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Archive for January 29th, 2007

Google did not boot AMD for Intel

Monday, January 29th, 2007

 
{mosimage}Rumors of a full-on switch from AMD to Intel chips have forced Google to emerge from its warm, creepy secrecy cocoon. Contrary to claims from Intel, Google has not experienced Xeonmania and elevated Intel to favored supplier status. Rather, it’s just got a few Xeons laying around its data centers.
“We bought a small number of [...]

Many Improvements for SimplyMEPIS-32 and SimplyMEPIS-64 in Beta4

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Morgantown, WV, Jan 24, 2007 — MEPIS has announced Beta4 of SimplyMEPIS-32 and SimplyMEPIS-64 Version 6.0-4. This release introduces several improvements in wireless support and the introduction of MEPIS live on a USB key.
Warren Woodford of MEPIS reports “A big change is in the kernel. Updating to 2.6.17-20 is a lot more difficult than it [...]

Quebec police cybercrime squad takes crimebusting into 21st century

Monday, January 29th, 2007

MONTREAL (CP) - Con artists, terrorists, pedophiles as well as 14-year-old hackers recruited by eastern European mobsters fill Frederick Gaudreau’s day.
Source: Yahoo Tech News
Posted by LinuxChick - Baldys Paradox

YouTube co-founder says site to share revenue with users in coming months

Monday, January 29th, 2007

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) - Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, said Saturday that the wildly successful site plans to start sharing revenue with its millions of users.
Source: Yahoo Tech News
Posted by LinuxChick - Baldys Paradox

Spamming Google Maps

Monday, January 29th, 2007

 
An anonymous reader writes “Google organized a flyover of Sydney, Australia last Friday for Australia Day. The images taken on the day will be posted to Google Maps in a few weeks. A number of dotcoms spent hours making huge signs that would be visible from the air. It will be interesting to see whether [...]

Who Killed the Webmaster?

Monday, January 29th, 2007

XorNand writes “With the explosive growth of the Web in the previous decade, many predicted the birth of a new, well-paying, and in-demand profession: the Webmaster. Yet in 2007, this person has somehow vanished; even the term is scarcely mentioned. What happened? A decade later I’m left wondering: Who killed the Webmaster?”

Source: Who Killed the [...]

Expert: Phishing and other social attacks threaten VoIP

Monday, January 29th, 2007

 
VoIP is susceptible to the same types of attacks that threaten other network applications, but there are some potential new ones that focus directly on VoIP. David Endler, chairman and founder of the VOIP Security Alliance as well as director of security research for TippingPoint spoke with Network World Senior Editor Tim Greene about VoIP [...]

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