Archive for December, 2006

Exchange 2007 Goes To Gold

On December 7, the Exchange 2007 was released. Here is official announcement of the Exchange Blog:
“This morning, we signed off Exchange 2007 for release to you!
We’ve bet the company on this product. Here at Microsoft, we have over 120,000 mailboxes running in production on Exchange 2007 – exceeding our SLA of 99.95% availability. [...]

Why It Is Important To Have Hardware Programming Documentation

On the OpenCON 2006 Conference (Italy) Theo de Raadt and Jonathan Gray spoke about the problems which face the OS developers – hardware support.
Theo de Raadt named the main components of computer and gave a diagram , which compares support of different devices and availability of hardware programming documentation.
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Freecol 0.5.3. Released

The FreeCol team aims to create an Open Source version of Colonization (released under the GPL). At first we’ll try to make an exact clone of Colonization. The visuals will be brought up to date with more recent standards but will remain clean, simple and functional. Certain new ‘features’ will be implemented but the gameplay [...]

GPuTTY 0.9.9 Released

GPuTTY is a PuTTY clone, intended to be used in a Gnome environment.It stores and launches SSH sessions (the old version was multi-protocol capable).It’s not a terminal emulator.
This release has a cleaner code, the code related with first GTK+ was deleted. Also Solaris 10 and NetBSD support appeared. The program differs from usual ssh-client [...]

Windows Vista And Business - Incompatible Things

Although Microsoft claims to install Vista on 90 million PCs in 2007, the road to corporate clients stays hard and long in its perspective. The primary barrier is still the system configuration of average office computer, which is much lower then the Vista minimum requirements.
The Softchoice Research analyzed the hardware in some of US [...]