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Submission + - IT jobs really do pay! (cioinsight.com)

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itphobe
itphobe writes: "Staffing firm Robert Half Technology just released a report on IT job salaries for 2008. For the first time, IT auditors, data security analysts, software engineers and others are expected to rake in an average of $100K or more. CIOs still make the most, but pay for many specialty jobs is on the rise."
Security

Submission + - SPAM: IBM to spend $1.5 billion to improve computer secu

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: IBM will spend $1.5 billion developing computer security products in 2008, a sum that could double the company's previous spending.IBM issued a press release Thursday saying IT security is becoming more difficult because of collaborative business models, sophisticated criminal attacks and increasingly complex infrastructures. "For many enterprises, security is broken," Tom Noonan, general manager of IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS), said in a press release.
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Portables

Submission + - Lenovo Drops Thinkpad 2yrs ahead of schedule

Submitted by Crash McBang
Crash McBang writes: According to the Register, Lenovo will be dropping the Thinkpad brand two years ahead of schedule. No word on what will happen to the brand. What should Thinkpad users have as a Plan B? What would you suggest as an alternative to Thinkpad?
Space

Submission + - New Theory on Origin and Future of the Universe (newswise.com)

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deepcleanfun
deepcleanfun writes: "The universes clock has neither a start nor finish, yet time is finite according to a New Zealand theorist. The theory, which tackles the age-old mystery of the origin of the universe, along with several other problems and paradoxes in cosmology, calls for a new take on our concept of time."
Databases

MySQL to Get Injection of Google Code 195

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the who-to-trust-on-replication dept.
inkslinger77 writes to mention that MySQL has published their software roadmap out through 2009 and it includes an injection of code from Google. Google remains relatively secretive about how their systems work but they are one of the largest users of MySQL. Earlier this year Google signed a Contributor License Agreement which provides a framework for them to contribute code to MySQL. "The search company has done a lot of work customizing MySQL to meet its special needs, which include better database replication, and tools to monitor a high volume of database instances, Axmark said in an interview at MySQL's user conference in Paris. MySQL will include some of those capabilities in future versions of its database, probably in point upgrades to MySQL 6.0, which is scheduled for general availability in late 2008, Axmark said."
Security

Submission + - Storm Worm Botnet Lobotomizing Anti-Virus Programs (eweek.com)

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eweekhickins
eweekhickins writes: "The ever-mutating, ever-stealthy Storm worm botnet is adding yet another trick to its vast repertoire: Instead of killing anti-virus products on target systems, it's now doing a hot fix with a memory patch to put resident AV products in a coma. The tack means that users won't be alarmed by their AV software not running. "It's running but brain dead. It's worse than shutting it off," noted ISS strategist Josh Corman. The technique also fools NAC (network access control) systems, which bar insecure clients from registering on a network by checking to see whether a client is running AV and whether it's patched."
Displays

Submission + - NEC TFT LCD Enables Control of Viewing Angle

Submitted by
Gary
Gary writes: "NEC LCD Technologies today announced the successful development of a new color TFT LCD module that enables the viewing angle to be switched from wide to narrow in accordance with display contents, use and application of the LCD. NEC LCD Technologies has realized the new LCD module by its own unique value integrated TFT-LCD (VIT) technology, along with the addition of a new viewing angle-switching control on the polarizer adjacent to the backlight system. The new technology can be incorporated in ATM and ticketing machines which have a possibility of information being viewed by third party bystanders."
Programming

Submission + - Allowed to listen to music while coding? 3

Submitted by
hbean
hbean writes: "Hi everyone out there in the /. world. A while ago (almost 6 years now) my company stopped allowing us to listen to music while we programmed, saying it was a distraction and kept us from being productive. Recently we've been undertaking efforts trying to get them to allow us to again. We've found a few studies on the topic of programming and the benefits of listening to music on concentration and ability to stay on task. We presented this to our supervisor and now he's asking for more evidence that other large companies allow their programmers to listen to music while working. We're looking for any help we can get, and maybe some documentation to back it up. Thanks!"
The Matrix

Submission + - Blogs: the next takeover target (businessweek.com)

Submitted by
Christopher Blanc
Christopher Blanc writes: "Blogs — especially the big-name brands such as TechCrunch, Gawker, GigaOm, Boing Boing, and the Huffington Post — appear to have attractive business models. This is good news for traditional media companies that are being marginalized online and off, and are hoping to catch up to — and cash in on — a rapidly evolving Web 2.0 world.

http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/oct2007/pi20071023_821568.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_investing"
Movies

Submission + - Blu-ray outsells HD DVD almost 2:1 (computerworld.com)

Submitted by
Lucas123
Lucas123 writes: "Blu-ray DVD titles outsold rival HD-DVD titles by almost 2-to-1 in the first nine months of the year, which will prolong for the next several years the confusion over which format consumers should choose, analysts say. While Blu-ray is expected to outsell HD DVD through the end of the year, HD DVD is also supposed to get a huge boost from Paramount's support and new releases in the fourth quarter, which may well even out sales."
Software

Submission + - The Road to Mac OS X Leopard

Submitted by aXUL
aXUL writes: AppleInsider is printing a new series on the arrival of Mac OS X Leopard, with extensive historical stories behind some of the "300 new features." Articles give examples of other systems that delivered similar features, or acted as ancestors in an illustrated genealogy of tech history that features Apple, NeXT, BSD, Windows, Be, the Amiga, and DOS. Previous articles have covered Finder 10.5, Dock 1.6, Spaces, Time Machine, Mail 3.0, iChat 4.0, iCal 3.0, Safari 3.0, Dashboard, Spotlight and the Desktop, and most recently, an extensive history of Unix servers, and an article today covering directory services, parental controls, and managed preferences/group policy. Required reading for nostalgic nerds!
Security

Submission + - Your browser is vulnerable to DNS Rebinding

Submitted by
Firefox
Firefox writes: "DNS rebinding was discovered in 1996 and affected the Java Virtual Machine (VM). Recently a group of researchers at Stanford found out that this vulnerability is still present in browsers and that the common solution, known as DNS pinning, is not effective anymore. Securityfocus tracked down one of the authors of the study, Adam Barth, to learn about the impact of the problem, which workarounds can be deployed right now, and how to protect browsers from DNS rebinding attacks in the long run. You can use the online test to check your software..."
AMD

Submission + - AMD 8.42 Driver Brings Fixes, AIGLX! (phoronix.com) 1

Submitted by A little Frenchie
A little Frenchie writes: For ATI Linux customers, last month was certainly a very exciting time from AMD announcing open specifications (and the subsequent delivery of the first batch and the creation of the RadeonHD driver) to the release of the fglrx 8.41 display driver. The AMD 8.41.7 driver was the first driver to be based upon AMD's new code-base and had not only delivered R600 support for the Radeon HD 2900XT, but clear performance improvements across the board from the R300 to the R500. However, this 8.41.7 driver was not well received by all. AMD had intended this driver to be targeted solely for the R600 customers, but many with older GPUs had immediately upgraded with some then having a foul experience.

Today it's now time where the fglrx driver reaches yet another milestone. Not only does today's release address many of the outstanding bugs for the earlier GPU generations while also introducing a few new features, but it also delivers AIGLX support! Yes, you read that right. You can finally run your ATI graphics card with the fglrx driver and run Compiz, Beryl, or Compiz Fusion without using XGL! This is coming 13 months after NVIDIA had introduced its AIGLX support, but now just days after the release of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon it's here for ATI hardware. Granted, if you were using an older ATI GPU with the open-source Radeon driver, you could have been benefiting from AIGLX already.

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