame-security-f.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/google-chrome-frame-security-f.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:55:18 -0500 From the 'Coming Soon, Very Soon' files:The third beta of Mozilla's open source Firefox 3.6 browser is now adding fixing 83 bugs and adding several new features.Of the 83 bugs fixed, 13 have been tagged as being critical. It... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/mozilla-firefox-36-beta-3-rele.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/mozilla-firefox-36-beta-3-rele.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:09:14 -0500 From the 'It's Not Vaporware' files:Google is holding an event on Thursday to discuss its Chrome OS open source operating system. Details are sparse at this point, though the official media invitation gives us some clues that we'll get... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/google-chrome-os-what-to-look.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/google-chrome-os-what-to-look.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:35:53 -0500 From the 'Open Source Sync' files:Mozilla this week released the first beta for its browser data synchronization service, Weave 1.0.I've been tracking Weave for nearly two years now and it sure has been a long and winding road for... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/mozilla-weave-nears-release.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/mozilla-weave-nears-release.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:00:45 -0500 From the 'Not a Hoax' files:SSL is of critical importance to all web users as the most commonly used method for securing websites. There is now a new publicly posted exploit technique available for SSL that takes advantage of... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/ssl-at-risk-again-this-time-tw.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/ssl-at-risk-again-this-time-tw.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:18:03 -0500 From the 'Beefy Penguin' files:The latest Top 500 Supercomputer list is now out (see my colleague Andy Patrizio's story on InternetNews.com), with the top rig doubling its performance to 1.75 petaflops.Of particular interest to me is the fact that... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/linux-dominates-top-500-superc.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/linux-dominates-top-500-superc.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:47:37 -0500 From the 'Kroner, Corona' files:Over the last several weeks, Cisco executives have publicly said on a number of occasions that their offer $3 billion for Tandberg was a fair and that they'd walk if they didn't get it. To... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/cisco-blinks-increases-tandber.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/cisco-blinks-increases-tandber.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:21:47 -0500 From the 'Future of Browsing' files:I've been a fan of Mozilla's open source Jetpack since it publicly launched this past May. Like millions of other people, I use browser add-ons, and like millions of people I suffer with their... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/mozilla-jetpack-gallery-spells.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/mozilla-jetpack-gallery-spells.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:04:07 -0500 From the 'Shared Security Risk' files:Yesterday morning I blogged about the Safari 4.0.4 update commenting that WebKit is used by both Apple and Google for their respective browsers. I also wondered if Google's Chrome was vulnerable to the same... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/google-patches-chrome-for-appl.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/google-patches-chrome-for-appl.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:37:11 -0500 From the 'More Google Goodness' files:Google is trying to speed up web pages with a new open source application layer protocol called SPDY (pronounced speedy).Regular HTTP connections suffer from protocol overhead and latency -- which is why after all... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/google-to-make-the-web-spdy-wi.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/google-to-make-the-web-spdy-wi.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:45:30 -0500