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planckscale writes:
After spending another hour deleting .tmp files from a bloated XP machine I started to wonder, is the .tmp file necessary when coding an application on the MS platform? Why do so many apps produce .tmp files and is it just because of bad coding or does the use of them dramatically speed up an app? Don't coders use dev/null to reduce them in linux? I can understand the use of them in case an app crashes for recovery purposes, but why don't more apps have the capacity to delete their own .tmp files once they are done with them? Is it too much to ask to at least have the option when closing an app to delete your temp files?
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stechdude33 writes:
On March 22, 2007 a Duke student discovered two vulnerabilities in the facebook login system. After notifying facebook about the vulnerabilities and months of waiting only one of them has been fixed. It appears that facebook does not care enough about security to put the money required into fixing this vulnerability. More details can be found in the facebook group, "Facebook's Inconvenient Truth," and at http://www.duke.edu/~jyw2/wwwsecurity.html
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IdaAshley writes:
In the last part of our exploration of the Second Life software, learn how to plug a simple command-line program into Second Life that provides a language translation function. This article looks at the technical issues involved in translating chat messages in Second Life.
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netbuzz writes
"The state of Washington yesterday became the first in the nation to ban text-messaging while driving. The law could use sharper teeth, but it's a natural and necessary progression of the movement to clamp down on those who find the need to constantly communicate more important than the safety of their fellow travelers."
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Danny writes:
Wolfdale and Penryn processors will be launched this Q3 and Q4 respectively by Intel. But the shocking news is Intel will be integrating graphics solutions into its CPUs which will be manufactured on the 45nm process. Will the graphics core come with some very fast onboard RAM? The bottom line is this will eventually cut into the OEM graphics market which is where the big money lies and certainly a potential concern for NVIDIA and ATI.
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timtimb25 writes:
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports that a recent student government board election at Carnegie Mellon University — one of the nation's most tech-savvy college campuses — was fowled up due to a problem with their electronic voting system. Here's the full article: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07132/785504-298.st m