Ah! Microsoft a winner at LinuxWorld
Microsoft’s (!) Services for UNIX 3.0 raked in the “Open Source Product Excellence Award” in the “Best System Integration Software” category at LinuxWorld. Ok, again: Microsoft wins an award at LinuxWorld!
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Master Key Copying Revealed
Master Key Copying Revealed
A security researcher has revealed a little-known vulnerability in many locks that lets a person create a copy of the master key for an entire building by starting with any key from that building. [...] After testing the technique repeatedly against the hardware from major lock companies, Mr. Blaze wrote, "it required only a few minutes to carry out, even when using a file to cut...
Welcome Christian!
Welcome Christian!
Germany has a new Microsoft Regional Director. Christian Weyer is by far the #1 speaker on Web services in Germany -- he speaks a lot more about the topic in Germany than I do and does so in a very entertaining way (and lacks political correctness just as much as I do) -- and we, the other German RDs, Bernd Marquardt, Ralf Westphal, Marcellus Buchheit and...
Transactions
Transactions. I spent a good deal of the weekend reading two dozen research papers (CiteSeer is a great launch pad to dig into that space) on agreements, consensus, trust, and various forms of blocking and non-blocking atomic commitment models. All that of course motivated by the desperate search for a solution for the Web services space that preserves the simplicity of the programming model for 2-phase commit. Making stuff compensation-based is just a small step for a...
Trade Show?
It's a LinuxWorld, after all. Linux advocates will convene at a trade show in New York this week to promote their wares, tout customers, swap business cards and make their case that the operating system is growing up. [CNET News.com]
So, I am thinking how much the word "trade show" is indeed applicable for LinuxWorld?