Proactively Preventing Data Corruption
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| Linux gains end-to-end data integrity protection
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http://linux.sys-con.com/read/480659.htm
OLPC has new exciting things going on as well.
Quantum Cryptography
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| Quantum cryptography is the oldest and best developed application of the
| field of quantum information science.
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| Although it is frequently perceived as an encryption method, it is really a
| scheme to securely distribute correlated random numbers between the
| communicating parties and thus better described as quantum key distribution
| (QKD).
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http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Quantum_Cryptography
Last week:
Microsoft's Windows Home Server corrupts files
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| Microsoft Corp. has warned Windows Home
| Server users not to edit files stored on their backup systems with several
| of its programs, including Vista Photo Gallery and Office's OneNote and
| Outlook, as well as files generated by popular finance software such as
| Quicken and QuickBooks.
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| "When you use certain programs to edit files on a home computer that uses
| Windows Home Server, the files may become corrupted when you save them to
| the home server," Microsoft said in a support document posted last week.
|
| The document went on to list the software, which includes Windows Vista
| Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo Gallery, OneNote 2003, OneNote 2007,
| Outlook 2007, Microsoft Money 2007 and SyncToy 2.0 Beta. Others programs,
| however, may also corrupt files stored on a home server powered by
| Microsoft's operating system.
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| "Additionally, there have been customer reports of issues with Torrent
| applications, with Intuit Quicken and with QuickBooks program files," the
| document said. "Until an update for Windows Home Server is available, we
| recommend that [you] do not use the programs that are listed to save or to
| edit program-specific files that are stored on a Windows Home Server-based
| system."
|
| Microsoft blamed the problem on a glitch within Windows Home Server's shared
| folders. The company said it had reproduced the bug and would post any new
| information to the document tagged as KB946676.
|
| "Our development team is working full-time through the holidays to diagnose
| and address this issue," claimed an anonymous posting last Thursday to the
| Microsoft blog dedicated to Windows Home Sever.
|
| Windows Home Server, which was unveiled nearly a year ago by Chairman Bill
| Gates at the Consumer Electronics Show, is a heavily modified version of
| Windows Server 2003 designed for consumers and small businesses.
| Hewlett-Packard Co. launched the first hardware powered by Windows Home
| Server, its $599 and $749 MediaSmart Servers, last month and is now shipping
| systems to customers.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9054178
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