Google upgrades Blogger ... Siemens sets network speed record

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News: Google upgrades Blogger service - for some
News: Siemens sets network speed record
News: Seagate buys backup services company
News: Juniper to take $900M charge for options
Unix Tip: Problems with inetd
Podcast: Today's IT news audio update
ITwhirled: Crazy Apple Rumors


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Google upgrades Blogger service - for some
Google Inc. is offering some users of its Blogger Web site access to a new version of the blog hosting service allowing user-definable templates, tagging of posts, multiple authors, and faster publication of new posts, the company announced on its own blog. It will also integrate use of the blogging service more closely with other services through changes to the account log-in process.

Siemens sets network speed record
The race to push more bits down broadband networks has leaped ahead with Siemens AG achieving a transmission speed of 107G bps (bits per second) over a single optical fiber.

Seagate buys backup services company
Hard drive maker Seagate Technology LLC will buy EVault Inc. for US$185 million in an acquisition designed to bolster Seagate's managed services business, the company said on Thursday.

Juniper to take $900M charge for options
Juniper Networks Inc. will take a non-cash charge of about $900 million in the wake of an investigation that found the company improperly dated employee stock-option grants.

HP will acquire Bitfone to boost iPAQ line
Hewlett-Packard Co. moved to strengthen its line of iPAQ handhelds on Wednesday by announcing a plan to acquire Bitfone Corp., a developer of software applications that allow cell-phone manufacturers to manage wireless mobile devices.

Websense to buy PortAuthority
Websense Inc. will pay $90 million to acquire PortAuthority Technologies Inc., a provider of information-leak detection appliances.


UNIX TIP

Problems with inetd
By Sandra Henry-Stocker

I ran into a problem recently with one of my Solaris 9 servers. For
some reason which I have yet to pinpoint, any lines that I add to
the /etc/inet/inetd.conf file are removed from the file almost as soon
as I finish adding them. Well, almost any lines. Since I generally
precede any additions to system configuration files with comments that
describe what the lines are for, I did so with these recently added
lines as well. When the file was modified, I noticed that only my
comments remained in the file of the lines that I had inserted.

The culprit wasn't a cron job. For one thing, there were no obvious
cron jobs which could account for what was happening. For another,
the timing was odd. The file wasn't changed back on a time boundary
(e.g., on the minute). Further, since comments were not removed, it
was clear that the file was not simply being overwritten by a copy of
the old file. Instead, only the functional entries were being
stripped. Some recent change to this system was ensuring that nothing
was added to inetd.conf.

Read the full article here.


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