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AppArmor

by | Jul 21, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

Following on from the firewall upgrades a week or two ago – I continued to harden and update my public facing servers.

I just installed Novell AppArmor on both web servers. Hopefully this host-based security hardening will help.

Rackspace and ZENworks – Press Release

by | Jul 18, 2005 | Uncategorized, ZENworks

Nice press release from Novell and Rackspace:

WALTHAM, Mass.—18 Jul 2005—Novell today announced Rackspace Managed Hosting has selected Novell® ZENworks® Linux Management software to administer its new enterprise Linux* hosting solution. Additionally, with the launch of Rackspace Red Label*, the company now offers its enterprise hosting solution on SUSETM LINUX Enterprise Server, among other Linux distributions. Because ZENworks can manage multiple platforms, Rackspace deployed the solution to gain improved management capabilities and the freedom to deploy multiple Linux platforms. As a result, employee productivity is improved and operating costs are lowered.

Full text here.

Spread Firefox

by | Jul 14, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Linux, Uncategorized

Spread Firefox.

I predict that within the next two-three years this open-source marketing campaign will be used as a case study for anybody looking at marketing within high technology.

Get Firefox!

From modest beginings, through to the release of Firefox 1.0, the double page ad in the New York Times, to over 70 million downloads – this is perhaps a never to be repeated phenomenon.

Firefox and ZENworks

by | Jul 14, 2005 | Linux, Uncategorized, ZENworks

There’s a nice post from Ben Goodger (lead Firefox developer) on enterprise deployment of the browser. Most of the comments are Windows specific – but it’s good stuff.

One of the things I’ll try and find time to do is take this great data and make it ZENworks relevent. If someone has more time feel free to post it to Cool Solutions!

I’ll also look at how this data can be used with ZENworks 7 Linux Management; deployment of the browser and then locking it down.

Novell TTP

by | Jul 13, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

I will be speaking with the Novell TTP group next week on ZENworks and systems management.

“Novell TTP?” you ask.. Well – it’s not exactly secret, but you won’t find it listed on novell.com.

Here’s the official blurb:

The Novell Technology Transfer Partners (TTP) is an international group of colleges and universities that have made a substantial commitment to campus IT implementations using Novell technology. TTP was started in the early 1980’s with 14 universities whose goal was to share their networking experiences in order to leverage the knowledge of their diverse campus computing environments. The group has now grown to be a more comprehensive group of loyal Novell higher education customers that not only share information with each other, but with the software developers and business units at Novell. Perhaps no other group has more influence on software development at Novell than the TTP members.

Basically it’s my chance to listen to a few dozen senior admins and their ideas, comments, complaints, wishes .. and even praise.

Not a lot I can add about content – it’s all under Non Disclosure – but I will be talking about cross-platform systems management, ZENworks 7, our roadmap and some of the future trends.