Stories by Howard Dahdah

Cabinet meeting rules Iemma out of CeBIT, Coonan to open show

For the first time since its launch in 2002, CeBIT Australia, which is held in Sydney, will not be opened by the NSW Premier. The Federal Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, will instead open the show.

Esser vindicated by PHP bug project

[[ArtId:1592845665|Last month]], Stefan Esser, an independent security consultant and a founder of both the Hardened-PHP Project and PHP Security Response Team (which he has since left), launched his <a href="http://www.php-security.org/">Month of PHP Bugs </a>as a way of improving the security of PHP by outing flaws in its source code.

Real estate site gets a new lease on life, traffic spikes as a result

It's taken the good part of a year, with most of it just in the planning, but the relaunch of commercial real estate Web site realcommercial.com.au has proven an instant success with the site recording an increase of over 40 per cent traffic in its first weeks of going live.

Andrew Tanenbaum: Operating systems' Mr Reliable

Dr Andrew S. Tanenbaum is a Professor of Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit in Holland. He has worked extensively in writing and teaching about operating systems. He wrote compilers for the original UNIX operating system, and then authored the MINIX operating system in 1987, which subsequently became the inspiration for Linus Torvalds to develop his own MINIX clone, called Linux, in the early 1990s. Dr Tanenbaum is a Fellow of the ACM and a Fellow of the IEEE. This January his makes his first visit to Linux Australia's linux.conf.au where he will be speaking about his latest metric. Before that he talks to Computerworld about microkernels, MINIX 3, why he would still fail Linux Torvalds if he was a student of his, and more.

LCA awaits as Blizzard hits Sydney this summer

Chris Blizzard has been involved in the open source software community for over a decade. He has worked extensively on Mozilla's Firefox browser from the time it was open sourced by Netscape in 1998. He then joined Red Hat in 1999 because he "thought it was going to be interesting". At Red Hat he has been in a number of roles - initially building its next generation of support tools, then in its desktop group supporting and promoting its web browser solutions through to today's effort where he has worked on the customised operating system and Sugar User Interface for the One Laptop per Child project.

Qantas site hits turbulence, firewall to blame

Qantas may be flying high following its proposed $11b takeover by Macquarie Bank and Texas Pacific Group, but faulty server hardware on its Web site has ensured it has come crashing down to reality.

NEC joins other telcos contesting ULLS hike

NEC Australia is the latest service provider to head to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission over the price it has to pay Telstra for accessing the telco's copper lines.

Broadband over Power Lines weeds out dope pushers

The illegal hydroponics industry can potentially be weeded out if the rollout of Broadband over Power Lines technology becomes increasingly more prevalent. But catching dope growers is just one of many and varied benefits that can be delivered to service providers by this technology.

Funding sought to meet PHP course demand

The lack of short courses in IT programming in Adelaide has prompted an IT and open source enthusiast to seek funding to devise her own PHP course to meet demand.

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