Episode 2 of CS TechCast is posted and ready for your consumption at www.cstechcast.com. Here you will find notes and links on the topics discussed in CS TechCast # 2. This week we talk with Bill Inmon, the Father of Data Warehousing, about his now book "Tapping into Unstructured Data". In the news, new stuff from Microsoft, a new old DNS flaw, Sun goes virtual, compliance audits, and IT spending. Plus, "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", "IT Shout Out", and "The Tech Tip of the Week".
Please visit Bill Inmon's web site at www.inmoncif.com. In addition, pick up the latest book from this definitive authority, Tapping into Unstructured Data: Integrating Unstructured Data and Textual Analytics into Business Intelligence, due out in a couple weeks.
Here are link to stories discussed during our news and other segments:
http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=9308#10
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2228177,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000610
http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,1206,a=220909,00.asp
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2228717,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=9307#5
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/140340/global_tech_spending_growth_to_slow_in_2008.html
http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1397,2228885,00.asp
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2227513,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140268-pg,1/article.html
It looks like the DNS flaw we discussed has not been addressed in the latest round of patches. For now, all you can do to protect yourself is to disable Auto-discovery in Internet Explorer or other browsers that use this feature, but see the full Microsoft Advisory 945713. The complete list of December patches can be found at the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for December 2007.
Our user group spotlight this week is Pacific IT Professionals at https://owa.consortioservices.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.pacitpros.org. Get involved with your local technology community and learn from each other!
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- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)