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happygeek in a Nutshell
I am a freelance technology journalist from England, and have been for fast approaching 20 years now. For 14 of them I have enjoyed being Contributing Editor with PC Pro magazine, the biggest selling monthly IT publication in the UK. Currently, I hold the title of Information Security Journalist... (Read Blog)
The Malicious software (malware): a security threat to the Internet economy report published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development over the weekend suggests that the PC malware infection rate in the US has hit 25 percent. These OECD cybercrime infection findings are highly...
Read More | Jun 2nd, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Jun 3rd, 2008
According to reports the most serious forthcoming threats to IT security will be revealed during the Gartner Security Summit in Washington this coming week, and it looms like the consumerization of IT will be right there front of stage. Something that Gartner research fellow, John Pascatore,...
Read More | May 31st, 2008
Reports are filtering through that delegates at the annual Australian AusCERT security conference were given USB sticks replete with malware. It would appear that the Oz telco Telstra handed out the memory sticks, unware of the malware payload, during a security tutorial of all things. The malware...
Read More | May 25th, 2008
In a comprehensive review of the new ZonaAlarm virtualized security environment that is ForceField, Roger Grimes praises the elegant user interface. While admitting to being a big fan of Check Point and the ZoneAlarm brand, Grimes remains skeptical of these kind of virtualization products and it...
Read More | May 22nd, 2008
Blog Stats: Entries: 472 | Views: 1,399,722 | Last Entry: 9 Hours Ago | Overall Rating: Rating: 707 votes, 4.78 average
EddieC in a Nutshell
My first computer was an Atari 800, with which I played Zork and other adventure/fantasy games and dabbled with BASIC programs; circa 1980. After 1984, I moved on to PCs, clones and NetWare, and then to Apple IIs and Macs until 1990. In July of that year I got my first job at a publishing company,... (Read Blog)
With all this talk about cheaper laptops for the third world, it’s easy to miss how inexpensive memory has become for us members of the first. I once prophesized to a colleague that by the end of this decade, a terabyte hard drive would be available for less than US$100. I was referring, of...
Read More | Jun 1st, 2008
Blog Stats: Entries: 91 | Views: 51,727 | Last Entry: 18 Hours Ago | Overall Rating: Rating: 21 votes, 4.33 average
khess in a Nutshell
I am a techie, a Linux evangelist, and an activist of sorts. I am also a DaniWeb Staff Writer/Blogger, a Linux Feature Writer and Columnist. You can see my work in Systems Management News (www.sysmannews.com) or in Linux Magazine (www.linux-mag.com). Hit my website at www.kenhess.com to find out... (Read Blog)
Welcome to Crystal Ball Sunday #3. As promised, I'm going to explore the use of distributed computing for the workplace today. Whether you call it grid computing, distributed computing, volunteer computing, or some other name, it is the same animal: Donation of distributed (remote) computing power...
Read More | Jun 1st, 2008
Blog Stats: Entries: 38 | Views: 28,567 | Last Entry: 2 Days Ago | Overall Rating: Rating: 55 votes, 4.62 average
newsguy in a Nutshell
I live and breathe technology news, it is what turns me on. Sad, but hey I am a news nerd, what can I say? (Read Blog)
Forget the One Laptop Per Child project hyperbole, there seems to be another contender emerging which is deserving of the title 'cheapest Linux laptop on the planet' despite having very little in the way of publicity when compared to the OLPC machine. The Linux lappy in question is the Elonex One,...
Read More | May 31st, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jun 1st, 2008
There's an interesting story up at The Consumerist at the moment about some chap called Bill who has been charged $1632 for a single Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade license. It would appear what has happened is that Windows Live Marketplace kept saying to try again later when Bill pressed the submit...
Read More | May 26th, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: May 27th, 2008
Although the overall market for Linux in China is relatively small on the global scale, at around $5.4 million for the first quarter of this year, the China-based CCID Consulting group reports that the actual sales value has shot up by a whopping 22.6 percent during the last year. This would seem...
Read More | May 22nd, 2008
Blog Stats: Entries: 166 | Views: 323,689 | Last Entry: 2 Days Ago | Overall Rating: Rating: 318 votes, 4.82 average
So the worst-kept secret is finally out of the bag - the next generation of Windows will work with touch screens. It will be faster than current versions of the system and it will take multiple inputs. I can't help being just a little cynical about this one. Yes, I understand the advantage of a...
Read More | May 28th, 2008 | Comments: 4 | Last Comment: Jun 2nd, 2008
Blog Stats: Entries: 38 | Views: 21,448 | Last Entry: 3 Days Ago | Overall Rating: Rating: 13 votes, 4.54 average
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