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Vista incorporates extensive "content protection" technology that extends throughout the system, even down into the hardware. From the user perspective, if one plays a "high definition" DVD on a Vista system, the user experience may be less than entertaining. Additionally, adding/changing hardware components will be more complex and expensive.
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Do you spend hours each day reading email but don't find the time to read books? Sometimes it hards carrying around those big, clunky things. Boo-hoo. Well, now you can read in bite-sized chunks. DailyLit sends books right to you inbox in small messages that take less than a few minutes to read.
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Lake Superior State University proposes an exit strategy for 2006: the 32nd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness.
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You can automatically mount your Linux partition in Windows and have read/write functionality. I will take you through the process of mounting your Linux partition using Windows XP.
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Gmail users are reporting that all of their emails and contacts are being auto deleted. This may be a security flaw around use of Firefox 2.0. Google
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About a month after the business release of Windows Vista, and a month before its consumer release, hackers and security researchers have uncovered at least six major security flaws in Microsoft's brand new operating system, the New York Times is reporting. In addition, one Japanese hacker is offering to sell Vista security flaws for $50,000.
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July 14, 1913 - December 26, 2006
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Almost 70 years after George Orwell created the all-seeing dictator Big Brother in the novel 1984, Britons are being watched as never before. About 4.2 million spy cameras film each citizen 300 times a day, and police have built the world's largest DNA database.
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Hackers have discovered serious security flaws that have some companies re-thinking the upgrade.
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Many new Linux users have trouble determining the hardware specs of their Linux machine from command line. By the end of this guide you will be able to obtain full inventory of all components on your Linux machine within minutes. This should also help you in finding correct drivers and support for your hardware’s chip-set.
posted by Bob Clay @ 7:09 AM
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Desktop software programs are slowly dying and being replaced by web based programs as the world moves to "the cloud" (the net). The best example is communication programs such as Eudora and Outlook which are being replaced by Gmail and Yahoo Mail.
posted by Bob Clay @ 8:15 AM
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Boeing's stolen laptop nudges the total number of lost or exposed personal records since February, 2005, past the 100 million mark, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse's excellent data breach chronology website.
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Remote desktop allows you to configure and connect to another computer running Windows XP Pro. Here's what you need to know about the remote desktop connection dialog box, including a few parameters you're most likely to encounter.
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Hackers have gained access to a database containing personal information on 800,000 current and former UCLA students.
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The new search software caters to companies looking to add basic search functionality to intranets and Web sites. IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition has been designed to install in five minutes, in three clicks or less.
posted by Bob Clay @ 7:11 AM
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A fantastic article about computers, universal literacy, (lack of) privacy, social control, and the future. A truly compelling read.
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ifconfig - the ubiquitous command bundled with any Unix/Linux OS is used to setup any/all the network interfaces such as ethernet, wireless, modem and so on that are connected to your computer. ifconfig command provides a wealth of knowledge to any person who takes the time to look at its output.
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Here are some of the best things you can access from the Start > Run box in Windows XP.
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Nothing seems to be missing from this API site
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Fascinating paper: "A Platform for RFID Security and Privacy Administration." The basic idea is that you carry a personalized device that jams the signals from all the RFID tags on your person until you authorize otherwise.
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Once you understand the effort that's required, you can assign resources to determine how long a project will take (duration) and then you can estimate labor and non-labor costs.
posted by Bob Clay @ 7:52 AM
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All free, of course. Includes the typical roundup of Linux/Unix languages, also includes things like cron, openGL, networking, GTK, Gimp, iptables, regex, Grub/LILO, booting between multiple kernels and a plethora of others.
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Microsoft may be the biggest target out there for hackers. Here's what the company does to protect itself from the continuous onslaught of probes and intrusion attempts.
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You've built a linux desktop. You've mounted the learning curve to configure the hardware (or paid someone else to do so) and you are able to do your own work on the machine. You've discovered that if you can point and click you can run a modern linux OS on your desktop.
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Now that we're on the eve of Microsoft's official release, it turns out that there will actually be only eight editions of Windows Vista. But, for most of us serious Windows users there will only be one choice
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This book is meant for software developers and managers who are considering starting an open source project, or who have started one and are wondering what to do now. It should also be helpful for people who just want to participate in an open source project but have never done so before.
posted by Bob Clay @ 8:25 AM
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A cellular telephone can be turned into a microphone and transmitter for the purpose of listening to conversations in the vicinity of the phone.
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On the Hula general mailing list today, it was announced that Novell is no longer providing full-time developers to Hula. While the project will continue, it appears that Novell is not committed to developing a viable open-source alternative to MS Exchange. The Hula project was announced in February 2005 with much fanfare.
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Linux desktops continue to weave their way into the top echelons of European government, according to reports on the web this week. Two recent examples include the Birmingham, U.K. City Council and the French Parliament.
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A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe's Acrobat and Reader software which affects Internet Explorer users.
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Ultrasonic levitation of some small living animals such as ant, ladybug, and young fish has been achieved with a single-axis acoustic levitator. The vitality of ant and ladybug is not evidently influenced during the acoustic levitation, whereas that of the young fish is reduced because of the inadequacy of water supply.
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