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Submission + - Post-bacc program in Computer Science

Submitted by

Ellen Spertus

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @09:39PM

Ellen Spertus writes: "Please consider adding this to The Hidden Engineering Gender Gap or as a Slashback:

Mills College has a post-baccalaureate program in computer science, which was recently written up in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. The program is coed, although the majority of students are female. Graduates of the program have successfully gone on to CS PhD programs and industry jobs."

Submission + - The Importance Of Double Checking Links

Submitted by

SgtPepper

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @09:29PM

SgtPepper writes: "It seems that Rock the Vote didn't double-check their links and decided to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. by using his image as a link to a hate site. Opps! I think someone's gonna get fired over this one!"

Submission + - Wal-Mart docks in Pirate Bay

Submitted by

Greg Kearney

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @09:22PM

Greg Kearney writes: "Wal-Mart docks in Pirate Bay

Published: 16th January 2007 16:17 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/6114/

The world's largest retailer has placed ads on the website of the world's largest illegal file-sharing network. In the lead-up to Christmas, banner ads from Wal-Mart began appearing on the website of bit torrent tracker the Pirate Bay, according to Variety.

Wal-Mart used the anti-copyright site to market DVDs of the 'Office Space' movie, as well as 'The Simpsons', 'Desperate Housewives' and 'The Sopranos' television series."

Apple To Play Fairer With FairPlay? 153

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @09:07PM from the all's-fair dept.

NewbieMonster writes "According to tech.co.uk, Apple is about to license its Fairplay DRM to Made for iPod accessory manufacturers. It's reported that Apple will also allow streaming of protected AAC content via USB. Could this signal a move to allowing other music players to access and play ITMS content?" From the article: "The expected announcements could signal a move on Apple's part to take some of the sting out of its Fairplay DRM which has come in for a great deal of criticism over recent months. It may also be a way of keeping Made For iPod makers onside, as the draw of the Microsoft Zune becomes stronger." Anyone noticed the draw of the Microsoft Zune becoming stronger?

Submission + - MS allows free OS with DX10 support?

Submitted by

neersign

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @08:27PM

neersign writes: "There appears to be a BSD-derived operating system under development claiming it will have full DirectX 10 support. The developer claims they have made a deal with Microsoft where the source must be closed but the operating system can be released for free, only with the request that users legally own one Microsoft operating system. The operating system is called XSOS and it uses what is assumed to be a modified BSD kernel released under the BSD license with Windows running in emulation on top of it. Discussions about the operating system can be found here and here. The home page for the project is here."

Submission + - Crystal Space 1.0 Released

Submitted by

Eugenia

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @08:04PM

Eugenia writes: "After almost 10 long years of hard work the Crystal Space hackers have finally released version 1.0. Check out some of its features which makes it possibly the most powerful community-driven multi-platform 3D engine out there."

Submission + - What is the best Firewall/ AV software

Submitted by Stevecrox on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @06:59PM

Stevecrox writes: With the recent scandals in america and the seeming rise in Bot nets I have to ask what anti virus software and firewall software do you use? I've tried a lot of the larger ones like kasperly, avast, norton, bullguard and stopped using them either they caused a huge drain on my system recources (like mcafee and avast) or they simplied lied. There have been times when I've been without the net for weeks and yet norton, kasperly and bullguard have imformed me that I was being attacked through the internet from IP adress 205/207.xxx.... when I had no network connection and my router was unplugged from the phone line(my home network is wired and all addresses are 192.xxx.) None of the AV software I've tried has ever shown my machine to have a virus and I'm using spybot but know I should be using alot more, where do I spend my money?

Submission + - Intel to launch cheaper quad core

Submitted by

Tommy Kino

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @06:59PM

Tommy Kino writes: ""On January 21st, Intel will launch their first mainstream quad-core processor — the Core 2 Quad Q6600. Like the Core 2 Extreme QX6700, it is made up of two Conroe dies sitting on a single package.

As such, its 8MB Level 2 cache is not completely shareable between all four cores. Rather, it's split into two separate 4MB caches, each of which is shareable between their respective core pairs.

According to Intel, we will not see a true quad-core (four cores on a die) processor until the second half of this year. Codenamed Yorkfield, it will debut in the new 45nm process and come with a fully-shared 8MB L2 cache."

Full report at http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=379& pgno=0"

Submission + - EV1Servers is no more

Submitted by

symbolset

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @06:59PM

symbolset writes: "Netcraft is reporting that EV1Servers is no more. EV1Servers was Founded in January 2000 as Rackshack by Robert Marsh a.k.a. "headsurfer", as a branch of his Houston ISP — Everyone's Internet. EV1Servers was a pioneer in dedicated servers. The company was among the fastest growing web hosts from 2002-2004.

Marsh left the company in May when it was acquired by private equity firm GI Partners, to be merged with The Planet, a parallel acquisition, making The Planet the sixth largest web host and third largest SSL host on the Internet."

Submission + - Outsourcing Recruiters and Headhunters?

Submitted by

fury88

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @06:58PM

fury88 writes: "I've recently begun the long and tedious job search for a Senior Software Engineer. It's been a few years since I've really looked at the market and what makes it more difficult is I need to relocate to another city and state. To my surprise, I've been getting dozens of calls from Indian recruiters. Of course they are going by "Justin" or "Ashley" but I can't understand a word they are saying. Here's what gets me that I thought I'd like to share. Do these companies really know who they are using to staff positions? I am all for listening to anyone that has a good offer for me no matter who they are but if I can't understand what they are saying, how does that help? I literally had to hang up on one of them because they weren't listening to me. It seems to me that if I was a company who hired a staffing agency, I would sure as hell want the recruiters to be able to communicate effectively, otherwise you risk losing qualified candidates. Am I wrong here and how long has this been going on?"

Submission + - Good Samaritan Computer Law needed

Submitted by

Hyresse

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @06:50PM

Hyresse writes: "Companys release software based on Financial reasons... even if the software isnt complete and or tested. Those same companys then use the law or will sue to prevent any bugs and/or exploits from being exposed. Since all software can expose people to the open and present danger from the current Cyber war between criminials and the Law, everyone risks becoming a casuality to live fire. an example is for your computer showing porn to children even when you never went to any porn site. or all your personal information being stolen. Everyone risks great finiancial problems and/or legal action against themselves as a side effect. The criminials already know of exploits and are useing them. Anyone that exposes these exploits to the public Risk being Sued and/or Jailed... The public needs to know if the software they are using is currently being used by criminials for illgotten gains. Software companys dont want these flaws exposed because it damages their reputation and opens them up to the public sueing them for gross negiliance. Where to draw the line.... I draw the Line at this... any software that has a flaw and that flaw is currently being exploited to gain control needs to be labled a WEB RISK.. any company that tries to prevent the exposure of a WEB RISK Software needs to be considered a accomplice to any criminial activity... anyone that has evidence that a exploit exists and is being used needs to be protected from legal action so that they can speak about it.. to write about it. to announce it. THIS IS NOT ABOUT FIXING THE EXPLOIT... a software company will fix it or not.... its their future.... hiding dangerious flaws and allowing others to pay for their mistakes needs to be against the law."

Submission + - Google Removes Yahoo! Maps and Mapquest Maps

Submitted by

fed0up

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @06:22PM

fed0up writes: "The "Do no evil" company removes Yahoo! maps and Mapquest maps from address search result. http://techcrunch.blogspot.com/2007/01/google-stop s-showing-yahoo-maps-in-one.html Test link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGGL%2C GGGL%3A2006-23%2CGGGL%3Aen&q=1600+Pennsylvania+ave %2C+washington+dc&btnG=Search"

Apple Charges For 802.11n, Blames Accounting Law 471

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @06:18PM from the don't-release-early-or-often dept.

If you have a Core 2 Duo Macintosh, the built-in WLAN card is capable of networking using (draft 2) 802.11n. This capability can be unlocked via an update Apple distributes with the new AirPort Extreme Base Station. Or, they will sell it to you for $4.99. Why don't they give it away for free, say with Software Update? Because of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (which was passed in the wake of the Enron scandal). iLounge quotes an Apple representative: "It's about accounting. Because of the Act, the company believes that if it sells a product, then later adds a feature to that product, it can be held liable for improper accounting if it recognizes revenue from the product at the time of sale, given that it hasn't finished delivering the product at that point."

Submission + - Sega to Discontinue GDroms - Death of Dreamcast

Submitted by Croakyvoice on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @05:57PM

Croakyvoice writes: The Dreamcast games Last Hope , Karous and Trigger Heart Exelica will the last officially licensed Sega games for the Dreamcast because from february Sega Japan are to stop production of GDRoms, the death of GDroms will mean no more Dreamcast or Naomi Arcade games. The Dreamcast Community have sent emails to Sega Japan to ask for a rethink on this issue.

Submission + - How to install Asterisk Business Edition on FC5

Submitted by

Dal

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @05:33PM

Dal writes: "Matt Birkland, a local Seattle Asterisk PBX Integrator sent in this article after working through some troubles installing ABE on the Fedora Core 5 Operating System. I hope this helps out anyone that has been having trouble. Please email any comments or questions and we will be sure to pass them along and make updates as needed. Many people may be in a situation like myself where they need specific driver support for a raid array for their Asterisk server. In my case this requires me to use Fedora core 5. Fedora Core 3 and 4 is supported by Digium, but not 5. However I called Digium to confer and a tech told me that they will attempt to support any issue they can replicate on a supported system."

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