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Monday, August 23. 2004

This is a detail of my plans for the next few weeks.

First off I have decided which software I will be reviewing. There are four and they were mentioned way back in one of my first blog posts. They are:

Shavlik HFNetChkPro (link)
PatchLink Update (link)
St. Bernard UpdateExpert (link)
BigFix Patch Manager (link)
Optional - Symatech's SME solution (link)

I will be e-mailing their companies and asking for either evaluation or academic versions. The result of that endevour will modify the above list.

Next I am going to try and get onto the OSVDB developers list. I have joined the 'quasi-developers' list which is obviously put there as a test, as it has had no mail for the last 3 weeks. I just sent a probing e-mail, let's see what happens.

I will also need to get some big machine up and running with Windows 2003 Server (terminal services, yay) so that I can spawn lots of virtual machines for my lab-in-a-box.

My mid-term plan is to develop an testing plan for use in the labs at then end of the year. This will involve some stress testing of the chosen software.

Posted by Dominic White in Masters at 16:16 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

Last modified on 2004-09-09 11:40

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err... great plan... actually just wanted to wish you a happy belated birthday... Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday white boy... Happy Birthday to you

#1 $@!nT (Homepage) on 2004-08-24 14:01 (Reply)

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