MailArchiva v2.6.26

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A new minor update to MailArchiva Enterprise Edition is now available: v2.6.26. Please download it from the MailArchiva Download Center at http://www.mailarchiva.com and run over your existing copy. (do not uninstall previous version before upgrading!). This new version includes the following fixes: Alot of people have been struggling with import from Exchange 2007/2003. We finally tracked the issue down to a … Read More

Science, Storage IBM develops ‘instantaneous’ memory, 100x faster than flash

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You’ve got to hand it to IBM’s engineers. They drag themselves into work after their company’s 100th birthday party, pop a few Alka-Seltzers and then promptly announce yet another seismic invention. This time it’s a new kind of phase change memory (PCM) that reads and writes 100 times faster than flash, stays reliable for millions of write-cycles (as opposed to … Read More

IBM leaps two hurdles for next-gen memory

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IBM has solved two related problems with phase-change memory and now says the fast next-generation data-storage technology will be ready for use in 2016 in servers. In a paper for the IEEE International Memory Workshop, Big Blue researchers describe how they squeezed two bits of data into each phase-change memory cell rather than just one. Though that’s not the first … Read More

Massive botnet ‘indestructible,’ say researchers

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Computerworld – A new and improved botnet that has infected more than four million PCs is “practically indestructible,” security researchers say. “TDL-4,” the name for both the bot Trojan that infects machines and the ensuing collection of compromised computers, is “the most sophisticated threat today,” said Kaspersky Labs researcher Sergey Golovanov in a detailed analysis Monday. “[TDL-4] is practically indestructible,” … Read More

Pastel warns about phishing scam

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Pastel has notified its clients about an email phishing scam that is going around.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/pastel-warns-about-phishing-scams

DcData Website to Twitter integration fixed

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The integration between the DcData website and Twitter is now working again. This means that news posted to our website at https://www.dcdata.co.za will automatically be posted to the dcdata Twitter account.

Cloud Adoption Survey Says Linux is OS of Choice

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Cloud.com, BitRock, and Zenoss have surveyed more than 500 members of the open source and systems management community about trends in cloud computing and users’ preferences and plans. The result? There’s a strong correlation between open source and cloud usage — and the survey found that Linux looms large in plans for deployments. Cloud.com, BitRock, and Zenoss have surveyed more … Read More

Apache Traffic Server 3.0.0 goes 64 bit

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Apache Traffic Server, the high performance caching HTTP/1.1 proxy server, has been updated to version 3.0.0
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/apache-traffic-server-3-0-0-goes-64-bit

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 Beta released

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A week after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.1, Red Hat has announced the availability of a beta version of RHEL 5.7
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/red-hat-enterprise-linux-5-7-beta-released

MeeGo 1.2 Boots Nearly Twice As Fast As Fedora, Ubuntu

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Prior to being spun into MeeGo, Intel’s Moblin Linux distribution was one of the fastest-booting Linux distributions. Moblin worked phenomenally for Intel Atom netbooks with a great user-interface and was very quick at starting up. With the release this week of MeeGo 1.2, we have some Bootchart numbers for MeeGo 1.2 Netbook UX compared to Fedora 14 and Ubuntu 11.04.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/meego-1-2-boots-nearly-twice-as-fast-as-fedora-ubuntu

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 Adds Identity

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The RHEL 6.1 release provide improvements to networking connectivity, virtualization, performance and hardware support.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-1-adds-identity