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- Lotto Hat (zip)
- Lotto Hat is a lottery program that attacks lotteries from several directions at once. Lotto Hat lottery software makes the tough strategy decisions easy, based on probability comparisons to your actual lottery results game history. LottoHat reviews the past winning numbers, determines where they came from, sorts them into categories...
- Tags: Lottery, LottoHat, Lotto Hat, Games, Strategy, Personal Technology, Management
- Software downloads 2005-10-31
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- Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet
- The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The scrolls are said by many Judaic scholars...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Desktop, Qumranet, Open Source KVM, Virtualization, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Red Hat acquires Qumranet
- I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Qumranet Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Ten key differences between Linux and Windows
- Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Here are the key differences distilled into one list....
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jack Wallen. TechRepublic, Jack Wallen. ZDNet.co.uk, Windows, Microsoft, GNU Public License
- News items 2008-09-04
- Mozilla CEO: No worries about Google Chrome
- Mozilla CEO John Lilly said he has no worries about Google jumping into the open source browser market. In a blog posted on September 1 before the beta release of Google's Chrome yesterday, Lilly noted that Mozilla's Firefox has plenty of competition and reminded the public that...
- Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Xen engine 3.3 released
- On August 27th, the Xen engine version 3.3 was released on Xen.org, the site that houses the open source Xen project. In the words of the organization, "Xen 3.3 includes enhancements that further advance its position as a fast, scalable, secure virtualization engine for the industry's broadest range of server...
- Tags: Xen, Virtual Machine, Xen Client Initiative, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw
- Google's shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks. Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities -- a flaw in Apple Safari WebKit and a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Safari, Web Browser, Flaw, Raff, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- The utility of Ubiquity
- It's a bit of a stretch to pigeon hole something coming out of Mozilla labs as appropriate to the start-up genre that Alley espouses but Ubiquity is such a useful Firefox add-in that I believe it is well worth attention on these pages. There's plenty of debate...
- Tags: Ubiquity, E-mail, Wiki, Collaboration, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Image Gallery: First impressions of the Samsung OMNIA WM 6.1 Pro device
- HTC kicked off the customization of Windows Mobile to a new level with the HTC Touch Diamond and now Samsung looks to throw their hat in the ring with the Samsung OMNIA (SGH-i900). The OMNIA brings a large display and a 5 megapixel to Windows Mobile that finally lets WM...
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Camera Phone, Camera Phones, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software, Hardware, Matthew Miller, product photos, windows mobile, samsung, omnia, pocket pc, pda, mobile phone
- Image galleries 2008-09-01
- Novell: Quietly developing some momentum
- Novell: Quietly developing some momentumNovell is on life support[i]He added that Microsoft is buying up to $100 million in SUSE certificates in $25 million chunks.[/i]Novell will be arround as long as M$ provides the cash.The best bet is on companies that stand on their own feet and built everything from...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- Novell: Quietly developing some momentum
- Novell's fiscal third quarter was notable for reasons beyond Linux sales and its core product line. Novell's most recent quarter was the sixth consecutive one that topped expectations. That consistency may mark the days where Novell becomes something more than an afterthought. Now it's no coincidence that...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, Operational Accounting, Operating Systems, Open Source, UNIX, Software, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers
- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customersDemocracy versus politicsThank you for discussing the difference between spectator politics and participative democracy. It seems to me that technology can definitely be put to better use for enabling the latter. At the risk of rambling, perhaps that might be a role that the newspaper...
- Tags: Government, Attention Craig Newmark
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggerated
- Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggeratedNormal operating procedureAll major news organizations have prewritten obits for prominent people, with those notes about who to contact for comment in the event of that person's death.This is done so as to avoid inaccuracies that often pop up when the news media has...
- Tags: Steve Jobs
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- News to know: IE 8; iPhone password locks; SOA; Palm Treo Pro reviews
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for download Ed Bott: Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover Gallery: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Password, Palm Inc., Palm Treo, SOA, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery (exe)
- Stellar Phoenix Linux provides Linux data recovery from a deleted logical partition. It recovers data from missing files/foldersin case of Ext2, Ext3 file system. It provides recovery of deleted files, and recovers data on Linux systems with a damaged Super Block or I node List.The software scans the disk trying...
- Tags: Stellar Information Systems, Data Recovery, Phoenix Technologies, Linux, Storage Management, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Databases, Software, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-08-28
- Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska's Black Hat flaw
- Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska's Black Hat flawDoes it affect Windows98?Does this affect Windows98? I'm running a 3.1 MySQL server in my DMZ on Windows98 and I hope it won't be affected by this. My Gram-mummy uses an SSH tunnel through the TOR Onion router network to get to...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Intel Corp., MySQL, Gram-mummy, Windows98, Black Hat, BIOS
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska's Black Hat flaw
- Intel has shipped a BIOS update with a fix for a privilege escalation vulnerability that was used by rootkit researcher Joanna Rutkowska to bluepill the Xen hypervisor. The vulnerability was discussed by Rutkowska at the Black Hat briefings earlier this month but details on the exploit were...
- Tags: Black Hat, Hypervisor, Motherboard, BIOS Update, Intel Corp., Flaw, System Management Mode, Level Privilege, BIOS, Virtualization, Hardware, Components, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Who's Dumber: Bad Guys … Or Good Guys?
- Who's Dumber: Bad Guys … Or Good Guys?Bad guys don't need applauseJust money. So they'll modestly attempt to avoid receiving their due when they compromise systems. I wouldn't assume that not hearing about a success means the success has not occurred.Also, this statement is confusing:Now, we have the...
- Tags: SECURITY, flaw, exploit code, Bad Guys, exploit
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- iPhone passcode lock rendered useless
- Do not trust that passcode lock on Apple's iPhone. The feature, which lets users set a four-digit pincode to limit access to the device, can be easily bypassed with a few finger taps on the iPhone to give an intruder access to sensitive information. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Register, E-mail, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Patch issued for Ubuntu security flaw
- Patch issued for Ubuntu security flawGood thing[i]A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code as root, or crash the system, leading to a denial of service.[/i]Good thing I'd stopped letting malicious users into my house and giving them access to my desktop.RE: Patch issued for Ubuntu security flawLOL!!...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, security, Ubuntu security flaw, Ubuntu security, Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
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