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- Mozilla: Critical vulnerability in Microsoft flaw-counting
- Mozilla: Critical vulnerability in Microsoft flaw-countingNew York, New Haven, New Jersey, New Mexico, New Hampshire, New ....anybody?...kidding itanalystYou are so clueless...I can't believe you claim to work in IT.And I think the OSS will not accept any metric that......favors Microsoft. They'll always find some way to dismiss it. The OSS...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Web browsers, OSS COMMUNITY, vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Web browser
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- Did Xandros sign a Novell-like patent deal with Microsoft?
- Did Xandros sign a Novell-like patent deal with Microsoft?FSF plays by its own rulesWith the GPL 3.0 stating that a deal with any GNU vendor would mean donating all IP to the community, its an indirect acknowledgement by the FSF that GNU Linux violates MS IP.The FSF and OSS community...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, software community, Microsoft Corp., Xandros, IP, Linux, software, OSS COMMUNITY, Novell Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-03
- Flaw in mail-list software leaks passwords
- Flaw in mail-list software leaks passwordsOuch...Why are the passwords stored in the clear?The passwords should be encrypted individually using a system key and the resulting hashes stored in the file.Also a good example of why not to use the same password everywhere...Vee know who your are...;-)The problem as I see...
- Tags: OSS COMMUNITY, OSS, flaw, Microsoft Corp., patch, password, Apache Software Foundation, Microsoft Windows, security
- Discussion threads 2005-02-10
- Start-up banks on Java hardware boost
- Start-up banks on Java hardware boostHARD is the word.It would be very HARD to convince people to use a hardware-based solution from an unknown company. Transmeta is having a hard time - and they're much better funded and visable. Actually, shouldn't the code-morphing technology of the Crusoe processor, be able...
- Tags: Programming languages, Middleware, Transmeta Corp., Hardware Solutions, Microsoft Corp., bank, OSS COMMUNITY, Java, Microsoft .NET, hardware
- Discussion threads 2004-09-28
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- Tim Bray on surviving the tough times
- Image via WikipediaTim Bray, director of web technologies at Sun Microsystems gave what I believe to be the most practical advice I've heard so far for those in startups looking forward. Speaking at FOWA, Tim's blunt view is that we are headed for tough times but that should not blind...
- Tags: Personal Technology, Tim Bray, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- IBM signs up new client for sustainability consulting
- A financial investment firm from Boston, Jantz Morgan, is turning to IBM's green consulting services arm (aka IBM's business strategy consulting practice) to help it integrate the idea of sustainability into its corporate operations. The focus will go beyond the company's impact on the environment; it will...
- Tags: Sustainability, Consulting Service, Consulting, IBM Corp., Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Microsoft renames its 'D' language 'M'
- Microsoft is continuing to slowly trickle out details about its Oslo modeling strategy. The latest info with company has gone public are the names of the three Oslo components it will release in Community Technology Preview CTP form at the Professional Developers Conference PDC, by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Models, Research & Development, Microsoft Development Tools, Business Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Nobel Laureate is the father of Kevin Mitnick investigator
- We tend to say that information security is a small world. Conferences quickly become real-life demonstrations of the principle of six-degrees-of-separation. After a few years working in this industry, you either meet all or are within one hop of all the major players in the space; there just...
- Tags: Information Security, Kevin Mitnick, Nobel Laureate, Osamu Shimomura, Productivity, Security, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Where open source will be sucked into the downdraft
- Where open source will be sucked into the downdraftPure play open source is not going away ...... bad business models are.I've run a pure play open source company for seven years and expect to be around for many more. We have a unique business model called "spend less than you...
- Tags: Pure-play open source, open source, downdraft, economic downturn
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Apple invites press to 14 October notebook event
- Apple invites press to 14 October notebook eventMy Bitterness May Finally EndI had the biggest sigh of relief today when I read the news of Oct 14. For months (years?) we've been wading through rumors and disappointment so to know that Apple will FINALLY give the non-iPhone/iPod community some attention...
- Tags: Notebooks, notebook, notebook event, Yay, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Apple set to release $800 notebook
- Apple set to release $800 notebookNot the first time sub $1000Apple had a $999 notebook at one time. Actually, I think the iBook had that price tag at one time. My only hopes is that this $800 Notebook doesn't come with the specs of a Asus Eee 701.RE:...
- Tags: Notebooks, MacMini, Apple-set, notebook, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- plagiarism, Gibberish, IEEE, and the textbook business
- plagiarism, Gibberish, IEEE, and the textbook businessi tend to agree with your wifeThis is very poor english, but does express a meaning that make sense. You may disagree with what it says, but it is coherent. I wouldn't call the extracts you chose as plagiarism. Author used one transformed sentence...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, OOA/OOD/OOP, C/C++, Operating systems, plagiarism, textbook business, IEEE
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding
- Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hidingPalin Yes - Obama NoIt amazes me the the Left's knee-jerk reaction to Sarah Palin, when you have Barry Obama with his association with unrepentant terrorist William Ayers and anti-American bigot Jeremiah Wright. And never mind the fact Obama...
- Tags: Obama, Sarah Palin, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Teaching telecommuting
- Teaching telecommutingtelecommuting skills?I'm a fulltime telecommuter, though I do venture out to teach an IRL composition class a couple of days a week. I think the kids already have the skills they need to telecommute, and they value having the connection between the classroom and that new work environment made...
- Tags: telecommuting
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Changing open source terms bad move in a recession
- Changing open source terms bad move in a recessionOpen Source flawed modelIf a car manufacture engineers a car, it does not release its blue-prints for free. If an architect designs a house he or she does not release his plans for free. The equivalent of an engineering blue...
- Tags: open source, car, recession
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debateSAP MaintenanceSAP is a large company that feels they are bulletproof. They make their money on large accounts, and increasing maintenance is just a money grab in lue of increasing market share in SMB where thay have no clue how to penetrate.RE: Forrester...
- Tags: SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Open source in a time of recession
- Open source in a time of recessionWhen the water hole shrinks,the kangaroo mice flourish.HistoryYes, the end of the dot-com bubble killed a number of illusions. The most prominent lesson was, Don't give away your main product. So at that time pure Linux and other open source plays disappeared.What was...
- Tags: Rewriting History, recession, open source, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Asus announces quad-core gaming laptop again
- Asus announces quad-core gaming laptop again4 GB a tad weak, but the rest looks good. ntnt = no textWhat?A tad weak? I'm sure it will come with a 32-bit OS, therefore, 4GB is plenty for a gaming rig. Current applications can only support 2GB RAM, if I'm correct.re: What?32-bit...
- Tags: Games, Network technology, game, 64-bit, 32-bit, operating system, ASUS, quad-core, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Forget the damn Linux netbooks. Can Windows replace Windows?
- My esteemed ZDNet colleague Ed Bott, God bless him, wrote a very insightful piece in which he discusses Taiwanese PC mainboard and component manufacturer MSI's challenges of selling Linux-based versions of their netbook, the Wind U90. Apparently, according to MSI, Linux-based versions of their netbook are...
- Tags: MSI, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Zune 3.0
- Photo gallery:Zune 3.0 softwareIn order for Microsoft's Zune MP3 player to compete against Apple's iPod, Microsoft not only had to create a great MP3 player; it also had to create a solid software client to compete against iTunes. In doing so,it's created an attractive, full-featured digital-media jukebox that some users...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Zune
- Product reviews 2008-10-07
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