Nordichardware managed to grab a couple of pictures with reference to The Inquirer of the new ASUS motherboard for 4x4 platform developed by AMD. The motherboard has a lot of features. Here is a quote from The Register : In fact, an insane amount of them: 12 SATA-II connectors that can run two independent RAID5 arrays, 10 USB 2.0 ports (chipset supports 20), four hardware Gigabit Ethernet chips with TCP/IP Offload engine, each one with FirstPacket marchitecture. A teaming option is also available, so you can expect to be the server and the hub on every LAN party. This seems like a really interesting platform for firewall/router/cache server or even for actual server running web, database and application services. This motherboard would also be a great foundation for a powerful graphics workstation. According to the original article the motherboard should be released at the end of November. I hope that the price will not be stellar :-). Technorati : amd, asus, motherboard Del.icio.us : amd, asus, motherboard Ice Rocket : amd, asus, motherboard
Some nice tips were published on MySQL Forge regarding MySQL server optimisation. MySQL 84 Optimization Tips Technorati : mysql Del.icio.us : mysql Ice Rocket : mysql
Johnny Cache <johnnycsh [at] 802.11mercenary.net> reported a vulnerability in binary driver of Broadcom wireless drivers. You can read about it on this page: http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-11-11-2006.html . This vulnerability affects any computer running Windows and using Broadcom wireless driver. So far only Linksys released updated driver. Technorati : broadcom, security, windows, wireless Del.icio.us : broadcom, security, windows, wireless Ice Rocket : broadcom, security, windows, wireless
The Dude v.2.0 reached new version, Beta 12. You can download it from this link: http://www.mikrotik.com/download/dude-install-2.0beta12.exe Technorati : dude, monitoring, windows Del.icio.us : dude, monitoring, windows Ice Rocket : dude, monitoring, windows
Microsoft has released a new version of Baseline Security Analyzer. This utility can test installed configuration against various security holes and issues. Here is an overview from official site: In response to direct customer need for a streamlined method of identifying common security misconfigurations, Microsoft has developed the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA). Version 2.0.1 of MBSA includes a graphical and command line interface that can perform local or remote scans of Windows systems. MBSA runs on Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, and Windows XP systems and will scan for common security misconfigurations in the following products: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Internet Information Server (IIS) 5.0, and 6.0, SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, Internet Explorer (IE) 5.01 and later, and Office 2000, 2002 and 2003. MBSA also scans for missing security updates, update rollups and service packs published to Microsoft Update. MBSA reached version 2.0.1.You can download MBSA from Microsoft: MBSA 2.0.1 Download Page Technorati : baseline, microsoft, security, windows Del.icio.us : baseline, microsoft, security, windows Ice Rocket : baseline, microsoft, security, windows