All Things Gibbs

NetworkWorld.com | Software Research Center | Update Your Profile Virtualization mojo By Mark Gibbs Mark Gibbs discusses the different ways virtualization can be implemented and takes a look at a virtualization product that will give you a robust, portable Windows XP desktop on a nerd stick. Read full story 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 SPONSORED BY TRIPWIRE Winning the IT Game: Improving Efficiency and Controlling Risk with Configuration Audit and Control Find out how configuration audit and control can quickly bring value to any IT organization by controlling risks and lowering costs in four major IT project areas: compliance and security, system availability, CMDB, and change and configuration automation. RELATED NEWS: Backspin: Saving the environment or just saving bucks? This week’s article in Network World about green data centers is interesting because it reflects the IT industry’s growing awareness that we have a serious social responsibility to take care of the environment. While this sounds positive there’s a real risk that things that appear to be “green” will turn out over the long run to be quite the opposite. Read full story. Gibbsblog: The past 7 days Less Than $1? Give it to the Planet A couple of days ago I got a bill from Time Warner Cable. This surprised me because we don't subscribe to their service. Just as surprising was that the bill was addressed to me at the old address of this house (when we moved in out mailbox was a quarter mile away on the side of the street in a block of concrete -- its a long story as to why). I was even more surprised to find that the bill was actually showing that I had a credit ... of $0.60. Woo-hoo. Death by Cell Phone? Er... From the BBC this AM: A South Korean man initially thought to have been killed by an exploding mobile phone battery was in fact crushed by a quarry vehicle, police have said. What would you want in a Network World app on Facebook? I've started dabbling with the Facebook API (yes, that is the sound of our real programmers yelling in the background). Actually, I've started dabbling with some very nice Facebook PHP code written by Graham McCarthy at Ryerson University. QuickTime Vulnerable. Again. Still. The popular QuickTime Player was patched, and once more is leaking. This time public code exists for the exploit, and Apple has no patch (a zero-day exploit). The exploit crashes ActiveX, but the Firefox browser passes the code on to QuickTime, making that platform a bit more vulnerable than MSIE (for a change). HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Find the very best tech holiday gift ideas. '07 ENTERPRISE ALL-STARS Honoring outstanding technology projects. 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