Apple will announce its plans Monday, that it is scrapping its partnership with IBM and switching its computers to Intel’s microprocessors, in a move that raises questions about the Mac maker’s future computer strategy
Google has launched Google Sitemaps. It seems to be a service that allows webmasters to define how often their sites’ content is going to change, to give Google a better idea of what to index. It uses some basic XML as the method of submitting a sitemap
Developers of the Mozilla Thunderbird open source e-mail client have recently added a podcasting feature to its arsenal and improved its defence against phishing attacks
Microsoft announced that the next version of Office will use Internet-friendly XML technology as the default file format for documents created in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. While it may use XML, it will use it badly
An experimental supercomputer made from Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) that can reconfigure itself to tackle different software problems is being built by researchers in Scotland. The Edinburgh system will be up to 100 times more energy efficient than a conventional supercomputer of equivalent computing power. The 64-node FPGA machine will also need only as much space as four conventional PCs, while a normal 1 teraflop supercomputer would fill a room. At this point in time, the software needed to run it, which is the key to the project, is vapourware
Major companies that sell open source software have been accused by a top EU official of treating open source developers as mere subcontractors
The effort to ban municipal networks in Texas has failed. Texas House Bill 789 originally had provisions to ban muni wireless networks. The Senate passed a significantly rewritten version, without a ban. A conference committee failed to reach agreement, so the bill died when the Texas legislature adjourned this weekend
Clayton Hallmark, on IndyMedia out of Argentina, predicts that cheap Asian computing appliances with an Open Source Operating System on a chip will be the ultimate Microsoft killer. References to the US$220 Mobilis out of India suggest the begining of newer, more powerful and cheaper things to come
Looks like Microsoft will not support IE7 on Windows 2000. It should be no surprise that we do not plan on releasing IE7 for Windows 2000… Some of the security work in IE7 relies on operating system functionality in XPSP2 that is non-trivial to port back to Windows 2000.
While security fixes will still be available until 2010, I guess that means the only browsers with tabs for W2K will be Opera and Firefox. All the details about an Microsoft product’s fall into senility available at the lifecycle page. Which pretty much means Microsoft are shooting themselves in the foot and handing the browser game over to Mozilla, Opera and other alternatives
Some of the largest Israeli companies are involved in the major industral espionage case, in which private investigators implanted specially crafted Trojan horses on the computers at unsuspecting companies in a bid to obtain priviledged financial and technical data. Given the current state of Windows security and advances in spyware, probably any company has become a very easy target for such spy attack from competitors
Internet security company CipherTrust on Thursday breathed life into its ZombieMeter, a new system that tracks traffic from compromised PCs around the world
Microsoft has alerted users that Netscape’s latest browser appears to break the XML rendering capabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Dave Massy, a senior programme manager for IE, warned users in a blog posting that after installing Netscape 8, IE will render XML files as a blank page, including XML files that have an XSLT transformation. What a week for Netscape 8.0; first the browser needed several fixes hours after its release, then it was discovered that without IE installed, Netscape 8.0 will not install, and now IE needs Netscape uninstalled to work
Judicial activism is taking hold in France, much to the dismay of the recording industry, as judges are beginning to suspend the sentences of convicted file swappers. Further, they believe they are starting a revolution against the draconian laws at the base of the industry’s legal agenda, and that sometimes laws need to be changed. Says Judge Dominique Barella of the laws against file swapping in today’s society: It is similar to the sociological consequences of the Prohibition period in the U.S. (during the 1920s). Certain laws can have unexpected consequences on society
First there was the printing press, around 1452. Then, in 1799, there was lithographic printing. And now, in 2005, there’s bacterial printing. The new technique allows live bugs to be pressed onto solid surfaces at very precise distances from each other and in a variety of patterns. The aim is to explore how bacteria influence each other at various distances. Understanding how they operate will help efforts to develop new ways to thwart their attacks on the human body
Angered by the growing number of internet scams, online vigilantes
have started to take justice into their own hands by hacking into suspected fraud sites and defacing them
The new version of the iPod plugin for Winamp allows you to copy music from your iPod to your computer
eBay have removed the MI5 bugging device from auction soon after a verified bid of $3000.00 was made. Sinn Fein are now selling it on their online bookshop via BoingBoing
I just upgraded my old Toshiba laptop to a new Toshiba laptop. Seeing as the factory install of Win98 on the old laptop was the most robust instance of Windows I’ve used, I opted to stick with the factory WinXP install on the new, the only drawback being that it’s XP Home.
The one problem I’d anticipated was a possible problem connecting to my wireless network. Aside from WinXP getting in the way with it’s bloody wireless network wizard and the time it took to find the MAC of the wireless card, it turned out to be simple.
What I didn’t expect was the lack of a web server. And it wasn’t just the lack of a web server, but the crippling of the operating system so you can’t even install Microsoft Personal Web Server:
Windows XP Home Edition does not include or support any versions (1.0, 2.0, 4.0) of Microsoft Personal Web Server (PWS). Users that need Web server functionality in a desktop operating system should use Windows XP Professional
It seems that there used to be a workaround in the knowledge base, but the scum at Microsoft yanked it in an attempt to force punters into upgrading to XP Professional. Alas, this way of thinking just pisses people off and makes them look elsewhere. In my case, that was Apache and, thanks to Webifying XP, it was a simple and painless process.
The FTC and more than 30 of its counterparts abroad, including Australia, are planning to contact ISPs and urge them to pay more attention to what their customers are doing online. Among the requests: identifying customers with suspicious e-mailing patterns, quarantining those computers and offering help in cleaning the zombie code off the hapless PCs
Hackers have found a way to lock up the electronic documents on your computer and then demand money over the Internet to get them back
RSS – Posts