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Submission + - Web Analytics:Managing Incongruous Site Statistics

Submitted by

Ikaro

on Monday May 28, 2007 @01:42PM

Ikaro writes: "XML engines, spiders, spam attempt on comments and trackback can be considered real visitors by your log analytics application. Find out the reason why many times different web analytics applications show different data about the same web site. Continue..."

Submission + - Phrack has reborn : #64 is out

Submitted by

The Circle of Lost Hackers

on Monday May 28, 2007 @12:27PM

The Circle of Lost Hackers writes: "The hacking electronic magazine Phrack is back online. A new issue has been released this week-end, which ends up more than a year and a half without publication. This issue features a mix of scene articles and many highly technical papers dealing with almost all topics of computer hacking: Hardware, Code analysis & Reverse engineering, previously unpublished Kernel & Heap exploits techniques, applied network intrusion on Windows and UNIX, Cryptanalysis, OsX kernel tricks, are waiting for you. A new volume of a very high quality that reminds some old-school issues as it also includes its amount of Underground and body/mind experiences reports. A must read."

Submission + - Enlighten Your Linux Desktop

Submitted by

Dan the Man

on Monday May 28, 2007 @11:31AM

Dan the Man writes: "One of the Window Managers that stands out the most in the Linux world, is the Enlightenment Manager. Many refer to is as the E desktop, because typing out the whole word can take some time.I remember using this window manager back in the 90's, and was very impressed by the eye-candy, and functionality that came with it. Although Enlightenment didn't catch on as much as KDE or Gnome, many Linux users use eterm, a terminal originally built for the Enlightenment desktop, to spice up their computers. Eterm had extra features such as a transparent background, that many users found enjoyable. Currently, Enlightenment has blossomed, and now holds many new features, that enriches the Linux experience. If you'd like to install Enlightenment on your Ubuntu system check out my new HOWTO here: http://pimpyourlinux.com/linux-feature-review/enli ghtenment-on-ubuntu/"

Submission + - Robotic Ecologies

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Roland Piquepaille

on Monday May 28, 2007 @11:27AM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "The University of Virginia (UVA) School of Architecture has started a new program about 'robotic ecologies' which wants to answer the question: Will robots take over architecture? As said the program leader, 'This research is not just about architectural machines that move. It is about groups of architectural machines that move with intelligence.' Apparently, buildings tracking our movements and adapting their shape or texture according human presence are not far fetched. Maybe one day, we'll talk to our homes and they'll answer... Read more for additional details and a picture of Super Galaxy, 'a high-rise apartment complex that's constantly in motion and responds to the needs of its inhabitants.'"

Submission + - OOXML Balloting Begun

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28, 2007 @11:12AM

An anonymous reader writes: The ISO has started the balloting process for the Open Office XML format (aka "ISO/IEC DIS 29500" — all 6000 pages of it). If you want your opinion heard, now is the time to contact your country's local standard body so they can then decide how to vote. Contact information is available for the US, Canada, Germany, and over 100 other countries. The ISO standard will cost you CHF64 to read, but ECMA 376 is available as DOCX and PDF files.

Submission + - Server performance benchmarking software

Submitted by

curea2007

on Monday May 28, 2007 @10:03AM

curea2007 writes: "I'm conducting some blade server evaluations. Does anyone have a recommendation for a free benchmarking tool? Preferably the tool would be broad based and could provide hardware metric comparisons. The more benchmarks it can perform the better. Ideally it would be nice to have something with an integrated forum where results can be posted and where I can view other vendor results."

Submission + - Indian made car running on compressed air is ready

Submitted by

Gary

on Monday May 28, 2007 @08:59AM

Gary writes: "The first commercial car to be powered by compressed air could be about to hit the production lines, as Indian automaker Tata Motors prepares to build ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre's design. The City Cat runs on nothing but compressed air — which can be refueled at "air stations," and overnight using a built-in compressor, it has a top speed of 68 mph and a range of 125 miles. The Air Car designers are working on a hybrid version that can compress air while it's operating, potentially making cross-India journeys possible."

Submission + - Storing Music for Personal Use Online is Illegal

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on Monday May 28, 2007 @05:38AM

An anonymous reader writes: In a court case of JASRAC vs. Image City, The Tokyo District Court handed down a ruling that says Image City's MYUTA service is guilty of copyright infringement. MYUTA is an online music storage service that allows users to upload music from their own CDs etc. to a central server from which they can download to their cellphones to listen to. Music uploaded to the central server is accessible only by the user who uploaded it and can only be downloaded to their cellphone. Despite the music only being stored for personal use, the ruling reasoned that the act of uploading music to a central server owned by a company is the equivalent of distributing music to that company. This has implications for other services such as Yahoo! Briefcase which could mean Yahoo! is gulity of copyright infringement if any of its users store music in their account for personal use. Google's translation can have a go at the original Japanese article.

Submission + - Identification through Reverse DNS?

Submitted by on Sunday May 27, 2007 @07:27PM

An anonymous reader writes: I've recently noticed that the reverse DNS name given to my IP from my ISP contains my mac address. It seems to me that regardless of IP address/dhcp logs that this could serve as a permanent unique identifier for a person. How many other ISPs do this? Are we clearing our google cookies periodically for nothing? Is this a privacy hole that should be closed up? I can see the ISPs internally being able to recognize their clients uniquely, but to the rest of the Internet is it a security violation for people to be tracked by an unchanging hostname?

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