Both Windows and UNIX (and Linux and Mac OS X) support some type of event log. The event log consists of a set of timestamped entries that document significant operating system or application activity. Events might be strictly informational (Successful logon for Joe) or might document errors (Unsuccessful logon for Joe or Out of disk…

Wouldn’t it be great if you could write software that ran on Windows and non-Windows systems? Imagine if there was a programming language and a run-time system that supported object oriented programming and automatic garbage collection so that you could write software quickly and not have to worry about pesky memory pointer problems. Imagine, too, if…

My company makes security software for UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X computers. Those of you not familiar with these operating systems might be asking why we don’t do this for Windows since it’s so often Windows that’s the subject of security flaws in the popular press. The answer is that is a bit more…