Western Digital’s latest Scorpio SATA hard drive sets a new capacity standard of 250G for the 2.5in form factor.
Designed for use in notebooks and portable storage, the company claims the drive is quieter, cooler and uses less power. The capacity is achieved with two 125G platters using perpendicular magnetic recording technology.
Power consumption and noise levels [...]
A proof of concept macro worm attacking OpenOffice on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux has been received by security software company Sophos but not yet detected in the wild.
The BadBunny worm arrives in an OpenOffice Draw file called badbunny.odg, and attempts to uses different techniques to propagate according to the platform it finds itself [...]
One Laptop Per Child
“It’s an education project, not a laptop project.”
— Nicholas Negroponte
I’ve been keeping an eye on this project for awhile now. When I first heard the idea I thought it was just crazy enough to be great. Some people instantly thought it was simply insane and would never take off.
MIT Professor, [...]
VectorLinux has been one of my favorite projects since my first test of the distribution almost 18 months ago. I like VectorLinux because its roots are firmly planted in the stability and simplicity of Slackware, yet it comes with an extensive software base and lots of out-of-the-box great looks; in other words, a rock solid [...]
Ever find yourself with too many passwords to remember and no idea where to keep them so that only you can find the password list? Creating a password.txt file in your root directory is out of the question, as is a password-protected OpenOffice.org…
(This little trick has been around for years. It’s about time people [...]
