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Microsoft’s ‘Vista Capable’ marketing slogan deceptive.

One more example of Microsoft trying to pull the wool over consumer’s eyes.
Deceptive, yea that’s an understatement!

11/28/2007
Microsoft’s ‘Vista Capable’ marketing slogan deceptive, lawsuit claims
Lawyers say company misled consumers with software’s pre-release campaign
A Microsoft Corp. product manager couldn’t correctly explain the “Vista Capable” marketing slogan, according to recent filings in a lawsuit that claims [...]

Posted in Billyware, News

Three utilities for automatically converting audio for portable music players

While large cheap hard disks allow you to keep your audio collection in a lossless format such as FLAC on your home network, when you are on the move you probably want to squeeze the most out of every gigabyte by using a compressed format. This article takes a look at three tools aimed at [...]

Posted in Multimedia

Dell will install XP for you after deadline

Dell will sell and support systems with the Windows XP operating systems to its customers even after the June 30 cutoff date set by Microsoft.
What will happen is that Dell will leverage on the “downgrade” license inherent in Vista Business and Vista Ultimate to pre-install Windows XP Professional on a selection of Dell desktop PCs [...]

Posted in Billyware, News

Sophos: One Web page infected every five seconds

Web threats have risen significantly in the first quarter of 2008, with one Web page being infected every five seconds, according to a new report from security vendor Sophos.
Released Wednesday, Sophos said in its Security Threat Report that an average of over 15,000 Web pages were compromised daily between January and March.
In contrast, the daily [...]

Posted in Security

Distant Mountains

Proof that there is a bump in Saskatchewan, I’m going to get so killed when someone sees this.

Technorati Tags: Personal

Posted in Personal

Malware Modification Contest Has Antivirus Vendors Upset

“Race to Zero, a sideline competition being set up at this year’s DefCon, already has some Antivirus vendors steaming over the objectives of the contest. They are upset because it is essentially a polymorphism exercise. Entrants are given a set of malware samples which they must then modify to pass through a battery of antivirus [...]

Posted in News, Security

Copyright crazies gaining steam in Canada

The lobby for US-style copyrights in Canada has gone into overdrive, recruiting a powerful Member of Parliament and turning public forums on copyright into one-sided love-fests for restrictive copyright regimes that criminalize everyday Canadians.
Dan McTeague is the Liberal MP from Pickering-Scarborough East, and he’s set to become the successor to Sam Bulte, the MP who [...]

Posted in News

KDE in Public Schools in Brazil

Open source diary - ProInfo and Linux Educacional - KDE in Public Schools in Brazil
One of the highlights of fisl9.0 for me was getting to know better the work that is being done by Brazil’s Ministry of Education (MEC). They have just unveiled the numbers for the ongoing ProInfo project. What is interesting [...]

Posted in Linux

A real page turner

globeandmail.com: A real page turner
ANN ARBOR, Mich. In a dimly lit back room on the second level of the University of Michigan library’s book-shelving department, Courtney Mitchel helped a giant desktop machine digest a rare, centuries-old Bible.
Mitchel is among hundreds of librarians from Minnesota to England making digital versions of the most [...]

Posted in News

500 Thousand MS Web Servers Hacked

“According to F-Secure, over 500,000 webservers across the world, including some from the United Nations and UK government, have been victims of a SQL injection. The attack uses an SQL injection to reroute clients to a malicious javascript at nmidahena.com, aspder.com or nihaorr1.com, which use another set of exploits to install a Trojan on the [...]

Posted in Security