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- Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these days
- Novell took a lot of heat from open source backers for executing an interoperability pact with Microsoft in late 2006 but the partnership -- strengthened with a new $100 million investment from Microsoft today -- is probably looking sweeter to mixed IT shops these days. Why? Because of recent...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Interoperability, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, ISO, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Virtualization, OpenOffice, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Office Suites, Software, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Scammers caught backdooring chip and PIN terminals
- The U.K's Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit DCPU have recently uncovered state of the art social engineering scheme, where once backdoored, chip and PIN terminals were installed at retailers and petrol stations in an attempt to steal the credit card details passing through. Originally, before online banking took place...
- Tags: Bank, Terminal, Credit Card, Chip, U.K, PIN, Irish Payment Services Organisation, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- My bad day with Windows Server 2003
- My bad day with Windows Server 2003I'm intrigued...Not by Win2k3 server, but your mention of Ikea furniture. What's that for? Computer desks, lab desks, general tables? My mind is boggling as to what school would let you use that, and what it's being used for!Partition MagicI've had some nasty experiences...
- Tags: Servers, Operating systems, Linux, Desktops, IKEA, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Partition Magic, server, bad day
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Creating good spaces for kids to work
- My wife and I have been struggling to create an "office" space for the kids and ourselves to work before school starts. All of the kids need access to at least one computer, preferably two or three, need school supplies handy, need comfortable spots to sit and spread out...
- Tags: IKEA, Kid, Projectors, Productivity, Notebooks, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-17
- Europe discussing the business of the Semantic Web at ESTC
- I've written before about the importance of events that move us past introspection and academic debate, and bring the real benefits of semantic technologies to a wider business audience. As the Semantic Web Gang discussed recently, North America has had the excellent Semantic Technology Conference for several years, and this...
- Tags: Europe, Conference, Semantic Web, Research & Development, Benefits, Internet, Business Operations, Human Resources, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-08-17
- More on the iPhone 3G woes (updated)
- An article by Peter Burrows for BusinessWeek analyzes the recent problems with iPhone 3G reception, stating that "two well-placed sources tell BusinessWeek.com the glitches are related to a chip inside Apple's music-playing cell phone." This corroborates previous reports that the handset's Infineon 3G chip is the culprit. BusinessWeek adds that...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- FBI, Dutch police crack the Shadow botnet
- The law-enforcement bodies have cracked a major botnet, asking antivirus company Kaspersky to help victims clean up the malware on their PCs. In a joint operation, the FBI and the Dutch High Tech Crime Unit have cracked the Shadow botnet--thought to contain 100,000 PCs. Two...
- Tags: Kaspersky Lab, PC, FBI, Malware, Cyberthreats, Federal Government, Viruses And Worms, Government, Jo Best ZDNet.co.uk, botnet, security, Kasperky Lab, Spyware, Adware & Malware
- News items 2008-08-14
- Timebomb in VMware's ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 (Update 2)
- Timebomb in VMware's ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 (Update 2)test what?so you are supposed to test EVERY day of every month of every year to see if there is a time bomb? if a customer put beta software in production without consent of the company then it is their...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, IP storage, VMware Inc., ESXi 3.5, TIMEBOMB, VMware ESX 3.5, software, time bomb, Update 2, beta, VMWare ESX
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- 20 laptops or 40 desktops?
- 20 laptops or 40 desktops?Desktops.Five reasons.1) Teachers have functional if aging laptops already. Yes, shiny new is great, it's about education.2) Desktops tend to walk out of the school a lot less than laptops. I think it is because they don't have the little feet to prop them...
- Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, laptop computer, desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- VMware blames stray code for 'time bomb' hiccup
- VMware blames stray code for 'time bomb' hiccupWell..I wonder how much money this cost them? I was almost about to buy hosting using that, but decided against it. Thank God, I hate legal battles.RE: VMware blames stray code for 'time bomb' hiccupSerious mistake! Fire your entire QA team.RE: VMware blames...
- Tags: VMware Inc., QA
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Get kids to touch type!
- Get kids to touch type!Two finger typing works.After years of it, one can attain a good speed. So long as the lights are not turned out. We are now in the interim before speech software is ready to replace the keyboard for many purposes. Though transcribing the...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, rtf, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Exclusive: A robot with a biological brain
- Exclusive: A robot with a biological brainThe begining of the Cylon race? nt:(probably meant "you're" funnyDoesnt' change my opinion at all.Well, if this isn't the most immoral thing ever...it's gotta be kinda close.Cool but. could open a can of worms later...Did anyone else get a chill up the back of...
- Tags: Robots, biological brain, robot
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- New Gpcode (encryption) ransomware speading via botnet
- There are confirmed reports on a new version of the Gpcode ransomware being spread via a botnet. According to Vitaly Kamluk of Kaspersky Lab my employer, the Trojan encrypts files on an infected machine (AES-256) and leaves a text file named crypted.txt with...
- Tags: Encryption, File, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Got any old iMacs laying around?
- You know the ones I'm talking about. The candy-colored ones that live forever, even as you're hoping they'll die so you can replace them with something that will run OS X? A few can be upgraded, but OS X is really made for something a bit, well, snappier....
- Tags: Apple iMac, Ubuntu 8.04.1, Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Putting Semantic Technology to work at BT
- UK-based telecoms and more provider, BT, has been interested in the Semantic Web for a long time, as a brief conversation I recorded with the company's Head of Next Generation Web Research back in January 2007 illustrates. John Davies appears in silicon.com this week, as part of...
- Tags: British Telecommunications, John Davies, John, Semantic Web, Podcasts, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Go MIT! (or should the students get a slap on the wrists?)
- Go MIT! (or should the students get a slap on the wrists?)Government censorship is wrong...and UNconstitutional.Make no mistake, the MBTA is a government organization.The US Constitution states "no law abridging freedom of speech".The judge who issued the restraining order is:1. an idiot2. a d_o_u_chebag3. a fool4. retardedRE: Go MIT! (or...
- Tags: Government, DC-metro, Government Censorship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrist
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Go MIT! (or should the students get a slap on the wrists?)
- Have you been to Boston recently? Ridden the T as the subway there is called? A while back, they switched from friendly little nostalgic tokens to awkward tickets and commuter passes called Charlie Cards. Living out in the sticks of central Massachusetts, I don't spend enough time...
- Tags: Ticket, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Boston, Washington DC Metro, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- The government has an "iPatriot Act" ready for Internet control
- My video of Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford University talking about an "iPatriot Act" has received a lot of views thanks to a post on the top blog site Boing Boing. Lawrence Lessig on the coming "i-Patriot Act" - Boing Boing I've taken out an...
- Tags: professor, boing boing, video, corporate communications, government, internet, blogging, vertical industries, marketing, enterprise software, software, tom foremski
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Social giving for charity begets social giving for community
- Normally I don't write about specific events but I'm making an exception as this is almost a mini overview for how charity in social media can turn into a benefit for the social Web community. In May I launched a Social Media Charity Auction that raised about...
- Tags: giveaway, social media, greg verdino, inbound marketing summit, jennifer leggio
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
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