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- A drone as wide as a Boeing 737
- According to a short report by AFP, Israel is developing a killer robot plane. This drone is designed for long-range operations -- more than 50 hours and several thousand miles -- while weighing 4 tons during takeoff. This unmanned combat aerial vehicle UCAV, dubbed Eitan Steadfast will have a wing...
- Tags: Defense &, Security, Space &, Aerospace, Robotics, Engineering &, Innovation, span, Eitan, Heron UAV
- Blog posts 2007-01-12
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- Eight excellent PC upgrade ideas
- Eight excellent PC upgrade ideasI did all eightNow I have a new computer.Check first is a good idea.For example, a computer may be capable of managing a maximum of, say 1 GB of RAM, so adding more will be ineffective. It's possible to play Blu-ray with existing hardware using...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Memory, PC, RAM, computer, Nero, monitor, software, hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-07-31
- Protocol handlers cause Mozilla Firefox 3 remote command execution vulnerabilities
- Protocol handlers cause Mozilla Firefox 3 remote command execution vulnerabilitiesThe point is moot......[b]if[/b] you put your FF session in an AppArmor 'sandbox'--the below comes FREE as in beer in openSUSE /etc/apparmor/profiles/extras. Just go into YaST control center->AppArmor->Manually Add Profile and select both usr.lib.firefox.firefox-bin and *.firefox.sh and you are golden--a five-minute...
- Tags: Web browsers, Novell AppArmor, Protocol Handler, execution vulnerability, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Geek Sheet: Configuring Synergy2 to Share Keyboard, Video and Mouse
- It's time again for another Geek Sheet. This time, we're going to show you how to share keyboard, mouse, and video click for short demonstration between multiple desktop computers, using different Operating Systems with a free Open Source program called Synergy2. Are you geeky enough that you...
- Tags: Mouse, Video, Synergy2, Client, Screen, Mice, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- And now, the end is near...
- Well, its been a nice, fulfilling but short run on Between the Lines. On Monday morning, I pack up my stuff and move to Tech Broiler. As you can see, it's starting to look a little bit like Mount Rushmore in terms of editorial faces on ZDNet's premier blog, and...
- Tags: Term, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Blogging, Software, Internet, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.3 software update
- Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.3 software updateWOWOh my, so many fixes... Feels so nice to have system that gets better and better with each update.Thanks for the post.RE: Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.3 software updateSo, now it just works like they say in the commercials?RE: Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.3...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Mac OS 10.5.3 software update, Mac OS 10.5.3, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, software update, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- Virtualization smackdown: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 vs. VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2
- Once strictly the domain of software developers and QA engineers, personal and small-business virtualization products are now becoming an attractive solution for entry-level systems consolidation and foreign OS compatibility applications. These solutions run on host operating systems which do not require the overhead or usual high entry cost of professional...
- Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Version, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., VMware Inc., Beta, Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 xVM VirtualBox, Linux Setup, VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2 VMWare Server 2.0, VMWare 2.0, Linux, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Microsoft releases Virtual PC 2007 SP1
- Via Microsoft's Ben Armstrong, I learned last week that Microsoft has released Virtual PC 2007 Service Pack 1 (x86 and x64 packages are available for download, and release notes are also online now). The new package supports Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 as host and...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Virtual PC, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- HRH Prince Penguin
- Did anyone else happen to notice that Prince Charles is a closet Penguin? On our UK-based sister site, ZDNet.CO.UK our British colleague Andrew Donoghue quoted His Majesty as follows: "Many of the case studies we received highlight the...
- Tags: Thin Client, Thin Clients, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- UAVs will study Californian smog
- The California Energy Commission is funding a research effort named CAPPS, short for California AUAV Air Pollution Profiling Study. CAPPS will use autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles AUAVs to gather meteorological data as the aircraft fly through clouds over Southern California. The goal is to study smog and its consequences as...
- Tags: Southern California, Researcher, Pollution, Aircraft, Global Warming, UAV, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Xubuntu 8.04 stellar on low-power machines
- Xubuntu 8.04 stellar on low-power machinesXubuntu 8.04 on low-power machinesI plan to load Xubuntu on two old machines -- so thanks for the info. I have had some success putting Puppy on some very old (98) machines. Why don't you try Puppy 3.01 or the latest beta (very...
- Tags: Linux, Memory, Microsoft Windows XP, OPEN SOURCE, Xubuntu, Xubuntu 8.04, low-power machine
- Discussion threads 2008-05-04
- Will OpenSolaris bring a chill to Sun-Ubuntu romance?
- You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours. That seems to be the mantra of Ubuntu and Sun, both open source underdogs whose relationship and mutual platform support has been growing for three years. On the eve of the release of OpenSolaris, both companies are banging the drum that the...
- Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- News to know: Psystar; IT Dojo; Microsoft moral; SQL Injection attacks; Ubuntu
- Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Is Psystar Mac clone using the Kalyway boot hack? IT Dojo: Create your own bootable USB flash drive for Windows XP Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties Another reason...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Yahoo! Inc., SQL, Microsoft Corp., SQL Injection, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Strategy, Software, Management
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- "Don't tell them that I love it"
- These were my son's words after living with Ubuntu 8.04 on his laptop for a day. Interestingly, he said, "I never loved Windows either, but it always worked for me." Of his fresh installation sans a Windows XP virtual machine, he noted that drastic improvements in boot and...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Training, Ubuntu 8.04, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Will the "12:00 flashers" change Linux?
- Will the "12:00 flashers" change Linux?RE: Will the12:00 flashers have enough trouble just pressing a button on their PC and finding the mouse and keyboard. So can you imagine what they will think when you tell them that they have to find the website, download the huge file and...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Canonical, Linux, Adobe Systems Inc., flasher, Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Will the "12:00 flashers" change Linux?
- Here's an interesting experiment. Take a novice user, place them in front of a Linux distro in this case Ubuntu Hardy Heron, and see how they get on with basic tasks. But will these "12:00 flashers" (you know, people who's VCRs constantly flash "12:00" because they've not bothered to figure...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Operating System, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Hardy Heron is hardly a snap
- Hardy Heron is hardly a snapA clean installation is always better than an upgrade...of an older version. This old wisdom is valid for every operating system under the sun.The possible problem lies in the settings and configurations of the older version. Sometimes they conflict with the new version.If you want...
- Tags: Linux, Corporate communications, Video cards, Operating systems, Hardy Heron, snap
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Hardy Heron is hardly a snap
- When I received my super-cool Android PC from Eric Burke he thoughtfully installed a copy of Ubuntu 7.10 for me, so naturally when the new Ubuntu 8.04 ("Hardy Heron") was released I wanted to upgrade it to the latest and greatest version. "Installation is a snap," writes Adrian Kingsley-Hughes. Ubuntu...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Download Site, Microsoft Windows, Iso standards, Patches, Process Improvement, Web Site Development, Workforce Management, Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Quality, Business Operations, Internet, Human Resources, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- If my kid doesn't like Linux now...
- If my kid doesn't like Linux now...So if you buy your kid a Chevyand he demands a Hummer, do you cave in?Because the XP machine was, surprisingly, rampant with malware.Just what you want, a virtual machine running tons of virtual malware, virtual spamware, spyware, and probably botted. So, if...
- Tags: Instant messaging, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Ubuntu, Linux Now, gOS Rocket-E, Linux, old laptop, laptop computer, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- If my kid doesn't like Linux now...
- ...then I'll give him Vista. I finally had the chance to install Ubuntu 8.04 on his laptop last night, wiping out an unhappy 64-bit Kubuntu 7.10 installation. His final words before I took the laptop were, "Just save my music." Typical teenager. So I backed up...
- Tags: Desktop, CD, NVidia Corp., Laptop Computer, Vista Business DVD, Linux, Notebooks, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
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