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- Windows 7 wishes
- Windows 7 wishesOn layers.Per Ed's post, IE 8 continues to be integrated and integral to the OS. It is likely that many other user space apps that MS creates, will at least be partially embedded, if not completely.End user applications have no business being part of the OS itself,...
- Tags: Operating systems, 64-bit, Luna, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7 Wishes, operating system, Aero, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- 12 early warning signs of IT failure
- 12 early warning signs of IT failure"Nepal Airlines’ risk mitigation practices"Huh? Seems like a hyperlink is in order there.Another one...not sure how to categorize itProject managers have accountability but not enough authority to make team members work on the project. Team members often come from different departments, and...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, goat, IT Failure
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- The end run around the OS is underway
- The end run around the OS is underwayNot exactly correct...The Dell's and others that do this wonderful magic use something called a "hypervisor" which is a fancy word for "Small Operating System". The OS most of them load up is.... drumroll please... Linux. They load up a limited...
- Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Rumored Palm Treo Pro briefly appears online
- Palm really needs to take a lesson from Apple on how to keep a secret. I don't think there has been a single Palm device released in the last few years that didn't appear online prior to any official announcement and according to Brighthand the Palm Treo Pro appeared briefly...
- Tags: Palm Inc., Palm Treo, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Virgin Mobile TNT (Kyocera Adreno S2400)
- Virgin Mobile's cell phones tend to stick to the basics. Even when they offer cameras, like the UTStarcom Arc and the Samsung Slash, the handsets concentrate on doing what a cell phone should do. The prepaid carrier's latest model, the Kyocera TNT, certainly follows this format. Like the recent LG...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Virgin Mobile, Kyocera Wireless Corp., TNT, phone
- Product reviews 2008-08-14
- New Gpcode (encryption) ransomware speading via botnet
- There are confirmed reports on a new version of the Gpcode ransomware being spread via a botnet. According to Vitaly Kamluk of Kaspersky Lab my employer, the Trojan encrypts files on an infected machine (AES-256) and leaves a text file named crypted.txt with...
- Tags: Encryption, File, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Pravda, Sutor, and IBM Linux
- Pravda, Sutor, and IBM LinuxWrong!At it again are we?Paul get your facts straight before you try to be the same failure as that fraud.Yes the U2 crashed because it used a jet engine who was held together by good intentions and bailing wire.But regarding Linux, you are still wrong. Linux...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Utility computing, Linux, IBM Corp., Unix, duck, IBM Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-08-09
- IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista
- The Linux computing crowd smells blood and wants to make a run at Microsoft's Vista operating system. Coinciding with LinuxWorld, IBM, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat issued a joint statement promising "Microsoft free" desktops across the globe. I doubt it...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Novell Inc., Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Microsoft Windows, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Is Wintel IT Expense a Giffen good?
- Is Wintel IT Expense a Giffen good?Theoretically, Murph should be rightLinux should be the cheaper. That is simply based on product cost. It's hard to compete with free. Google exemplifies the best use of Linux."Theoretically", if all OSs had equal pools of equally smart and well...
- Tags: Linux, Branding, Operating systems, Strategy, Giffen, operating system, brand, Wintel
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- News to know: Apple patch; IBM; PC upgrades; EDS; Yahoo
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Apple finally ships DNS flaw fix, patches 16 other Mac OS X holes Nate McFeters: Black Hat talk on Apple encryption flaw pulled Black Hat Sneak Preview Larry Dignan: IBM plans building spree: To build $360M...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, PC, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Electronic Data Systems Corp., IBM Corp., FireWire, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- FBI warns of new Storm worm variant
- FBI warns of new Storm worm variantMessage has been deleted.RE: FBI warns of new Storm worm variantThis is a perfect example of a target attack on a very large scale. It seems this is now the new direction for phishing attacks and links to malware. Even the tecgh-savvy would have...
- Tags: Federal government, PRODUCTIVITY, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Mike Cox, new Storm worm variant, ReceiverNet, Storm Worm variant, FBI, Storm Worm, technique
- Discussion threads 2008-07-31
- FBI warns of new Storm worm variant
- The email uses the phrase 'FBI vs. Facebook' in its subject line and contains a link to view an article about the FBI and Facebook. On Wednesday, the FBI and its partner, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), warned against a new email campaign being used by the creators...
- Tags: Facebook, FBI, Federal Government, E-mail, Government, Online Communications, Robert Vamosi, bots, Storm worm, malware, security, spam
- News items 2008-07-31
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers
- From Russia with political love? It appears so according to a deeper analysis of the command and control servers used by the attackers. During the weekend, Georgia President's web site was under a distributed denial of service attack which managed to take it offline for a couple of hours. The...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Server, Web Site, Hacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Russian, Shadowserver, C&C, C&C Server, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare
- Apple may win the battle, but they'll lose the war, eventually. Well, that was predictable, really. A small startup in Florida decides to go make Mac clones, and surprise, surprise, Apple starts legal proceedings and unleashes the might of...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Why Flash and Silverlight will save the web
- Why Flash and Silverlight will save the webnone issueI thought that parts of flash Flex were open source and parts of silverlight are too. as these platforms evolve, open standards will be tacked on them. SilverLight, my opinion, really needs HTML display support built in so W3 standards...
- Tags: Channel management, Quality, Microsoft Silverlight, Web, standards
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Symantec says Microsoft Access ActiveX attacks to increase
- Symantec has reported that the Neosploit toolkit has been updated to include attack vectors for the recent Microsoft Access ActiveX vulnerability. Neosploit is a toolkit for sale on the market (price estimates fall between $1500-$3000) that seeks to automate and extend the capability of browser exploits. Symantec...
- Tags: Web, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Access, Vulnerability, Trusted Site, ActiveX Control, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Site, Site, Zone, Intranet, Attack, Neosploit, Internet, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Web Browsers, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Hardcore math at the speed of the Net
- From its inception, the Internet has been about connecting researchers and research institutions to each other (and, of course, about national defense). As the Web continues to explode, though, it's interesting to see how new generations of researchers work, collaborate, and criticize online. A particular example...
- Tags: Proof, Mathematician, Li, Web 2.0, Wiki, Blogging, Channel Management, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Price-Guru (exe)
- The program Price-Guru is intended for the increase of efficiency of work at treatment, monitoring, and analysis of price sheets. Using the program Price-Guru you save time: By one click of the mouse you will be able to expose a new assortment or changed prices in the price sheets of...
- Tags: Supplier, Sheet, codeLocker Lab, Channel Management, Mice, Marketing, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2008-07-07
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