admin @ June 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Making the software open-source will help elevate the company’s profile among new customers, improve quality through better debugging, help translate the software into new languages, and attract new software modules, said Chief Executive Bob Walters.
“We feel we’ll get further, faster,” he said. “We are betting this company on open source.”
Untangle was […]
admin @ June 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet
New IBM supercomputer achieves petaflop
The petaflop era has begun.
IBM has devised a new Blue Gene supercomputer–the Blue Gene/P–that will be capable of processing more than 3 quadrillion operations a second, or 3 petaflops, a possible record. Blue Gene/P is designed to continuously operate at more than 1 petaflop in real-world situations.
Blue […]
admin @ June 20, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Cool little tutorial I found surfing around the net:
DUAL BOOTING WINDOWS XP AND BT2
This method of dual booting will not require you to format the windows part of your hard drive and should not corrupt your current installation in anway. It also presumes that you have one partiton with Windows installed.
Insert the backtrack CD, […]
admin @ June 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
This is cool…everyone sign up fast …
AT&T launches $10 DSL it hopes no one signs up for
AT&T has quietly begun offering DSL service for $10 per month for new customers. Offered as part of the concessions the telecom made to the Federal Communications Commission in order to gain approval for its merger with BellSouth, the […]
admin @ June 18, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I got whacked by Wikipedia twice
I HAVE NOW had the rare distinction of being nominated for deletion from Wikipedia twice which probably isn’t that rare, nor a record but is definitely a laugh.
It’s all to the good and you know it makes snese. Don’t go anyone try and save me this time, OK? I […]
admin @ June 18, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Dell apologizes for remove-this-blog-post-or-else nastygram
A blog post at Consumerist.com offering tips on buying from Dell drew a nasty cease-and-desist letter from the company’s attorney and then, in quick succession, a chastened apology from a Dell manager.
The original post, titled “22 Confessions Of A Former Dell Sales Manager,” appeared last Thursday. The same […]
admin @ June 17, 2007 # No Comment Yet
After the surge, US controls just 40 per cent of Baghdad
Security forces in Baghdad have full control in only 40 per cent of the city five months into the Bush administration’s surge to pacify the capital, a top US general said yesterday as troops began an offensive against two al-Qa’ida strongholds on the city’s southern […]
admin @ June 17, 2007 # No Comment Yet
BBC, Yahoo invite developers to hack Web apps
The event is a series of open days held around the world by Yahoo for anyone such as computer programmers and developers to attend and come up with new innovative applications.
The latest event has been held over the last 24 hours in London, staged by Yahoo and the […]
admin @ June 9, 2007 # No Comment Yet
New Gimp packages fix arbitrary code execution
A buffer overflow has been identified in Gimp’s SUNRAS plugin inversions prior to 2.2.15. This bug could allow an attacker to executearbitrary code on the victim’s computer by inducing the victim to open aspecially crafted RAS file.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed inversion 2.2.13-1etch1.
New […]
admin @ June 9, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The SANS Institute is warning of a Fake Microsoft Security Bulletin that leads to the installation of a malicious browser add-on.
Microsoft issues patches on a regular monthly schedule and information is always available from the Microsoft Security site at http://www.microsoft.com/security/. This provides links to the latest security bulletins and to Windows Update.
Beware of […]
admin @ June 8, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Symantec will launch the first public beta of its next-generation corporateanti-virus software, Endpoint Protection 11.0, at its annual Symantec Vision conference next week.
The product has been available to a select group of beta testers since March, under the codename Hamlet. Symantec would not reveal Hamlet’s official product name, but it is listed on the […]
admin @ June 8, 2007 # No Comment Yet
U.S. to temporarily relax new passport rules
The Bush administration on Friday suspended some of its new, post-Sept. 11 requirements for traveling abroad, hoping to placate Congress and irate summer travelers whose vacations have been thwarted by delays in processing their passports.
The proposal would temporarily lift a requirement that U.S. passports be used for citizens flying […]
admin @ June 6, 2007 # No Comment Yet
NBC tests prompt investigation into U.S. armor
NBC tests prompt probe into U.S. armor - Military Affairs - MSNBC.com
On May 3 at a ballistics laboratory in Germany, NBC News testing showed that Dragon Skin, made by privately held Pinnacle Armor Inc., outperformed Interceptor, the Army’s standard-issue armor. Before the results were aired, a retired U.S. general […]
admin @ June 6, 2007 # No Comment Yet
NASA contractors raise concerns about looming security checks on workers
Dennis Byrnes, a veteran engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, fired off a 1,300-word letter to his congressman in April complaining of “unwarranted intrusion” into his life.
Byrnes was disturbed by a new government requirement that workers at JPL and other NASA centres undergo background checks to […]
admin @ June 5, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Web sites running Microsoft Corp.’s Web server software are twice as likely to be hosting malicious code as other Web sites, according to research from Google Inc.
Last month, Google’s Anti-Malware team looked at 70,000 domains that were either distributing malware or hosting attack code. “Compared to our sample of servers across the Internet, Microsoft IIS […]
