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ITworld.com Wrap-Up
March 18, 2008
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In this issue:

Vista SP1 officially available
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Windows Tip: Sizing your event logs
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/103554/0/

Yahoo to Microsoft: Cheapskate
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Toshiba, Samsung top latest Greenpeace electronics ranking
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JasperSoft claims to be most widely deployed BI tool
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Notes comes to the iPhone, via iAnywhere
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/103742/0/

Malicious subtitle file could trip up VLC media player
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/103743/0/

Windows XP: The operating system that refuses to die
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/101543/0/

Software engineer wins memory title
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/101018/0/


OTHER RESOURCES
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Reputation-Based Email Security
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/102332/0/

2008 Internet Security Trends Report
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/102329/0/

Multi-layer Spam Defense Architectural Overview
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/101558/0/


TIP
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Windows Tip: Sizing your event logs
By Mitch Tulloch, MVP

The Windows Event Logs are a good thing -- they're a primary source you
can mine when troubleshooting server problems or monitoring server
security. Because of this, it's a good idea to collect as much
information as possible in these logs in order to provide you with a
historical baseline of your server's operations to help you troubleshoot
difficult issues, and also to create an audit trail for security
purposes. But can you have too much of a good thing?
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/103554/0/


IN THE NEWS
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Vista SP1 officially available
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/103762/0/
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is available starting Tuesday, a day after
Amazon.com let slip that it would become available this week.

Yahoo to Microsoft: Cheapskate
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/103739/0/
Yahoo has dusted off a three-month old financial plan to reinforce its
contention that the company is worth much more than Microsoft has
offered to pay for it.

Toshiba, Samsung top latest Greenpeace electronics ranking
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/103740/0/
Toshiba and Samsung top the latest Greenpeace environmental ranking of
consumer electronics companies.

JasperSoft claims to be most widely deployed BI tool
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/103741/0/
JasperSoft, the open-source business intelligence vendor, is claiming
that it is now the world's most widely deployed BI product

Notes comes to the iPhone, via iAnywhere
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/103742/0/
IPhone customers who use Lotus Notes at work won't be left out anymore
with a new offering from Sybase iAnywhere.

Malicious subtitle file could trip up VLC media player
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/103743/0/
A flaw in the widely-used open-source VLC media player could allow an
attacker to execute harmful code on a PC.


TOP STORIES
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Windows XP: The operating system that refuses to die
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/101543/0/

Microsoft debuts IE 8, aims for CSS interoperability
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/102369/0/

IT jobs "very sexy indeed" says Commissioner Reding
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/103035/0/

Tip: Burning bootable DVDs
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/101684/0/

Casino insider tells (almost) all about security
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/102326/0/


ITWHIRLED
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Software engineer wins memory title
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2956284/158421455/101018/0/
A victory for IT geeks everywhere! A 31-year-old software engineer
bested his teenage rival in a memory contest, recalling the entire order
of a shuffled deck of playing cards in less than two and a half minutes.


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POLL
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