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Panic Attack 2005 -- right on schedule

Panic Attack 2005 -- right on scheduleWe have seen this movie before...Yea, you are right. Every 5 years or so we see how MS is going to become "irrelevant", but at the end of the day they pull through and deliver the goods.This will be no exception....NET wasn't the...

Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Microsoft .NET, panic, Microsoft Corp., Panic Attack 2005, software, Web

Discussion threads 2005-11-11

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Anatomy of an attack: The New York Times on Solaris

Paul Krill's recent New York Times hit piece against Solaris demonstrates, I think, a new low in manipulative agenda journalism as it affects IT. Brilliantly done, really, but pointlessly destructive -much more, I think, like vandalism than reporting. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., New York Times Co., Attack, Sesame, Noah, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-10-11

Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Forrester: Credit crunch may freeze tech services projects

Forrester Research in a report is confirming that the credit crunch is beginning to hit technology services firms. The extent of the damage is unclear, but IBM's lower-than-expected third quarter revenue its earnings are stronger than expected may indicate something worse is afoot. Forrester's...

Tags: Service Provider, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Business Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-10

London Stock Exchange website reports incorrect prices

London Stock Exchange website reports incorrect pricesMicrosoft Technology at its finestSince Both NASDAQ and the London Stock Exchange were MS case studies about how great Windows is, guess Windows really is the POS we all thought it is.Funny how they never had these errors on previous systems and now with...

Tags: Investment, Operating systems, Web site, Microsoft Corp., London Stock Exchange Plc., stock, London Stock Exchange website, incorrect price, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Kernell's prior: In 7th grade he broke into school computer

Kernell's prior: In 7th grade he broke into school computerprobably an arrogant kidI doubt that other kids don't wanna hang around with him due to his smartness. He probably likes to put other kids down trying to show-off himself. Why leave a computer logged into the school server? If you...

Tags: Kernell, e-mail, school computer, Palin

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Overcome Anxiety - Ease Out of Fear (exe)

Overcome Anxiety - Ease Out of Fear custom RSS Web feed reader for Internet Explorer. Built in RSS feeds and Web sites related to anxiety and panic attack advice, tips and treatment. Easily reach all the anxiety disorder and panic attack information you need directly from your RSS feed reader....

Tags: RSS Feed, Anxiety, RSS, Internet

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Panic Away (exe)

Panic Away custom RSS Web feed reader for Internet Explorer. Built in RSS feeds and Web sites related to anxiety and panic attack advice, tips and treatment. Easily reach all the anxiety disorder and panic attack information you need directly from your RSS feed reader. This version is the first...

Tags: RSS Feed, Anxiety, RSS, Internet

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Where are all the programmers?

Where are all the programmers?It's worse than you think!I'm in SO CAL. The market for good communicating and highly technical developers vanished back in 2000 with the .com meltdown. The guys from India and China are bright, but come on, business rules that are highly complex are missed when you...

Tags: Development tools, programmer, software development

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?

Justice is being served against the kid who allegedly hacked into Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account, right? David Kernell, the 20-year-old son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell and a student at the University of Tennessee, was indicted on a charge of accessing...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Hacker, Computer, Kid, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Mail Goggles: an idea that goes well beyond drunk emails

There's a new GMail Labs app: Mail Goggles, by GMail engineer Jon Perlow: When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check...

Tags: Google Gmail, Jon, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Internet, Online Communications, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Adobe posts workaround for clickjacking flaw, NoScript releases ClearClick

Adobe posts workaround for clickjacking flaw, NoScript releases ClearClickRequires Firefox pluginAre you afraid of offending Microsoft or just being unhelpful hurried?To use the only available cure right now requires adding the plugin you mention -- NoScript 1.8.2.1 -- to your Firefox browser. There is no fix for Internet Explorer, Opera,...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, NoScript, ClearClick, flaw, Adobe Systems Inc., Web browser, Opera Software, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

C'mon, Vista really isn't that bad

Picture the scene. A small country pub in Canterbury, a warm, autumn evening, surrounded by friends drinking and smoking in the beer garden; relaxing after a difficult, hard day at work. The birds are singing, the breeze is light and feathering our very souls. This is heaven....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Meeting Space, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Researchers publish details on London travel card hack

First there was Boston's Charlie card. Now, Dutch researchers have exposed the inherent weakness in the RFID chip used in London's Oyster travel smartcard, ZDNet UK says. Researchers released details at the Esorics security conference in Malaga on Monday and an academic paper PDF...

Tags: Card, Researcher, London, Chip, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Webcam hijack demo highlights clickjacking threat

[ UPDATE: The details are out. Lots of unresolved clickjacking issues] A security researcher in Israel has released a demo of a "clickjacking" attack, using an JavaScript game to turn every browser into a surveillance zombie. The release of the demo follows last month's...

Tags: Webcam, Click, Web Browser, Twitter, Raff, Games, Web Browsers, Security, Personal Technology, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Consumers might not be ready for netbooks, but we are

Consumers might not be ready for netbooks, but we areand then in 2015...after a generation of high school leavers are very familiar with Linux and other FOSS apps, businesses will be able to start switching to Linux without the need to retrain new starters.Then in 2020 when this generation are...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Free Market, Linux, software

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Microsoft Xbox 360 Messenger Kit

When the Xbox 360 was released in November 2005, owners of the previous console were delighted to see that the online element would not only be preserved, but it would also be vastly improved. Xbox Live on the 360 not only provided updated features across the board, but it also...

Tags: Game players, Microsoft Corp., chatpad, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, headset

Product reviews 2008-10-06

Linux ready to replace Windows? Not yet…

Linux ready to replace Windows? Not yet…Actually, all of the biggest web companies all use Linux because it is somuch more flexible and powerful. Of the biggest, MS is the only one using Windows.And, yes, the applications availability on the Desktop is a problem for Desktop Linux, but, the is...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, EEEPC, Linux, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-06

Two Europeans indicted for US cyberattacks

The indictments are part of the FBI's Operation Cyberslam, said to be the US's first successful investigation into a large-scale, commercially motivated denial-of-service attack Two Europeans, one of whom is English, have been indicted by a US federal grand jury in connection with a 2003 distributed denial-of-service attack that...

Tags: FBI, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Operation Cyberslam, Gembe, Federal Government, Government, security, botnet, cybercrime, DOS, attacks, Matthew Broersma, ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2008-10-06

News to know: Green PCs, IT; IBM; Nokia; Apple

 Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Nokia N96. Gallery right. Mary Jo...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., PC, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Podcasts, Linux, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-06