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Remove Filter  | Today I received an email from "Halifax bank" that contained the following: [quote]Dear halifax customer, During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verification procedures, we have detected a slight error in your billing information. This might be due to either of the following reasons: 1. A recent change in your … |
| | Reports that the Redmond giant has "dangerous security flaw with its animated cursors" are floating around. Sounds interesting, so you read it. It talks about how vulnerable everyone is to it, how long Microsoft has ignored the bug, but they don't go much farther than that. I may be missing … |
| | Actually, I was not surprised in the least when Dell announced that they're going to begin selling PCs pre-installed with Linux. After all, it was quite obvious that they had it coming: the selling of PCs without operating systems, squarely aimed at the open-source market. Then the consumer poll that … |
| | As the graphics quality of modern-day video games continues to improve, experts are becoming increasingly worried about the effects that video games have on people doing everyday tasks. More specifically, a task that you do everyday: driving. So it's not surprising to find that [URL="http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1824001120070318"]German researchers are claiming[/URL] that racing … |
| | Well, it seems like a new PSP redesign is on the way, which is supposed to make Sony's handheld portable gaming device smaller, lighter, and more attractive. So... do I think that the PSP needs a redesign? A definite "yes". It has a massive screen, a plus for the console. … |
| | Alright, here is where I give a little rant against [URL="http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129676/article.html"]PC World[/URL]. I totally do not think that JPEG will be replaced anytime soon. It's a laugh. Let me get this straight first: I am not bashing Microsoft. I simply find it hilarious that PC World thinks that Microsoft will … |
| | The hoopla is over, Vista has been released, and now Microsoft is waiting for everyone to switch. Users are switching fairly quickly, especially those who buy new PCs. It's quite likely in a few years that the percentage of Vista users will be similar to the one that Windows XP … |
| | I groan when I hear repeated security reports of "[URL="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011939&intsrc=hm_list"]bugs in xxx browser allowing URL spoofing[/URL]", etc, etc. Most of the reports are real, live vulnerabilities that can endanger you and threaten your security as an internet user. However, I think a lot of this is misunderstood by some. You … |
| | The internet gives us a wealth of information, and programming is no exception. You can literally find learn about any language just through a broadband internet connection. And since 90% of the tutorials out there are free, what better way to learn programming than if it doesn't cost us a … |
| | Since the recent announcement of Ubuntu's Windows-based installer, Debian has responded by releasing a [URL="http://goodbye-microsoft.com/"]similar installer[/URL] for itself. The nice thing about this is that you obviously don't need to mess with CDs, but what about some other things? I think Debian's been lacking some innovation lately - they've been … |
| | I find it pretty hilarious what's happening now. [URL="http://news.com.com/Wal-Mart+eyes+Microsoft+for+Web+build-out/2100-1017_3-6152247.html?tag=nefd.top"]Wal-Mart is now planning[/URL] to buy SuSE support vouchers from Microsoft. to build a web project. The fact that Wal-Mart is going to use SuSE is not so surpising, but that Microsoft is selling the vouchers is what makes it funny. Microsoft … |
| | Ah... [URL="http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4611592451.html"]innovation[/URL]. Ubuntu is now creating a new installer that can complete the whole installation from a Windows application installer. Although I generally don't like Ubuntu because I find it too oversimplified, I do have to admit they're doing a very good job breaking Windows users into the world of … |
| | I know this is a little bit late, but here's my rant on what Apple has done. They have quitely shipped the latest MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops (except the 17" 1.83 Ghz MacBook Pro) [URL="http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/notebooks/ontheradar/0,39050980,61983220,00.htm"]with test versions of 802.11n cards[/URL], the latest and fastest Wi-Fi technology coming out soon. … |
| | It's the one thing that we never thought would happen - Apple opening up FairPlay, the system that governs the DRM for music bought from the iTunes store. And if [URL="http://www.tech.co.uk/home-entertainment/hi-fi-and-audio/hi-fi-amps-and-receivers/news/apple-to-open-up-fairplay-drm?articleid=394429162"]Tech.co.uk[/URL] is correct, it could very well happen. I can barely believe it; after all, Apple is not known for … |
| | Red Hat last month [URL="http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/11/1841241"]released[/URL] the Fedora Core 6 LiveCD. The tools used to create it can also be used to create your own custom LiveCDs. It's designed to look identitical to the full release of Fedora Core 6, having Gnome 2.16 and X.org 7.16. Very nice. But how come … |
| | In response to this article, which claims that Java could soon become an important programming language in Linux due to the recent open-sourcing of Java: [URL="http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6939729453.html"] http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6939729453.html[/URL] It's actually very unlikely that it will happen. This article is stating that the main reasoning is that other popular Linux programming languages … |
| | Although some analysts predicted that Vista may be a flop, it's already quite successful in the business world. It's already outpacing sales of Windows 2000, and catching up quickly to the sales of Windows XP. Previous blog entries I've written have been predicting the failure of Vista due to a … |
| | According to an article made by [URL="http://news.com.com/Study+Majority+of+teens+stay+private+online/2100-1038_3-6148192.html"]News.com[/URL], teens are not revealing nearly as much information to the public as we thought. It says that "66 percent [of teens on MySpace] say that their information is not visible to all Internet users." It further goes on to say that most teens … |
| | The open-source [URL="http://fedoralegacy.org/"]Fedora Legacy Project[/URL] is now shutting down. It's no longer supporting Fedora Core 4 and earlier. On the website it says, "The current model for supporting maintenance distributions is being re-examined. In the meantime, we are unable to extend support to older Fedora Core releases as we had … |
| | While the iTunes store traffic is at its high point, rising more than 400% this holiday season, Apple is getting faced with several federal lawsuits, according to Associated Press. Among those is one targetting the copy-protection system that content purchased from the iTunes store are encoded in. What the claim … |
| | With the recent release of [URL="http://wesnoth.org/"]Wesnoth 1.2[/URL], the open-source strategy game, the game's developmet never seems to stop. It's so popular, and it's addictive to play. These days, anybody without internet access is considered to be "living in the dark ages". And with the ever-growing popularity of social networking services … |
| | Obviously the name of Sony's highly-rumored video download service isn't going to be called SonyTube, but it's true that they are going to compete with YouTube, Google Video (which recently bought YouTube), and most definitely Apple's iTunes Store download service. Similar to Apple's service, this download service will be targeted … |
| | I'm always excited when I see people inventing new uses for existing devices. Linux kernel developers have been working hard, and have now added PS3 support for the Linux kernel. Sony helped by contributing patches for the machine, which have now been merged into the kernel. This will be included … |
| | MySpace seems to be where all the kids go -- it's the online meeting place for a lot of young people. But it also seems to be a place where pedophiles hang out, something that [URL="http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128087-page,1-c,internetlegalissues/article.html"]MySpace is trying to change[/URL]. It seems as though MySpace is trying to incorporate one … |
| | [URL]http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b2.html[/URL] "Firefox 2 Beta 2 is a developer preview release of our next generation Firefox browser and it is being made available for testing purposes only. Firefox 2 Beta 2 is intended for Web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Firefox 1.x should not use Firefox 2 … |
| | With the massive amounts of text editors out there, you'd think it would be easy to find a decent freeware code editor for Mac OS X. Well, not exactly. The numbers are deceiving because:[LIST] [*]Most "good" editors for Mac OS X were really written for Linux or Windows, and they … |
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| | [IMG]http://rightonthruhere.thejefffiles.com/linuxsecurity/tux.jpg[/IMG] [U][B]Linux server security guide[/B][/U] A lot of servers out there use Linux. It's powerful, free, easy to use, and it's secure (a little bit of sarcasm there :cheesy:). How secure though? Actually, without the right knowledge and procedure, your server could be one of the many vulnerable servers out … |
| | I finally got one of those MacBook beauties! So I set about putting Wine on it so I can finally access some of the programs I've been missing out on as a Mac user. So when I try to run Darwine, it says it can't find the truetype libraries. When … |
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