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EddieC in a Nutshell
My first computer was an Atari 800, at which I dabbled with my BASIC programs around 1980. I moved on to PCs, clones and NetWare after 1984, and later to Apple IIs and Macs until 1990. In July of that year I got my first job at a publishing company, supporting about 25 Mac users (anyone remember... (Read Blog)
ORLANDO, Florida—Thousands of software developers and testers converged here this week for the Software Testing Analysis and Review conference, better known as STAREAST. It’s one of just a few must-attend learning events for people in our field, and if you haven’t been to one of these events,...
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A federal court today ruled in favor of people using file-sharing applications such as Napster and Kazaa, notorious for illegal distribution of music files.
The ruling was a blow to the Recording Industry Association of America, which has been combating users and developers of this software...
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With the lackluster adoption of Vista, perhaps Microsoft plans to migrate XP users by attrition—one service pack at a time. The company today released Windows XP SP3, which enables in XP a slew of features, many native to Vista.
Available now as a stand-alone installer pack, the update brings...
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happygeek in a Nutshell
I am an English geek with the perfect job: I write about technology for a living. Something I've been doing for a couple of decades now.
For the past 14 years I have been a Contributing Editor at PC Pro magazine, the biggest selling monthly IT publication in the UK, as well as a contributor to... (Read Blog)
Microsoft has launched a new add-in, designed specifically to simplify the process of creating content that is accessible for visually impaired and what it refers to as 'print disabled' individuals. The new Save as DAISY XML add-in is open source, being developed in conjunction with the Digital...
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Security vendor PC Tools has published the source code and mathematical algorithm used in the domain name generation technique applied by the latest Kraken bot variant, Bobax. Analysis by researchers at PC Tools has uncovered how Bobax talks to control centres via HTTP using pseudo-random DNS names...
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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)
According to Fujitsu Siemens Computers the days of simply upgrading to faster processors in order to squeeze extra performance out of legacy applications are rapidly coming to an end. In a press release distributed today the company warns that the increasing use of multi-core processors, and the...
Read More | 22 Days Ago | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: 22 Days Ago
A rather interesting article in the EETimes suggests that the holy grail of artificial intelligence, the ability to pass the Turing Test, may become a reality later this year courtesy of a collaboration between IBM and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
The Turing Test was first described by...
Read More | Mar 16th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: 24 Days Ago
Legendary guitar manufacturer Gibson has warned Guitar Hero developer Activision over an alleged patent infringement. It would seem that the crux of the matter is a 1999 patent by Gibson which deals with the technology used to simulate a musical performance. Gibson claims the Guitar Hero software...
Read More | Mar 12th, 2008
Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 has been released and brings with it more than 900 additional enhancements according to Mozilla. These are said to include improvements to stability and performance, memory usage and general usability. The latter including stuff like full page zooming and a new downloads manager.
Read More | Mar 11th, 2008
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khess in a Nutshell
I am a techie, a Linux evangelist, and an activist of sorts. My tagline should be: "If you need an opinion, I'll give you mine." (Read Blog)
There is an old saying that goes something like this: If you put 1,000 monkeys in a room with 1,000 typewriters (the things people used before computers), they would come up with the works of Shakespeare. Could the same be true of a great Desktop OS? No, but give me 1,000 well-paid developers and...
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