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Microsoft offering "free" server licenses for backup servers. In a move to appease Software Assurance licensees, Microsoft has announced that they will provide free licenses for networked servers that sit unused, waiting to step in as "backup" servers in the case of a major system failure. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Microsoft Windows XP WiFi quirk easily fixed. It seems we were a bit ahead of the curve on Microsoft's "by-design" Windows XP SP 1 WiFi quirk. This article at Wired details the myriad problems users are experiencing with Microsoft's Wireless Zero Configuration service. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Ars System Guide: Small Form Factor systems. The Ars Technica System Guide returns. This month, we introduce the Small Form Factor Hot Rod and Ultimate Budget Box. By Eric Bangeman. |
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iTunes Music Store European launch set for June 15. Apple has scheduled a "music-related" event for June 15 in London, likely to announce the launch of iTMS in parts of Europe. Will Apple see the music success it has experienced in the US? By Eric Bangeman. |
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Meet the AMD Sempron, AMD's bargain basement CPU. AMD has announced that they are bringing a new "value" class CPU dubbed the AMD Sempron to the market in the second half of this year. The Sempron name will cover CPUs aimed at both the laptop and the desktop markets. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Et Cetera: start the week off right with bullets. Today's monday mystery round up has news just to tasty to pass up. Check it out. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Apple bridges gap between iTunes and the home stereo. Apple today announced the AirPort Express, a small device that plugs into a wall outlet and connects your iTunes library to your home stereo. In addition, it can act as a simple WAP or a bridge for an existing AirPort network. By Eric Bangeman. |
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20 lectures on science fiction as MP3s. The University of Minnesota has posted the audio from 20 lectures from its "Studies in Narrative: Science Fiction and Fantasy" distance-ed course. I haven't listened to them yet, but I've put 'em on my iPod for long plane-trips.
X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 0; #1: 1
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(Thanks, Justin!) |
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Vintage magazine cover gallery. 
MagazineArt.org has thousands of scanned magazine covers from the 19th and early 20th Century. I'm utterly besotted by the covers of the pop-science mags published by Hugo Gernsback, who founded the first science fiction ("scientifiction") magazine in 1928 and for whom the Hugo award is named.
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(Thanks, Damien!)
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Lemony Snicket trailer online. 
The trailer for the first Lemony Snicket movie, "A Series of Unfortunate Events," (starring Jim Carrey) is online!
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(via Aint-It-Cool News)
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Recording industry to demand fingerprints of music listeners. Isn't the recording industry silly for trying this? I'm glad it's wasting its time on this fool's errand. I hope Veritouch gets millions from the RIAA for this rotten idea, which has a zero percent chance of catching on.
The RIAA is hoping that a new breed of music player which requires biometric authentication will put an end to file sharing. Established biometric vendor Veritouch has teamed up with Swedish design company to produce iVue: a wireless media player that allows content producers to lock down media files with biometric security. This week Veritouch announced that it had demonstrated the device to the RIAA and MPAA. Link (via /.) |
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Scalped. 
This razor for head shaving is truly a design tour-de-force. It looks and feels really slick and, most amazingly, it works like a charm. From the HeadBlade site:
"Unlike a conventional razor, the HeadBlade makes your hand (and fingers) the handle. This gives you more control. When your fingers can touch your scalp you have a much better understanding or 'feel' of what you're doing. The patented suspension of the HeadBlade gives you even more control; you don't have to worry about the angle of the blade. Think of a conventional handled razor. It's like a unicycle and only touches your head at one point (where the blade is). This is very difficult to control (both the angle and pressure of the blade). Especially if your fingers aren't in contact with your scalp. The HeadBlade, in contrast, has a suspension and touches your head in two places; like a bicycle."
My head hasn't been this smooth since I last visited Ye Olde Barber Shoppe for the straight razor special. Link (via Cool Tools)
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Off to NotCon. I'll shortly be leaving for NotCon, the NTK-sponsored tech-confernece in London's Imperial College Union (South Kensington). I'm sitting on panels on the politics of the net and the future of plaintext publishing, and looking forward to a really killer line-up of talks and panels and nerdy fun (NotCon's predecessor, The Festival of Inappropriate Technology, is the most fun I've ever had at a one-day conference). At £4 for admission (£3 for crumblies, bloggers, journos, and kiddies), this is your best entertainment value in London today. See you there!
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Send your own letters to MEPs using copyright maximalist action-centre. The "Campaign for Creativity" is an astro-turf letter-writing campaign that aims to get people to write to MEPs demanding even stronger copyright laws for Europe:
I am writing to say that it is important to me that Europe has strong intellectual property laws in place and that they are enforced properly.
The creative industries are under assault from pirates, counterfeiters and those who want weaken or remove the protections that enable the creative industries to function. 17,000 jobs a year and billions of Euros are lost every year because the IP laws are weak or not enforced.
Please support us when you're elected. We're counting on you!
But you can write your own letter and paste it in. Here's the full text of mine, and an excerpt:
File-sharing is part of the traditional cycle of new technology development:
from the phonorecord to the VCR, from the radio to the satellite service, every
new technology that lowered the barriers to reproducing and distributing
copyrighted works has had to make use of the popular media of the day to conjure
itself into existence -- usually over the howls of protest of rights-holders who
were merely the legitimized pirates of from the last fight.
When the phonorecord people bitterly fought radio, they conveniently forgot that
they'd built their business through widescale infringement of the sheet-music
publishers. It's no different today: filmmakers (who enthusiastically violated
Edison's film patents), broadcasters (who played records without permission or
payment), cablecasters (who pirated free-to-air signals for their networks) and
even hybrid entertainment/electronics companies (like Sony, whose piratical VCR
was characterized by the motion-picture people as the certain death of the film
industry) are all standing shoulder to shoulder in the fight against programmers
and ordinary citizens who have, once again, discovered a better way to
distribute and reproduce creative works.
It's no surprise that these pirates of the entertainment industry want to pull
the ladder up behind them and dog the hatch. After all, the traditional role of
inventors has been to create massive new revenue opportunities for the
entertainment industry, and the traditional response of the entertainment
companies has been to seek legislative relief from those opportunities.
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(Thanks, Alice!) |
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Danny O'Brien's Life Hacks. Here are my running notes from Danny O'Brien's NotCon recapulation of his "Life Hacks" talk. Danny interviewed a bunch of prolific geeks and asked them how they do it: this is his distillation of the habits of the geeks who spew the most code, words and such. Wish he'd turn this into a book already!
People use todo.txt (Ford's is 27,000 lines long)
* Don't use complicated apps
* Use Word, BBEdit, Notepad, emacs, vi, whatever
* Why?
* If you want to organize yourself, take the stuff you're going to forget quickly and dump it just as quickly -- if it's in your short-term memory, you have to put it somewhere
* You need to be able to find and enter text fast
* Can cut, paste and find text fast
* XML Guy: "Not interested in tagging my behavior with metadata -- just want to find stuff. Google shows that text cna be found quick"
* Text editors have incremental search (Mozilla: type slash and begin typing for your search string) -- quick way to lock-in on your desired text
* In Moz, Panther, Launchbar, Quicksilver, etc
* Text can be trusted
* Power users trust software as far as they've thrown them in the past
* Power users know that the bigger an app, the flakier it is
* They've upgraded and crossgraded a lot, which means that they need text, which can run on every platform
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TheyWorkForYou: finest advocacy web-app in the world. TheyWorkForYou.com -- a project from the FaxYourMP team -- has launched today. This is the most amazing, subversive piece of political webware I've ever seen. It scrapes the Parliamentary record and makes the entire thing commentable, searchable and permalinkable. It compiles stats of which MPs vote against their parties most often, which ones speak most often, which have made the most motions and so forth. I've been beta-testing it and the code and UI are brilliant. It's like they've poured Parliament into LiveJournal -- and in so doing, have cutg overnment down to a human-addressable scale. We need one of these in every country in the world.
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Combover: The Movie. Chris Marino, the producer/director of the upcoming documentary about combovers said I'd like his site about the film. He's right. The teaser looks great. I bet I'm going to like this a lot more than Supersize Me. There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.- Marcus Valerius Martialis, Roman poet, 98 A.D. Link |
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New materials photoshopping contest. 
Today on the Worth1000 photoshopping contest -- everyday objects manipulated to appear to have been manufactured from other materials (like this soap-bar iPod!).
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Before and After advertising cards. Great gallery of vintage "Before and After" advertising cards:
Rheumatic, lank, dyspeptic, lean;
The bad effects are plainly seen,
On those who do themselves the wrong,
Of buying any brand that comes along.
But happy though, the daily life,
Of the bright, contented, plump, housewife,
And happy all who take her stand
To buy the Arm & Hammer Brand.
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(via Geisha Asobi) |
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Save Clarion mailing-list.
The Clarion science fiction writers' workshop at Michigan State in is pretty grave danger, despite its auspicious, 30+ year history of turning out some of the finest sf writers in the field. A bunch of alumni have started a SavingClarion mailing list to talk about how to keep the workshop going after it loses its berth at MSU. Click the link below to join.
At Wiscon last week, Lister Matheson (the director of Clarion East for the past several years) and Mary Sheridan hosted a brainstorming session to talk about what we can do to keep Clarion alive despite MSU's financial and political machinations.
We came up with some ideas, both short term and long term, in that hour and a half. Step 1 in the plan is to organize a core group of Clarionites to continue the discussion via a listserv, come up with other ideas, and begin to implement some of them. Many people who were there were eager to continue the conversation, and I think all of you might have thoughts to contribute as well.
I just set up the list, and will wait a couple days for everyone to get on it (and for Lister, Mary, and Amelia at Clarion to get back online--the university relocated their offices to rooms without sufficient electrical outlets), then summarize what we've discussed, immediate action items, and we can go from there.
I hope you'll consider joining this conversation by following the Yahoo instructions below to join the group. Feel free to direct others who may want to join us to contact me as well. Thanks.
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(Thanks, Becky!) |
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MP3 interviews with Philip K Dick. David sez, "A friend loaned me a bunch of tapes, and one of them turned out to be an audio interview of Philip K. Dick, interviewed in his home. You can hear the television on and his kids playing in the background. Very relaxed and chatty. I transfered it to mp3s. Everything you hear is exactly what was on the tape. I don't have a lot of server space, so I'll have to post the mp3s a batch at a time. I wouldn't mind if someone wants to provide greater hosting capabilities." Here's David's email if you have some spare hosting capacity you'd like to pass along.
01 -- If God exists then he's a fake, or more likely a foot!
02 -- On RAH.
03 -- Christopher.
04 -- self-sacrifice, the person sacrifices himself for another person.
05 -- On Mussolini.
Link,
Mirror,
Torrent
(Thanks, David and Andrew!)
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Deathmatch Mario Brothers. Super Mario War is a head-to-head deathmatch adaptation of Super Mario Brothers implemented in portable code. Someone port this to the Mac, please!
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(via Waxy) |
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Public Enemy's history of copyright in hip hop. "How Copyright Changed Hip Hop" is an interview with Public Enemy's Chuck D and Hank Shocklee on the punishing battles Public Enemy fought over their use of samples in their early work.
Stay Free!: With its hundreds of samples, is it possible to make a record like It Takes a Nation of Millions today? Would it be possible to clear every sample?
Shocklee: It wouldn't be impossible. It would just be very, very costly. The first thing that was starting to happen by the late 1980s was that the people were doing buyouts. You could have a buyout--meaning you could purchase the rights to sample a sound--for around $1,500. Then it started creeping up to $3,000, $3,500, $5,000, $7,500. Then they threw in this thing called rollover rates. If your rollover rate is every 100,000 units, then for every 100,000 units you sell, you have to pay an additional $7,500. A record that sells two million copies would kick that cost up twenty times. Now you're looking at one song costing you more than half of what you would make on your album.
Chuck D: Corporations found that hip-hop music was viable. It sold albums, which was the bread and butter of corporations. Since the corporations owned all the sounds, their lawyers began to search out people who illegally infringed upon their records. All the rap artists were on the big six record companies, so you might have some lawyers from Sony looking at some lawyers from BMG and some lawyers from BMG saying, "Your artist is doing this," so it was a tit for tat that usually made money for the lawyers, garnering money for the company. Very little went to the original artist or the publishing company.
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(via Waxy) |
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Beam of Pain. A roundup of new weapon technologies in this Sacramento Bee piece:
Test subjects can't see the invisible beam from the Pentagon's new, Star Trek-like weapon, but no one has withstood the pain it produces for more than three seconds. People who volunteered to stand in front of the directed energy beam say they felt as if they were on fire. When they stepped aside, the pain disappeared instantly.
The long-range column of millimeter-wave energy is known as the "Active Denial System" for its ability to prevent an aggressor from advancing. Senior military officials, who plan to deliver the device for troop evaluation this fall, say years of testing has produced no sign it will lead to health effects beyond perhaps causing skin to temporarily redden.(...)
But in an era of secret interrogations of al-Qaida suspects and revelations of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, Executive Director Doug Johnson of the Minneapolis-based Center for Torture Victims is skeptical. "It seems fundamentally a weapon that's designed to create a great deal of pain and fear," Johnson said. "The concern I would have is ... once this kind of technology is available and there's a perception that it's safe and nonlethal, it seems like a natural device to be used in interrogations.
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China cracks down on 'Net games. I filed this story for Wired News about a crackdown on electronic games by the Chinese government:
Responding to an unprecedented boom in computer game popularity, China's government established a censorship task force this week to monitor the content of imported games for offensive or politically sensitive content.
Ministry of Culture officials said all online and wireless games produced outside the country will now be subject to examination first before they can be legally distributed within the country. Foreign producers of online games already in distribution must submit those products to MOC examinations by Sept. 1, or face punishment.
"The ministry allows the import of foreign online games whose content accords with Chinese national conditions and has positive effects on young people's mentality," according to an MOC statement. Chinese officials had been monitoring the content of video games before, but they seem to be stepping up efforts after a period of exponential growth in computer and wireless gaming. Two European games were recently banned.
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Real "Walkman" settles with Sony. Sony is apparently kicking down several million Euros to Andreas Pavel, a German inventor who in 1977 patented and prototyped a wearable stereo called the "Stereobelt." Of course, the Stereobelt sounds a lot like the Sony Walkman, launched two years later. Flush with cash, Pavel now plans to go after Apple and other makers of, er, digital Stereobelts. Link (via my journal at The Feature) |
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Is this Atlantis?. Researcher Rainer Kuehne of the University of Wuppertal believes that structures visible in satellite photos of a salt marsh region near the Spanish city of Cadiz may be "Atlantean" temples. This region on the southern coast of Spain was washed away by a flood between 800-500 BC.
 "(In his description of Atlantis) 'Plato wrote of an island of five stades (925m) diameter that was surrounded by several circular structures - concentric rings - some consisting of Earth and the others of water. We have in the photos concentric rings just as Plato described,' Dr Kuehne told BBC News Online."
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Blogger photo-gallery. 
Rannie -- the photojunkie.ca photoblogger who can often be seen at events like SXSW taking even more photos than most people -- is doing a one-week tribute to bloggers, with pix of many webwriters. I like this one of me at the Bloggie awards.
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(Thanks, Rannie!)
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Wired's fantastic intellectual property infoporn. 
Wired has just posted a series of "Infoporn" PDFs showing really fascinating stats about the realtionship of intellectual property and the public domain. They cover all the bases here, from books and music to seed-stock and the genome. This is excellent, excellent stuff.
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NES-themed Game Boy. 
Nintendo has brought out a Game Boy Advance with classic Nintendo Entertainment System styling -- check out the leaked early pix.
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(via Waxy)
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Apple's sweet new WiFi appliance. 
Apple has just announced the $129 WiFi Express, a WiFi appliance in an AC-adapter form-factor. It has an Ethernet jack, a stereo mini-jack and a USB print-server so that you can stream audio, USB and packets to anything in range of your WiFi base-station, at 802.11g speed.
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(Thanks John!)
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Harry Potter movie reworked with a downloadable soundtrack. Wizard People, Dear Reader is a remix of the first Harry Potter movie. It's a special soundtrack to the movie made by artist Brad Neely that recasts the story and tone of the flick. The idea is to buy the DVD and play the soundtrack (which is a free download) alongside of it.
With Mr. Neely's gravelly narration, the movie's tone shifts into darkly comic, pop-culture-savvy territory. Hagrid, Harry Potter's giant, hairy friend, becomes Hagar, the Horrible, and Harry's fat cousin becomes Roast Beefy. As imagined by Mr. Neely, the three main characters are child alcoholics with a penchant for cognac, the magical ballgame Quidditch takes on homoerotic overtones, and Harry is prone to delivering hyper-dramatic monologues. "I am a destroyer of worlds," bellows Mr. Neely at one point, sending laughter reverberating through the warehouse Friday night. "I am Harry" expletive "Potter!"
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(via Creative Commons) |
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First-ever look inside a WIPO treaty negotiation (day 1 of 3). I'm at the World Intellectual Property Organization's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, along with the largest-ever public-interest coalition in WIPO history, We've all come to oppose the Broadcast Treaty (which will make the Web illegal and require the world's governments to mandate the design everything that can receive a signal, from a PC to a radio) and the proposed Database Treaty (which would let people who'd amassed public, uncopyrightable facts turn them into their exlusive property).
There's no transparency into this process for most of the world. The doors are locked, the minutes are sealed, and you need to be accredited just to sit in the room.
There's no connectivity in the room, but by publishing and using an ad-hoc WiFi network in the main room, three of us (me, my cow-orker Wendy Seltzer, and David Tannenbaum from the Union for the Public Domain) were able to collaborate on note-taking on the first half-day's session using SubEthaEdit, the brilliant and unique Mac app.
The speaking style at these events is "diplomatic" --slow, formal and thick with coded and subtle messages. Between the three of us we were able to untangle some of the speech and tease out some analysis. I think that our point-form notes are a really good, comprehensive view of the meeting.
* Brazil: We've been at this for ages. No real and substantive
discussions have taken place. There's no clear understanding of
the potential economic and social impact of database protection.
A study that was comissioned by WIPO on database copying in Latin
America indicated from the Latin American perspective that
regulation is premature. It's detrimental to innovation, science,
education, access, etc., particularily in developing countries.
In the light of this we want to question the usefulness and
convenience of maintaining this on the agenda. This isn't
unfinished business, the lacklustre engagement of the committee
tells us that this is business we don't want to engage in, and
this gets in the way of other business we might choose to
address. We ask to have this permanently deleted from the agenda.
* ALA: The database protection issue in US Congress is
significantly controversial, highly unlikely to pass in this
Congress. Agree with Brazil, let's take this off the table here.
Congress called this a "Solution in search of a problem" --
there's more databases than ever, why do we need this. We don't
see a consensus or a need for protection.
* Ecuador: On behalf of Latin American and Caribbean group, I
would like to make a general statement. We don't think that this
should be on the agenda now.
* India: Should everyone who produces work by sweat of the brow
come here for protection? This isn't creative labour. There's no
allegation of widespread copying of non-original databases. Even
if there were, the question relevant for this organization is
whether this body should be considering nonoriginal databases.
Where there's no creativity, databases are assets; that's the
apporpriate concern to address by misappropriation, but not
intellectual property. Perhaps soem other rubric, some other
forum is appropriate. Many entities need protection of sweat of
brow assets but we shouldn't have all of them approaching WIPO
for a remedy.
If EU wants to protect nonoriginal databases, EU can. It's
important to leave industry space to develop. at this stage, we
need a more careful learning process, not laws that inhibit
industry rather than facilitate. Database protection is
premature now. Even in long term, it may not be appropriate for
WIPO. We recommend the issue be deleted from the Standing
Committee's agenda.
* US delegation: We think that this should remain on the agenda.
We need to exchange more information about what this is and how
it works where it's been adopted.
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Sub-niche blog of note: peoplefallingover.com. Peoplefallingover.com has entries about people who involuntarily rotate about their Z-axis. For example, watch what happens to this man who insists on applying a red-hot branding iron to a horse's hind leg. Link |
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Low-carb potato. I've been on the Atkins diet for two months and my potato jones just won't go away. That's why I was thrilled to read that a new "low-carb" potato will be available come January. Developed by a seed company in the Netherlands, it's not genetically modified either. The bummer though is that this variety of spud is in reality just lower carb. According to potato expert Chad Hutchinson of the University of Florida, 3.5 ounces of the new potato contains 13 grams of carbohydrates, compared to 19 grams in a comparable chunk of Russet Burbank potato.
Hutchinson said it is due in part to the lower specific gravity, which relates to the amount of starch in the potato, compared to the more widely recognized Russet Burbank baking potato. "The smooth, buff-colored skin and light yellow flesh will make this potato an attractive and tasty alternative in many traditional potato recipes," he said. Link
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Pics of Sci-Fi Museum.  Kirsten Anderson of Roq La Rue gallery in Seattle posted some pictures from the "friends and family" premiere of the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle. Link
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Awesome combover. I try not to post things that make fun of people's appearances, so I have to explain that I'm linking to this picture of an extreme combover not because I think it looks bad on the guy, but because I'm saluting him for being so in-your-face about it. He's pushing the envelope, and he deserves recognition. Link |
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Dilbert for 06 Jun 2004.  |
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Dilbert for 07 Jun 2004.  |
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Powerful New Techniques.  |
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Viewers flocking to pay TV films. More than 100 million homes world-wide now buy on demand movies, says a technology report. |
| 42. |
Mobile market revival for Intel. The microchip giant says a recovery in its share of the mobile phone market means it foresees strong sales for the second quarter of 2004. |
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Microsoft admits SAP merger talks. Microsoft has had to admit it held merger talks with Germany's SAP as the details may be used during a US anti-trust trial. |
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Peoplesoft bid faces legal fight. US government officials are heading to a San Francisco court to try to block Oracle's hostile bid for rival software maker Peoplesoft. |
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Teenagers reach out via weblogs. A study of blogging reveals there are few gender differences in teen blog habits. |
| 46. |
Music stores face 'uncertainty'. UK record shops could become
"irrelevant" in the age of downloading and supermarket CD sales, says a report. |
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Vodacom first for 3G in Africa. South African telecoms firm Vodacom wins the continent's first licence to provide new generation, or 3G, mobile services. |
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'Father of the PC' honoured. Alan Turing, who is credited with revolutionising computer science, is remembered 50 years after his suicide. |
| 49. |
Blackberry battle goes to court. A Washington court looks into who should hold the US patent for the Blackberry. |
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Hospital tests barcoding patients. A London hospital is testing the use of barcodes on patients to try to reduce medication errors. |
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UK game makers take on US sports. The UK team behind a best-selling football video game have set their sights on American sports. |
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Apple iTunes 'set for UK launch'. Apple's hit online music service is expected to launch a UK service next week in competition with Napster. |
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Cisco extends relationship with Trend Micro |
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Apple patches 'critical' OS X flaw |
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Net operators warming to video ads |
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Briefly: Net operators warming to video ads |
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Ethernet switch start-up rakes in $75 million |
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Mac Users Get Posh Office; Rival Suite Pales in Comparison (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - The two newest releases in the office-suite market come via strange routes. |
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Oracle: Merger Talks Show Competition (Reuters). Reuters - Attorneys for Oracle Corp. on
Monday used last year's exploratory merger talks between
Microsoft Corp. and SAP AG to counter U.S. antitrust
regulators' argument that Oracle's proposed $7.7 billion
takeover of rival PeopleSoft Inc. would hamper competition. |
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Oracle Antitrust Case Opens (AP). AP - Oracle Corp. began a pivotal legal battle Monday by depicting its $7.7 billion takeover bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc. as a competitive catalyst that will spur Microsoft Corp. and other major players to pounce on new market opportunities. |
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Apple Sets Wireless Hardware for PCs, Macs (AP). AP - Apple Computer Inc. broadened its support of Windows-based computers Monday, introducing a new wireless access device designed to work with computers running either Mac OS X or Microsoft Corp.'s operating system. |
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Memory Price Dropping, But PC Makers Still Pay Up (Reuters). Reuters - Computer memory prices have been
falling for the last month after an unexpected spike in April,
but large personal computer makers like Dell Inc. (DELL.O) and
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ.N) may barely be affected this
quarter, analysts said. |
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SHOPTALK: Nike Gets Up To Speed (AdWeek.com). AdWeek.com - Aside from "Lindsay Lohan's Fake Bra Sold on eBay," the best thing last week on Gawker was an ad: a link to Art of Speed, a so-called "contract publishing blog" (a sort of online advertorial) that Gawker is developing with Nike. |
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The End of the Mass-Mailer Worm Era (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - It could be that conventional mass-mailer worms have seen their best days. They certainly seem to be in decline and the future is unpromising. |
| 65. |
China Clamps Down on Digital Films (Reuters). Reuters - China has issued new rules to rein in
digital filmmakers, some of whom have screened politically
taboo home videos on the Web and shown documentaries exposing
social ills at film festivals abroad. |
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Computer Use a Boost to Young Minds, Study Finds (Reuters). Reuters - Preschool children who use a computer
appear to develop better learning skills than peers who lack
computer savvy, U.S. researchers said on Monday. |
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Cisco to Use Trend Micro Antivirus Technologies (Reuters). Reuters - Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO.O), the
world's largest maker of equipment that directs Internet
traffic, on Monday said it would integrate Trend Micro Inc.'s
(TMIC.O) technology to block computer viruses and worms with
its software in a bid to make corporate networks more secure. |
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Apple Unveils Wireless Station to Stream Music (Reuters). Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O) on
Monday unveiled a mobile wireless base station that lets users
play digital music from their iTunes music libraries on a
Macintosh or Windows computer over home stereo systems. |
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Digital Photography Composition 101 |
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Apple Music Store Coming to Europe & iTunes in China |
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Webmasters Pounce On Wiki Sandboxes |
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Setting Up Mac OS X for a Teenage Coffeehouse? |
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Apple Rolls Out AirPort Express, AirTunes |
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Blackberry In Court Again Over Patents |
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Was Zuse's Z3 the First Programmable Computer? |
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Sun Opens JDesktop Integration Components |
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Native American Wireless ISP Launched |
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What Might Have Been: Microsoft Almost Bought SAP |
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Blackberry patent case brings RIM, NTP back in court. The three-year patent dispute between Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), maker of the popular BlackBerry handheld messaging device, and NTP Inc. will make its way back to the courtroom on Monday. |
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RSA focuses anew on the password problem. BOSTON - RSA Security Inc. is renewing its focus on improving the security of user passwords. The company on Monday plans to announce RSA Sign-On Manager, a rebranded version of its SecurID Passage product that the company claims will make it easier for enterprises to manage user passwords. |
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Man pleads guilty to wireless hack into stores. BOSTON - A Michigan man pleaded guilty on Friday to four counts of wire fraud and unauthorized access to a computer after he and two accomplices used a vulnerable wireless network at a Lowe's Companies Inc. store in Michigan to attempt to steal credit card numbers from the company's main computer systems in North Carolina and other Lowe's stores in the U.S. |
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Microsoft, SAP say they considered merging. As part of its bid for a foothold in the enterprise applications market, Microsoft Corp. initiated merger discussions late last year with ERP (enterprise resource planning) leader SAP AG. The talks ended several months ago after Microsoft decided the deal and the post-union integration would be too risky. |
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Cybersecurity: Too important to leave in private hands?. WASHINGTON - The cybersecurity of the U.S. is too important to leave to the chance that marketplace incentives will lead to more secure software, a liberal commentator and a cybersecurity analyst argued Monday at the Gartner IT Security Summit. |
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EMC packages Centera with software, services. EMC Corp. Monday plans to announce three technology bundles that combine its Centera fixed-data disk array with software and technical services for storing e-mail and documents to support regulatory compliance initiatives. |
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Confusion surrounds Cisco-Linksys wireless hole. BOSTON - A report last week about a security hole in a wireless broadband router made by Cisco Systems Inc.'s Linksys division overstated the severity of the vulnerability, according to the man who first warned of the problem. |
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AMD reveals Sempron brand for future low-cost chips. BOSTON - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) plans to come out with a third major processor brand called Sempron in the second half of this year, the company announced Monday. |
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Dell expands 64-bit offering with four-way Itanium. Dell is expanding its 64-bit server line with a new, four processor Itanium 2 server aimed at high performance workloads such as databases, engineering clusters and heavy duty ERP applications. |
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CPU-based security for Windows XP, Red Hat Linux coming. Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 will support new CPU-based security protections designed to stop incoming malicious executable code from being triggered. |
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RSA focuses anew on the password problem. BOSTON - RSA Security Inc. is renewing its focus on improving the security of user passwords. The company on Monday plans to announce RSA Sign-On Manager, a rebranded version of its SecurID Passage product that the company claims will make it easier for enterprises to manage user passwords. |
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Man pleads guilty to wireless hack into stores. BOSTON - A Michigan man pleaded guilty on Friday to four counts of wire fraud and unauthorized access to a computer after he and two accomplices used a vulnerable wireless network at a Lowe's Companies Inc. store in Michigan to attempt to steal credit card numbers from the company's main computer systems in North Carolina and other Lowe's stores in the U.S. |
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Linux Security Week - June 7th 2004 |
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Linux Security Week - June 7th 2004 |
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'Open-source' Solaris plan draws lukewarm response |
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OpenBSD revisited |
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Elsewhere: The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, May 2004. A small nugget of good news lies buried among the mountains of unsolicited commercial e-mail: the spam volume held steady from April to May, according to two leading e-ma... |
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Elsewhere: IT security budgets expected to rise. Enterprise investment in information technology security in the United States is likely to hit 12 percent of total IT budgets over the next couple of years, according to ... |
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News: Virus writers deploy bulk mail software. Hackers have used spamming software to distribute thousands of copies of a new Trojan. Email filtering firm MessageLabs alone has intercepted more than 4,000 copies of the Demonize-T Trojan over the last 24 hours. |
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BugTraq: Linksys BEFSR41 DHCP vulnerability server leaks network data. Sender: Lance Armstrong [mishlai at hotmail dot com] |
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BugTraq: TREND MICRO: The Protector Becomes The Vector Take II. Sender: http-equiv at excite dot com [1 at malware dot com] |
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BugTraq: MS ISA SP2 out last month. Sender: Paul Appleby [Appleby at iiss dot org] |
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BugTraq: OBJECT Bugs or Features. Sender: James C Slora Jr [Jim dot Slora at phra dot com] |
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Vulns: Linux Kernel do_mremap Function VMA Limit Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. A vulnerability involving the do_mremap system function has been reported in the Linux kernel, allowing for local privilege escalation. The mremap(2) system call is used... |
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Vulns: Oracle E-Business Suite Multiple Unspecified SQL Injection Vulnerabilities. The Oracle E-Business suite is a suite of applications designed to implement commercial e-commerce web documents. The suite is supported by an SQL database.
Oracle E-Bu... |
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Vulns: Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities. Ethereal 0.10.4 has been released to address multiple vulnerabilities. These issues may allow a remote attacker to carry out denial of service and buffer overflow attacks... |
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Vulns: L2TPD Write_Packet Block BSS based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. l2tpd is a Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol daemon, implementing the protocol defined in RFC 2661.
l2tpd is reportedly affected by a BSS (block started by symbol) based buffer... |
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Vulns: Microsoft Internet Explorer ITS Protocol Zone Bypass Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer has been reported prone to a vulnerability that may permit hostile content to be interpreted in the Local Zone.
This issue is believed to de... |
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Vulns: CVS Malformed Entry Modified and Unchanged Flag Insertion Heap Overflow Vulnerability. CVS is the concurrent versioning system. CVS is a freely available, open source software development package for the Unix, Linux, and Microsoft Windows platforms.
CVS i... |
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Apple stamps on next-gen Power Mac pics. Line up goes all-dualie By Tony Smith . |
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Manchester honours Alan Turing. Computer pioneer died 50 years ago today By Lester Haines . |
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AMD readies low-cost Sempron CPUs. Names new, post-Duron value brand By Tony Smith . |
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China goes large for mobile phones. One in four fully equipped by year end By Tim Richardson . |
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Virus writers deploy bulk mail software. New multi-stage Trojan rides spam tsunami By John Leyden . |
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Final appeal in RIM's US Blackberry battle. Faces $100m bill if unsuccessful By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Parental Internet fears put kids at risk. Proper awareness required, not hysteria By John Oates . |
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Mobile phones drive us mental: official. Shock survey result By Tim Richardson . |
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Dell makes room for midrange Itanium system. Puts the price back in price/performance By Ashlee Vance . |
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BT's modest plan to clean up the Net. Analysis Blocking illegal content By John Leyden . |
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Democracy and the software patenting debate. Opinion Have your say on 10 June By Lucy Sherriff . |
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McAfee founder returns with 'legal p2p radio'. Mercora doesn't share music - it webcasts it By Tony Smith . |
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Apple builds wireless hi-fi bridge with pocket router. Plug and stream By Andrew Orlowski . |
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Oops! Firm accidentally eBays customer database. Financial records? Yours for a fiver By John Leyden . |
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HP must create separate printer biz - analyst. The Loon wakes up and vomits By Ashlee Vance . |
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An Atlas of Intellectual Property. It's producers versus pirates versus consumers, from Silicon Valley to Shanghai. A special Infoporn from Wired magazine on the global battle between liberty and control. |
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Sim Sex Not So Scintillating. Imported Japanese dating-sim games offer graphic cartoon sex with hot manga girls. Think that sounds exciting? Not so fast, lover. Boring graphics and hours of simple-minded mouse-clicking will kill even the most randy libido. By Danit Lidor. |
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Call It the Dead E-Mail Office. Internet bigwig Lawrence Lessig is behind in his e-mail -- so far behind that he's given up. But he's really sorry about it. By Michael Fitzgerald. |
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Wireless Content Makes Headway. Cell phones are moving beyond ring tones and screensavers, and content providers like ESPN and The New York Times are stepping up to claim consumer dollars. By Staci D. Kramer. |
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Solar-Powered Gadgets on the Move. In the wilds or on the road, solar panels that fold into notebook-size cases are charging everything from laptop computers to cameras and Palm Pilots. But for some, a cell phone that works in the wilderness may not be a boon. |
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Little Brothers Like IP Cameras. New surveillance cameras allow anyone with a broadband internet connection to keep a 24-hour watch on nearly anything -- from anywhere. Parents can monitor kids, the boss can keep an eye on the office. |
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Cancer Drugs Aim at More Targets. In a 'cluster bomb' approach, drug companies are doing clinical trials of a new generation of cancer drugs that can attack cancer cells on multiple fronts. Some worry about side effects of the new therapy. |
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Summit: Carbon Dioxide Traders. A trade fair for buyers, sellers and brokers of carbon-dioxide discharge permits convenes in Germany. Getting rid of the waste gas blamed for global warming is a shell game, and profit may be the key to reining in emissions. |
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Cities Say No to the Patriot Act. As Bush launches a campaign to promote the Patriot Act and convince Congress to renew sections set to expire next year, hundreds of cities across the United States say enough is enough. By Kim Zetter. |
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RSA pumps up passwords |
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Report: Juniper Networks/NetScreen EMEA press summit |
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US wardriver pleads guilty to Wi-Fi hacks |
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Secure development: a polarised response |
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New armor to thwart hacks |
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Cisco and Trend Micro Extend Security Relationship to Deliver Virus and Worm Outbreak Prevention Solutions |
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ADV: Check out the Ziff Davis Channel Zone! |
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Fighting Back Against Cyber-Crime |
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The End of the Mass-Mailer Worm Era |
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Blog :: Linux antivirus support |
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Windows Server 2003 Centralized Backup in the Farm Belt |
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Look Out For 3-Headed Plexus Worm |
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MS: Get Your Free Backup Server License |
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Mail Manage EX v3.1.8 PHP Code Injection Vulnerability |
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Crafy Syntax Live Help 2.7.3 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability |
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Tripwire Format String Vulnerability |
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'Open-source' Solaris plan draws lukewarm response |
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OpenBSD revisited |
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VBS.Pub Worm, RTT Measurement Probes, ARIN in-addr.arpa, IE Exploits |
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InfoSec Writers: Application Level DoS Attacks |
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