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Microsoft

Submission + - IIS overtakes Apache among Fortune 1000 sites

Submitted by El Lobo
El Lobo writes: If you think back a few years to IIS 5.0, the future for Microsoft's web server looked rather bleak. With IIS 6.0, Microsoft made "locked down" mode settings the default at installation, which helped minimize security problems, and helped IIS 6.0 recapture a major part of trust that IIS 5.0 lost. No major security disasters have been reported since the release of IIS 6.0. Now, Microsoft is looking to consolidate IIS 7.0's position as a secure and robust web server.

A recent market survey indicated that Microsoft's IIS has a 31.13 percent market share, which places it in second position behind the open source Apache Web Server. Another survey by Port80 Software that takes Fortune 1000 companies into consideration reports that IIS has overtaken Apache among Fortune 1000 sites.
Security

Submission + - Phrack has reborn : #64 is out

Submitted by
The Circle of Lost Hackers
The Circle of Lost Hackers writes: "The hacking electronic magazine Phrack is back online. A new issue has been released this week-end, which ends up more than a year and a half without publication. This issue features a mix of scene articles and many highly technical papers dealing with almost all topics of computer hacking: Hardware, Code analysis & Reverse engineering, previously unpublished Kernel & Heap exploits techniques, applied network intrusion on Windows and UNIX, Cryptanalysis, OsX kernel tricks, are waiting for you. A new volume of a very high quality that reminds some old-school issues as it also includes its amount of Underground and body/mind experiences reports. A must read."
Linux Business

Submission + - Enlighten Your Linux Desktop

Submitted by
Dan the Man
Dan the Man writes: "One of the Window Managers that stands out the most in the Linux world, is the Enlightenment Manager. Many refer to is as the E desktop, because typing out the whole word can take some time.I remember using this window manager back in the 90's, and was very impressed by the eye-candy, and functionality that came with it. Although Enlightenment didn't catch on as much as KDE or Gnome, many Linux users use eterm, a terminal originally built for the Enlightenment desktop, to spice up their computers. Eterm had extra features such as a transparent background, that many users found enjoyable. Currently, Enlightenment has blossomed, and now holds many new features, that enriches the Linux experience. If you'd like to install Enlightenment on your Ubuntu system check out my new HOWTO here: http://pimpyourlinux.com/linux-feature-review/enli ghtenment-on-ubuntu/"
Software

Submission + - Is parallel programming just too hard?

Submitted by pcause
pcause writes: There has been a lot of talk recently about the need for programmers to shift paradigms and begin building more parallel applications and systems. The need to do this and the hardware and systems to support it have been around for a while, but we haven't seen a lot of progress. The article says that gaming systems have made progress, but MMOGs are typically years late and I'll bet part of the problem is trying to be more parallel/distributed.

Since this discussion has been going on for over a decade with little progress in terms of widespread change, one has to ask is parallel programming just too difficult for most programmers? Are the tools inadequate or perhaps is it that it is very difficult to think about parallel systems. Maybe it is a fundamental human limit. Will we really see progress in the next 10 years that matches the progress of the silicon?
Operating Systems

Submission + - Nicholas Carr is wrong on Open Source

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Recently, Nicholas Carr, an acclaimed writer and ex-editor of Harvard Business Review, wrote an article titled The Ignorance of the Crowds in the Strategy+Business Magazine. In the article, he tries to portray open source as a hybrid Bazaar-Cathedral model and warns the businesses against any reliance on the open source process to drive innovation. Krishwords has this article in which a rebuttal is published to Carr\'s article and it has been argued that open source process is a perfectly legitimate democratic bazaar style model. Complete Story
The Courts

Submission + - Storing Music for Personal Use Online is Illegal

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: In a court case of JASRAC vs. Image City, The Tokyo District Court handed down a ruling that says Image City's MYUTA service is guilty of copyright infringement. MYUTA is an online music storage service that allows users to upload music from their own CDs etc. to a central server from which they can download to their cellphones to listen to. Music uploaded to the central server is accessible only by the user who uploaded it and can only be downloaded to their cellphone. Despite the music only being stored for personal use, the ruling reasoned that the act of uploading music to a central server owned by a company is the equivalent of distributing music to that company. This has implications for other services such as Yahoo! Briefcase which could mean Yahoo! is gulity of copyright infringement if any of its users store music in their account for personal use. Google's translation can have a go at the original Japanese article.
The Courts

Submission + - IL Governor's Crusade Against Game Costs Taxpayers

Submitted by
Nick Place
Nick Place writes: "Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich has spent almost $1 million in taxpayer money paying for legal fees in a losing battle over a game bill's legality. The bill, which would have prevent sales of mature video games to minors, was ruled unconstitutional back in 2005. However, Blagojevich's under-the-table payment method, which involved taking money from state welfare and public health to pay for his failed crusade against video games, has only recently come to light.

http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/12822/Unconst itutional_Game_Bill_Costs_Illinois_Taxpayers_a_Coo l_Million.html""
Security

Submission + - The difference between script kiddies and hackers?

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "I know Wikipedia has definitions for both terms, but I want the Slashdot community's opinion: What is the difference between a so-called "script kiddie" and a bona fide "hacker?" It seems that if you crack wifi using readily available tools, you're a script kiddie. If you use the Metasploit framework, you're a script kiddie. At what skill level or accomplishment can one truly be called a hacker?"
Republicans

Submission + - Anonymous Senator Blocks Open Government Act

Submitted by
Josh
Josh writes: "An anonymous Republican Senator has placed a secret hold on the Open Government Act. Ironically, the purpose of this act is to strengthen the Freedom of Information Act. It is a shame that Senators are taking such a cowardly route to avoid a floor debate on this important legislation. The Seminal explains a plan to use the power of the Internet to determine which Senator is at fault. The plan involves using dispersed knowledge and resources to contact the 46 Republican Senators who aren't cosponsors to ask them if they placed the anonymous hold. A centralized tally is being maintained at this link. The American people deserve to know which Senator is responsible for this."
Patents

Submission + - Life Imprisonment for Copyright Infringement

Submitted by
ronadams
ronadams writes: "P. Parameswaran writes in his AFP article:

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he proposed comprehensive legislation to Congress Monday against copyright thieves, including raising the maximum penalty to life imprisonment and seizing the illicit profits of offenders.
Nick Ferrel at the Inquirer confirms the reports and adds a few interesting insights of his own. Good to know RIAA is a vital part of the US Government. I must have been asleep when my Government & Law professor glossed over that one."
Networking

Submission + - World's wireless trasmission distance record broke

Submitted by Brethil
Brethil writes: According to LaRepubblica.it Torino's atheneum managed get a stable wireless link between Capanna Margherita (Europe's highest shelter, 4556m) and Pian Cavallaro, 300 Km far away. To achieve this they used old "386" computers running Linux and directional antennas. The link speed was about 20 Mb/sec and it was used to make broadband connection available to the shelter's guests and to send a webcam's photos to the iXem Laboratory at Torino's Polytechnic.

Link: (italian) http://www.repubblica.it/2005/j/sezioni/scienza_e_ tecnologia/wifi/record-collegamento/record-collega mento.html
Censorship

Submission + - Top 25 censored stories of 2007

Submitted by Vexorian
Vexorian writes: Is there direct or indirect censorship in the media towards delicate but important topics? Project censored lists 25 stories that did not seem to get the required attention by the media: From the article: "Throughout 2005 and 2006, a large underground debate raged regarding the future of the Internet. More recently referred to as "network neutrality," the issue has become a tug of war with cable companies on the one hand and consumers and Internet service providers on the other. Yet despite important legislative proposals and Supreme Court decisions throughout 2005, the issue was almost completely ignored in the headlines until 2006.1 And, except for occasional coverage on CNBC's Kudlow & Kramer, mainstream television remains hands-off to this day".
Democrats

Submission + - Geek runs for congress wearing "Evil Genius

Submitted by
boyko.at.netqos
boyko.at.netqos writes: "Brian Boyko was ticked off that the Democrats sold us out by voting to authorizing spending for the war without a timetable attached. Lloyd Doggett — his Congressman — was one of those Democrats who voted for the war authorization, presumably because they felt that voters who opposed the war would have no choice but to re-elect them. Instead, Boyko got so fed up he launched his own primary challenge to Congressman Doggett — and he's doing it his way, wearing an "Evil Genius" T-shirt, putting up blog posts that state that he doesn't want dime one in fundraising, or listing out all his political scandals in a post called "Welcome to my closet, would you like to see my skeletons?" The biggest thing: Republicans use blogs as smear campaigns, Democrats use blogs as fundraising tools. This is a campaign blog that's an actual blog.

From the site:


"I've never been charged with a crime, although I could have been once, when I was 19. Let's just say that toaster ovens are a privilege, not a right, and I learned that the hard way.... My sexual proclivities are my business, and I don't want to talk about them. Rest assured, they are not illegal (unless you consider Playstation 2 controllers to be "vibrators" — it's illegal to own vibrators in Texas.) Statistically speaking, it's very likely that your sex life is much more interesting than mine; I am running in the 25th district of Texas, after all... I play Dungeons & Dragons and other geeky games."


Full disclosure: This blog post was submitted by the candidate."
Television

Submission + - NEUROS OSD - Linux Based Embedded Media Center

Submitted by Croakyvoice
Croakyvoice writes: New from Neuros is the Neuros OSD an open-source, Linux based embedded media center. You can record video from any source (cable, DVD, VCR, TiVO, Satellite, camcorder etc.), and read and write to multiple sources like iPod, PSP, SmartPhone, Hard drive, PC etc. It can also play media on your TV/entertainment center from portables (consoles, phones, pda etc.), digital camera, external HD, PC/internet etc.

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