Tag: Technology
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Novell congratulates itself for selling soul to Microsoft
With a few blog posts by top execs, Novell ended out 2007 by admitting that cozying up with a monopolist, predatory company and invalidating all that is open source …was a great idea. Hey, they made off like a bandit with some sorely needed cash; who cares what the long term effects are on the…
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Tech Writer Shocked to See Apple Xserves at CNBC
Yeah, well you can’t blame them of course… after all, they’re just the spokespersons for the industry, the tech know-it-alls right? In this video, Computerworld’s Lucas Mearian gets schooled by a system administrator at CNBC while getting a tour of the media giant’s 15 terabyte Apple Xserve RAID/Xsan setup. Makes you wonder if these writers…
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No lookupd? No problem!
For quite a while now, Apple has dumped the old lookupd daemon and it may have confused some users. “How am I supposed to flush the DNS cache?” or “How can I restart DNS services without a reboot?” Fortunately, Apple now supplies dnscacheutil which takes care of everything and provides a great command-line interface for…