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Thursday, January 29, 2004
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XGrid or the future of computing: "[Y]ou could install this on anyone's computer without changing this person's workflow in any way - the only difference is that the regular screen saver is replaced by a program that displays the cluster's power on the screen (in a very cool way, might I add) and tells the cluster controller that the computer it is running on is free to do some calculation."
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Whale explodes in Taiwanese city: "A dead sperm whale has exploded while being delivered to a research centre near the southwestern city of Tainan. Passers-by and cars were soaked in blood and body parts were sprayed over a road after the bursting of the whale, which was being carried on a trailer."
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Videoconferencing with Marratech Pro -- Comment()
Today I tested videoconferencing and collaboration with Marratech Pro between Windows and Mac OS X. I had an Apple iSight camera and a Plantronics headset, which worked fine with Marratech Pro. The sound quality was excellent, and the video came trough a bit slow, but acceptably. The best feature of the software are the collaboration functions, where you can share the contents of a Window, or edit a document together with another party. The program crashed once on my Mac, but started up again. The crash was probably due to my sending a massive screen capture to be shared over the net.
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Among Databases, Open Access Is Growing Rare: "[R]estricted access makes it harder for other databases to incorporate your data and produce an even better result. For example, my group develops public databases focused on specific diseases. We collect data from multiple, mostly public sources, and present the information in ways that are more useful for scientists working on our diseases. To preserve open access to our databases, we cannot incorporate data from...restricted sources, even if they allow downloads. Too bad. It means we have to spend time and money duplicating work already done. Delay, delay, delay." [via Open Access News]
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25,415 spam messages -- Comment()
Visakopu.net commented my entry on the number of spam messages: "Heh, that's nothing! Thanks to Mydoom I've received the whopping number of 18,517 spam messages since the reset of SpamSieve which happened 43 hours ago. I have to admit that it wasn't that bad before this virus. I used to receive 300-400 spam messages a day." The most recent entry at Visakopu.net updates the count to 25,415 spam messages. That is really bad. For me the situation is not getting worse. I now have 348 spam messages in my inbox. Double filtering of e-mail seems to spare me from most of the deluge.
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Hackers capitalizing on Mydoom's success: "A back door to computer systems opened by the Mydoom e-mail worm is turning into a bonanza for thousands of hackers, who are scanning the Internet furiously for systems infected by Mydoom, antivirus experts said Wednesday." [InfoWorld: Top News]
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New Explorer hole could be devastating: "A security hole in Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer could prove devastating. Following the exposure of a vulnerability in Windows XP earlier this week, [...] Explorer 6 users [...] could be fooled into downloading what look like safe files but are in fact whatever the author wishes them to be -- including executables." [InfoWorld: Top News]
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When Windows leaks, bullshit flows -- Comment()
Today I wrote a short piece on Windows security. Have to see if the piece gets published. I took a rather sceptical position towards the recent Microsoft statements.
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