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Submission + - Microsoft's IIS is Twice as Likely to Host Malware (windowsitpro.com)

Submitted by
eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "According to Google, Microsoft's server software is at least twice as likely to host viruses or malware. The reason why? "Google reports that IIS is likely used to distribute malware more often than Apache because many IIS installs are on pirated Windows versions which aren't configured to automatically download patches. (Even pirated Windows versions can automatically received security fixes, however.) "Our analysis demonstrates how important it is to keep web servers patched to the latest patch level," Google notes.""
Power

Submission + - Powering 60W lightbulb at a distance (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Yet another Anonymous Coward
Yet another Anonymous Coward writes: BBC reports that at MIT, "US researchers have successfully tested an experimental system to deliver power to devices without the need for wires. The setup, reported in the journal Science, made a 60W light bulb glow from a distance of 2m (7ft). "
Announcements

Submission + - New York Jumps into Open Formats Fray (infoworld.com)

Submitted by
cyrusmack
cyrusmack writes: "Hot on the heels of the bad news regarding the defeat of all open formats bills (erroneously reported by the mainstream media as "ODF" bills), New York has become the latest in an area that has seen a flurry of activity already this year. In the article on InfoWorld, it's pretty clear that this bill is significantly watered down from what other states have attempted to do this year. You can Microsoft will be there in force, just as it has been elsewhere."
Microsoft

Submission + - Vista not playing well with IPv6?

Submitted by
netbuzz
netbuzz writes: "Early adopters of Microsoft Vista are reporting problems with its implementation of IPv6, according to Network World. Example: "We are seeing a number of applications that are IP-based that do not like the addressing scheme of IPv6," says one user. "We will send a print job to an IP-based printer, and the print job becomes corrupted. We're seeing this with Window's Vista machines. When IPv6 is installed, this happens without fail. As soon as we remove IPv6, all of our printer functions return to normal."

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/060707-micro soft-vista-ipv6-incompatible.html"
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Submission + - The Universal Calculator

Submitted by
e ^ (i * pi)
e ^ (i * pi) writes: "Ever want to find the airspeed of an unladen swallow? Want to know the value of (4 * 7 + green) / apple? Someone has finally taken it upon themselves to create a calculator not bound by the ordinary limits of mathematics which refrains from limiting you to old fashioned "traditional" calculations. It even has a great documentation: "For numbers, this behaves pretty much as you would expect. For other types, not so much.""
Networking

Submission + - Yoggie Gatekeeper Pro

Submitted by hypermike
hypermike writes: It looks more like an MP3 music player than a piece of high-tech computer hardware, but the Yoggie Gatekeeper Pro is a security device its Israeli creators claim took them two years of hard graft to fashion. For all that work, theyâ(TM)ve come up with a laptop security device that packs a long list of protection features into a plastic box still portable enough to sit in the palm of the hand. http://www.techworld.com/security/reviews/index.cf m?reviewid=499
Data Storage

Submission + - ReiserFS

Submitted by
halo5
halo5 writes: "Reiser Prosecution Jolt: Victim's Ex-Lover Confesses to Eight Killings:

"A former lover of the missing wife of Linux programmer and accused spouse killer Hans Reiser has confessed to killing eight people unrelated to the case, prosecutors informed the defense last week.

Sean Sturgeon, a one-time friend of Reiser's, had already been a focus of the defense team's efforts to shift suspicion off Reiser in the disappearance of his estranged wife, Nina Reiser. Sturgeon's alleged confession to a series of unrelated murders will likely complicate the trial, which is set to begin Monday."

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2007/05/rei ser"
The Internet

Submission + - What do you do when a registrar rips you off?

Submitted by RelievedSimpleton
RelievedSimpleton writes: After previously purchasing a domain from RegisterFly.com I decided to renew my domain as well as purchase two more. After adding $25.00 worth of funds to my account I attempted to buy two domains and renew the domain I previously purchased from them. After filing multiple complaints through the support ticket system as well as attempting to call all the numbers listed on their website, which were either disconnected or unavailable, I went to my credit union only to find that the credit union couldn't do anything except let me know they also fraudulently charged $19.98 to my account twice, now bringing the total to $64.96. I then went to the Better Business Bureau website to file a complaint only to find that there were multiple complaints before mine. Also, I attempted to file a complaint through InterNIC only to find that their ICANN accreditation is pending termination. So my question to you, the users of Slashdot, is what do you do when a registrar rips you off like this, while continuing to say they are an accredited registrar when it is untrue?
Privacy

Submission + - Real ID Comment Period Drawing to a Close

Submitted by
Matthew Van Gundy
Matthew Van Gundy writes: "There are only 4 days left to express your support or opposition to the Real ID regulations proposed by the Department of Homeland Security — which have grave privacy implications for every American. The regulations are strongly opposed by the ACLU, the EFF, EPIC, security professionals, and ordinary citizens. Yet the media has given the issue only scant attention. If you have an opinion, don't miss your chance to make your voice heard."
Novell

Submission + - Robert Love resigns from Novell

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Robert Love who was the Chief Architect of Novell's Linux Desktop has resigned today. Robert is a prominent Linux kernel hacker, author and journalist in the Linux community (read more about him in his Wikipedia entry). His blog doesn't specify why he resigned. But after colleague and friend Jeremy Allison's departure from Novell in protest of the Microsoft-Novell deal, this might be the latest fallout from it.
Software

Submission + - No emulation software for Dell's Linux machines

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Dell will not include open-source software such as Wine, which lets users run Windows programs on Linux, with the PCs it plans to bundle with Ubuntu Linux, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu and its commercial sponsor Canonical, told eWeek (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2125848,00.a sp). He is quoted in the article as saying the reason for this is that he does "not want to position Ubuntu and Linux as a cheap alternative to Windows." While Linux is an alternative to Windows, it is not cheap Windows, he says, adding that Linux has its own strengths, and users should want it because of those strengths and not because it's a cheap copy of Windows."

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