Instructor: Steve "Mor" Moritsugu

Santa Ana College

Computer News Articles

2005 Spring Semester

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Microsoft has rejected a request from developers to push back delivery of its oft-delayed Visual Studio 2005 in order to fix bugs. posted here Aug 19, 2005

As Microsoft's director of platform technology strategy, Bill Hilf spends half his time trying to figure out ways Windows can work better with Linux and the other half trying to outflank the open-source rival. posted here Aug 19, 2005

Within the next five years, half of Oracle's customers may be running Linux, company President Charles Phillips has predicted. posted here Aug 19, 2005

Serious security bugs in key parts of the latest Linux code have been fixed, but some small glitches have been introduced, according to a recent scan. posted here Aug 19, 2005

Sun Discontinuing Anonymous FTP Patch Access to Patches! posted here Jul 26, 2005

Red Hat clones posted here May 03, 2005

Firefox gets security upgrade to show web links with Cyrillic characters posted here Mar 04, 2005

The End of Transistors In Computers? posted here Mar 04, 2005

How secure is your computer? Honey pot experiment shows unprotected Windows SP 1 at risk posted here Mar 02, 2005

Ready or Not, Here Win XP SP2 Comes posted here Mar 02, 2005

France's Mandrakesoft plans to acquire Brazil's largest Linux vendor, Conectiva posted here Mar 02, 2005

Red Hat, Suse refresh OSes posted here Feb 23, 2005

IE 7.0 Leaves Windows 2000 Users Out in the Cold posted here Feb 23, 2005

Google new feature (in beta): maps posted here Feb 23, 2005

New version of Redhat Enterprise Linux released posted here Feb 23, 2005

IBM plans $100 million Linux investment posted here Feb 23, 2005

BigAdmin February newsletter from Sun/Solaris posted here Feb 23, 2005

Red Flag Linux from China posted here Feb 16, 2005

USENIX'05 Annual Technical Conference in Anaheim April 10-15 posted here Jan 25, 2005

Third Annual Southern California Linux Expo Feb 12-13 posted here Jan 25, 2005

Dive Into Python: an on-line technical book published under the GNU Free Documentation License. posted here Jan 07, 2005

Fastest computers on the planet are LINUX. You must register to read this article. posted here Jan 07, 2005

2nd fastest computer: NASA Ames Research Center posted here Jan 07, 2005

Mozilla Launches Thunderbird 1.0; Mozilla was started by Netscape; the Mozilla Foundation is largely funded by a $2 million pledge from AOL. posted here Dec 07, 2004

IBM reportedly puts PC business on the market posted here Dec 07, 2004

Unix book: Knoppix Komplete posted here Dec 02, 2004

UNIX book: Knoppix hacks posted here Dec 02, 2004

UNIX: Knoppix Linux runs from cd-rom, no installation posted here Dec 01, 2004

UNIX: Sun takes page from Linux playbook with Solaris 10 posted here Nov 30, 2004

VB: rentacoder.com (I have not tried it) posted here Nov 30, 2004

VB: getacoder.com (I have not tried it) posted here Nov 30, 2004

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