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- New Adobe PDF flaw under attack; Patch coming Tuesday
- Note to all Knuckleheads....The vulnerability affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3 and earlier versions on Windows, Macintosh and UNIXWhy announce at all? Just fix the thingI'm getting really tired of any company that gives the ostensibly obligatory "We're on that!" and then it's some time before the fix comes. These...
- Tags: Operating systems, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, Windows IS, Adobe PDF flaw, flaw, Adobe PDF, operating system, Adobe Systems Inc., attack
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- Ballmer's memo to employees: 'Most challenging economic climate we have ever faced'
- Ballmer's memo to employees: 'Most challenging economic climate we have ever faced'Second Quarter?When does Microsoft's fiscal year start? July 01?Worrying indeedIf even Microsoft has to lay off then it is worrying.This said it is quite irritating and even disgusting to see profitable and quite healthy companies lay off because...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Yes Linux, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, economic climate, shareholder
- Discussion threads 2009-01-22
- Katie Moussouris on HOPE 2008: HOPE Springs Eternal
- Guest Editorial by Katie Moussouris of Microsoft If cyberspace is a mass, consensual hallucination, as William Gibson characterized it, then HOPE was a dream manifested in meatspace that would not die. While Hackers On Planet Earth has been running every other year since 1994, it was...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., IP, Tool, Con, Katie Moussouris, Last HOPE, Wiki, Internet, Productivity, Security, Network Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Why computers fail
- Good failure data for PCs is hard to find: who knows how many times PC users are told to reinstall Windows? But in a recent paper, Bianca Schroeder and Garth Gibson of CMU found some surprising results in 10 years of large scale cluster system failures at Los Alamos National...
- Tags: Checkpoint, Multiprocessor, Failure, Computer, Desktop Computer, LANL, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Cloud computing meets capitalism: We all become a business of one
- Folks spend a lot of time talking about cloud computing. It's a move back to the mainframe. Cloud computing democratizes IT infrastructure. The cloud will be the reason Amazon and Google will be the dominant players on the Internet. You have heard a lot of it before. But the real...
- Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Lindsay, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- When did people forget how to spell? Or complete sentences? Or form thoughts?
- I just bought an electric guitar, ostensibly for my 5-year old, who requested one for his birthday, but really as an early graduation and Father's Day gift for myself. I didn't spend much; I found a good deal on an Epiphone "starter pack" and had myself an amp and...
- Tags: Standards, Kid, Quality, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- News to know: Microsoft, Apple update techniques; Ubuntu; Hacking Java; XP SP3
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: What Microsoft can teach Apple about software updates Compare and contrast gallery right. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" beta - making life easier for Windows users Nate McFeters: Defeating the Same Origin Policy part 2 ...
- Tags: Tom Foremski, Technique, Ubuntu, Google Inc., Hacking, Social Media, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Singularity Summit 2007: Machines of loving grace
- Futurist/historian of science Paul Saffo gave the final presentation of the day at the Singularity Summit 2007, offering his advice to the crowd of 800 attendees. "We are in a moment of handoff. It happens in all technology transitions. The inventors, scientists and innovators hand off to popular culture."...
- Tags: News, Computer, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Claim that Vista DRM causes full CPU load and global warming debunked!
- Update 9/1/2007 - Gutmann paper cites shoddy web forum postings as source Update 8/30/2007 - Peter Gutmann turns to smear tactics with help from PCWorld NZ Update 8/16/2007 - Gutmann retreats and refuses to provide slides or any data to support his theories Peter Gutmann...
- Tags: Theory, Digital-rights Management, Power Consumption, Utilization, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, CPU, Global Warming, Gutmann, HD, Peter Gutmann, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- Is your flash drive fast enough for Vista's ReadyBoost?
- My colleague George Ou has an excellent rant on flash drive performance. As he notes, many people are in for a rude shock when they plug in a USB flash drive, Compact Flash card, or SD card and expect it work well with the new ReadyBoost feature in Windows Vista....
- Tags: Windows Vista, Hardware, Image Galleries, ReadyBoost
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- On visiting the bookstore
- On visiting the bookstoreAlways a means to an endComputing in sci fi is usually incidental - to abuse the star trek communcator some more, it was just a tool used to enable crew communications; i.e. it was never about the thing.So is computing boring to sci fi? I hope so...
- Tags: Robots, computing, science fiction, robot
- Discussion threads 2006-12-21
- The nanopowers of spinach
- Ohio University physicists have used a simple molecule of chlorophyll taken from spinach to develop a complex nanobiological switch. They used a scanning tunneling microscope STM to image chlorophyll-a and then injected it with a single electron to manipulate the molecule into four positions. The researchers say this biological switch...
- Tags: conformation, Ohio University, molecule, scanning tunneling microscope
- Blog posts 2006-09-09
- Free and Open Source Journalism
- Free and Open Source JournalismHow many bloggers are paid...... enough to consider blogging fulltime work? That's a reasonable wage for say 40 hours expended. Supplemental income and hobbyists not included.On business plans...The single great lesson for business plans coming out of the dot com bust was: "A...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Closed-Source, blogging, Randy Cassingham, open source, dot-com bust, sourcer
- Discussion threads 2006-07-31
- Wikipedia still doesn't get it
- Wikipedia still doesn't get itEasy solutionWikipedia is actually a great idea - it would be incredibly easy to add a byline that hyperlinks to a users' credentials. We don't get to publish our blogs anonymously, purporting to be knowledgeable in a given area. Wikipedia should be no different...
- Tags: Wiki, accountability, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2006-07-28
- Chip breaks speed record in deep freeze
- Chip breaks speed record in deep freezespace exploration>"" and cryogenically froze the chip at minus 451 F. It's about as cold as things get. An extremely cold temperature like that is found naturally only in outer space, ""
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, chip
- Discussion threads 2006-06-20
- Blackmailers try to black out Million Dollar Homepage
- Blackmailers try to black out Million Dollar HomepageunlessThe person getting blackmailed would rather pay the ransom and the fine because whatever theya re getting blackmailed for is something that they need to keep that secret.Well DuhLook in the mirror. I am not even in the business but the observations I...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Government, Cyberthreats, blackmailer, ransom, Russian Mob
- Discussion threads 2006-01-18
- Making Wikipedia better, Part II
- Making Wikipedia better, Part IISure, like I have that much time...Mr. Ratcliffe makes a huge assumption in his article, which is that anyone has the time to actually research these things. Let's look at some of his ideas:* The reader should investigate the change history of an article. Even with...
- Tags: Wiki, Strategy, Wikipedia, ELVIS
- Discussion threads 2006-01-05
- Unpatched Firefox 1.5 exploit made public
- Unpatched Firefox 1.5 exploit made publicSue the jerkwho published the exploit code before a patch was released. I don't care what product is vulnerable, Windows, Mac, open source, proprietary, whatever. There is NO EXCUSE for going public with exploit code before giving the vendor a reasonable chance to...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, open source, exploit, history file, Mozilla Firefox, security, denial of service
- Discussion threads 2005-12-08
- E-mail worm graduates to IM
- E-mail worm graduates to IMHow many times to we have to worry about Worms/VirusesThis is ridiculous. You don't have to worry about any viruses/worms in Linux. After switching our systems to Linux, Network performance and security was immediatly improved.From on insecure MS application to another..!Thank goodness their one trick pony...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, UNIX, Instant messaging, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Viruses and worms, IM Worm, e-mail, e-mail worm, Linux, virus, IM
- Discussion threads 2005-04-04
- Report: Crooks behind more Net attacks
- Report: Crooks behind more Net attacksNow there's a news flash!If they are trying to get your identity information and your CC numbers, I doubt it's to send you Christmas cards and pay your bills for you.corupt companiescollecting your data without you knowledge and selling it for a profit - should...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Internet Service Provider, activety
- Discussion threads 2004-11-16
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