IT Professionals Database (ITPD)

borjonx writes "Is it safer to log out of an SSH session, and re-establish it later, or just keep the connection open?

miffo.swe writes "I'm trying to find the normal ratio of technicians/support tech per user or computer in your average IT-shop.

fsufitch writes "Wine has advanced enough to make Linux not immune to Windows viruses. However, just like many Wine applications, it takes a bit of effort to get the program off the ground.

An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix has published Linux filesystem benchmarks comparing XFS, EXT3, EXT4, Btrfs and NILFS2 filesystems.

Didier DURAND writes "Just published an article about our 100% automated migration from IBM mainframe with Cobol to Linux Java: we could convert of our own application (4 million lines of code) throug

An anonymous reader writes "There have been past claims by Adobe and others that development on Linux is a jungle, particularly with regards to audio.

An anonymous reader writes "There have been past claims by Adobe and others that development on Linux is a jungle, particularly with regards to audio.

Ihmhi writes "China's mandatory "Green Dam Youth Escort" web filter software apparently has a series of severe flaws.

Acoustic Bubble writes "Researchers at Cornell University have developed the first algorithm for synthesizing familiar bubble-based fluid sounds automatically from 3D fluid simulations, e.g, for futur

RadiusK writes "Google has released the second major version of the Chrome browser. This version features more speed improvements thanks to a newer version of V8 JavaScript engine and WebKit.

pkluss noted Kevin Turner, COO of Microsoft making the proclamation that "Vista today, post-Service Pack 2, which is now in the marketplace, is the safest, most reliable OS we've ever built.

Kenneth Reitz writes "Wouldn't it be lovely to have a nice, clean installation of Microsoft's Office 2007 Suite to run on your Ubuntu Linux Distribution?

gubm writes "A February survey of IT managers by IDC indicated that hard times are accelerating the adoption of Linux.

commandlinegamer writes "foobar posted on his blog recently, How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps detailing potential malware infection risks in the .desktop file format used by GNOME and KDE.

solweil writes to mention that Cryptol, a 'domain specific language for the design, implementation and verification of cryptographic algorithms', is now available to the public.