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4.29.05
Install Tiger With Confidence
How am I going to install Tiger? Because experience is the best teacher, I am going to read suggestions from Mac gurus that have already been chasing the Tiger and the first stop will be MacCentral for advice from Ted Landau. Next, I’ll digest what MacFixIt is offering, then I am going to repair disk permissions, backup my hard drive to an external hard drive twice then boot from both partitions to make sure these are ‘good copies’, burn some DVDs as backup, sync my bookmarks using my .Mac account, and repair disk permissions again. After all those steps, then I’ll install it on my Macs, first the laptop and then the iMacs. To read what Mac expert Ted Landau suggests, click on the following link:
Feature: Installing the update
You’ve read about the features, you’ve bought the upgrade but how do you go about installing Tiger? Ted Landau has some tips that will help you avoid installation headaches. MacCentral
MacFixIt advice:
Special Report: Preparing for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Installation -- Avoiding issues before and after updating
Today, Apple officially releases Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) -- a major update that will be installed by thousands of early adopters (many users received their copies a week ago) in its first few hours… MacFixIt

Meanwhile, PC World Lassos Longhorn
PC World is looking ahead to the new operating system for the other portion of this Multiple Platforms world and you can read the review on Longhorn by visiting PC World using the following link:
We Take Longhorn for a Test Drive
After examining the alpha version of Microsoft's new OS, we like what we see. PCWorld.com - Latest News Stories

Secunia Issues Another Warning Regarding Netscape
Secunia has released another security bulletin with a ‘highly critical’ grade for Netscape browser users. The security experts at Secunia suggest you, “Use another product.”

Trend Micro Bites Bullet
The customers of Trend Micro in Japan that were affected by the corrupt update released last weekend will receive financial remedy for the damages incurred from the aforementioned issue, however the company has not yet decided if the rest of their customers will gain the same relief. Check out PC World for all the details:
Trend Micro Will Pay for PC Repair Costs
Customers in Japan will be compensated for faulty update, but the fate of overseas users is unclear. PCWorld.com - Latest News Stories

Symantec Users Have Update
Symantec has issued a bulletin to plug a critical flaw that was discovered this week. If you use Symantec for antivirus protection, you should update or read about the same at eWeek:
Symantec Squashes Virus Detection Bypass Bug
The anti-virus vendor issues patches for a security bug in several enterprise and consumer products. eWEEK Technology News

Open Source Updates
Secunia announced the following updates are available for open source users: Red Hat (1, 2, 3, 4), Gentoo, OpenBSD, Debian, and Fedora.

Multiple Platforms.com Tip of the Day: Helpful Web Sites Continued
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Multiple Platforms Word of the Day: LAN
Wikipedia describes a LAN as, “A local area network (LAN) is a computer network covering a local area, like a home, office or small group of buildings such as a college. The topology of a network dictates its physical structure.

The generally accepted maximum size for a LAN is 1 km_. LANs are different from personal area networks (PANs), metropolitan area networks (MANs) or wide area networks (WANs). LANs are typically faster than WANs.”