http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/featured-timestamp.html Tech support, programming, web development, and internet marketing community. Forums to get free computer help and support. http://www.daniweb.com/forums/dani-images/misc/dani/logo.gif http://www.daniweb.com http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4492.html With the iPhone 3GS slowly coming back into stock after selling out during the first week of release, there is more good news for potential buyers: the 3GS has been jailbroken. Yes, 19 year old George Hotz who you might remember shot to hacking fame a couple of years back when he claimed to be the first to unlock the original iPhone, has done it again. His 'purplera1n' software has been made available for immediate download, although it remains in Beta, and is said to be able to successfully jailbreak the new iPhone 3GS. There are some problems though, not least that at the moment only... Software Development Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:00:44 CDT newsguy http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4492.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4490.html Yahoo! announced this week that it would build what it said what would be the greenest, most energy-efficient data center in the world, powered by Niagara Falls. Data centers are some of the heaviest users of electrical power there are, both to run the servers themselves and to cool them. In fact, a typical data center facility spends almost half of its energy consumption on the systems powering and cooling the computers inside, and not on the computers themselves, according to a website on the subject created by Google, itself one of the largest such users. Indeed, the cost of energy is... Hardware and Software Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:41:37 CDT slfisher http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4490.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4488.html Twitter has been in the headlines again. You can now pay a company to find potential followers, approach them and ask them to follow you and it's apparently a very innovative approach. It must be, that's why the BBC thought it newsworthy. Actually I'm not so sure. I think I've seen things like this many times before, sometimes respectable and sometimes less so. Let's consider what this Australian organisation is doing. It's buying or harvesting a list from somewhere, and it's mailing the members of that list. Mercifully it's not selling the list so just anyone can mail them. Nonetheless,... Internet Marketing Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:06:35 CDT GuyClapperton http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4488.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4491.html This post has nothing to do with Michael Jackson, his death, his kids, his Neverland Ranch or anything related to him. It has everything to do with my need for a virtual laboratory where I can test virtual machines, write about them or produce other documentation about them without a significant financial outlay of my own. I call this virtual playground, Neverland, because currently it is a fantasy of mine and the way many see it--it's likely to remain so. Last week, I posted "My Midsummer Night's Dream of A Virtual Lab" on my Virtualization column at Linux Magazine to which this is sort of... Hardware and Software Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:12:19 CDT khess http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4491.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4487.html Everyone knows that the iPhone 3GS only comes in black or white varieties, but some unlucky users are claiming to have got their hands on a pink version. The thing is, these started out as bog standard white models but, according to some reports, they get so hot during extended use or when GPS applications are running that they start to glow pink! The iPhone 3GS, which is currently totally sold out here in the UK, is twice as fast as the previous model. It is also twice as hot, too hot for some users to hold against their ear when making a call. Other users are complaining that when they run... Hardware and Software Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:54:04 CDT happygeek http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4487.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4485.html Security stories abound on the Internet, and as we enter a new month an old one has resurfaced. There are legal questions over the Sarah Palin hacking event last year. Graham Cluley has blogged about it. For me he's buried the main point right at the end of the story. I don't want to seem anti-Graham or anything, he knows his stuff, but to me it's much more interesting that the press - and I speak as a journalist - is still dropping howlers like printing someone's date of birth and full name. In an item about security and identity theft. There really, really needs to be some education about... Hardware and Software Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:00:29 CDT GuyClapperton http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4485.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4484.html It's been known for a while that current and potential future employers look at people's profiles on social networking sites such as Facebook. And it's also been known that people are using social networking sites to announce the status of their relationship -- or lack of one. Now the two uses are getting together, with divorce attorneys mining social networking sites for evidence supporting their clients. "Lawyers, however, love these sites, which can be evidentiary gold mines," said a recent article in Time. "Did your husband's new girlfriend Twitter about getting a piece of jewelry?... Hardware and Software Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:43:16 CDT slfisher http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4484.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4483.html No sooner had the news of the untimely death of Michael Jackson hit the Internet than the vultures started circling. For once it was not the gossip columnists and tabloid journalists digging up the dirt, but rather spammers and hackers looking to exploit a golden opportunity to distribute their wares and expose a very sick sense of humour. The very fact that there has been so much media coverage of the Michael Jackson death, and at around the same time Charlie's Angels actress Farrah Fawcett lost her battle for life, pretty much paved the way for the spammers to be honest. Any campaign could... Web Development Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:25:53 CDT happygeek http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4483.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4482.html President Barack Obama's administration made two announcements Monday about improved transparency in government: one about IT projects in general, and one about improving broadband access. The announcements were made at the Personal Democracy Forum, in New York. Tuesday, White House Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and White House New Media Director Macon Phillips are expected to demonstrate an Internet-based interactive dashboard to provide data such as goals, schedule, cost outlays, key personnel, contractors employed, and where the effort stands in real time about every major... Hardware and Software Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:25:12 CDT slfisher http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4482.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4481.html In the final days of a failing model, old media made one last futile attempt to save its fading way of life by trying to expand copyright law to exclude fair use and linking. Just this morning, my DaniWeb colleague, Sharon Fisher wrote a post called This Blog Post Could Be Illegal. Seems Richard Posner, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago has written a blog post of his own (note the irony here) that copyright should be expanded to bar access to any copyrighted material without the copyright holders express consent and to ban linking and even... Hardware and Software Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:02:47 CDT Techwriter10 http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4481.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4480.html This just has to be one of the best pieces of news ever - there is agreement for a standard for mobile phones. It's really as simple as that. Here's the story, on the BBC's junior site, would you believe. I just can't work out why it has to be mobile phones only, though. Of course there are voltage issues but there are voltage issues between different phones. I'm convinced you could do something clever at an electronic item's end rather than at the adapter end so that my new Apple MacBook (arrived ten minutes ago) could have the same adapter as my wireless earphones - or my mobile, or my... Hardware and Software Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:04:05 CDT GuyClapperton http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4480.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4479.html If Richard Posner, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, gets his way, blog postings like this one could be illegal. On his blog, Posner recently suggested that copyright law might need to be expanded. "Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly... Internet Marketing Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:11:08 CDT slfisher http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4479.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4478.html Most often, when someone talks about a filesystem or file system, they're referring to disk filesystems such as NTFS, FAT, ext2, ext3, ext4, ISO 9660 and many others but can also refer to network file systems such as CIFS (Common Internet File System aka Samba) and NFS. A filesystem is a specially-designed database of files, their disk location, definition and attributes. Everything on a Unix or Linux filesystem is a file: Directories, processes, links, programs, and device references. All files. But, is there a perfect filesystem? Distributed filesystems such as Google's filesystem come... Hardware and Software Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:15:57 CDT khess http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4478.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4477.html Generally speaking I would not recommend reading a newspaper in the hot tub. If that hot tub happens to be of the spa-jet variety then that only makes it worse. If the newspaper is a rare item from the 19th century then surely only a fool would consider it. Yet this weekend I have been doing just that, reading an 1815 newspaper in the hot tub with all the jets massaging my body to bits but without destroying the delicate document. How so? The wonders of the Internet of course. Specifically the wonder that is the new online archive of British newspapers from the British Library. The British... Web Development Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:10:32 CDT newsguy http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4477.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4476.html How come I can't let go? I'm between two worlds ~Tom Petty, Between Two Worlds As I watched vendors navigate the changing software world last week at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston, it struck me that the old companies are trying desperately to hold onto to the markets they have dominated for so long. I listened as executives from IBM, EMC and Microsoft tried their best to convince everyone that despite their old-world pedigrees (or perhaps because of them), they were the best choice for facing the new world of Enterprise 2.0, collaboration and sharing. To be fair, all three companies have... Hardware and Software Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:45:39 CDT Techwriter10 http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4476.html