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  • GitHub picks Sydney sysadmins

    Git-based online hosted service, GitHub, has chosen Sydney company Anchor to implement and manage its infrastructure.

  • Defence hauled in over PM website attack

    Security experts from Defence have been called in to assist agencies that were targeted by last night's attack on the Prime Minister's and other agency websites. More attacks are expected, according to sources.

  • LCA '09: Sysadmins after the cloud

    The uptake of cloud computing was rendering many traditional systems administrator functions obsolete, tech author and Google sysadmin Tom Limoncelli told attendees at Linux.conf.au (LCA) in Hobart this week.

  • Conroy filter gag sparks sysadmin rage

    An Australian systems administrators' professional group has criticised Communications Minister Stephen Conroy for alleged attempts by his office to silence a vocal network engineer expressing an opinion about the planned government internet filtering scheme.

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    Our insider secrets will help you master your PC and its most important applications

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  • Read the blog post - Chris Duckett

    Non-professional Oracle wrestling

    The latest and greatest version of the Oracle database, 11g Release 2, was made available recently and as the resident technical person, it fell to me to take it for a spin. Little did I realise the hell that I had just walked into.

  • Read the blog post - Chris Duckett

    Even the giants make mistakes

    Next time you begin to berate yourself for making that awfully stupid coding mistake remember that it happens to the best and biggest of us and happy sysadmin day.

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    Coming to you fast and furious from the FITT lunch

    The more I think about the issues surrounding the under-representation of women in IT, the further I get from finding a solution. Overanalysis is a real drag. And that's why this year I'm going to be blogging direct from the FITT lunch.

  • Read the blog post - Paul Montgomery, ZDNet Australia

    KM, meet Web 2.0

    Many Web 2.0 technologies and functions fall under the umbrella of KM: wikis for collaboration; tagging and "folksonomy", which is known to the fuddy-duddies as taxonomy; and blogging, which behind the firewall would otherwise be known as intranet publishing.

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    Putting the IT in wit

    Let us develop an appreciation for tech's greatest comedians -- intentional or otherwise.

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    Forget Google and Zoho, it will be Microsoft that takes the online word processor to the masses.

  • Perform a secure SQL Server installation

    Follow these basic tips to begin a secure installation of Microsoft SQL Server, and use the tools recommended here to help verify security after the install.

  • Security group names top software risks

    A security organisation published its fourth annual list of the most vulnerable software on Wednesday, putting network administrators on notice that they need to check their systems.

  • Windows Server 2003 gets first patch

    Less than two months after launching its Windows Server 2003 operating system, Microsoft has released a security patch to fix a vulnerability that could let malicious sites run damaging code on the server.

  • Trouble-shooting technical glitches

    Finding the cause of a system failure or technical glitch isn't always simple. What do you do when you just can't figure out a solution?

Reviews (9)

  • Lenovo ThinkPad T400

    Lenovo's ThinkPad T400 is another fine entry into its portfolio, but be prepared to spend extra to get the features you need.

  • Sun Fire X4275

    Sun Microsystem's Sun Fire X4275 is an excellent all-rounder, although we'd love it if the noise could be cut down a little more.

  • SMC ADSL Barricade g

    This device's clean user interface makes it easy to set up; this, and its good feature set, makes the ADSL Barricade g an excellent all-round Internet connection sharing solution.

  • Windows Server 2003 gets first patch

    Less than two months after launching its Windows Server 2003 operating system, Microsoft has released a security patch to fix a vulnerability that could let malicious sites run damaging code on the server.

  • Corporate mobility: Six wireless e-mail packages tested

    There's an abundance of wireless-capable devices and a growing number of networks to service them. How do you make your corporate e-mail available to staff when they're out of the office?

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