Interesting news from around the web for 2008-03-11:

MacBook Air face-off: HDD vs SSD (with video)Here’s a really interesting comparison of the solid-state drive available in the MacBook Air and the traditional hard drive.
#234381: Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager (CAM) 6.0.1 May Record an Incorrect IP Address For One of The Controllers During Array [...]

Categories: Tech Messages

Microsoft Corporation

Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Web Components Could Allow Remote Code Execution

Red Hat, Inc.

RHSA-2008:0042 Moderate: tomcat security update
RHSA-2008:0100 Moderate: java-1.4.2-bea security update
RHSA-2008:0173 Important: Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 Service Pack [...]

Categories: Security Updates

Welcome to the Cisco End-of-Life / End-of-Sale Batch #26. It’s always a good idea to keep an eye on these sorts of announcements so you can plan ahead during your budgeting process. Luckily, Cisco is good enough to give us plenty of advance warning when old products are being phased out.
Don’t forget, most EoL [...]

Categories: Networking

Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 4 was released today. The release notes claim that more than 900 enhancements over the previous version have been included in this release. So far, I haven’t noticed a real difference in my normal use. I guess that’s a good thing, really. To me, that means we’re [...]

Categories: Software

In response to two recent articles (one from ComputerWorld and the other from TechCrunch), I’ve decided to give WebKit a try. For those that aren’t familiar, WebKit is the development version of Safari. Consider this Safari Beta Testing, if you’d like.
What really piqued my interest is that Duncan Riley at TechCrunch seems to [...]

Categories: Software