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 | Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price |
 Anonymous writes "Interesting and detailed article seen recently on New York Times. Oh no... this can't be about ME!!
SAN FRANCISCO — When one of the most important e-mail messages of his
life landed in his in-box a few years ago, Kord Campbell overlooked it.
Not just for a day or two, but 12 days. He finally saw it while sifting
through old messages: a big company wanted to buy his Internet
start-up.
“I stood up from my desk and said, ‘Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God,’ ”
Mr. Campbell said. “It’s kind of hard to miss an e-mail like that, but
I did.”
The message had slipped by him amid an electronic flood: two computer
screens alive with e-mail, instant messages, online chats, a Web
browser and the computer code he was writing.
(View an interactive panorama of Mr. Campbell's workstation.)
Read more of the research and findings
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Posted by icecold on Tuesday, June 08 @ 10:51:43 BST (106 reads)
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| Google says no to Windows |
Anonymous writes "Internet search giant, Google, has banned the use of Microsoft’s
Windows operating system (OS) for internal use at its office, as
reported by the Financial Times. Google took this decision after the
Chinese hacking incident.
The employees at Google will now have to choose either of the two OS, Apple’s Mac OS or Linux. Though the option of Windows will be there but choosing it will require approval from Google’s CIO.
“We’re not doing any more Windows. It is a security effort,” said one Google employee.
Changes due to security issues at Google
Google has phased out Windows as it can be easily hacked and is prone to computer viruses, as compared to other operating systems.
“Many people have been moved away from [Windows] PCs, mostly towards
Mac OS, following the China hacking attacks,” said an employee.
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Posted by icecold on Sunday, June 06 @ 13:37:15 BST (102 reads)
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| Microsoft Points To Security Controls In Addressing Google Exodus Rumor |
Anonymous writes "Posted recently on Hothardware.com
Saturday, June 05, 2010 - by Ray Willington
We actually wondered what Microsoft would say if they got wind of Google's plans to phase out Windows machines in favor of Linux and OS X alternatives, and it looks like our wish has been granted.
Microsoft recently published a response the rumor (which has still not been confirmed by Google), and the whole thing feels like Microsoft trying to cut this off before it blows up into something big.
Addressing a rumor that has yet to be confirmed is a pretty big move, and naturally the
focus is on security.
Read more and especially read comment.
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Posted by icecold on Sunday, June 06 @ 13:37:02 BST (97 reads)
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| Job Situation getting Desperate in UK |
Anonymous writes "Seen on SkyNews.
Jobcentres Offering Women Adult Porn Work
Government-run dole offices are offering unemployed women jobs on X-rated websites.
The girls are told they can earn up to £700 a
week if they strip naked on webcams and have sexually explicit
conversations with customers.
Young jobseekers looking for
clerical work were given sex line applications when they went to sign
on at Jobcentre Plus offices in Birmingham, Warwickshire and Shropshire.
Faceclick,
the adult agency recruiting for the work, encourages job applicants to
perform "activities that you feel comfortable with" when naked in front
of the camera.It features photos of its clients under various titles including "just legal 18", "fetish" and "role play"
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Posted by icecold on Friday, May 14 @ 11:50:30 BST (135 reads)
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| Securing a Virtualized E-mail System |
Anonymous writes "
by Greg Olsen.
The
optimal solution for most companies looking to lower the operating
expenses associated with an e-mail environment through virtualization
is to deploy a hybrid approach.
Data center virtualization is still one of the hottest trends in
enterprise IT today. Virtualization has moved from the lab to
production environments for many applications in large enterprises.
Initially, less-critical applications were migrated to a virtual
platform; today, more mission-critical applications, notably e-mail
servers (where e-mail is delivered into users' inboxes), are more often
being migrated to a virtual platform.
Read article on esj.com
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Posted by icecold on Tuesday, April 06 @ 10:59:10 BST (121 reads)
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| Linux Coaching Rebranded |
Linux Coaching Organisation, aka LCO France has re-branded. Now known as Le Chat Overgnat, our new site has been refocused to better emphasize some of the less obvious reasons for visiting.
The new dynamic site at www.lcofrance.org has a less Linuxy look, yet retains the Linux course material, placing it as a secondary service. It adds some bright new course ideas, allowing the two geeky brits to devote more time to the ecological side of the Auvergne region. Concentrating their efforts towards the holiday and health aspects of life in the relaxed environment of the Livradois-Forez nature park.
If you are still struggling with Vista or Linux for that matter, then perhaps its time for an eye-opener break in France. We need your support.
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Posted by icecold on Thursday, February 25 @ 12:18:14 GMT (198 reads)
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| Linux Gaining Strength In Downturn |
titan writes "In an article seen recently on Network Computing
A February survey of IT managers by IDC indicated that hard times
are accelerating the adoption of Linux. The open source operating
system will emerge from the recession in a stronger data center
position than before, concluded an IDC white paper.
Sixty-five percent of the 330 respondents said they plan to increase
Linux server workloads by 10% or more this year. Sixty-three percent
said they will increase their use of Linux on the desktop by more than
10% this year, although such an increase would still probably represent
a miniscule share of all desktops. Forty-nine percent said they expect
Linux will be their primary server platform within five years.
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Posted by icecold on Tuesday, March 17 @ 14:05:21 GMT (340 reads)
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| Celebrating 10 Years of Mozilla |
Anonymous writes "Seen this week, an interesting article on lizardwranglar by Mitchell Baker.
The European Commission and Microsoft
Last month the European Commission stated its preliminary conclusion
that “Microsoft’s tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating
system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product
innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice.”
In my mind, there is absolutely no doubt that the statement above is
correct. Not the single smallest iota of doubt. I’ve been involved in
building and shipping web browsers continuously since before Microsoft
started developing IE, and the damage Microsoft has done to
competition, innovation, and the pace of the web development itself is
both glaring and ongoing. There are separate questions of whether there
is a good remedy, and what that remedy might be. But questions
regarding an appropriate remedy do not change the essential fact.
Microsoft’s business practices have fundamentally diminished (in fact,
came very close to eliminating) competition, choice and innovation in
how people access the Internet. Read more |
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Posted by icecold on Sunday, February 22 @ 11:12:49 GMT (333 reads)
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| Are Microsoft Partners Spreading Open-Source Fear? |
Anonymous writes "seen recently on ChannelWeb
Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)
and its channel partners are bound together with the glue of mutual
commercial success. That's a big reason why Microsoft VARs are always
quick to defend the software giant's interests. Criticize Microsoft in
front of a group of partners and you may find yourself being forced to
run for cover.
So it wouldn't be a huge surprise if recent reports of Certified
Microsoft Professionals and their companies spreading fear, uncertainty
and doubt about open-source software were true. In a discussion on Slashdot earlier this week,
community member Smidge207 reported a "huge push" in this type of
activity and suggested it might be part of a coordinated campaign.
According to the Slashdot report, Microsoft partners are identifying
companies that use open-source software, and then calling these firms
and warning them of the dangers of using free software in their
networks, in an effort ostensibly aimed at getting them to embrace
Microsoft software. Microsoft says it hasn't heard of this happening,
and a spokesperson declined to comment
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Posted by icecold on Saturday, February 14 @ 00:02:30 GMT (360 reads)
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| Windows 7 to be 'thoroughly' tested by antitrust regulators |
Seen this week on Computerworld
Changes in the OS generate new documentation to check compliance with '02 agreement
Technical advisers to the antitrust regulators who monitor Microsoft Corp.'s compliance with a 2002 antitrust settlement will test Windows 7
"more thoroughly" than earlier versions of the operating system were
tested, according to a recently-released status report filed with the
federal judge watching over the company.
The three-member panel of computer experts that works for state antitrust officials has had a copy of Windows 7 since at least last March, but in December 2008, Microsoft delivered additional documentation to the technical committee.
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Posted by titan on Friday, January 30 @ 10:46:41 GMT (413 reads)
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| Microsoft accused of anti-competitive web browser bundling |
Seen recently on Geek.com.
Microsoft and the European Commission should know each other quite
well by now. They have met many times in court and as recently as
February last year Microsoft was paying out $1.3 billion in fines to the European Union.
The nightmare for Microsoft seems to be far from over as the
European Commission are going after them again for bundling a web
browser with the Windows operating system. The charge being that they
are harming competition by shipping a web browser with their OS and
therefore are breaking European laws.
Thomas Vinje, a lawyer representing the non-profit ECIS organization which welcomes the commision’s findings commented:
This case is about the future, about maintaining an open and
dynamic Internet … Microsoft has achieved ubiquity for IE (Internet
Explorer). This ubiquity distorts competition and favors Microsoft’s
monopolies in ways completely unrelated to the merits of Microsoft’s
products.
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Posted by titan on Friday, January 30 @ 10:45:58 GMT (362 reads)
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| How city life hurts your brain. |
On Slashdot, Hugh Pickens points us to an interesting article published in the Boston Globe and writes "The city has always been an engine of intellectual life and the 'concentration of social interactions' is largely responsible for urban creativity and innovation. But now scientists are finding that being in [1]an urban environment impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory and suffers from reduced self-control. 'The mind is a limited machine,' says psychologist Marc Berman. 'And we're beginning to understand the different ways that a city can exceed those limitations.'
Consider everything your brain has to keep track of as you walk down a busy city street. A city is so overstuffed with stimuli that we need to redirect our attention constantly so that we aren't distracted by irrelevant things. This sort of controlled perception — we are telling the mind what to pay attention to — takes energy and effort. Natural settings don't require the same amount of cognitive effort.
A study at the University of Michigan found memory performance and attention spans improved by 20 percent after people spent an hour interacting with nature.
Read full informative article
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Posted by titan on Wednesday, January 07 @ 10:23:01 GMT (364 reads)
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| UK interest rates set to hit new low |
Seen on Ireland On-line
04/01/2009 - 12:46:12
Interest rates in Britain are set to hit a record low this week as the Bank of England grapples with a deepening recession.
The Bank's official rate has never fallen below the current 2% in its
315-year history, but experts predict a cut of as much as 1% on
Thursday as the UK faces up to its worst year since the early 1990s.
Rate-setters on the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will ponder
the latest gloomy data including a new low for mortgage lending in
November and a record 16.2% fall in house prices during 2008
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Posted by titan on Sunday, January 04 @ 17:47:30 GMT (323 reads)
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| Microsoft's First-Ever Mass Job Cuts To Come in 2009? |
17% of company's entire workforce, say rumors, may be in jeopardy
With a Q2 earnings report due on the 22nd of January 2009, Microsoft is
rumored to be contemplating ringing in the new year with massive job
cuts. A posting by Lars-Göran Nilsson on the Fudzilla
technology blog and rumor site claims that 15,000 or so of Microsoft's
global workforce of 90,000 "are expected to be giving marching orders
come January 15th."
Rumors of a round of rare but substantial job cuts have been swirling for weeks now, with Electronista for example reporting
before Christmas that substantial reductions "are believed to hint at
significant financial difficulty at Microsoft, which had near-flat
growth even in the summer, when the economic downturn had yet to fully
materialize."
read full article at virtualization.sys-con
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Posted by titan on Sunday, January 04 @ 17:22:53 GMT (286 reads)
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| The Perfect Desktop - OpenSUSE 11.1 (GNOME) |
titan writes "Posted by: Philipp Esselbach on Warp2Search: 12/22/2008 11:10 AM
Howtoforge posted a guide about setting up openSUSE 11.1 as desktop
This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 11.1 desktop that is
a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the
software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows
desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM
restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is:
all software comes free of charge.
The Perfect Desktop - OpenSUSE 11.1 (GNOME)
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Posted by icecold on Monday, December 22 @ 12:50:14 GMT (287 reads)
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| HP Readies Linux Business Desktop |
Anonymous writes "The Compaq dc5850 could appeal to cash-strapped school districts and businesses in the current economic downturn.
By Antone Gonsalves
InformationWeek
December 12, 2008 05:00 AM
HP introduced the offering less than a week after IBM made generally available a Linux-desktop package that includes the Ubuntu distribution of the open-source operating system and IBM (NYSE: IBM)'s Lotus email, instant messaging and office productivity applications. IBM is offering to roll out the package on companies' PCs via the vendor's IT services unit.
HP's offering is less ambitious. the company is offering to preload Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on the HP Compaq dc5850. The package will also include OpenOffice.org, the open-source alternative to Microsoft's Office suite, a Web browser, multimedia tools and e-mail, collaboration and instant messaging software. Read more
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Posted by icecold on Friday, December 12 @ 11:42:25 GMT (306 reads)
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| Judge issues final judgment in case involving SCO, Novell |
A federal court judge has issued a final judgment in litigation involving Lindon-based SCO Group Inc. and Novell Inc.
The case began as a "slander of title" lawsuit against Novell,
involving questions over ownership of the Unix operating system and
UnixWare software copyrights. But Kimball ruled in August 2007 that
Novell was the owner. Novell sought revenues that SCO had received from
Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and other Fortune 1000 companies
when SCO licensed certain Unix technology to them.
The final-judgment order by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Kimball in Salt
Lake City last week reiterates much of the August 2007 order and a July
ruling that awarded Novell more than $2.5 million. The final judgment
orders the dismissal of certain claims but also allows the parties to
appeal the earlier rulings on certain other claims.
The Novell-SCO dispute was an offshoot of another SCO lawsuit, against
International Business Machines Corp., filed in 2003. SCO accused IBM
of improperly placing proprietary Unix code into Linux, an open-source
operating system that competes with Unix.
SCO is in bankruptcy, and the lawsuit against IBM has been stayed because of the bankruptcy.
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Posted by icecold on Wednesday, November 26 @ 19:04:38 GMT (321 reads)
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| Credit, debit card fraud on the rise across UK |
Titan writes "More than .300M lost to fraud in the first half of 2008
Seen recently on "infosecuritywatch" from the Daily Mail
via NewsEdge Corporation
Criminal gangs cloning the credit and debit card details of thousands of shoppers fuelled a 14 per cent rise in fraud this year, figures have revealed.
The total amount lost to the fraudsters reached a record ?301.7million in the first half of the year - more than before chip and pin security was introduced in 2006.
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Posted by titan on Saturday, November 08 @ 11:19:48 GMT (326 reads)
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| Virtual Worlds |
Titan writes "Seen recently on Silicon.com...
Not hearing much about virtual worlds these days? They're not dead, says Tim Ferguson - just preparing for the next round.
Virtual worlds such as Second Life have a bright future, according to experts, especially as businesses start to realise how they can be used for collaboration within their organisation and with customers.
A couple years ago, big names in tech and business were rushing to capitalise on Second Life's popularity by building 'islands' and headquarters in the virtual world - or using it to sell products in a novel way.
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Posted by titan on Tuesday, October 28 @ 22:27:10 GMT (324 reads)
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| Bruce Perens: A Big Change for Open Source |
Titan writes "About the Author: Bruce Perens is the creator of the Open Source Definition, the manifesto of Open Source and the criterion for Open Source software licensing. Perens represented Open Source at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society, at the request of the United Nations Development Program.
An appeals court has erased most of the doubt around Open Source licensing, permanently, in a decision that was extremely favorable toward projects like GNU, Creative Commons, Wikipedia, and Linux. The man who prompted that decision could be described as the worst enemy a Free Software project could have. This is the story of how our community was able to benefit from that enemy.
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For a decade there'd been questions: Are Open Source licenses enforceable at all? Are their terms, calling for a patent detente or disclosure of source code, legal?
view source and read more in the full article at Datamation.
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Posted by titan on Saturday, October 04 @ 10:28:53 BST (327 reads)
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