Posts by uncertified-dba

Apple ships Mac OS X 10.6.5 update

Stanford U sees PGP disk encryption corruption issue with 10.6.5

Here's the email I received today:

Subject: Serious Compatibility Issue with SWDE/PGP Whole Disk Encryption and OS X 10.6.5

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:45:21 -0800

From: Jeremy Tavan <[e-mail]>

To: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Partners, LNAs:

Today Apple released an upgrade to version 10.6.5 of MacOS X. IT Services has become aware of an interaction between this upgrade and the PGP software used in the Stanford Whole Disk Encryption service which renders PGP-encrypted machines unbootable following the upgrade to 10.6.5. Machines which no longer boot as a result of this upgrade can be fixed by following the instructions in section 1 of https://supportimg.pgp.com/guides/Tech_Note_PGP_WDE_Recovering_Data_Mac_OS_X.pdf

Please let your SWDE-using Mac users know that they should NOT upgrade to 10.6.5 until this incompatibility is resolved. PGP support is aware of the problem and will keep us informed of their remediation process.

If you have any questions or need any assistance please submit a HelpSU Request: https://remedyweb.stanford.edu/helpsu/helpsu?pcat=WholeDiskEncryption

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Jeremy Tavan

Stanford University IT Services CRC

MySQL handler Jacobs walks out on Oracle

Ken Jacobs leaving Oracle is huge!

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/Spokespeople/016285

Ken joined Oracle in 1981 as the lead in the Washington D.C. sales office. He morphed into the key customer advocate inside Oracle, then into open source. His leaving with the reasons given is absolutely a huge thing, not because Oracle won't survive without him but because of what it says about where the company is going. It's obviously going very fast in a direction he didn't want to go, and given he's been there since 1981 (and who he is, I was there from 1983-1985 and know him) and that he is in many ways the customer face for Oracle software, that means something major.