Dorian Cox, the 27-year-old guitarist of the indie band The Long Blondes, thought his guitar playing days were over after he suffered a stroke. He now has a glimmer of hope thanks to some neurological physiotherapy which includes a cutting-edge
Ant recommends a Wired piece on the background story of the Kaminsky DNS bug and its (temporary) resolution, decreasing the odds of a successful breach from 1 in 2^16 to 1 in 2^32. Weve discussed this uber-hole a number of
vintagepc writes Having written a piece of software as part of my research employment, I now face (and will later face again, with other software Ive developed), the issue of intellectual property rights. The legal department stated that if I
liraz writes Stuart Cohen, former CEO of Open Source Development Labs, has written an op-ed on BusinessWeek claiming that the traditional open source business model, which relies solely on support and service revenue streams, is failing to meet the expectations
mattnyc99 writes Esquire is running a a jaw-dropping profile of MacArthur genius Marc Roth in their annual Best and Brightest roundup, detailing how this gonzo DNA scientist (who also figured out how to diagnose lupus correctly) went from watching his
An anonymous reader notes a Reuters report of a study, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, confirming that Mobile phone calls distract drivers far more than even the chattiest passenger, causing drivers to follow too closely and miss
badger.foo writes We have seen the future of botnets, and it is distributed and low-key. Are sites running free software finally becoming malware targets? It all started with a higher-than-usual number of failed ssh logins at a low-volume site. I
Swoolley writes A month back this community discussed the Sprint vs. Cogent depeering. Now a story I wrote for Forbes.com tells the inside story of the fight, based on the lawsuits the two companies filed against each other in Virginia
paradox1x writes Malcolm Tredinnick shares a terrific rant against the misunderstanding and misuse of the Model-View-Controller design pattern. In particular he takes issue with the notion that Django should be considered an MVC framework. He says that Its as valid
Zordak writes CNN has up a story about several Israeli firms that want to replace metal detectors at airports with biometric readings. For example, with funding from TSA and DHS, WeCU ( pronounced We See You) Technologies, employs a combination
ozmanjusri writes Online market share of the dominant Windows operating system has taken its biggest monthly fall in years to drop below 90%, according to Net Applications Inc. Computerworld reports that Microsofts flagship product has been steadily losing ground to
Tom Farber, a calculus teacher at Rancho Bernardo high school in San Diego, has come up with a unique way of covering district cuts to his supplies budget. He sells ads on his tests. Tough times call for tough actions,
KentuckyFC writes Philosophers have long wondered at the profound link between mathematics and physics, but how deep does this connection go? Pretty deep according to the results of a quantum experiment exploring the nature of mathematical undecidability. Heres how: any
Daengbo writes While I live in S.Korea and have virtually unlimited bandwidth in and out of the country, not all my Asian friends are so lucky. Many of the SE Asian and African countries have small international pipes. Even when
Smivs points out a blandly-worded story from the BBC with scary implications, excerpting Remote searches of suspect computers will form part of an EU plan to tackle hi-tech crime. The five-year action plan will take steps to combat the growth
stinkymountain writes Writer John Brandon spent two days at Microsoft Research Labs in Redmond and got an inside look at some pretty interesting projects under development, including a robotic receptionist, a new type of touch screen for people with fat
bsk_cw writes With the exception of Googles Chrome (which got attention because it was, after all, Google), most of the alternative browsers out there tend to get lost in the shuffle. Computerworld asked three of their writers to take some
WatersOfOblivion writes Twenty years ago today, Edsger Dijkstra, the greatest computer scientist to never own a computer, hand wrote and distributed On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science (PDF), discussing the then-current state of Computer Science education. Twenty years
Barence writes After years of boasting about the Macs near invincibility, Apple is now advising its customers to install security software on their computers. Apple — which has continually played on Windows vulnerability to viruses in its advertising campaigns —
The National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday that the US has been in a recession since December 2007. The NBER is a private, nonprofit research organization of academic economists who determine business cycles. The stock market took a dip
The simple dictionary definition of Twitter is microblogging/social networking platform that places a 140- character limit on each individual post/tweet. However, describing Twitter thusly would fail to encapsulate the power of this new omnipresent medium. So, instead here are 101
The Washington Post, the BBC, and other outlets are pointing out that Apple is, for the first time ever, quietly recommending anti-virus software for Mac OS X. A little research shows that this is completely false.
(original title: A Grandchilds Guide to Using Grandpas Computer) I created this poem in an hour, late one night after my four year old grandson and his older brother had significantly rearranged the resources on my Macintosh.
One of the issues he plans to tackle in upcoming meetings this month, is a plan to give all Americans free access to the Web via the airwaves -- minus the porn.
A study that tracked drivers through a simulated task finds that not all conversations are equal: cell phones are far more distracting than having a passenger present.
It appears that Russian malware distributors were able to launch another iFrame attack on a subdomain of the cbs.com site so that it was serving remote malware to any visitors.
Ars tests the first beta release of KDE 4.2. The new version of the popular Linux desktop environment has lots of new features, including significant improvements to the panel and other Plasma components.
Since Apple confirmed that no new products would be shipping before the holiday season, nearly everything can be rumored in regards to Macworld 2009. An anonymous tip MacBlogz received back on November 3rd claimed to know information regarding a 32GB
Apples first LED-backlit and DisplayPort-based desktop monitor has arrived at AppleInsider; we now have high-quality photos as well as some early impressions.
The details may vary, but youve undoubtedly had this fantasy: You’re suddenly rich! But what do a you do with all that money? Use it to help humanity? Of course not! Like any self-respecting geek, you’ll want to redirect a
Artificial Intelligences first half-century produced great accomplishments, but many of the fields successes have remained unsung beyond the AI community. In response, AI Magazine has developed a poster to help educate students, faculty, and the public about AI and to
Social networks have a lifecycle: They start with a small core of early adopters, swell as mainstream users getBy the numbers, there are no signs of Facebook fatigue. The social networks ranks swelled from 100 million in August to 120
A list of 31 Incredible Resources And Inspirations For Designers Like You To Discover The Best Of The Web In November. Maybe, we could not cover all of the best from around the web but we will try our best
Details are coming in but its official. The N97 features a large touchscreen phone with a retail price at around 550 euros ($693.4) excluding subsidies and taxes, phone to ship in H1 2009.
Over the last few years, Digg has become Silicon Valleys version of the boy who cried wolf. Like the child who warned local villagers that a wolf was about to attack his flock of sheep, potential buyers of Digg have
On Monday, Facebook announced it will soon roll out its Facebook Connect login system to several high-profile websites, including Digg, Hulu and Discovery.com. The sites, along with a few others, will begin supporting Facebook Connect within a few weeks. The
Earlier this week a Microsoft representative indicated that a deal offering 40 percent cash back at HP.com would be restarted following Black Friday glitches. Now that appears less certain.
Cyberprivacy advocates have welcomed the prospect of an Obama presidency. But they may want to wait before popping the champagne corks. On the CNET News Daily Debrief, Charles Cooper goes over the record with Declan McCullagh.
Music and browsing mashup Songbird has kicked the remnants of its shell to the curb, and the programs main emphasis as a music browser couldnt be more clear.
A promotion related to the bands newly released album crashes the drink makers Web site--and the band is ready to pop over a giveaway it wasnt involved with.
With the markets in cardiac arrest, whats the prognosis for the IPO market? Investment bankers, venture capitalists and private equity players weigh in at AlwaysOn Venture Summit West conference.
Tim Lincecum, one of the best pitchers in baseball, was chosen to be the cover athlete for 2K Sports next baseball game. On Tuesday, he did a motion-capture session for the game.
After its in-house classified ads system failed to take a bite out of Craigslist, Facebook turned to an official outside provider--a rarity for the social network--to revamp the feature.
Silicon.coms CIO jury ruled unanimously on the question of whether to implement Microsoft Windows Vista in 2009. The latest silicon.com CIO Jury has unanimously voted that they are not ready to invest in Microsofts latest OS Vista. When asked if
The skills needed to modernize core IT assets are in short supply, according to latest report from the application-management company The lack of core IT skills is a major impediment to modernizing key IT assets, according to a survey by
A new front has opened in the ongoing arms race between Apple and iPhone hackers, with one hacker group making the iPhone boot with a Linux 2.6 kernel. A new front has opened in the ongoing arms race between Apple
CIOs are often seen as glorified IT directors, looking after the day-to-day running of IT systems, instead of being used to align IT with business aims. Chief information officers are out of the loop, according to a survey carried out
Microsoft is dropping its subscription-based antivirus software in favor of a free package, code-named Morro. ScanSafe Internet-security expert Mary Landesman investigates Microsofts motives. Commentary--Microsoft is to replace its paid-for antivirus product with a free one, citing an altruistic desire to
MySQLs founder has released version 5.1 of the open-source database software, but simultaneously warned of a number of bugs present in the new features that still need to be fixed. Sun has released version 5.1 of the open-source MySQL database
As search becomes more and more of a commodity, many people are beginning to ask whats next for the enterprise search industry. The answer may lie with the fast-evolving area of text analytics, says Lexalytics Jeff Catlin. Commentary--Enterprise search is
AMDs Shanghai processors are the companys first chips to utilize the improved performance and efficiency of 45nm technology. ZDNet Germany tests show that they have made up important ground on Intel Xeon chips. AMDs Shanghai processors are the companys first
Reduction of spending in the IT department is more art than science. Metri consultant Paul Michaels offers some advice on how to get it right. For the past few months everyone was hoping the IT industry might be saved the
Two new pieces of malware affecting Mac OS X appeared this week, a Trojan horse and a hacker tool for creating backdoors. Two pieces of malicious software affecting Apples Mac OS X appeared this week: a Trojan horse with the
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
The blades on this strap-on dont give the satisfying snikt! that Wolverines adamantium talons do, but here at Wired they still strike fear in the hearts of, well, just about everyone. Three 11.5-inch stainless steel knives protrude from the wearers
Whats the solution to Americas crisis in science education? More comic books. In December comes The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA, a remarkably thorough explanation of the science of genetics, from Mendel to Venter, with
The new Capitol Visitor Center — a 580,000-square-foot complex buried beneath the east side of Capitol Hill — opens its doors on December 2 to as many as 15,000 nation-lovin pilgrims a day.
1984: Poison gas leaks from a Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. It spreads throughout the city, killing thousands of people outright and thousands more subsequently in a disaster often described as the worst industrial accident in history. Union
Navigons latest high-end, dashboard-mounted GPS unit, the 8100T, has some nice features — including a whizzy 3-D display — but also has road-rage-inciting sluggishness.
Watching video through virtual-reality goggles of a mannequins body while you look down at your own can trick your brain into believing the mannequins body is yours. Swedish neuroscientists find that threatening the mannequins body with a knife caused a
A judge in San Francisco federal court hears arguments from the Justice Department and Electronic Frontier Foundation regarding lawsuits against telecoms that cooperated with the Bush administrations once-secret domestic spy program.
Last week, we showed you how to construct a stealth camera bag. Now its time to add some extra protection by building a unique, snug-fitting foam case for each precious DSLR lens in your collection. Best of all, you can
Sonic blasters and private security teams have been billed as some ofthe best bets to ward off pirates. But an incident off the coast ofSomalia is calling the effectiveness of the weapons — and the guards —into question.
There’s mounting evidence to suggest that monetizing consumer-generated media doesnt work. Even sites like YouTube, whose viral videos have emerged as the medium of choice for advertisers, dont realize any revenue from an ads millions of views.
Salmon may have a magnetic navigation system, similar to that of sea turtles, that guides them over thousands of miles back to their home stream to spawn. Scientists hope to find a way to imprint captive fish with the signature
Classical (and not so much) musicians can now audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, which will perform a first-of-its-kind online collaboration and at New Yorks legendary Carnegie Hall as part of Googles first major foray into content creation.
Scientists are still debating whether electromagnetic fields — likethe ones generated by your cellphone — are bad for your health. TheUnited Nations is pushing ahead with the idea that the fields are aPotential Threat as a Terrorism Agent.
Coldplay was the hottest iTunes album download this year: Its Viva la Vida was crowned the best-selling album of 2008, while Leona Lewiss Bleeding Love was named the top-selling single.
On paper, Nokias new N97 is a solid iPhone-beater: A Zeiss lens equipped 5MP with an LED flash and a video mode, a huge 32GB of memory, boost-able to 48GB with microSD cards, 3G comes in HSDPA flavor and there
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
Googles new App Engine uses Python as its primary programming language. Ars goes in search of the best Python programming resources on the web.Read More...
The 800-pound gorillas of telecom industry and advocacy sounded a rare note of harmony Wednesday, with the release of a call to action urging implementation of a national broadband policy. Both sides agree that the stimulus train shouldnt pass broadband
A recent rash of small microtransactions, often followed by larger expenses, have consumers up in arms. Adele Services is always the company behind the fees, but the people running Adele itself remain elusive.Read More...
The first beta version of Moonlight 1.0, an open source implementation of Microsofts Silverlight framework, has been released. The developers aim to have alpha-quality Silverlight 2.0 support by March.Read More...
Through a partnership that includes MySpace and Vidoop, an alpha extension brings OpenID management to the Flock social browser. Its an interesting approach to boosting awareness, but OpenID is going to need a lot more help than this to gain
Yahoo is yet again the subject of takeover rumors, this time with a new twist: a former head of AOL is supposedly trying to line up backers for a bid to take the company private. Its scenario that makes sense,
New to the botnet scene is Conficker, a botnet that exploits a critical security vulnerability Microsoft actually patched in late October. It may be time for Microsoft to begin forcing critical security updates upon home users.Read More...
While fears that a few popular sites might wind up dominating the web appear to be unfounded, a new study appears to suggest that social sites like Digg and YouTube may help initially popular stories dominate. Read More...
After two years of development, open-source music player Songbird has finally shipped its 1.0 release. Songbird is based on extensible Mozilla technologies and a love for what the Internet can bring to the music experience. Ars reviews version 1.0.Read More...
Online music sales, both downloads and subscriptions, will continue to grow throughout the next five years, according to Forrester Research. However, CD sales are still in a decline and online sales will not make up for the loss in physical
Ars tests the first beta release of KDE 4.2. The new version of the popular Linux desktop environment has lots of new features, including significant improvements to the panel and other Plasma components.Read More...
AT&T is expanding its usage caps to another market. The company has identified a great method to determine where to roll out this potentially unpopular scheme: pick a location where another ISP is already limiting customers.Read More...
Microsoft has spilled the beans on WARP10, a technology slated for Windows 7 that will bring DirectX 10 capabilities to systems that dont even have GPUs. Read More...
How many DVR owners skip ads? Not even the networks agree, with estimates ranging from half to all. TiVo wants to save the industry it helped to pulverize.Read More...
The Internet continues to grow, but its in no imminent danger of severe congestion, the backbone is fine, and we have the tech to make even last-mile links future proof. The real question is: when will we deploy it?Read More...
If youre building a home theater PC (HTPC) this Christmas, and you wont settle for anything less than high definition, then Ars has you covered. The Ars Ultimate Home Theater PC Guide gives you the knowledge you need to build
With the government pledging to help rightsholders clamp down on illicit P2P file-sharing, digital rights groups have more than a few concerns about how this might work. The music industry loves the plan, however.Read More...
MySQL 5.1 has been released, but MySQL cofounder Michael Widenius says that the new version isnt ready yet and has serious bugs. He says that the software was released prematurely because MySQL management no longer treats quality as the highest
Elcomsofts password-recovery tool speeds WPA/WPA2 passphrase cracking, but the algorithm is still resistant with well-chosen, long passphrases.Read More...
Did this guy just say what I think he said? Please, read this and tell me if that is not in fact what this guy is saying. Plaintiffs claims, and those of the purported class, are barred by the fact
Cases & ModdingAntec Veris Fusion Remote Max Premium HTPC Case @ TweaknewsNZXT Whisper Case @ Modders Inc.CoolingNoctua NH-U12P SE1366 Heatpipe HSF (German) @ HardwareoverclockVizo Mini Ninja II Notebook Cooler @ techPowerUP!ETC.Holiday Gaming Performance Guide 2008 @ PC PerspectiveIn-Win NA USB
Here’s a tip for you, don’t invited all your Facebook friends to a party in your mansion worth millions, it might get out of hand. And that concludes today’s public service announcement.Georgina Hobday, had invited around 100 friends to her
Tesla has lost another senior executive. This will be the second one in as many months. At this rate, the janitor has hopes of movin’ on up. The ol’ “disagreement in strategy” excuse was given.I have resigned my position with
How do you like that? You can use a printed picture of a face (not even a very good one) to beat facial recognition software installed on poplar laptops. For security reasons, the actual key points and the particular enhancement
PCWorld has made a list of technology for the obscenely wealthy, better known as “stuff you and I ain’t never gonna have.” You’re suddenly rich! But what do a you do with all that money? Use it to help humanity?
50 NES Quotes Every Gamer Should Know @ SydlexiaAtari Reviving Baldurs Gate, Other Franchises @ Shacknews F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin - Behind The Scenes @ VE3DMS Working On A NXE Sound Fix @ Joystiq The Witcher: Rise of the White
According to the Chinese language site HKEPC, AMD has big plans for the desktop next year, adding thirteen processors to its roadmap. Information is limited because I can’t read Chinese and translating the page doesn’t help a whole lot either.
Oh. My. God. This is not some kind of joke, this is an actual, real video made to help seniors learn how to use a computer. The voice on the video comparing a computer to a supermarket “claw” game is
Wired has an article on a secret geek A-Team that is defending the worldwide web, complete with the names and photographs of the secret team members. Wait. What?It was a moment hackers around the world dream of—a tool that could
Apple is now recommending that Mac users install antivirus software. I know, I know, most of you are wondering the same thing I was…but, a quick call to Hell has revealed that it has “not” frozen over. Apple quietly signaled
Pioneer has been showing off its 16-layer 400GB Blu-ray disc any chance it gets so it is no surprise that it showed up at the IT Month Fair in Taipei. Supposedly these discs will be compatible with current BD readers
So, what do you do as a follow up to writing Rupert Murdoch’s biography? Give an interview to BusinessWeek and call MySpace users f’ing cretins that are stupid and poor. Heh. I’m not saying I agree/disagree with that assessment, I
Congrats are in order for our Folding team! Team #33 is currently cranking out over 3 million points per day, almost twice the as much as the next closest team on the list. Way to go guys! For those of
Sony has finally rolled out the 2.53 firmware update that brings ability to play full-screen flash movies in the browser. New Blu-ray settings have been introduced and a handful of stability issues have been addressed. If you are using Folding@Home
DigiTimes, citing anonymous industry sources, says that Asustek has plans to roll out a Celeron powered Eee Box with a larger hard drive and a lower price tag. Asustek is introducing a Celeron version of the Eee Box priced at
Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system kicked off the holidays with record-breaking console sales on one of the biggest shopping weekends of the year in the U.S. Retailers reported Xbox 360 console sales over the Black Friday
VIA Technologies, Inc., a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced net sales for November 2008 of NT$412 million (US$12.39 million approximately). This sales revenue represents a 35.54% month-on-month decrease over revenues of NT$639 million (US$19.22 million)
It was the biggest launch for ATI since the memorable R300 (Radeon 9700 Pro), yet we failed to get the full story on how RV770 (Radeon HD 4800) came to be until now. Its one of the best tales Ive
The last post generated some very interesting comments and questions, which I wanted to address. Unfortunately, some people misinterpreted the post as a best scores Nehalem and Shanghai can get in Linpack review. So let me make this very clear:
Ever thought of making the move to digital audio on a PC for all your listening needs? Prices may not be for the faint of heart, but the end results are a different matter....
A beta BIOS update broke compatibility with ESX, so we had to postpone our virtualization testing on our quad CPU AMD 8384 System. So we started an in depth comparison of the 45 nm Opterons, Xeons and Core i7 CPUs.
Ive been working on a side project with ASUS called WePC.com. The idea is pretty cool: ASUS is tapping the community for ideas on what theyd like to see from its users in future notebook designs. ASUS brought in several authors
Seasonic recently launched their new M12D series, designed to compete in the upper echelon of power supplies. Could this be the perfect power supply for your next high-end system?...
Remember the NVIDIA GeForce 9300/9400 launch a few weeks ago, yeah we forgot about it also, until NVIDIA called last week to remind us this product was no longer on life support. All joking aside, this product introduction turned out
Cooler Master gave us some more insideson their upcoming Black Edition of the Cosmos chassis. As it seemsthe changes to the case are rather minor, besides the black paint.There will not be any change to the hard drive bays as
We delve into Far Cry 2 performance across multiple settings and DX versions. Beyond this we do a full top to bottom hardware analysis using the game. ...
Cooler Master announced the pending arrival of a luxury edition of... yes, of what exactly? Cooler Master couldnt tell us exactly what the full package will entail, but the manufacturer at least revealed a picture of a modified Cosmos chassis
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
For programmers on big projects, a version control system for managing source code is vital, but working on files in a large project from one of these programs command-line interfaces is cumbersome. Worse, the results of the commands lack highlighting
Mounting and unmounting filesystems used to be straightforward in GNU/Linux. A basic knowledge of the mount command or some editing of /etc/fstab in a text editor and you were done. However, with the addition of udev in the 2.6 kernel
The PasTmon passive traffic monitor keeps an eye on your network, recording which clients are interacting with which services, when and how long things took. You can then use the applications PHP Web interface to investigate these figures to see
One of the first things I do upon installing a Linux distribution is put the Network Monitor applet on my GNOME panel. Watching the blue lights twinkle on and off makes me aware of network traffic. But if you want
Large collections of MP3 files can be hard to manage. Organizing your music into directories helps some, but when you want to play just those tracks in a certain genre or from a certain year, no amount of directory organization
The number of Firefox extensions continues to grow. For example, when I last wrote about tab extensions just over a year ago, about 110 existed. Now, despite the need to rewrite many extensions to make them compatible with Firefox 3.0,
When users want the latest in free and open source software (FOSS), they are likely to think first of sites like freshmeat, or perhaps Softpedia or GnomeFiles. However, as the FOSS community has divided into specialized communities, sites for new
Today is the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, and were enjoying the day off with our families. In fact, were enjoying it so much that were taking tomorrow too. That means a reduced posting schedule on our sites. Well be
If you are into email like Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan were in the movie Youve Got Mail, you probably want to be warned as soon as any message enters your mailbox. If you use Gmail, you can try one
NFS-GANESHA is an NFS version 2-4 server that runs in the user address space instead of as part of the operating system kernel. Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) lets you run a filesystem in the user address space instead of as
Glancing at the features list for Fedora 10, at first you might be unimpressed. Many of the features are basically infrastructure improvements, fixing known problems and enhancing performance while laying the groundwork for future developments. However, infrastructure affects almost everything
Making labels for DVDs and their cases is an often overlooked task. Many discs are lucky to have some terse information quickly scrawled on them after burning. But there are some fine open source applications available for creating labels for
TiddlyWiki excels at managing notes and text snippets, but can you tweak it for other uses? If you take a look at some applications based on TiddlyWiki, the answer appears to be a resounding yes. With TiddlyWiki derivatives, you can
With Fedora 10 scheduled for release today, many users are thinking about how they are going to upgrade. A complete upgrade is something you do no more than twice a year, so the details are easy to forget. Also, the
When Maine State Employees Association SEIU Local 1989 needed software to safeguard confidential information and ward off online threats, it found an open source solution. The labor union, which represents more than 15,000 public and private sector workers throughout the
The Bash Debugger Project (bashdb) lets you set breakpoints, inspect variables, perform a backtrace, and step through a bash script line by line. In other words, it provides the features you expect in a C/C++ debugger to anyone programming a
Spreadsheets might be called databases for the timid, since theyre more user-friendly than databases and do a good job working with limited amounts of data. Some tools for databases can work well with spreadsheets too. Take for instance DataForm, a
Gather round the table for a hearty feast of homemade dishes straight out of the Linux.com forums. All your favorites are here -- heartburn-inducing Windows-to-Linux file permission problems, savory search tips, and little bits of GNOME and Squid for those
The economy is falling as fast as temperatures in November. Recession seems certain, if its not already here. The stock markets performance resembles Disney Worlds Space Mountain roller coaster. And every open source vendor, every Linux project, will be touched
Nowadays, everyone uses Ubuntu, most people have used Fedora, and many folks have tried openSUSE. SimplyMEPIS ... not so many. Thats a shame, because this relatively obscure Debian-based desktop distribution from Morgantown, WV, is an outstanding desktop operating system. With
AMERICA AT HOME is extraordinary book created by 100 of the worlds leading photographers and tens of thousands of amateurs over the course of one week. You can create your own custom cover for the book this holiday season.
Good programmers tend to be polyglot programmers. Im not sure that good applications tend to be polyglot applications; perhaps the way we build Internet applications is hazardous in the long term.
Imagine if your web browser knew who you were on the web. Just as you login to your computer, what if when you fired up your browser, it said Hello Dave and asked you to unlock it as well. In
Do we really understand the deepest causes of the economic crisis? If not, then we run the risk that our remedies will not produce sustainable results.
If you want to explore Rails, heroku.com offers an easy way to get started, using a web-based interface that neatly hides the complexity of installation and database management.
The promise of peer production seems to reach everywhere these days,but harnessing it is quite a trick.uTestseems to have corraled all the necessary elements. Their businessmodel can be described quite simply: uTest signs up freelance testersfor participating software development firms,
What do you get when you combine a higher-end off-the-shelf cruise vacation with a choice selection of on-board seminars presented by well-respected Mac experts, plus some 170 passengers who are died-in-the-wool Mac-heads?
Taking a cue from Ravens recent post announcing the 10,000 iPhone app milestone, I decided to update some charts from earlier posts on the U.S. iTunes app store. First, the weekly growth in the number of apps was slower in
n yesterdays blog I suggested the idea of super-styles. These are properties of elements which sit above the kinds of typesetting mechanisms our current generation of typesetting and office applications provide. They specify the rhetorical characteristics of an element that
It looks like the 2008.11 release of OpenSolaris just hit their download page. My plan this week is to install the image on my primary laptop and gauge ease of installation, configuration, driver support, and performance. According to blog reports,...
You, no doubt, try to incorporate best practices when engaging in database projects. This week, I was asked to present at the Oracle BIWA SIG conference on Unusual Oracle Data Warehouse Deployment Strategies and developed a lengthy list of worst...
The fifth Where 2.0 Call For Participation will be closing tomorrow (December 2nd). This year were going to focus on location-aware technologies and their implications. The iPhone and Android have paved the way for a new breed of app and
OS X Security is a pretty fun topic for me, because I love watching the carnage when people fight. Before I register my opinion, I need to be clear that Ive been operating almost exclusively on a Mac since OS...
Can our ideas of page-break styling, derived as they are from the mechanisms of quite ancient WP systems, be replaced by some more high level styling concepts that would allow greater mechanism-independence for typeset output.
A high-fidelity prototype provides the engineers and QA organization with a rich, interactive description of the products intended functionality anddesign to be used as a reference basis for implementation and test. Whenever this subject is raised my thoughts turn immediately
Last week, the final judgment was issued in the SCO v. Novell lawsuit. No big surprise, Novell took the day, with SCO ordered to fork over around 3.5 million dollars. This lead many to declare SCO dead, that truth and...
Two services that track the iPhone App Store - AppShopper and 148Apps, announced on Saturday that there have been over 10,000 iPhone applications released on the US App Store. The number of currently available applications is just shy of 10,000
readline – Interface to the GNU readline library Purpose:Provides an interface to the GNU readline library for interacting with the user at a command prompt. Python Version:1.4 and later The readline module can be used to enhance interactive command...
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Wednesday 3 December 2008 at 00:56:00 Change.gov released under Creative Commons US president-elect Barack Obama is easing copyright restrictions on his transition plans. The incoming president has placed
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Wednesday 3 December 2008 at 01:05:00 Global reorganisation underway Palm has said it is going to cut back its US workforce considerably and reorganise its global workforce after
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Wednesday 3 December 2008 at 00:44:00 New botnet being built Experts at security company Trend Micro are warning of a new worm that is spreading by exploiting a
Tom Young, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 2 December 2008 at 00:15:00 Developer claims new turbines could halve the cost of wind energy A wind turbine developer that claims to have invented a new design based on
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Tuesday 2 December 2008 at 23:33:00 Big names all pass Vista malware test The latest edition of the VB100 malware test served up good news for most security
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Tuesday 2 December 2008 at 23:32:00 Possible virus threat in the wild? Apple is advising its customers to install multiple antivirus software engines to protect against possible infection.
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Tuesday 2 December 2008 at 22:52:00 Companies outline plans for Clear network Clearwire and Sprint Nextel have officially completed their merger less than a month after the Federal
Ian Williams, vnunet.com, Tuesday 2 December 2008 at 17:47:00 Pair team up on enterprise-level solid state drives Intel and Hitachi have announced plans to jointly develop enterprise level solid state drives (SSDs) aimed at
Ian Williams, vnunet.com, Tuesday 2 December 2008 at 17:44:00 Presence is the key component, says Dimension Data Nearly half of all businesses have a unified communications (UC) strategy, but the majority are missing a
Kayleigh Bateman, CRN, Tuesday 2 December 2008 at 17:36:00 Vendor invests $250,000 in helping partners through tough times Backup and recovery vendor Quantum Storage is diverting $250,000 (£167,000) of marketing funds into its Alliance
Sara Yirrell, CRN, Tuesday 2 December 2008 at 17:29:00 Amlin pulls out of the market completely, leaving opportunity for players such as Euler, Atradius and Coface The credit insurance market has received another sucker
Angelica Mari, Computing, Tuesday 2 December 2008 at 17:19:00 Credit Suisse and HSBC lay off hundreds Banking giants Credit Suisse and HSBC have announced job cuts affecting IT staff in the UK in the
Ian Williams, vnunet.com, Tuesday 2 December 2008 at 17:06:00 New services and features unveiled in Barcelona Nokia has used its annual Nokia World conference in Barcelona to reveal a host of improvements to some
Tom Young, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 2 December 2008 at 17:04:00 Utility will take surplus electricity from customers white goods to lower input on supply side Electricity provider npower today signed a contract with grid-management firm
Tom Young, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 2 December 2008 at 16:27:00 Energy and climate change secretary addresses fears that there are no incentives for government to stay within new carbon budgets Energy and Climate Change secretary
Kevin Reed, Accountancy Age, Tuesday 2 December 2008 at 16:23:00 SMEs take up offer to ease cashflow burden by easing tax payments More than 2,200 small businesses have asked the taxman for more time to pay their tax bills. The
Sam Trendall, CRN, Tuesday 2 December 2008 at 15:15:00 Marketers in the IT industry expect to be the worst hit by job losses as economic climate worsens next year Marketing professionals in the technology
Sara Yirrell, CRN, Tuesday 2 December 2008 at 15:14:00 Credit insurance giant takes a hit from the collapse of Woolworths Credit insurance giant Euler Hermes has revised its 2008 profits in the wake of
David Neal, vnunet.com, Tuesday 2 December 2008 at 14:47:00 Enterprises warm to SaaS cost-effectiveness and ease of deployment The majority of enterprises expect to increase their use of software-as-a-service (SaaS) in the coming months
Angelica Mari, Computing, Tuesday 2 December 2008 at 14:44:00 Supermarket chain will continue investing in internet strategies to attract more customers Tesco has said it will focus on its online retail operations to attract
It is not the responsibility of non-Muslims to look past barbaric evil attack after barbaric evil attack and recognize that moderate Islam still exists. It is the responsibility of moderate Islam to rein in and destroy the madmen emanating from
This is a rewrite of this diary. People were encouraging towards making it a story. Citations will be provided for images since that jew bastard who runs the place hasnt enabled image tags yet. Making beer is pretty easy, and
I had been running QNX 6.3 on my trusty old 1.4 GHz Pentium III system with two gigs of memory for the last couple years and it was alright. Never quite fast enough despite decent hardware (P3 chips were 2x
The fridge in the kitchen nearest to me at my place of work has a bunch of those dictionary fridge magnets on it. Over the last few months the face of the fridge has been the subject of a fascinating
Two essays from Ayn Rands The Virtue of Selfishness are reprinted in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal as the ethical basis for her moral defense of capitalism. Mans Rights and The Nature of Government are pedestrian defenses of a natural law
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
A city in England has installed a smart CCTV system, which is claimed to be able to detect certain behavior or incidents (via The Register) and to alert camera operators to follow up. The system is supposed to give operators
Weve written about the Mosquito device a few times in the past. Originally launched back in 2005, the device emitted a high pitched annoying noise that could only be heard by those under 25 (or thereabouts). As people get older,
Earlier this year, we noted that the European Parliament overwhelmingly rejected the idea of various countries implementing any kind of policy that would kick file sharers off the internet -- often referred to as three strikes legislation. However, TorrentFreak is
The Register is covering the rather confusing porn guidelines in the UK, which add certain types of porn to the list of what is illegal to possess. Plenty of countries have laws against possession of child porn, but the UK
Last month, Mike wrote about how the English Premier League was making threatening overtones towards Justin.tv, after it discovered some users on the site were streaming broadcasts of its soccer matches. Its the usual stuff from sports leagues, complaining that
Theres been plenty of attention paid to the news that the website for President-Elect Obamas transition team, Change.gov has been placed under a Creative Commons license, allowing others to make use of the content with attribution. However, Im a bit
Last month, in writing about the financial crisis, I tried walking through the root causes of how the financial crisis happened and how to prevent it from happening again -- and the point I kept coming back to was the
Well, here we go again. USA Today has a report on a review of 173 of the strongest papers from the past 28 years, which found that 80% show some sort of link between mass media and something evil happening
Im quite often confused by those who consider themselves big supporters of pure free market capitalism, but who also are adamant believers in the importance of intellectual property. Perhaps the largest group of such folks are the so-called Objectivist followers
It seems that the Associated Press continues to struggle to figure out how to deal with this whole online thing. Its still trying to revamp its pricing structure after a bunch of newspapers canceled their contracts as they were pretty
The battle against spammers rages on, both in the tech and legal worlds, but sadly, with little success. Despite the advances in anti-spam technology and spammers getting sued, shutting down and having their service providers cut off their operations, the
An interesting and important ruling came out of the UK last week, as a journalist had a lawsuit against her thrown out by a judge, because it appears that much of the evidence came from police wiretapping her phone conversations
A guilty verdict in a rape and murder case in the UK is raising some questions about the countrys emergency call system and its ability to deal with callers who cant speak. In this case, the 17-year-old victim dialed 999
We recently pointed out yet another telco-funded study warning about how the internet was going to be overwhelmed by massive traffic growth if the government didnt step in and give telcos everything they wished. However, the University of Minnesotas Minnesota
The Wall Street Journal is running a story about how its been fined by Singaporean courts for two editorials the paper published over the summer. The story notes how nearly every foreign publication distributed in Singapore has been sued in
Last week, the Toronto Police Homicide Squad launched a new website containing profiles of unsolved murder cases and wanted persons. Each profile contains details of the investigation -- a written synopsis, photos and links to Google maps or even YouTube
TechCrunch has a story from last week about a top Belgian politician who apparently got drunk in a New York City bar on a diplomatic trip to the US. A bartender at the bar wrote about it, noting how the
The WSJ is running an article about some guys in Spain who claim to have patented an algorithm that can detect if an electronic device is in standby mode and cut the power. The issue, of course, is that plenty
Its been really weird to see various politicians in the US go after online gambling in a variety of questionable ways, from Kentuckys attempt to seize domain names to the federal government forcing banks to block financial transactions for any
Some researchers at Microsoft have been studying cyberchondria, the phenomenon of people searching the web for medical info, then concluding theyve got some horrible disease or affliction. They conclude that Web search engines have the potential to escalate medical concerns.
Multi Dual Engine slogan very nicely described the constructive peculiarities of the new ASUS gaming machine: two cores, two graphics cards, two hard drives, two 2GB memory modules, even two screens!
Cooling solutions employing Heat-pipe Direct Touch technology keep evolving and improving their efficiency. Today we are going to discuss three new solutions from Xigmatek and OCZ Technology.
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