News from PANUG/BizNix - June 9, 2003
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BIZNIX MEETING

This month's BizNix meeting is this Thursday evening,
June 12, at 6:30pm. The main presentation will be
Fun with USB Memory Drives - referring to those cute
little USB-based memory devices often referred to as
Thumb Drives. You'll learn what's required to support
them with Linux and how to partition and format them.

We'll look at useful applications and at least one
application that may not be universally practical but
is certainly way cool: using USB memory devices to build
a RAID array.


SECURE COMPUTING FROM MICROSOFT? - PROBABLY NEVER
by Ed Sawicki - Accelerated Learning Center / Tailored Computers

Microsoft has released the Windows Server 2003 Security
Guide. You can get it here:
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=165183

However, the Security Guide is available only as an
executable - an .EXE file. The irony in this is thick.
If you don't see it, you need to attend security
training - that's not offered by Microsoft.

This is yet another example in a very long list of examples
of how Microsoft just doesn't get it and probably never
will really understand security. But, in your heart,
you already know that.
  

LINUX SECURITY

Just when we thought Linux security was quite good...
David May submitted this link to an article titled "Linux
losing ground on security front: Study":

http://panug.org/20

Hey, it's a study - it must be true.


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