destinyland writes For decades, people have been asking this brain teaser: Whats the longest word you can type with only the left-hand letters on a keyboard? The answer is supposed to be stewardesses, but grepping the standard dictionary that ships
netbuzz writes Meeting in Minneapolis this week, the Internet engineering community is debating whether to aggressively fashion and apply fixes for the so-called Kaminsky bug in the DNS discovered this summer, or to simply let its threat stand as motivation
duh P3rf3ss3r writes The Associated Press reports that, after 200 years of speculation and investigation, the tomb of Nicolaus Copernicus has been found. Although the heliocentric concept had been suggested earlier, Copernicus is widely thought of as the father of
TRS-80 writes Apple has sent a DMCA takedown notice to the IpodHash project, claiming it circumvents their FairPlay DRM scheme. Some background: Apple first added a hash to the iTunesDB file in 6th-gen iPods, but it was quickly reverse-engineered. They
boyko.at.netqos writes Timothy B. Lee (no relation to Tim Berners-Lee), a frequent contributor to Ars Technica and Techdirt, has recently written The Durable Internet, a paper published by the libertarian-leaning CATO institute. In it, Lee argues that because a neutral
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes The RIAAs case in Boston against a 24-year-old grad student, SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, in which Prof. Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School, along with members of his CyberLaw class, are representing the defendant, may shape up
Blues News pointed out a report about a study sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation which found that online gaming and social networking are beneficial to children, teaching them basic technical skills and how to communicate in the Information Age. The
pparsons writes Bell Canada Inc. will not have to suspend its practice of shaping traffic on the Internet after a group of companies that resell access to Bells network complained their customers were also being negatively affected. The Canadian Radio-television
Iddo Genuth writes Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics recently won a contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to design quieter, more energy efficient, and more environmentally friendly commercial airplanes. The two
Garabito writes A spider that had been sent to the International Space Station for a school science program was lost. The arachnid was sent in order to know if spiders can survive and makes webs in space, but now only
Da Massive writes Leading Hollywood film studios Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Disney Enterprises are suing Australias second largest ISP, iiNet, saying its complicit in the infringement
FornaxChemica writes In a surprise move, Google announced today, both on-site and in its blog, that it will shut down permanently its 3D virtual world Lively by the end of the year, becoming one of Googles few scrapped products and
ric482 writes With the release of the Mozilla Foundations 2007 financial report, questions have been raised by the IRS who are due to perform an audit on the non-profit organization behind the massively popular Firefox browser. Last year the Foundation
geekmansworld writes From the Washington Post, An international team of scientists has reconstructed more than three-quarters of the genome of the woolly mammoth using DNA extracted from balls of hair, the first time this has been accomplished for an extinct
Today, Microsoft launched the New Xbox Experience for Xbox Live. The list of new features includes the streaming of TV shows and movies through Netflix, the ability to install games to the HDD, an avatar system, and the Community Games
coondoggie writes NASA is trying to decide between eight space exploration missions that include further exploring Venus and comet composition as well landing on an asteroid or examining the space around Jupiter. The space agency today began accepting solicitations for
Roland Piquepaille writes In recent months, the concept of cloud computing was all the buzz. European researchers think about another name, the World Wide Grid, which could run on top of the Internet. In an article to appear soon, ICT
alphadogg writes Researchers at the University of Maryland say they have discovered a material to replace lead, a potential environmental hazard, in electronics products. The material, bismuth samarium ferrite (BSFO), was found by researchers in the universitys A. James Clark
SnT2k writes Adobe recently release the beta version of Alchemy which compiles C/C++ code into AS3 bytcode (which runs on AVM2) that can run on the Flash or Flex platform and boasts increased performance for computationally-intensive tasks (but still slower
raque writes Appleinsider is reporting that the new MacBooks/MacBookPros have built-in copy protection. Quote: Apples new MacBook lines include a form of digital copy protection that will prevent protected media, such as DRM-infused iTunes movies, from playing back on devices
Apple has conceptualized a means of displaying icon-like status indicators on the iPhones displays even when the handset is locked and the backlight turned off, a new company filing shows.
Microsoft and Novell said Tuesday they are nearly ready with a beta version of Moonlight - a Firefox add-on that allows Silverlight content to play on Linux PCs.
A team of ex-Googlers, with backing from Y Combinator, the Friendfeed founders and others, have created what might be both the ugliest and most useful group productivity app we’ve seen. Etherpad, a new product from Appjet, launches this morning, and
Some marketing genius decided it would be a splendid idea to plaster the subway station I arrive at in the morning with posters promoting Microsofts Im a PC campaign. So twice a day, five days a week, Im face to
BitTorrent’s popularity is on the rise in India, and with a massive increase in broadband subscribers just around the corner, it is the number one growth market for BitTorrent sites. With a population of over 1.1 billion people and only
Microsoft is getting serious about global security, offering a free anti-malware package code-named Morro that has been specially designed for low cost PCs in developing nations.
If you are new to Linux, chances are you will meet a stupid person perhaps in a forum or chat room that can trick you into using commands that will harm your files or even your entire operating system. To
HDCP has finally arrived in Apples hardware, thanks to the latest aluminum MacBook update. The technology is being used to protect (what else?) iTunes Store files from playing on any HDCP non-compliant devices.
THE man whose attempt to pay a bill with a drawing of a spider became an internet sensation says he is a serial prankster who believes the web should be a playground.David Thorne, who runs the website 27bslash6.com, said the
Reiser is the Linux guru who in April was convicted of the first-degree murder of his estranged wife. Hes the same defendant who, in exchange for a 15-to-life term instead of a 25-to-life term, brought authorities to the Oakland hills
Mozilla today announced that it has served its 1 billionth addon download since they started keeping track of these downloads in 2005. Currently, Mozillas users are downloading close to 1.5 million addons every day.
Students are creating idealized versions of themselves on social networking websites — Facebook and MySpace are the most popular — and using these sites to explore their emerging identities, UCLA psychologists report. Parents often understand very little about this phenomenon,
The Storm, a widescreen, touchscreen device boasts many of the same features as the iPhone, but adds innovations like a clickable display, and comes packed with RIMs legendary email and messaging services. Mainlined into the biggest and best network in
YouTube announced it will auction off search terms as part of an ad program, called Sponsored Videos, designed to enable anyone to expand the viewership of their videos. YouTube also said last week it obtained rights to post full-length movies
Would you pay to use Twitter? An unscientific survey conducted today found that about 50% of users would pay $5 per month or more for the service. Another survey found that a quarter of users would pay to remove ads
More than 18 months have passed since Apple signed its only deal to acquire music free of copy-protection software with a major recording company. But that logjam may be about to break.
Google added voice searching technology to its iPhone application by using techniques that are supposed to be off limits to third-party developers, according to a pair of reports.
Theres just a week to go before retail outlets reveal their seasonal tech price cuts. But this years Black Friday is going to be a lot different from previous years, for buyers and sellers alike. On the CNET News Daily
Want to host high definition videos on YouTube? No problem, just get your copy and paste skills ready because all it requires is changing the videos URL!
Version 6.5 of the open-source NetBeans IDE has support for the PHP scripting language and a preview of Python support. Sun Microsystems on Wednesday introduced a version of the open-source NetBeans integrated development environment IDE, with expanded support for web
Stability and security releases for the browser will end next month, despite ongoing problems with Firefox 3 The Mozilla Foundation is planning to end support for the Firefox 2 browser in mid-December, despite the persistence of significant flaws in the
The GSM Association has called on manufacturers to build technology for contactless payments into their handsets by the middle of next year The GSM Association has called on phone manufacturers to build RFID technology into handsets from mid-2009, in a
Rising costs of energy - along with limited availability of energy in some areas are forcing the IT industry to take a new approach in designing and managing data centers, says IBMs Christopher OConnor. Commentary--Energy efficiency is a significant
Two systems, including one based on x86 chips, have become the first ever to break the petaflop/s barrier in the latest Top500 supercomputer list. Crays XT5 Jaguar supercomputer has narrowly missed displacing IBMs Roadrunner system as the worlds fastest supercomputer,
The final specification for so-called SuperSpeed USB, which is said to be 10 times faster than USB 2.0, has been published by the USB Implementers Forum. Version 3.0 of the universal serial bus specification has been released. Unveiled on Monday
The analyst house warns that, although take-up of open-source software is widespread, most companies do not have formal procurement or governance policies in place for such software. Eighty-five percent of companies are already using open-source software, with most of the
Canonical and the chip designer are to collaborate on a version of Ubuntu tailored to ARMs architecture, with a focus on low-cost subnotebooks. Canonical has announced it will be developing a version of its Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system specifically
Online networks suffered their heaviest brute force attacks to date this year, with more sites than ever coming under sustained assault. Online networks suffered their heaviest brute force attacks to date this year, with more sites than ever coming under
Apples iPhone has half the failure rate of RIMs BlackBerry in the first year of use, a study carried out by a mobile-phone warranty firm has found. Apples iPhone has half the failure rate of RIMs BlackBerry in the first
Silicon.com sat down with SASs CEO in Las Vegas this week to find out his thoughts on cloud computing, succession planning and the iPhone. SAS is unique among tech heavyweights for its private ownership - the business intelligence BI company
Larry Brilliant, executive director of Googles philanthropic arm, says the IT industry has a major role to play in tackling climate change and global disease. The technology industry can play a major role in tackling global disease and battling climate
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer dismissed Googles Android operating system, saying he believed it was financially unsound. Sydney, Australia--Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday dismissed Googles Android operating system, saying he believed it was financially unsound. Speaking at Telstras
Businesses rely on location technology to plan store and office placement and logistics - and to learn about their customers, says Ventana Researchs Mark Smith. Commentary--Information about location has never been more available or more widely used. Businesses rely on
The Department of Homeland Security has disputed Bruce Schneiers claim that the US-Visit program has had no impact on reducing criminal and terrorist threats. Security expert and BT chief security-technology officer Bruce Schneier has attacked the US-Visit border-biometrics program, saying
RSA says cloud-computing crimeware means networks of zombie machines can be hired to steal online-banking details for as little as $299 a month. Cloud-computing crimeware means networks of zombie machines can be hired to steal online-banking details for as little
It took a decade of indexing advances such as skip lists and index compression to make indexing practical, and another decade of computing advances to give us billions of searchable documents says Attivios Jonathan Young. Commentary--It seems as though there
Atos Origin explains how risk-management tech helped to prioritize the real risks hidden within. The security team behind the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games has revealed how it found the real risks hidden within the millions of alerts received every day.
Sony said five PC makers including Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba will recall 100,000 computer battery packs made by the Japanese electronics maker due to a fire hazard. SAN FRANCISCO/TOKYO--Sony said five PC makers including Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba will recall 100,000 computer
Companies that play a key role in the Britains national infrastructure are facing sustained cyber-espionage attacks, says a UK cyber-defense chief. Sustained cyber-espionage attacks are being waged on companies that play a key role in the Britains national infrastructure, a
You might not have realized it, but the next great battle of cryptography began this month. Its not a political battle over export laws or key escrow or NSA eavesdropping, but an academic battle over who gets to be the
Hans Reiser, the 44-year-old Linux guru who was convicted in April of killing his wife, is seeking a new trial. But Reiser, who killed wife Nina Reiser, waived his right to appeal in exchange for his sentence to be reduced
The National Review Online is courting financial contributions by offering new opportunities for access to its editors and writers. Not to be outdone, heres the skinny on Threat Levels new sponsorship drive. Break out your wallet. Were going cheap.
The woman accused of making unauthorized use of MySpace to inflict emotional harm on a 13-year-old girl, who then committed suicide, fully intended to hurt and prey on Megan Meiers psyche, a federal prosecutor charged Wednesday, as opening statements began
The Defense Departments geeks are spooked by a rapidly spreadingworm crawling across their networks. So theyve suspended the use ofso-called thumb drives, CDs, flash media cards, and all otherremovable data-storage devices from both their secret and unclassifiednets, to try to
Using the hair of a woolly mammoth preserved in the Siberian tundra, scientists have reconstructed 80 percent of the mammoth genome, raising the possibility of one day resurrecting the beast.
Physicists have detected electrons over Antarctica that could be the first ever direct evidence of the mysterious dark matter that scientists say makes up 20 percent of the universe.
Store geolocations inside a My Maps mashup and access the data anywhere on the web. The RSS feed produced by Google can be read by other services, or on your own site with the Google Maps API.
The all-electric Mini-E BMW unveiled Wednesday might very well be the perfect urban EV — if only the privilege didnt come attached with such a ridiculous price tag.
Honda unveils a three-seater hydrogen vehicle at the L.A. Auto Show, betraying the automakers resilient confidence that fuel cells are the energy source of the future.
Trying to make a point of some kind, the government produces a Google map mashup marking the best places to buy medical marijuana in the City by the Bay.
Microsofts new Windows antivirus package will furnish XP, Vista and 7 users free protection from viruses, spyware and other malware, starting in the second half of 2009. While itll replace Microsofts current paid service, we dont suggest throwing away any
To help make Photoshop more flexible and bit easier to work with, Adobe releases Configurator — an add-on that makes it easy to customize Photoshop panels to suit your needs. The real power of Configurator lies in the ability to
A compound similar to THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, improves memory in rats in low doses, and could help stave off Alzheimers disease.
Witnesses in the so-called MySpace suicide trial include Ron and Tina Meier, the parents of the 13-year-old girl who committed suicide, and Ashley Grills, a former employee of Lori Drews who helped set up the phony MySpace account that was
Location-based social network Shizzow has launched in the tech-friendly Bay Area, following months of private beta testing in Portland. Like the location granddaddy Dodgeball, Shizzow focuses on connecting people in real life. Now you can easily let friends know which
Our worldwide overclocking championship has begun and we wanted to introduce you to the everyday components our teams will be tweaking to supersonic speeds in a bid
All motherboards support overclocking—now it’s time for power-saving. Here we evaluate products from ASRock, Asus, Foxconn, Gigabyte and MSI, weighing both performance and power consumption,
AMD’s shift in focus to high-value multi-core processors has disappointed performance fanatics, but overclocking helps. We tested the companys latest enthusiast
Functionality, elegant design, and solid build quality characterize these mid-tower cases. They offer enough space for several hard drives and graphics cards, making
The Bush administration is coming to an end, but the FCC web site is still stuck in the Clinton administration. Weve got four suggestions on how to bring fcc.gov into a Web 2.0 world.Read More...
Mozilla has published its financial statements for 2007, which reveal that the organization brought in $75 million. Mozilla chairperson Mitchell Baker says that Firefoxs broader user base and expanded geographical reach are signs of success.Read More...
In 1991, the original George Bush was midway through his term, music came on cassette or CD, and Guns N Roses released their last album of original material. That will change at midnight Thursday as Chinese Democracy, 17 years in
Xobni made its public debut earlier this year as an Outlook plug-in that let users visualize e-mail habits and make better use of their contacts. Now, its back with an update that offers integration of social networking tools and services
The Chair of the FCC has been offering hot words about Comcasts response to a channel pricing inquiry. Now everybody is trying to cool off. Read More...
The Federation Against Software Theft is miffed at the UK Intellectual Property Office for not considering recommended changes to the copyright law that would punish online copyright infringers with 10 years of imprisonment in order to bring parity with commercial
The European Union has launched a public consultation on Internet security and is requesting feedback from the public about how to address network infrastructure security challenges.Read More...
An FCC Commissioner calls for the agency to get serious about an audit of Arbitrons Portable People Meter, an issue that has the attention of the next president.Read More...
The past few years have seen politicians attack science, including climate science, the big bang, stem cells, and research on sexuality, drug use, and HIV/AIDS. A study in PLoS Medicine examines the effect of these attacks on researchers.Read More...
Theres no imminent danger of death, but DSL has a hacking cough and a heart condition. Long term, were looking at the end of twisted pair copper wire as a communications pipe into the home. The future is fiber, coax,
Whats cooler than the Internet and cooler than outer space? Why, the Internet in outer space, of course. This month, NASA is building on ten years of work by testing an Internet-esque communications protocol designed for data transmission in deep
Thanks to inflation, low confidence in the economy, and unemployment, almost 71 percent of online shoppers plan to cut back their spending this holiday season. Things are not looking so rosy in Whoville, it seems.Read More...
The National Resources Defense Council has a released a report revealing that a) your game consoles can greatly increase your annual electricity bill, and b) there are some very simple steps one can take to avoid such costs.Read More...
The ongoing battle against malware-friendly, child pornography-distributing ISP McColo hit a snag over the weekend when the ISP activated an emergency connection agreement and hopped back online. McColos access was cut once again within hours of the reconnect, but the
Sequencing DNA preserved in permafrost has allowed researchers to obtain roughly two-thirds of the genome of a mammoth. In conjunction with the announcement, Nature has published a perspective on what it would take to reverse the species extinction.Read More...
New measurements from the top of the atmosphere at the bottom of the world reveal a oddity in the distribution of electrons hitting the Earth. Researchers suggest that the finding is consistent with the annihilation of dark matter particles predicted
A group of scientists from Spain, Italy, and the UK have successfully grown a replacement length of airway, specific to an individual patient, and have used the airway to resect a damaged portion of her lung.Read More...
Left 4 Dead is a monstrously fun co-op title that has you helping your friends survive a zombie invasion while a sadistic AI god called the Director throws death at you from all angles. Welcome to the game that will
People are suing their employers because they are not being paid while their PCs boot-up and shut down. What the!?!? Look, I am not taking a side here….but…don’t you punch in when you get to work and punch out when
Let me tell you something, it is an odd feeling when you read an article that lists “The Most Influential 3D Graphics Cards in History”…and you’ve owned every single one of the cards listed. I remember back in the day
Let me tell you something, it is an odd feeling when you read an article that lists “The Most Influential 3D Graphics Cards in History”…and you’ve owned every single one of the cards listed. I remember back in the day
Raise your hand if you knew General Electric was developing superhydrophobic surfaces in its Global Research Nanotechnology lab. Anyone? What is superhydrophobic? Let me show you: Imagine how the anti-corrosion and water proof properties of a superhydrophic surface could be
BioShock PS3 Content on the Playstation Network @ VE3D Grand Theft Auto 4 DLC Named, Dated and Pictured @ ShacknewsNXE Launch Day Update @ Major Nelson Prince of Persia Developer Diary 4 @ FileShackThe PlayStation 3 Gift Guide @ Kotaku
PC Perspective says AMD’s Phenom II has enough headroom built into it that 5GHz – 6GHz speeds are attainable using a little extreme cooling like dry ice or LN2. How do they know this? They went straight to the source
For those of you that think you already have a bad ass copper cooler, I would like to introduce you to the Thermalright Ultra Extreme copper CPU cooler. Weighing in at well over 4lbs, this cooler is easily the most
Guns N Roses has put their latest album on the bands MySpace page days before it will be available to the public. At least you’ll be able to hear it before you buy it…which is a good thing in this
It would seem that Sony has lost another patent infringement case and has been ordered to pay $18.5 million. Considering it was products like the PSP that violated the patent, I think Sony is pretty lucky they are off the
Did I tell you guys already that our Folding team (Team #33) is currently cranking out 3.25 million points per day, almost twice the amount of the next closest team. The , how to get started, where to get the
Since most of you are probably the “go-to” tech guy in your circle of friends / family, I am sure you are constantly bombarded with idiotic questions all the time. The next time someone comes to you with a stupid
Time Magazine has posted a list of the best inventions of 2008. Holy crap, are we doing “best of 2008” list already? It’s not even Thanksgiving yet! From a genetic testing service to an invisibility cloak to an ingenious public
I kinda like this idea of letting Zune subscribers chose ten songs a month to keep at no extra cost when you use their $14.99 service. This means that, for the price of a CD a month, you get all
Well this ought to be interesting. That case in Missouri involving an adult woman that made a MySpace account to harass a 13 year old girl (that later committed suicide) is now underway. Drew, 49, is charged with conspiracy and
What better way to interact with Facebook than a oozing stream of black goo all across your desk? Ummm, gross. Our project offers an indirect way to deal with these problems. A virtual robot makes and keeps new contacts for
In an unprecedented undertaking, IBM Research and five leading universities are partnering to create computing systems that are expected to simulate and emulate the brain’s abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition while rivaling its low power consumption and
Intel celebrated its 40th anniversary this year, as the integrated circuit turned 50. Taking advantage of its 45 nanometer (nm) manufacturing and reinvented transistor prowess, Intel Corporation introduced a tremendous amount of new products, and achieved several R&D, environmental and
Yes, we have work to do. Yes, we have piles of Core i7 benchmarks to analyze. Yes, we have been goofing off. My first non-demo outing in L4D went pretty damn good. Tons of fun and my ATI 4870x2 was
A U.S. District Court judge threw out Psystar’s lawsuit against Apple that claimed the company is a “monopoly.” Apple’s lawsuit against Psystar is intact and moving forward. There was no comment from either company on today’s ruling. With his ruling,
NVIDIA has released a new driver that adds a few new PhysX and SLI features and should improve performance in some cases. There are also recent developments in PhysX and GPU computing that we will touch on....
Want to understand why Intel went with such a small L2 cache on Nehalem? We sat down with Nehalems chief architect and got a much better understanding of the worlds fastest microprocessor. We also uncover the on-chip PCIe controller in
As of today, the Intel Core i7 processor series and X58 chipset based motherboards are officially on sale. With that bit of news out of the way, EVGA is officially launching their X58 SLI motherboard today. We received a retail board
Had you ever wondered how much money you actually spend to run your PC each day? Perhaps you want to know how much money you might save by upgrading power supplies. We tackle these topics and others in this article....
The 45nm Phenom is called the Phenom II, 8 and 12-core server parts are coming in 2011 and the first CPU/GPU fusion parts will also appear around then - all at 32nm. AMD opened up a bit and shared some
We recently received several mini-ITX form factor boards for an upcoming HTPC guide. These boards represent a wide variety of chipsets ranging from the Intel G45 to the NVIDIA GF8200. However, none of them prepared us for the motherboard that
We have been busily preparing an X58 motherboard roundup andoverclocking guide that will be published shortly. During thecourse of testing over the past few weeks we have encountered more thanour fair share of problems. Problems ranged from poor GPUdriver support
Silverstones new Fortress FT01 is a classy looking chassis that doesnt rely on flash to compete. Find out if this case might make a good home for your next computer build....
Here’s something for you to chew on during a Monday morning: NVIDIA’s Q3’08 financial results. NVIDIA’s quarters end a bit later than everyone else, so while AMD reported its Q3 data a couple of weeks ago, NVIDIA only posted its
More and more of the database vendors are talking about the wonders that SSD can do for transactional (OLTP) databases. So I read Anands latest SSD article with more than usual interest. If many of the cheaper MLC SSDs write
Nehalem can be much more power efficient than Penryn and it can overclock quite well. What follows are some of the side quests that we didnt get to complete for this weeks launch of Intels Core i7....
Enermax has now officially launched their Revolution 85+ power supplies, boasting some of the highest efficiency scores in the market. We are happy to report theres some substance behind these claims....
12.3 Megapixel, Fast 11-point dual-cross Auto Focus, 2.7 inch tilt-and-swivel LCD, Art filters, and fast Live View autofocus with new high-speed imager 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 II lens....
While AnandTech Editors can be found in many cities and countries around the world, most of you are already aware that Anand himself and AnandTech are headquartered in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. I also grew up in
BenQ recently launched their new 1080P FullHD LCDs, available in 22 or 24 trim. Is there truth behind the FullHD marketing, and should one of these new LCDs be on your short list of display upgrades? Thats what we aim
System monitoring tool Nagios offers a powerful mechanism for receiving events and commands from external applications. External commands are usually sent from event handlers or from the Nagios Web interface. You will find external commands most useful when writing event
The free and open source office suite OpenOffice.org might be a killer app for many, but its inability to properly display documents created in the proprietary Microsoft Office formats hinders its widespread acceptance in multi-OS business environments with many legacy
Bandwidth limitation is still a problem for a lot of people who connect to the Internet. You can improve your available bandwidth by installing Squid caching proxy server on your network with configuration parameters that will increase your byte hit
StarOffice 9 reminds me of the classic Monty Python skit in which Graham Chapman wrestles himself. Although StarOffice is being aggressively presented as an alternative to Microsoft Office, it seems to be equally marketed and bundled to compete against OpenOffice.org,
The Linux desktop comes with a variety of multimedia players, such as Xine, MPlayer, and Amarok. Yet all digital media players are only as good as the files they have to work with, and preparing those files requires the best
With diff-ext, GNOME users can compare and merge files from within Nautilus. If, instead, you use KDE 3, try out kdiff-ext from the same site, which works with Konqueror. Each utility handles paths to files and directories and invokes an
The iPhone and iPod Touch haven taken the mobile market by storm. Apples AppStore is full of interesting applications that take advantage of the two devicess capabilities. But whats in there for Linux users? Sadly, GTKPod and Amarok cannot yet
From its name, youd never know that sK1 is a good vector graphics drawing program, in the same category as better-known names like Inkscape, Dia, and OpenOffice.org Draw. Moreover, sK1 includes a feature that other Linux applications lack: it can
C Cod is a front end to your C, C++, or Objective-C compiler that lets you treat C more like a scripting language. C Cod comes with C Server Pages, which provides support for CGI so you can write Web
In 2005, when Slumberland faced end-of-lifecycle replacements of its proprietary Unix platform, its warehouse management system (WMS) vendor suggested a move to Red Hat Linux and commodity x86 servers. Seth Mitchell, the infrastructure team manager at the large furniture retailer,
Kraft helps you keep track of business offers and invoices and can generate PDF files to help you easily issue these routine documents to third parties. Since Kraft is a KDE application, it can draw contact information directly from your
Most of the new breed of open source hardware centers on specific products. Bug Labs is taking a different approach. Instead of developing particular devices, Bug Labs goal is to provide a Lego-like collection of open source hardware and software
Mantis is that rare bug-tracking program for small projects that is neither too bloated nor too featureless. Its an excellent choice for developers who need a bug tracker that the average computer user can use. Its clean interface and numerous
Linux users have a myriad of calculators and unit conversion tools at their disposal. To set itself apart, Frink aims to track units for you and give you a way to quickly perform little conversions and real-world calculations without burdening
The word "big" has two meanings here. Ace Suares is not only a big-time GNU/Linux and FOSS advocate, but he is close to 2.5 meters tall and built like a football lineman. He lives on the island of Curacao in
Just upgraded your system with a shiny new hard disk and want to make it your new book disk? Cloning Ubuntu to another hard disk is easy. In fact, Ubuntu provides tools to clone the entire hard disk -- including
Over time, people tend to accumulate a large number of messages in various email accounts, most of which they never bother with again. The problem is particularly acute for administrator accounts that receive routine notifications of events that are viewed,
Attorney Andrew Updegrove specializes in technology, intellectual property, and standards. While other lawyers can make the same claim, few have his credentials -- maintainer of an online repository about standards consortia, former board member of the Linux Foundation, and progenitor
The Splashtop instant-on Linux environment is included in the new Lenovo IdeaPad S10e netbook, marking the products first appearance in that form factor. That news should come as no surprise, since netbooks ultra-portability is a natural match for Splashtops instant-on.
I spend too much time telling my computer how to do things when I should be able to tell it what I want to do. Perhaps its time for declarative UIs to replace our procedural UIs.
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that theyre going to stop selling their consumer security product OneCare, and instead theyre going to give away for free an AV product based on the same technology. Ive had several people ask me questions...
Sean McGrath wrote a great article on the struggle for Open Source to manage complexity. Its a great insight because much of programming is managing complexity. This requirement has fostered high level languages and continues to be powerful concept that...
Big Data is a major theme on the OReilly Radar, so were delighted to welcome guest blogger Joe Hellerstein, a Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley whose research focuses on databases and distributed systems. Joe has written a whitepaper
One of the most difficult parts of the tech review for Learning Rails was Chapter 1, installing Rails. There are way too many operating systems and choices within those operating systems to provide a straightforward explanation. To help deal with...
Once upon a time, website programming was a fairly arduous proposition. You could spend months putting together the various back end processing pages in ASP or PHP or Perl, writing included files that, if you were thoughtful about it, may
Creativity is a good thing. But I think we sometimes fall into the habit of thinking its the only good thing. Not happy in your job? You probably need more opportunities to be creative. Not happy in your personal life?
OReilly Conference Opens Call for ParticipationSebastopol, CA, November 17—Want to make your websites fast, scalable, efficient, and reliable? OReillys Velocity, the Web Performance and Operations Conference on June 22-24, 2009, at the Fairmont in San Jose, CA, shows how to
When you look at the average, non-technical user, they probably should be running AV, because it is pretty unobtrusive, it does catch some things (even if its not many), and they dont have the same sense of what the real
BoinxTV is a striking example of how digital creativity tools are changing. As our tools begin to work in real time, they become less tools and more instruments. We begin to PLAY them, and playing is the heart of creativity.
Ah, the holiday season, a time of expansion. Great physical expansion. Fatty, high-calories food is everywhere you turn. And so we grow. But not this year. In some distant future,
MySQL AB (now Suns Database group) established a multi-prongedbusiness model long ago: support contracts, dual licensing, andproprietary add-ons all play a role in making them one of the biggestsuccess stories in the area of open source business. Today theirMySQL Query
I took a look at Audio Hijack Pro as a potential tool that is inexpensive and simple enough that even I can use it as a two-person audio podcast recording tool.
Heading out the door to a laptop jam session today, I eyed my chunky little MIDI keyboard, but even it was too big to fit in my backpack. I ended up typing out melodies and chords on the computer keyboard
As I wrote in Daddy, Wheres Your Phone?, its time to start thinking of the phone as a first class device for accessing web services, not as a way of repurposing content or applications originally designed to be accessed on
While at PhotoPlus Expo in NY, Derrick Story sat down with Rob Trueman and Cathy Chung to talk about their experiences with the Fall 2008 Aperture Nature Photography Workshop in
Social networking software is making trust more transparent to the user of a service. It is creating a new paradigm shift in computing: it allows people to just use resources without worrying about trust issues. Building your social network and
Making travel reservations online has come a long way, and some airlines now even include standard vCalendar files in their confirmation emails, so it takes just a few mouse clicks to add all flight-related information to your digital calendar. One
Alex Hawkes, Accountancy Age, Thursday 20 November 2008 at 00:51:00 The Royal Opera House has appointed a new director of finance, Sally ONeill Sally O’Neill, the current finance director of the Historic Royal Palaces,
Gavin Hinks, Accountancy Age, Thursday 20 November 2008 at 01:03:00 The IASB and its current mission receives G20’s blessing, and the US finally issues its roadmap to IFRS convergence The threat of undermining the International Accounting Standards Board was averted
Judith Tydd, Accountancy Age, Thursday 20 November 2008 at 01:01:00 Tax advisers hopeful to see a change of plans on foreign profits in next Mondays pre-Budget report Tax advisers will be scrutinising Monday’s pre-Budget
Judith Tydd, Accountancy Age, Thursday 20 November 2008 at 00:56:00 Yorkshire County Cricket Club is recruiting for a newly-created position of finance director, after confirmation of major expansions plans Yorkshire County Cricket Club is recruiting for a finance director, following
Joanne Christie, Accountancy Age, Thursday 20 November 2008 at 00:54:00 Experts fear that the December year-end reports will reveal a bleak picture for the next year to come, as Deloitte research shows that 5% of listed companies are unsure of
Rachael Singh, Accountancy Age, Thursday 20 November 2008 at 00:49:00 Peter Wyman to leave PricewaterhouseCoopers after being a partner with the firm for more than 30 years Peter Wyman plans to leave PricewaterhouseCoopers after
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Thursday 20 November 2008 at 00:47:00 Larger, more efficient market could cut emissions An increasingly consolidated and energy efficient IT infrastructure could play a major part in cutting
Judith Tydd, Accountancy Age, Thursday 20 November 2008 at 00:45:00 Taxman to press on with investigation into Mercury Tax Group, despite the Royal Courts of Justice backing the tax advisory practice The taxman is
Joanne Christie, Accountancy Age, Thursday 20 November 2008 at 00:40:00 A Californian county sues E&Y for its role in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, accusing the firm of recklessly disregard the true state the collapsed
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Thursday 20 November 2008 at 00:37:00 P565 business phone has more grunt than the rest Asus is claiming that its new P565 business smartphone is the fastest in
David Jetuah, Accountancy Age, Thursday 20 November 2008 at 00:37:00 PwC partner calls for government re-think of protection offered to crippled banks, as large number of outstanding trades at Lehman Brothers thwarts administration efforts
BusinessGreen.com Staff, BusinessGreen, Thursday 20 November 2008 at 00:15:00 MIT boffins unveil new software model that promises to accurately measure how much CO2 geological features can hold One of the biggest challenges facing firms
Tom Young, BusinessGreen, Thursday 20 November 2008 at 00:15:00 Report claims regulation and consumer demand is catalysing corporate response to climate change Climate change is a growing strategic concern for many cutting edge young
BusinessGreen.com Staff, BusinessGreen, Thursday 20 November 2008 at 00:15:00 Now you can easily catch up with all the green business news on your mobile BusinessGreen.com has launched a new service that will make it
Rosalie Marshall, vnunet.com, Wednesday 19 November 2008 at 23:35:00 SOA Capture tool can be personalised and has improved performance Storage firm EMC has released its Captiva tool as a web service, with added personalization
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Wednesday 19 November 2008 at 23:21:00 iPhone technology comes to the PC HP has launched its first multitouch laptop, the TouchSmart tx2, which allows full touch screen control
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Wednesday 19 November 2008 at 22:20:00 Value plummets as Microsoft chief dismisses new deal Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer sent Yahoos share price plummeting on Wednesday when he
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Wednesday 19 November 2008 at 22:14:00 It’s come a long way in 10 years An analysis of the market for global broadband has found that the total number
Rosalie Marshall, vnunet.com, Wednesday 19 November 2008 at 20:06:00 Dynamics NAV 2009 out 1 Decemember Microsoft has added new customization to its CRM Dynamics NAV 2009 product, which will be generally available from 1
Daniel Robinson, vnunet.com, Wednesday 19 November 2008 at 17:30:00 Free Morro service to replace Windows Live OneCare in 2009 Microsoft is to replace Windows Live OneCare with a free security service from the second
A recent episode of Boston Legal featured a courtroom drama where a farmer filed suit in order to be able to test all of her herd for BSE1/vCJD, the agent which causes mad cow disease (otherwise known a bovine spongioform
First, they say that between 160,000 and 3 million manufacturing jobs are on the line, but then turn around and blame the unions (the organization that represents those workers). In fact, foreign (mainly Japanese) automakers employ almost as many Americans
The other day, while booting my eight-core 3.2 GHz Mac Pro with 32 GB RAM, I watched my system startup messages (nvram boot-args=-v) and thought of Darwins origins at NeXT as a pastiche of academic research and hacker hobby. Darwin
First off, I WAS COMPLETELY WRONG. So much for predictions of a year and a half ago. Looking back its easy to see what happened. There is a collective sigh of relief throughout the U.S. and most of the world
On election day, Californians narrowly approved Proposition 8, an initiative to amend the state constitution to include only marriage between a man and a woman is valid. Undoubtedly this vote was a setback for gay rights throughout the country, but
The Presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain ended just like the polls said it would, and now, come January, were going to have the first black president in the White House. I know this because the headline article
Election Day arrives tomorrow. Since were human, we try to predict the future. Usually its pretty easy: fall follows summer, which is followed by winter. Its not a good practice to plant your seeds in the fall, and our future-seeing
Let me begin with the observation that morality is just the way class warfare is done in the United States of America. (Caution. Possibly offensive language ahead.)
Communist health officials in Hanoi have reluctantly agreed to abandon an 83-point plan to make small-breasted driving illegal in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Tits within.
I find myself challenged by a puzzle whose solution seems completely beyond my grasp. Perhaps you can give me a clue. This evening I went to the Borders Books and Music at the McCarthy Ranch shopping center in Milpitas, California.
Its that time of year again. New people want to get into hunting and I intend on dragging them into it. Below the fold - New hunter safety courses, teaching people to hunt and more delicious squirrel pot pie. Ive
The basic problem with Kuro5hin is the mindless, pointless negativity here. It is hard to devote time and energy to writing a good front page story when it is greeted by LOL WUT? and a -1. As such, the front
This is an explanation of economics. Theres no way to avoid some boring details and glazed eyes when talking about such things. However, I promise to avoid some of the jargon which will send you running to wikipedia, if you
Just a few months ago, when Google launched its Lively 3D chat offering, I questioned Googles strategy, as it didnt seem to offer anything different or compelling. Some people here disagreed, and believed Google would be able to turn the
Weve discussed, in the past, the infamous Bayh-Dole Act, which tried to push universities to patent more of their research, with the idea that it would make research more commercializable. In fact, the unintended consequences were to significantly harm university
A few times a year, I find a copy or two of Yellow Pages directories sitting on my doorstep. Never mind that I havent used one in several years, they just keep on coming, from multiple publishers. Personally, its far
Last week, there was a lot of attention over the shutdown of McColo, a hosting company that was apparently used by a huge number of spammers to control some of the largest zombie botnets out there. While we were initially
While a lower court in Kentucky had agreed to allow the state to seize 141 domain names as being illegal gambling devices despite having nothing to do with the state of Kentucky, other than being available on internet connections there
A court has issued an injunction temporarily banning the sale of a keylogger product called RemoteSpy. The ruling probably makes sense under the current FTC law, but it does raise some questions about whether it really makes sense to ban
With the judge agreeing that the information about Megan Meiers suicide can be included in the computer fraud lawsuit against Lori Drew, Drews lawyers are discovering that the emotional aspects of the case may be difficult to get past. In
Ray Beckermann is, once again, highlighting some highly questionable activities by the RIAA, noting that after getting defendants to agree to a settlement amount, the RIAA sometimes immediately asks for double the agreed upon amount, and submits that proposal to
Weve discussed the highly questionable activities of UK law firm Davenport Lyons for its supposed campaigns on behalf of various copyright holders. From what we had seen, the firm wasnt particularly interested in actually protecting content from being shared online
As quite a few folks have sent in, it appears that the always funny team of folks who made up Monty Python actually seem to get the concept of giving away infinite goods to increase the value of scarce goods.
Australian politicians have been pushing to censor the internet for years, with its latest initiative being the most extreme and most ridiculous. Of course, even though each and every past effort by the Australian government has failed miserably, they always
Over the years, weve seen so many bogus reports on the supposed losses to various industries due to unauthorized file sharing, that its about time the story was flipped. Reader SteveD writes in to point out the latest research, claiming
Back in 2005, when Microsoft was first mulling the idea of offering security software, we noted that the company was between something of a rock and a hard place. If it decided to charge for the software, people would accuse
The FTs got a story saying YouTube is in danger of being upstaged commercially by Hulu, the online video site owned NBC and News Corp. Its based on a report saying Hulu will make as much in advertising revenues as
Back when Apple first sued Psystar, we were afraid that the smaller company wouldnt have much of a legal leg to stand on, even if it claimed antitrust violations by Apple -- which it did. However, the judge in the
Nicholas Negropontes One Laptop Per Child initiative has received plenty of press over the years, though weve never quite fully understood it. While the idea of making cheap, durable laptops available to people worldwide has some value, the benefits havent
In the past weve linked to some of Ian Rogers great presentations at music industry conferences, and now hes done it again. At a recent music industry conference, he told the assembled industry execs to basically stop whining about losses
In response to an article about how Web 2.0 gives new tools to hate groups I was tempted to write an entire post, mimicking the original, except changing every instance of hate to something positive. Yes, blogs and social networks
Weve written plenty of times about the so-called think tank the Progress & Freedom Foundation. The group, which has called itself a free market think tank appears to be anything but free market when it comes to intellectual property issues.
It appears that Apple has begun using HDCP copy protection technology on some content it sells through the iTunes Music Store, and implementing it in its latest laptops. HDCP protects content as it travels across different types of connections, and
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