All Things Gibbs

All Things Gibbs This newsletter is sponsored by SonicWALL Risk Management Leads to a Secure Network Join this live Webcast on September 12, 2007 at 1:00 p.m. ET/10:00 a.m. PT to learn how assessing your company's risk can lead to a more proactive sustainable security strategy. Hear respected security experts Andreas Antonopolous from Nemertes Research and SonicWALL CTO Joe Levy discuss this new risk management approach and its benefits. Click here to register today! Network World's All Things Gibbs Newsletter, 08/21/07 All Things Gibbs By Mark Gibbs Gearhead: Outlook to iCal but not automatically Is it too much to ask? All I want to do is to extract new calendar items from Outlook in iCal format every day at a set time. The reason for this is I am planning to buy a big, new Mac Pro (dual 3.0GHz quad core, dual graphics cards, 8GB RAM — yes, greed is an ugly, ugly thing) so that I can run VMware Fusion to host guest operating systems (including multiple copies of XP and Vista) alongside OS X, which is now my favorite desktop environment. To read this week's Gearhead, click here. Network World Security Buyer's Guide Find the right security products for your enterprise - fast. From anti-spam to wireless LAN security, our Buyer's Guides have detailed information on hundreds of products in more than 20 categories. With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features to make the best decision for your enterprise. Click here to go to the Security Buyer's Guide now. Backspin: Refurb and spam headaches What a couple of weeks it’s been! We’re having the kitchen refurbished so I have plumbers, builders and painters waltzing in and out interrupting me every five minutes. I’m keeping the aspirin close at hand and perhaps it is the added stress that is making me particularly irritated by spam again. To read this week's Backspin, click here. Gibbsblog: The past 7 days Another Vista Defection This time it's Jim Louderback, former editor of "PC Magazine" -- a man who used to be a staunch Micro$ofty: I've been a big proponent of the new OS over the past few months, even going so far as loading it onto most of my computers and spending hours tweaking and optimizing it. So why, nine months after launch, am I so frustrated? The litany of what doesn't work and what still frustrates me stretches on endlessly... The upshot is that even after nine months, Vista just ain't cutting it... Will Torvalds Sue VMWare? Seems VMWare's premier product uses an illegal hack of an unsupported Linux kernel as a bootloader. This issue has been raised before and ignored, but that was then and this is Day IPO+1. Quoting a post from VentureCake: Is VMware a derived product of Linux? Unless vmkernel can be loaded without the Linux kernel, it would appear so. VMware was developed from another, long ago OS created as a research project, but it’s unclear whether vmkernel was ported from that OS or rewritten as the Linux-requiring binary blob... Backing Up is Hard to Do It doesn't have to be that way, and we all know backups are like machine guns -- better to have one and not need it than to need it and not have it.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES: 1. Skype outage continues, business users affected 2. The CD turns 25 and I'm getting old 3. Google/Viacom lawsuit takes hilarious turn 4. Aruba puts the squeeze on Cisco 5. 1.6M records stolen from Monster.com 6. Enterasys package secures VoIP systems 7. Could onshoring become the new offshoring? 8. Verizon turns another hose on fire flap 9. 10 claims that scare security pros 10. Cisco: Video, P2P use will double IP traffic MOST E-MAILED STORY: VoIP of the people

Contact the author: Mark Gibbs is a consultant, author, journalist, and columnist and now blogger: Check out Gibbsblog. Gibbs not only pens (well, keyboards) this newsletter he also writes the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns in Network World. We’ll spare you the rest of the bio but if you want to know more, go here This newsletter is sponsored by SonicWALL Risk Management Leads to a Secure Network Join this live Webcast on September 12, 2007 at 1:00 p.m. ET/10:00 a.m. PT to learn how assessing your company's risk can lead to a more proactive sustainable security strategy. Hear respected security experts Andreas Antonopolous from Nemertes Research and SonicWALL CTO Joe Levy discuss this new risk management approach and its benefits. Click here to register today! BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007