Month: June 2005

June 15, 2005. Recruiting To Gretchen: recruiting successfully isn't only up to recruiters. The best recruiting department in the world can't make people want to work at a company that's moribund, that can't figure out how to ship a compelling upgrade to their flagship OS, or update their flagship database server more than once every… Continue reading June 15, 2005

Services and Service Accounts Security Planning Guide. Today Microsoft released a special guide that helps in planning strategies to run services securely under the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP operating systems. It addresses the common problem of Windows services that are set to run with the highest possible privileges, which an attacker could… Continue reading Services and Service Accounts Security Planning Guide

Congress Must Deal With ID Theft. A series of Senate hearings this week examines the growing problem of identity theft. Here's what should be done to stop the scourge. [Wired News]

Xen growing up. In August, XenSource will release Xen 3.0, software for running multiple operating systems on a single server. The Register's Ashlee Vance writes about big companies helping to make Xen a strong competitor with VMWare. New Xen features coming August and soon include better SMP support; x86 64-bit, Itanic, Power, and Intel VT… Continue reading Xen growing up

Getting Real: The alone time zone. To Get Real, get alone. 37signals is spread out over 4 cities and 8 time zones. From Provo Utah to Copenhagen Denmark, the five of us are 8 hours apart. We embrace this constraint. We’re always looking to embrace constraints. The presence of constraints make you creative. The more… Continue reading Getting Real: The alone time zone

Gateway Won't Honor Its Published Specs. Many things have changed for Gateway — most of it for the worse — since its mega-growth days that led to the much lamented Hill v. Gateway case. One thing apparently remains the same, though. The company still feels it has the right to shortchange customers on its published… Continue reading Gateway Won't Honor Its Published Specs

Battle declared for Roman wall. The next stage in a bid to have Scotland's greatest remnant of Roman occupation recognised on equal terms with the pyramids of Egypt and the Great Wall of China was launched yesterday. [The Scotsman]

Exchange Patch Coming June 14. Among the 10 patches to be released by Microsoft this coming Tuesday, June 14, there is one for Exchange Server. The maximum severity rating for this update is 'important' and a restart should not be required. … [MS Exchange Blog]

ConnectViaBooks: “Find people who share your interests, your hobbies or just read the same books.” [Scripting News]

The Hero of WWDC. (Update 12 June 2005: this post has been edited so that no one person at Apple is singled out—teams are teams, and the entire Intel team deserves a huge round of applause.) At WWDC a member of the Intel team helped me get NetNewsWire and MarsEdit building as universal binaries. It… Continue reading The Hero of WWDC