According to a article in CRN, Micros0ft is working with Sun to make sure that their virtualization will be compatible. This means that if I purchase a Sun server with Solaris, It should, emphasis on *should* be able to run MS Server.
Do I want this? Sure why not. I like running multiple operating systems to see what I like the best. They all have benefits and flaws. For instance MS Windows is great for the business world. i.e. applications. I love Mac OS X for it's beauty and simplicity. It is the perfect OS and system for home users.
If I want to code, I then use Linux/UNIX depending on what platform I need to try to write or debug software on. I'm no expert programmer, but can read and write some C, HTML (not a programming language) PERL and Assembly X86.
With Web 2.0 taking off. A popular buzzword. What it really is is services using AJAX. Think of applications on the web to use. Google Apps comes to mind, Facebook and Myspace.
To sum this up I think it is a smart move for Microsoft. After all Novell has Xensource.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Windows Vista Encryption Algorithim
A few months back I asked a Microsoft Sales Rep what encryption was used for Vista. He did not know. The encryption algorithm implemented is AES-CBC. This is Advanced Encryption Standard in cipher block chaining mode.
AES is a block cipher developed by our government. The key sizes can be 128, 192 or 256. The block size is 128bits. It can change the plain text 10, 12, 14 rounds.
To learn more detailed information. Wikipedia has a excellent article.
AES is a block cipher developed by our government. The key sizes can be 128, 192 or 256. The block size is 128bits. It can change the plain text 10, 12, 14 rounds.
To learn more detailed information. Wikipedia has a excellent article.
Artificial Intelligence
When will AI come to the point that we live in a world like IRobot. I often think of developing a massive database of information. It would be very sweet to have AI, running in the database. It would look for patterns, learn and try to make logical decision's. I read about data mining, data warehousing, and data modeling. This is all in the field of informatics.
Artificial Intelligence is developing intelligent systems to mimic human behavior. AI can be applied to all fields of research. There is also the thought that AI will one day take over humans. Pretty scary.
There are so many databases out there on the Net. Imagine if someone developed a intelligent spider to crawl the net looking for correlations, trends over even try to predict future events. This is already a reality.
Artificial Intelligence is developing intelligent systems to mimic human behavior. AI can be applied to all fields of research. There is also the thought that AI will one day take over humans. Pretty scary.
There are so many databases out there on the Net. Imagine if someone developed a intelligent spider to crawl the net looking for correlations, trends over even try to predict future events. This is already a reality.
VM Ware Products
Their are several products that VW Ware offers. There are products for first time virtualization users, for enterprise users, technical and programmers and products for locking down the desktop and as well as management.
For Servers there is VM Ware Server -----> VM Ware Infrastructure
For desktops there is VMWare player. You can run virtual machines on any machine. These are free downloads.
Virtual Manager allows you to create virtual machines.
VM Workstation allows developers to run multiple virtual machines for software development.
VMWare Ace is used on desktop for security, it can be used to lock down endpoints.
VMWare Infrastructure.
ESX Server is the flagship or foundation for distributed virtualization. ESX server takes care of managing memory, hardware, networking and splits them up into virtual machines. Virtual center gives you a birds eye view of your virtual machines. It also handles workloads, optimizing and it has templates.
There are several add-ons for ESX server.
VM Ware is great for Malware analysis. You can view and run the source code in the vitual machines in a controlled enviroment. There are Anti-Virus companies that use VMware and software debugging tools such as Soft Ice to look into worms and see what there are meant to do. What worms, viruses and othe Malware is contained in the payload.
For Servers there is VM Ware Server -----> VM Ware Infrastructure
For desktops there is VMWare player. You can run virtual machines on any machine. These are free downloads.
Virtual Manager allows you to create virtual machines.
VM Workstation allows developers to run multiple virtual machines for software development.
VMWare Ace is used on desktop for security, it can be used to lock down endpoints.
VMWare Infrastructure.
ESX Server is the flagship or foundation for distributed virtualization. ESX server takes care of managing memory, hardware, networking and splits them up into virtual machines. Virtual center gives you a birds eye view of your virtual machines. It also handles workloads, optimizing and it has templates.
There are several add-ons for ESX server.
VM Ware is great for Malware analysis. You can view and run the source code in the vitual machines in a controlled enviroment. There are Anti-Virus companies that use VMware and software debugging tools such as Soft Ice to look into worms and see what there are meant to do. What worms, viruses and othe Malware is contained in the payload.
Open Source Search Engine
Today while working I came across Koders. Koders is a open source search engine. This is nice. There is also Google Code search. The beauty of this is that you can search for functions and routines that other programmers have written. Why reinvent the wheel?
I also went through a hour of Microsoft licensing training. There are so many options. I'm currently working on loking for companies that need Enterprise Agreements. This can be for SQL, Windows Server, Microsoft Exchange, Server, Windows Vista all the favors. You can also get software assurance which alows you to get software upgrades. This can be valuable because Microsoft is coming out with Microsoft Exchange 2008.
I also went through a hour of Microsoft licensing training. There are so many options. I'm currently working on loking for companies that need Enterprise Agreements. This can be for SQL, Windows Server, Microsoft Exchange, Server, Windows Vista all the favors. You can also get software assurance which alows you to get software upgrades. This can be valuable because Microsoft is coming out with Microsoft Exchange 2008.
Microsoft Security Alerts for Sept 2007
Microsoft released some security alerts. There is only one critcal alert. It allows an attacker to run code remotely on your machine. This is dangerous because they can ask fr a shell back to their computer to execute commands.
Here are four of the alerts:
To update your system. Click here.
Microsoft has a ton of use full information on security.
Here is their security portal.
Microsoft also has a security response center. The one thing I wonder is why there are so many holes in the first place? There is software that will scan your source code for known vulnerabilities. This should be done before shipping the product!
Here are four of the alerts:
| • | MS07-051 - addresses a vulnerability in Windows (KB 938827) |
| • | MS07-052 - addresses a vulnerability in Visual Studio (KB 941522) |
| • | MS07-053 - addresses a vulnerability in Windows (KB 939778) |
| • | MS07-054 - addresses a vulnerability in MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger (KB 942099) |
To update your system. Click here.
Microsoft has a ton of use full information on security.
Here is their security portal.
Microsoft also has a security response center. The one thing I wonder is why there are so many holes in the first place? There is software that will scan your source code for known vulnerabilities. This should be done before shipping the product!