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- 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
- Hold 6 and 4 keys at boot to enable 64-bit Snow Leopard
- Can you clarify this for me?I'm running 64 bit Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro, or at least I thought I was. Now I'm not so sure since I don't hold the 6 or the 4 key when I boot up. Since there is no way that Windows is ever...
- Tags: Network technology, Operating systems, 64-bit, 32-bit, Snow Leopard, Apple Mac OS X
- Discussion threads 2009-08-19
- iPhone vs. Android development: Day 2
- Welcome to day 2 of a 5-day course on iPhone programming presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. During the course I'll be blogging about the differences between Android and iPhone development. [Read: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5] ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, User Interface, Localizable.strings, Android Eclipse Plug-in, UINavigationController, UITabBarController, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- I'm a PC: We don't say the "V" word any more
- I'm a PC: We don't say the "V" word any moreI dislike Apple even more than Microsoft, but I love the adsApple is, of course, a horribly restrictive company towards it's customers. Nasty as can be, even worse than Microsoft. Plus they make their customers pay through the nose.But they...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), sh*t, John Hodgman, apple ad, Microsoft Windows Vista, PC, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-20
- Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinking
- Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinkingI wonder -- would others please weigh inOk, your stats here are out to lunch but I wonder about your basic point.I think it's wrong - that almost any non OS specific programming language can be used to produce a standard code base from...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Programming languages, operating system, Linux, Google Inc., IE8, Chrome, longer-term, COBOL, window
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Sony's amazing crapware-free PC
- Sony's amazing crapware-free PCWhat's really sad.......is that you didn't bother to read the part where it says Sony quickly changed its mind about charging for crap-free PCs before running your yap.WrongAs John E notes, no customer has ever been charged for this option and the decision to charge was canceled...
- Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Sony Corp., PC
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Developers criticize Nvidia, other holdouts for hindering Linux desktop
- Developers criticize Nvidia, other holdouts for hindering Linux desktopInteresting[i]We have repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses and the greater Linux ecosystem," the letter stated. "Such modules negate the openness, stability, flexibility and maintainability of the Linux development model and shut their users off from the expertise...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Desktops, Linux desktop, Nvida, desktop, EXT, NVidia Corp., Linux, ATI Technologies Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Independent study advises IT planners to go OOXML
- Independent study advises IT planners to go OOXMLbased on what?can you give more information?Burton is right, in a vacummmmmm.I think Burton may be right.Did you read about it being more complex?Did you read about the new MS Office havingproblems with the older office formats? What great advances do people...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), information technology, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, IT planner, Independent Study, Burton, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2008-01-14
- DRM and open source are the great divide
- If there is any word other than Microsoft which can get an argument going among open source advocates, it is DRM. (The t-shirt is available here.)DRM, Digital Rights Management, is generally found in the form of an encryption wrapper giving control of the content to a rights holder. DRM is...
- Tags: mass market, Legal, Hardware, GPL, General, FOSS, content, business models, Applications, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Safari for Windows - Do we really need another browser?
- Safari for Windows - Do we really need another browser?How does the firewall help?Are you blocking port 80 for outgoing? If not then you're firewall is not helping you. A proxy server would be more appropriate here where it scans for HTTP compliance and malicious behavior. The firewall will happily...
- Tags: Web browsers, Firewalls, PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, text box, font, Apple Safari, Web browser, Microsoft Windows, iGoogle
- Discussion threads 2007-06-12
- Gaping holes exposed in fully-patched IE 7, Firefox
- Gaping holes exposed in fully-patched IE 7, FirefoxWhere are the MS Zealots today ?Perhaps they are hiding now , knowing the fact that their secure Vista & Internet Explorer can never let them down . Defend the hive , defend the hive ![b]Not Relevant[/b] to [i]Linux Users[/i]I could care less...
- Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, NoScript, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Maxthon, Microsoft Windows, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
- Discussion threads 2007-06-04
- Mashups: The next major new software development model?
- At last weeks Mashup Ecosystem Summit held in San Francisco and sponsored by IBM with an invited assemblage of leading players in this space, I gave an opening talk about the current challenges and opportunities of mashups. And there I posed the title of this post as a statement...
- Tags: Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, Badges, Ajax, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, Social Software, Tolerance Continuum, Web 2.0, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets, Wikis
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Microsoft keeps the Open XML fires burning
- Microsoft keeps the Open XML fires burningHave you been covering I.T. for long Mary-Jo?[i]"Do users really care enough about file formats ...."[/i]In terms of flame wars it comes second after Windows/Mac/Linux shoot-outs. So what do you think?As for end users, all they want is to be able to do is...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., MS-XML, leap year, EOXML, OpenDocument Format
- Discussion threads 2007-05-10
- Linux software apps - What's hot and what's not?
- Linux software apps - What's hot and what's not?The apps I useOffice: OpenOffice.org, as it's pretty much the standard on Linux desktops.Email: I have Evolution set up for my Yahoo mail.Image editing/drawing: For most editing, I use the GIMP, but for advanced stuff I'd recommend Blender or Inkscape for SVG.CD/DVD...
- Tags: OpenOffice, OPEN SOURCE, Web browsers, RSS, Java development tools, Linux software, K3b, Microsoft Office, GIMP, Mozilla Firefox, KDE, GNOME, disc, Gaim, software, Linux, Webmin
- Discussion threads 2007-03-13
- Microsoft answers Outlook 2007 critics on rendering-engine changes
- Microsoft answers Outlook 2007 critics on rendering-engine changesNo issuesI have only had Office 2007 a couple of days, but no issues so far. I think I like having all the Word tools availible when I am answering/composing emails. But I deal with a lot of emails in a day so...
- Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Corp., Outlook 2007, HTML
- Discussion threads 2007-01-31
- Google releases customizable search
- Google releases customizable searchGoogle releases customizable searchA new Google tool to track even more of what you do so Google can invade your privacy.Google Custom Search UserI have been working on building my own Google custom search engine in an attempt to understand the pratical application of these tools. I...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, PRODUCTIVITY, SEARCH, Loverock, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., customizable search
- Discussion threads 2006-10-24
- Is SOA a threat to IT jobs?
- Is SOA a threat to IT jobs?Yeah, yeahIn my 20 years in IT I've been put out of business by the latest buzz word so many times I've lost count. First PC's were going to put everyone out of work. And they did, unless you bothered to give...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, First PC, SOA, information technology, IS IT
- Discussion threads 2006-10-16
- Triple beta 2 day for Microsoft at WinHEC
- Triple beta 2 day for Microsoft at WinHECReal Power of VirtualizationSomething that really caught my eye was the ability to add system resources to an OS on the fly. That would be impressive when considering some of the more intensive apps. A Database could quickly asborb that extra...
- Tags: Microsoft Outlook, job, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Beta 2, Microsoft Office 2007
- Discussion threads 2006-05-24
- Using Skype From VFP
- In many cases users of Visual FoxPro VFP application need to communicate (text, voice, video) over Internet. VFP itself has limited ability to satisfy those needs. There are software products available that let users do this automatically from within a VFP application. The one that the authors opted for is...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., 128K-Communications, VFP, Internet, Telephony, VOIP, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Telecommunications, Networking, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2006-04-20
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