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• Australians miss out on Seagate kilobyte refunds

  Although a discrepancy between the traditional and modern definitions of kilobyte has led to Seagate Technology offering a rebate on their hard drives, a Seagate representative has confirmed that Australians will not be eligible for the refund.

• Seagate to pay refund over gigabyte definition

  Seagate Technology, the world's largest hard-drive maker, is offering customers a five percent refund on drives bought during the last six years following a lawsuit over the definition of a "gigabyte". As an alternative, customers can choose to receive free backup software.

• Laser printers as dangerous as passive smoking?

  Emissions from office laser printers can be as unhealthy as cigarette smoke, according to an Australian professor who is now calling for regulations to limit printer emissions.

• Microsoft-Novell pact doesn't dent Red Hat growth

  Red Hat is still the flavour of the month in the Linux market, despite Novell making some inroads after its controversial alliance with Microsoft.

• Vulnerability-auction site claims to help security

  Responsible disclosure may become a thing of the past as an auction site, which sells zero-day vulnerabilities to the highest bidder, begins trading.

Features and Case Studies (6)

• Security policy? Technology's not the answer

  Making a true, workable security policy is hard work but there is help, says ZDNet columnist Peter Judge.

• SQL Server races against competition

  The 64-bit version of Microsoft's database will cost the same as the 32-bit version and perform better--part of the company's bid to undercut Oracle and IBM.

• India - threat or promise?

  IT pros in the West may get the jitters when Indian firms offer to slash our costs by 50 percent, but they will have to live with it.

• Wi-Fi "wartrappers" nab drive-by hackers

  A "honeypot" trap consisting of a Wi-Fi-equipped laptop is the latest weapon against drive-by hackers.

• Signals from the open-source LAMP

  As PHP apparently becomes the world's leading scripting language, the open-source LAMP burns a little more brightly.

Reviews (5)

• Mandriva Linux 2006

  Despite combining the heritage of Mandrakesoft and Connectiva, Mandriva is usually considered a second-tier Linux distribution. Nevertheless, the latest version, Mandriva Linux 2006, is well packaged and includes support for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

• Desktop Linux for small businesses

  Is your business ready to take the open-source plunge? We test five leading desktop Linux distributions and come up with one winner.

• Is the iSeries make-over enough?

  IBM's iSeries servers have had the biggest announcement since the line was launched. But will users stick with it now it is cheaper and more Linux-friendly?

• 3G is dead, claims mobile phone inventor

  The bandwidth and business model for 3G is not there according to Marty Cooper -- the man credited with inventing the mobile phone.

• iSeries rises to conflicting demands

  IBM's iSeries will never be IBM's most exciting range of servers, but it is destined for great things, according to one of its architects.

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