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McCain says it will supply San Francisco with a new Linux-based traffic controller computer that meets the latest Advanced Transportation Controller (ATC) standards. Built around a Freescale PowerQUICC II Pro processor, the “2070LXN2 NEMA” offers several keypads, an 8×40 display, plus Ethernet, USB, serial, and SDLC connections, says the company. McCain collaborated with Fourth Dimension Traffic to win the San … Read More

New version of MailArchiva
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/mailarchiva-enterprise-edition-v2-6-27

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

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 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

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

Linux 20th anniversary Tshirt design winner
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/2011-linux-20th-anniversary-tshirt-design-content-finalists

https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/red-hat-enterprise-mrg-2-0-released

Linux and supercomputing – understanding the headlines
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/supercomputing-freakonomics

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

Latest version of MailArchiva Enterprise Edition v2.6.24
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/mailarchiva-enterprise-edition-v2-6-24

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.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, 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