Here's something a little different to start off this week, as we divert from mostly software issues to a hardware problem. It seems as if some of the popular Palm handheld devices have a problem with one of their DRAM chips. The problem affects some Palm IIIc, IIIxe and Vx devices, and those with the faulty chip could find random data sprinkled into their own. Devices with the problem were manufactured between October 1999 and May 2000.
Palm claims that only a limited number of devices are affected.
The fix is pretty easy, just click on this link , select which possibly affected Palm you have, then enter your serial number off the back of the unit. But a colleague who did have the problem said the patch is easy to install. That's if your organization supports the Palm users. In addition to some bug fixes, the product features better VPN and HTTP scalability. The problem could allow a malicious user to view the source code of any file in WebSphere's root directory.