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Handhelds

Submission + - Does business care about the iPhone? Yes! (computerworld.com)

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Hot on the heels of the startling revelation that iPhone users are browsing more webpages than Windows Mobile, Symbian, Blackberry and Palm users combined, some major enterprise players are lining up behind the hit Apple device. These aren't no-name makers either. SAP, the worlds largest Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software company announced on Tuesday that not only would they be releasing their industry leading software on the iPhone, but they would be releasing it on the iPhone AHEAD of Blackberry and Windows Mobile Devices. Why? "The iPhone has become such a popular thing," said Bob Stutz, a SAP senior vice president who is responsible for developing customer relationship management software. "Everybody wants the ease of use of the iPhone.""
Social Networks

Submission + - "Beacon": Worse than Facebook Admitted?

Submitted by Bootsy Collins
Bootsy Collins writes: A Computer Associates security researcher claims, on the basis of tests, that Facebook's "Beacon" system is collecting information on users and their actions on affiliate sites even if the user is not logged into Facebook at the time, and even if the user is opting-out of passing that information to Beacon. If correct, these activities contradict Facebook's public statements to the contrary.
Education

Submission + - MIT digitizes all its courses, asks: "What no (networkworld.com)

Submitted by
BobB
BobB writes: "MIT this week announced an important digital achievement: the completion of its pioneering OpenCourseWare project. The achievement is digitizing all the classroom materials for all of MIT's 1,800 academic courses, putting them online, and inviting anyone and everyone to do whatever they want with that information. It's called the OCW project, and it's spawning a global movement to make what had been jealously guarded education resources accessible to educators and learners everywhere."
Censorship

Submission + - creationists violate copyright (blogspot.com)

Submitted by The_Rook
The_Rook writes: the discovery institute copied Harvard University's BioVisions video, "The Inner Life of the Cell", stripped out Harvard's copyright notice, credits, and narration, and inserted their own creationist friendly narration and renamed the video "The Cell as an automated city". pretty insidious, as suggesting that a cell is like a city is to suggest that it was designed rather than evolved. it should also be of interest because the discovery institute, really more of a lawyer mill than a scientific institution, engaged in a particularly egregious example of copyright infringement.
Security

Submission + - Locking your workstation (codinghorror.com) 1

Submitted by Z80xxc!
Z80xxc! writes: I was recently reading a Coding Horror post about locking your workstation. It mentions playing tricks on users who neglect to lock their computers when they leave. As someone who always locks their workstation, I was wondering what others here think about this — do you lock your workstations? Do you force users of your systems to lock theirs? And, most importantly, what kinds of pranks do you pull to give them that little reminder to lock up?
Television

Submission + - Comcast Just Won't Learn

Submitted by JjcampNR
JjcampNR writes: Moments after announcing the availability of Tivo powered Comcast DVR boxes, the serial port on most Comcast digital cable boxes manufactured by Motorola were disabled. After a large volume of calls to Comcast by a hoard of angry Tivo users (most Series 2 Tivo boxes use the serial connection to change channels on the cable box) word from Comcast support is that new firmware was the reason for the crippling of the serial port. While Comcast is currently blaming the issue on Motorola for releasing the firmware, the timing of this awfully convenient. My Tivo Series 2 box has worked perfectly through the serial port on a number of Motorola cable boxes over the last few years. With the current list of dirty tricks growing longer by the day, increased pressure from Verizon, and revenue down 50% for the last quarter, how long can Comcast continue to ignore customers to make up for their own shortcomings?
Operating Systems

Submission + - Linux RAID controlers.

Submitted by LWATCDR
LWATCDR writes: Under Windows there are multiple RAID solutions. Some are even built on to the Mother board. For Linux things get a bit messy. If you want a high end raid system you have lots of good options from companies like 3ware. But when it comes to inexpensive solutions I just can not seem to find good information. 1. What if any motherboards have a RAID that is supported by Linux? 2. Do they support RAID 0.1,10, and or 5? 3. Is it a true hardware raid, does it just off load the CRC calculations, or is really just a software? 4. Can you boot from it? 5. Is the driver in the kernel or is it a binary blog? Even phoronix doesn't seem to have a lot of interest in RAID controllers. Tom's hardware ran this a few years ago but it was very windows specific. http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/06/25/cheap_and_reliable_raid_5_storage_compared/page8.html So besides the Linux software RAID what options do we have under Linux for a good if not inexpensive RAID solution?
OS X

Submission + - OS X 10.5 Leopard - Review

Submitted by
Michael
Michael writes: "http://lunapark6.com/os-x-105-leopard-review.html Informative review covering Apple Leopard! "OS X 10.5 Leopard is the best operating system released by Apple so far and runs neck and neck with Ubuntu's Gutsy Gibbon as my favorite operating systems to use. In the past I wanted to get an iMac, but not because of OS X but rather because of their sleek hardware. Now after using Leopard, I want to buy an iMac to run Leopard. Nice job Apple.""
Music

Submission + - Oink Shutdown: Myths Exploded (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by
g0zer, the destructor
g0zer, the destructor writes: "The recent shutdown of music torrent site Oink had the media in a feeding frenzy, alleging that the site owners collected lucrative subscription fees and were key players in the distribution of pre-release recordings. Oink's users were confused by these claims, shocked by the misinformation spread by the IFPI and BPI, international siblings of the RIAA. Why did even the BBC's story appear to be cut and pasted from the IFPI's press release? The site's primary administrator was released without being charged and no-one appears to have run corrections to Tuesday's news. Perhaps the IFPI should have considered whether any charges could actually stick before making the claims they did."
Security

Submission + - Keyless Door Locks

Submitted by TheFourthDoctor
TheFourthDoctor writes: I'm in the process of changing the door locks for my home and decided that it might be time to go keyless. Having a couple of kids and the occasional pet-sitter I thought that it would be an ideal solution. Electronic keyless locks have options for multiple codes (meaning that I could give separate codes to the kids and the sitter) and some even allow setting specific times that codes can be used. There are even fingerprint locks available. Being a paranoid IT guy, however, I'm a bit concerned about getting a lock that has some vulnerability that makes it easy to circumvent, and finding reliable information on the Internet has so far been a frustrating ordeal. Are there any Slashdotters that have any experience with these types of locks that can help shed some light on what I should consider getting?
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Adobe.com Wide Open

Submitted by exeme
exeme writes: For several hours Adobe's Shockwave download servers were wide open, with anyone able to access any file on the system using a simple web browser. The attack involved a poorly set up web server running on an old version of Solaris, which was venerable to a simple ../ attack. This has since been fixed in the last few hours, trying the attack results in the message "We are unable to locate a Web player that matches your platform and browser". Below is an example URL that was able to be used (no longer functioning, provided for educational reasons):

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=../../../../../../../../..//usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.key/www.adobe.com.key%00

Ouch!
Security

Submission + - Thief Uploads His Pic to Flickr from Stolen iMac (flickr.com)

Submitted by DM420
DM420 writes: I work in a building in Gastown in Vancouver, BC. About a week ago (Wednesday) people broke into our building and stole a bunch of iMac computers from a shared workspace/coffee bar a floor above us. There were few leads and as usual nothing was excepted to happen. Vancouver cops don't seem to follow up much in this area due to high property crime and not enough resources. This was until this morning when the so called thief uploaded a picture of himself and his tattoos to Flickr from the one of the stolen iMacs. It was setup to autoupload so patrons of the workspace/coffee bar could share their pictures online. Funnily enough, you get a dialog box that asks you to confirm the upload and the would be criminal clicked YES! Just goes to show you have to computer savvy these days if you want to be part of the underworld. Enjoy the pictures:

Mugshot

Tattoo Shot
HP

Submission + - HP Blackbird 002 High-End Gaming System Takes Off (hothardware.com)

Submitted by
Spinnerbait
Spinnerbait writes: "After HP's acquisition of Voodoo PC last year, many speculated that the company's entrance into the high-end gaming PC market was imminent. After all, why else would they have bought Voodoo in the first place? However, HP was also secretly working on their own gaming PC, and its codename was Blackbird. Blackbird wasn't being designed solely by the newly acquired engineers from Voodoo. In fact, the Blackbird project was well underway at HP before the acquisition was finalized. The two did collaborate on a design though, that ultimately became the product that is shown here at HotHardware — a high-end, fully customizable machine that's poised to do battle with the best gaming systems the industry has to offer. Benchmarks and a full design showcase are included in the article."

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