Comment Re:One of the rare cases where... (Score 3, Informative) 141
Yes. As a paid subscriber, we have the ability to turn off ads in Gmail.
Comment Re:stopped using it? (Score 1) 857
Their focus group would consist of probably most, if not all, home users and lot of business users. Microsoft gets data directly from Windows users as anonymous usage statistics. It's the same way that they know that most people don't use Windows Media Center.
Comment Re:WHS V1 (Score 1) 260
I second this idea. Very simple to setup. WHS v1 will adopt every drive that you can attach.
Comment Re:Location based? (Score 5, Informative) 274
Nope, just the shipping address.
Comment Windows 2008 R2 "Workstation" (Score 1) 417
I use Sever 2008 R2 on my personal laptop. For no other reason than because I wanted a 64bit OS.
it was a fun little project setting it up to look like Windows 7. http://www.win2008r2workstation.com/
Comment Re:Off Topic but related, sorta (Score 1) 90
If I'm not mistaken, fox and speed are both owned by the same company.
Submission + - iPhone brings down Duke wifi network
ecklesweb writes: Inside Higher Education has a story that the iPhone is too popular at Duke. In nine incidents since Friday — the most recent Tuesday afternoon — as many as 30 of university's wireless routers have been knocked out of service for 10 minute intervals, after being flooded with as many as 18,000 requests per second that are believed to be coming from the iPhone's built-in 802.11b/g wi-fi adapter.
Bill Gates Should Buy Your Buffer Overruns 196
Slashdot regular Bennett Haselton has written in with his latest essay. He starts "WabiSabiLabi
generated
some
controversy
recently
by announcing their eBay-like site for security researchers to sell
security exploits to the
highest bidder.
But WabiSabiLabi didn't create the black-and-grey market
for security exploits, they merely helped draw attention to it.
There's nothing that companies like Microsoft can do about the black market
where security exploits
sell for tens of thousands of dollars, but there's one obvious thing they
can do to help protect
users: offer to buy up the security vulnerabilities themselves.
If they did that, then the exploits would probably never make it onto a
black-market auction in the first place,
because the "white hat" researchers would have found them and reported them
first.
Thus I think WabiSabiLabi is doing the world a favor,
by shining a spotlight on the black market that thrives when companies
won't pay for security bug reports." Click that magical little read more link below to continue the thought.
Submission + - Intel Launches Core 2 Extreme Mobile X7800 Chip
MojoKid writes: News broke earlier this week regarding Intel's new family of desktop
processors that feature a new core stepping and support for a 1333MHz
front side bus speed. Intel, however, has also
announced a brand new flagship mobile processor, dubbed the
Core 2 Extreme Mobile Processor X7800. This new mobile CPU is fundamentally
similar to other Merom-core based mobile processors. However, the 2.6GHz Core 2
Extreme Mobile Processor X7800 sports a number of features that set it apart
from the rest of Intel's mobile offerings, like an unlocked multiplier, a new
deeper sleep state, and dynamic FSB switching. More details regarding the new Core 2
Extreme Mobile Processor X7800 are
shown here.
Submission + - Bin Laden Tape Is 5-Year-Old, Re-Released Footage (prisonplanet.com) 1
LakeshoreBaby writes: Why did IntelCenter, the middleman between "Al-Qaeda" and the media, a group that has government and Pentagon ties, re-release old footage and why did the media report it as new when it had already aired twice before?
Submission + - How to make Windows XP last for years (computerworld.com)
jcatcw writes: "Not interested in switching to Vista but want the perks anyway? Computerworld has a great list of tips for extending the life of XP. Some are simple settings suggestions for better performance. Some are free applications to mimic Vista appearance and/or functionality. And, of course, there's lot on how to improve security."
Submission + - Dell will sell Linux on PCs outside of U.S.
StonyandCher writes: Dell plans to sell computers with preinstalled Linux outside the U.S. as well as offer the Ubuntu Linux distribution to small business customers.
More details will be revealed later, wrote Lionel Menchaca, digital media manager for Dell on a company blog on Friday.
"I wanted to be clear that Dell does have plans to offer Linux to more consumers in additional locations outside the United States," Menchaca wrote.
More details will be revealed later, wrote Lionel Menchaca, digital media manager for Dell on a company blog on Friday.
"I wanted to be clear that Dell does have plans to offer Linux to more consumers in additional locations outside the United States," Menchaca wrote.
Submission + - Ever seen anything like this? (blogspot.com)
Anonymous Coward writes: "Jorn Olsen works for the Dutton-Lainson Co. in Hastings, Nebraska,
and lives by Heartwell Park next to Hastings College . The other night he took these photos . The stadium lights are at the Hastings College stadium just east of his home."
Submission + - Google to acquire Postini (blogspot.com)
Dynamoo writes: "Google has announced that it is to acquire Postini — a company best known for its corporate spam filtering and security service, but also active in Instant Messaging and compliance areas.
The deal is to purchase Postini for $625m in cash. The acquisition is slated to enhance Google's application portfolio, and Google will also acquire several very large Blue Chip customers that have previously eluded it. More details can be found here."
The deal is to purchase Postini for $625m in cash. The acquisition is slated to enhance Google's application portfolio, and Google will also acquire several very large Blue Chip customers that have previously eluded it. More details can be found here."
Submission + - Swedish ISPs to reveal file-sharers' IP addresses
paulraps writes: Sweden's Justice Department is backing a new proposal that would enable copyright holders to find out the identities of people illegally sharing their material on the internet. If the draft proposal results in new legislation it will allow courts to order internet providers to reveal the identities of people suspected of sharing files containing copyrighted material.
