Tape Drive or CDROM Not Found

Creating a tape drive or cdrom should be simple: run “mkdev tape” or “mkdev cdrom” and answer the questions, relink a new kernel, reboot and it is done. Unfortunately, people seem to have a lot of problems with this.

(For the remainder of this article I’ll be referring only to tape drives. Everything said applies equally to cdroms or indeed any scsi or ide device being added).

The Conflict of Interest Game

Disgruntled investors are going after Wall Street once again, this time accusing one of investment bank Morgan-Stanley’s high-tech mutual funds of making biased stock picks.

Recent lawsuits allege the Morgan Stanley Technology fund was influenced to buy and hold stocks of companies that delivered huge investment banking fees – or could potentially bring big business – to the investment bank.

Bringing your Java Application to Mac OS X

Apple has just released Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.4.1 for Mac OS X. Mac OS X has shipped with J2SE 1.3.1 installed from the beginning. Now J2SE 1.4.1 is available to all Jaguar (Mac OS X version 10.2) owners by using the software update at Apple’s Java product page. Much of the time porting J2SE 1.4.1 to the Mac has been spent moving the GUI elements from the Carbon framework to the Cocoa framework. This means it is easier for your Java applications to take advantage of Mac OS X specific features when running on the platform and to look and feel more like native applications.

The Future of Web Services Security:

Sun Microsystems’ Eve Maler, chair of the Security Work Plan Working Group of WS-I (Web Services Interoperability Organization), is a leading mover and shaker in the world of Web services security. She co-founded, formerly chaired, and is currently coordinating editor of the SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) committee, which brought together divergent XML-based security efforts in an effort to develop a common standard.

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