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27th January Comments

Dead spy satellite falling from orbit – could hit Earth in late February or March

Posted on January 27th, 2008 at 5:55 am

  You’d hope contingency plans were in place. Wouldn’t you. And heck I was worried about dying from old age, First a plane parts fall from the skies and kill some poor customer in a car dealership and now spy satellites are falling when will all the falling stop. Maybe Chicken Little was right after [...]

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25th January Comments

Mystery infestation strikes Linux/Apache Web sites

Posted on January 25th, 2008 at 4:39 am

  According to a press release issued earlier this month by Finjan, a security research firm, compromised Web servers are infecting thousands of visitors daily with malware that turns their Windows machines into unwitting bots to do the bidding of an as yet unidentified criminal organization. Security firms ScanSafe and SecureWorks have since added their [...]

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24th January Comments

Ten Years Ago Today: Netscape Announces Free Communicator Source Code Release

Posted on January 24th, 2008 at 4:56 am

  Today marks ten years since Netscape Communications Corporation announced its intention to release the source code of the then in-development Netscape Communicator 5.0, heralding the beginning of what would become the Mozilla project. At the same time, Netscape stopped charging for Netscape Navigator 4.0 and Netscape Communicator Standard Edition 4.0. Yikes now this is [...]

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24th January Comments

The state of Linux according to Google

Posted on January 24th, 2008 at 4:53 am

  This is a look at the state of Linux through the eyes of Google Trends, Google’s highly useful search trend analyzer. Though looking at search statistics can never give a complete picture, this gives an interesting perspective to how things are going for Linux, especially when viewed through the eyes of such a dominant [...]

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24th January Comments

Open source under attack?

Posted on January 24th, 2008 at 4:50 am

  A nest of poisoned Web sites has been quietly attacking unsuspecting visitors using an arsenal of thirteen different exploits. If the site visitor has JavaScript enabled and is vulnerable to any of those exploits, then in no time at all their system will be compromised with a Trojan not yet recognized [sic] by many [...]

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24th January Comments

Dell releases new Ubuntu-powered laptop: XPS 1330n

Posted on January 24th, 2008 at 4:47 am

  Linux laptop users suffering from Apple MacBook Air envy now have a chic, hot laptop to call their own: the Dell XPS 1330n with pre-installed Ubuntu 7.10. It is a good thing that Linux is becoming more mainstream but darn are any of you listening, there are other distros out there and just maybe [...]

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23rd January Comments

Hacker compromised legit Web sites now pose gravest danger

Posted on January 23rd, 2008 at 6:52 am

The number of genuine Web sites compromised by hackers has increased and for the first time surpasses that of malicious Web sites purposefully created by cyber criminals, according to a report by Websense Security Labs. It’s getting ugly out there! Source: IT Business Canada Technorati Tags: Security

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22nd January Comments

Asus Plans to Offer Windows on the Eee

Posted on January 22nd, 2008 at 4:22 am

  I found this over on Lxer and thought what a switch,Baldy   Asus’s Eee PC, an ultra-light notebook that runs Linux, will be available with Windows XP before the end of the quarter. Pricing has not yet been announced. It will be interesting to see which OS consumers choose.   Asus Plans to Offer [...]

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21st January Comments

Caliendo on Letterman

Posted on January 21st, 2008 at 8:15 am

This is great stuff

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21st January Comments

Should There Be A Privacy Line With Life Streaming?

Posted on January 21st, 2008 at 7:26 am

Duncan Riley I had the opportunity to spend some time with Sarah Meyers of PopSnap this week. Sarah was in town to do the videos for the Crunchies, and I had to drive her up to the award ceremony Friday. On many levels she’s inspiring, particularly given that someone so relatively young can make a [...]

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