First let me state that in no way do I represent Mepis or Warren in any way shape or form, with that said. Is Mepis going away? No, the releases have been slow do a thing called work and unless Warren does that he has a problem paying bills eating and stuff like that. So [...]
Even since astronaut Dave Bowman disconnected the HAL 9000’s holographic memory in 2001: A Space Odyssey techies have been wondering when we could buy real holographic storage. Now we know: May, 2008. Promising super-high density and excellent media flaw resistance, holographic storage has been an ever-receeding technology for years. You can buy nifty 3D skull [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Internet calling company Skype said on Monday that it would offer an unlimited long-distance calling service for customers who want to reach friends and family without computers or Internet access. Skype, owned by eBay, is one of the best-known Internet calling firms which allow free calls among Internet users. Users pay [...]
Seeking to make money from mistyped website names, some of the United States’ largest ISPs instead created a massive security hole that allowed hackers to use web addresses owned by eBay, PayPal, Google and Yahoo, and virtually any other large site. The vulnerability was a dream scenario for phishers and cyber attackers looking for convincing [...]
Hey even you have to say this is a nice view as I sit with my morning coffee reading the news and looking out the window, not bad huh? More to come and maybe even links once I have some more of the pictures uploaded and tagged
What’s Flickr doing to you now? Pondering a possible purchase at the hands of Microsoft? Threatening to add more features like support 90-second video clips? Withholding those free doughnuts you were promised? Sounds like now might be a good time to make a backup of you Flickr images. Actually, even without the paranoia of a [...]
Here is a article that I found this morning that really hits home with me so I thought that I would pass it on to you folks to take a look at and see what you think, Baldy. I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend among Linux users of late, myself included, that has begun to [...]
I never thought I would see the day when a hard drive manufacturer would go from indifferent to outright stupid all with one drive release. Apparently, it has happened. It seems that Seagate has opted to forgo compatibility for anyone other than Linux users and that’s a real shame, as I have always been a [...]
“Mark Dowd’s paper “Application-Specific Attacks: Leveraging the ActionScript Virtual Machine” has alarmed researchers. It points out techniques that promise to open up a class of exploits and vulnerability research previously thought to be prohibitively difficult. Already, the small but growing group of Information Security experts who have had the chance to read and digest the [...]
Comcast Corp., under federal investigation for interfering with the traffic of its Internet subscribers, said Tuesday it wants to develop a “Bill of Rights and Responsibilities” for file sharing. The announcement expands on Comcast’s new policy toward file-sharing: It said last month that rather than singling out such traffic and blocking some of it, the [...]