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Apple Firms Up on iPad 3 Launch Date

February 29th, 2012 | Posted by peter in Apple | iPad - (0 Comments)
Ipad invitation Graphic From apple

Apple has sent invitations to media for an iPad launch event in San Francisco on March 7th where the third generation iPad is likely to be shown off.

Rumours abound on the new features of the tablet. It seems likely that a retina class very high resolution display, similar to the dot density found on the iPhone 4,4s and iPod Touch devices, is likely with a display resolution over twice that of the iPad 2. It is also rumoured to be approximately 1mm thicker than the iPad2 to accommodate a slightly bigger battery to cope with some beefed up cpu and graphics processors to cope with the higher resolution. The jury is out, however on whether the CPU or brains of the unit will be a dual core A5 class device with beefed up graphics, or an A6 quad core device, more in line with offerings from Android competitors.  The camera would seem to be getting a massive upgrade to an 8 megapixel device from the iPad 2′s 1 megapixel unit. Head over to MacRumours for more information.

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Dodo Responsible for Major Australian Internet Outage Thursday?

February 24th, 2012 | Posted by peter in Internet | outages - (1 Comments)

According to reports around the net, and circulating on whirlpool and twitter, an errant configuration on the major communications internet backbone servicing Australia caused major outages across multiple internet service providers Thursday afternoon, 23rd February, 2012.

Apparently Dodo’s, (an Australian ISP), engineers errantly advertised their internal routes to the backbone, and for some reason Telstra routers took the routes up with a low cost, resulting in a vast majority of Australian traffic attempting to route through Dodo’s connections. It is of course no surprise that the amount of traffic overwhelmed the dodo links in microseconds, and Australia had problems talking to anyone for at least 30 minutes.

You can read more detail here at CRN.

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Dec-2011 MS Updates Finally Deliver Security Updates to Prevent Duqu Infection

December 21st, 2011 | Posted by peter in Duqu | Microsoft | Security Updates | Virus - (0 Comments)

Don’t wait around to install your windows updates this month: Microsoft have released updates to all of its supported operating systems to prevent the intial infection of systems by the Duqu virus/Trojan and its variants.

The Duqu virus is extremely difficult to detect and remove, and is very active in hijacking systems, capturing passwords and banking details etc. It has been in the wild for several months, and this month’s updates include fixes to some of the security flaws that enabled the virus to infect windows systems. I have seen instances where internet banking websites have been unable to be distinguised from fake sites that are capturing login information.

Antivirus software itself is not enough to avoid infection with this virus, and so application of these critical updates is highly recommended.

You can manually update by visiting windowsupdate.microsoft.com in internet explorer. Note that systems already infected may have access to this webpage blocked, and if that is the case, you should investigate the security of your systems further.

As a final warning, these security updates plug the security holes that Duqu exploited in installing itself, they do not remove duqu infections if they have already infiltrated your systems.

Peter

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Microsoft Unveils SQL Server 2012

November 8th, 2011 | Posted by peter in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)
Microsoft SQL 2012

Microsoft announced pricing and licensing models for their SQL 2012 release sheduled for Early to Mid 2012. Client access licenses up by 25% and a move away from per cpu pricing to per core licensing for Cal-less enterprise product.

Only benefit seems to be up to a 400% increase in performance for transaction based loads, but something tells me that the majority of users will not see this result without some serious optimisations to their structure and code. See more info here. Microsoft Unveils SQL Server 2012 Licensing and Pricing — Redmondmag.com.

 

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November 8th, 2011 | Posted by peter in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

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