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- Cringley, MacTel, and nutty theories
- Cringley, MacTel, and nutty theoriesQuestion Murphy,"So far Cringley's track record on Apple hasn't been good, but this is one prediction that I think may have merit because what he's really talking about is using Apple's 1997 patent exchange agreement with Microsoft to allow Apple to update and use Sun's WABI...
- Tags: Operating systems, Processors, theory, Wabi, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., system call, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2006-12-14
- MIC: An Interdomain Call Mechanism for Linux
- MIC Mechanism for Interdomain Calls is an implementation of the lightweight remote procedure call mechanism in Linux. It introduces several additional functions in the Linux system call interface, enabling a thread to invoke procedures located in other address spaces of the same machine. To this end, the server domain has...
- Tags: Mechanism, Microphone, Server, System Call, Linux, RPC, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Networking
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- Google Backup is what I want for Christmas
- Google's Lenoir, North Carolina Data Center, seen during construction, could be one of several sites that could provide business continuity and peace of mind for netizens everywhere. I've heard this story too many times. "I got back from vacation and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Carbonite, Storage, Google Backup, Backups, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-12-03
- Koobface botnet enters the Xmas season
- X ThisThanks for the info Dancho and Happy X Year everyone! Did everyone have a good Xgiving day?Not enough space for 'Christmas'?Wow.Seriously, who cares?It seemsyou don't.Good luck when watching YouTube videos, if you ever do.MarkXmas has like, been used forever...as an accepted shortening of the term. Get over it!History excerpt...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Koobface Botnet, Christ, Jesus, Xmas
- Discussion threads 2009-12-01
- Exploit published for FreeBSD local root vulnerability
- But I thoughtthat Unix was impenetrable, that the superior design would prevent vulnerabilities, and that if a vulnerability was discovered that the same superior design would make it impossible to exploit?Isn't that was the Unix zealots tell us all the time?The fact is that this bug highlights one of the...
- Tags: Operating systems, FreeBSD, Unix, ACL, security, setuid
- Discussion threads 2009-12-01
- "Black Screen of Death" problems seem to be little more than scattered cases
- As is typical with most Windows "issues".[i]It seems we can all stop panicking now. In fact, there was little to panic about in the first place.[/i]They're completely blown out of proportion.RE: Black Screen of Death" problems seem to be little more than scatteredThe only reason it was blown out of...
- Tags: black screen, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-12-01
- Pimp my iPhone: Apps for storing, editing and reading files
- iPhone streamingHello: These are pretty impressive applications. I've seen a few before and after a very in depth research we worked on something more advanced then created an iPhone broadcaster. I don't know if you ever seen this working. We are now trying to integrate it with other iPhone applications...
- Tags: Smart phones, Digital music, DropBox, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2009-12-01
- Amazon: Kindle has best sales month; Still mum on real figures
- Maybe not the best strategy but ...... this is the first holiday season that pits the Kindle agaisnt any REAL competition for dedicated e-readers that are not in the realm of the uber-geek. (I got my first e-reader, for the Palm, in 1998.) In short, until the Kindle...
- Tags: E-books, Strategy, sales, Amazon.com Inc., e-book
- Discussion threads 2009-11-30
- R&D bursts onto the Bangalore scene
- now we know where the profits wentThey squeezed the American worker as much as they could and now the corporate crooks are giving the final kick.Well, if Windows Vista and the unresolved issues of Win7 are examples,not to mention the call centers, it's all about being cheap. It's...
- Tags: R&D, H1B
- Discussion threads 2009-11-30
- Open source is not about Wall Street
- only M$ ia about wall street greedand yet it failed to deliver because of its flawed business model.The answer to the Golden Rule"My way or the highway," may work for proprietary, closed code, but with Open Source there is always a FORK in the road.MySQL can easily become OurSQL. Larry...
- Tags: Databases, MySQL, open source, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-30
- Swoopo: a lottery disguised as an auction?
- Swoopo, SSDsHi Robin - Thanks for headsup on Swoopo. - I've been reading your excellent articles on SSDs and look forward to an update.- My iPod Touch has an 8 gig SSD and it's performance has been outstanding for a year. No degradation with heavy write usage. I copy a...
- Tags: Swoopo, auction, lottery
- Discussion threads 2009-11-30
- Apple sues power adapter knockoff maker
- Gah!!!Our patent system is a mess. "I patent supplying 20V DC to your laptop!!! muwahahahahaha!!!!"If you follow the link...backwards about 5 times, you'll find the patent in question:[u]http://www.google.com/patents?id=h7cOAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&source=gbs_overview_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false[/u]It's a design patent, which covers the [i]look[/i] of the adaptor.Check this out, and see what you think:[u]http://www.informationweek.com/galleries/showImage.jhtml?galleryID=326&imageID=136&articleID=221901168[/u]I stand correctedOther stuff is still...
- Tags: Apple Inc., patent, design patent
- Discussion threads 2009-11-30
- Dialectic 1.5 (Mac)
- Dialectic is a versatile tool that unites your Mac, data, and phones (mobile, landline, & VoIP) enabling you to be more productive. It allows you to find, select & dial numbers using many devices and services. With robust dialing rules, it determines the call type (e.g., local or long-distance), transforms...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Phone, Call, JNSoftware LLC, Dialectic, Desktops, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-11-30
- Apple Store fails the Nordstrom test
- Yet another Apple horror storyOnce again, an Apple horror story, trouble straight out of the box (forget "it just works").Most of the Apple afficionados I know have such horror stories. There's a massive one right now with the new iMacs. On the other hand, I know very little such stories...
- Tags: Desktops, UNIX, Apple Inc., Apple Store, Nordstrom Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-27
- Cuba for Remedy (Client) 1.3.2.8 (Windows)
- Connect your phone system to your Remedy application with Cuba - the only off-the-shelf CTI software with full integration to Remedy, available in the world today. The Cuba client communicates directly with a PBX telephone system via TAPI, CSTA, ASAI or a proprietary interface. Cuba delivers feature rich CTI such...
- Tags: Cuba, Microsoft Windows, Remedy Corp., Itel Office Software, Telephony, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Telecom & Utilities, Networking
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- Sony Vaio FW560F/T (brown)
- Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores. Several months ago, one of our favorite retail laptops was the Sony Vaio FW480J/T. Besides offering no-hassle Blu-ray playback and a large...
- Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Sony Vaio, laptop computer, game, Intel Core 2 Duo, Sony Corp.
- Product reviews 2009-11-25
- Death of the black box EULA
- Nonsense. Just look at Psystar.They died by the EULA. The judge even brought that up.And open source software has an EULA of its own, telling you exactlly what you can and must do to be able to use the software.Any failure to follow the EULA/GPL allows the owner of the...
- Tags: EULA, black box, software
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- Advanced PBX Data Logger 2.5.1 build 1125 (Windows)
- You may be an experienced hardware or network engineer, or an application designer and looking for a handy utility for extending your office, hotel or enterprise application. Whatever the case may be, look no further than our Advanced PBX Data Logger, for it will meet all of your technical needs.Advanced...
- Tags: Accounting, Phone, PBX, AGG Software, Microsoft Windows, Telephony, VOIP, Ethernet, Telecom & Utilities, Financial Services, Operating Systems, Software, Networking, Telecommunications, Finance
- Software downloads 2009-11-25
- Process Lasso 3.70.5 (Windows)
- Process Lasso will make your PC operate more smoothly by dynamically re-prioritizing running programs. When a process starts to monopolize the CPUs, it is temporarily reduced in priority so that it does not bring your system to a stall. We call this feature ProBalance Process Balance. Process Lasso also offers...
- Tags: Process, Microsoft Windows, CPU, Bitsum Technologies, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-11-25
- Toshiba Satellite U505-S2970
- Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores.The Toshiba Satellite U505-S2970 is a thin-and-light laptop that is neither thin nor light. It feels solidly built, but this is a 13.3-inch laptop...
- Tags: Notebooks, Network technology, laptop computer, satellite, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Satellite
- Product reviews 2009-11-24
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