Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Christopher Dawson: Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)? Ryan Naraine: Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus

Windows Vista's Check Disk utility is a good tool for detecting and potentially fixing file system errors. But sometimes, Check Disk doesn't behave as it should. In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler offers advice on what to do when

LightCA is a free and simple Certification Authority that allows you to create the certification authority key pair

An Audacity plugin that splits your audio into equal parts

Easily create, maintain, and sign configuration profiles, track and install provisioning profiles and authorized applications, and capture device information including console logs

Extract audio and video specifications from all Blu-ray movie discs

An advanced panoramic image stitcher

A set of Microsoft-hosted, highly scalable, developer-oriented services that provide key building blocks required by many cloud-based and cloud-aware applications.

This utility helps you decrypt or recover your lost or forgotten passwords.

Freeware. Monitor processes, services, connections, CPU, disk, memory. Remove spyware. Speed up boot time and performance. Complement antivirus software. Descriptions for 70 000 startup programs and services, alerts on new startups. Security analysis [New | License: Freeware 0 | Requires:

It appears that Apple is trying to put the final nail in Psystar's coffin, asking the court to accept an amended complaint against the Mac clone maker to add a charge of violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to

These are times that try banks' souls. Over the past few months, some financial services companies have been vaporized, and others have been absorbed or merged to save their skins. It's possible that SOA efforts that have been underway at

In addition to the amazing new upcoming Nokia N97 Nokia announced some service upgrades at Nokia World 2008. In particular there are new versions of Nokia Maps and Nokia Messaging. Nokia Maps gives you new features like high resolution aerial

Are there any "telltale signs" that an organization is missing the governance boat when it comes to efforts to effectively deploy SOA methodologies? Todd Biske, enterprise architect extraordinaire and author of the recently published work on SOA Governance, observes that

Last week, when I asked "Are you sure you don't just want to use Ubuntu?" I received a record number of talkbacks, good, bad, and in between. One of the more interesting, though, came from reader ksheppard, who responded with

At well over 300 talkbacks and counting, plenty of folks took my challenge (and my reader's challenge) to sort out just what it would take to switch from Windows to desktop Linux. Obviously, there was plenty of the standard Windows

December 2, 2008 Doctor Web — the Russian developer of IT security solutions branded Dr.Web —reports upon the introduction of the Dr.Web anti-virus service by the CSN Internet service provider that has become the third company protecting its subscribers by

A complete solution for collecting, organizing, transferring, and publishing digital media files from one device to another, as well as uploading to online communities

PowerRoster is a useful and automated staff rostering tool designed to create optimal schedule

ForceVision is a freeware bitmap image viewer with an attractive ease of use and advanced graphics manipulation capabilities