Submission + - Sen McCain's MySpace page gets hacked
An anonymous reader writes: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9014483&intsrc=hm_ list
Visitors to Sen. John McCain's MySpace page were likely surprised today by a statement that the Senator has reversed his position on gay marriage and "come out in full support of gay marriage ... particularly marriage between passionate females." Most won't be surprised that the statement was apparently posted as a prank.
The co-founder of an online news site, who said he designed the MySpace template used for McCain's page, claimed responsibility for changing the site . Mike Davidson, cofounder of Newsvine, said on his Web site that he commandeered the MySpace page because McCain's office used a design template of his without providing him credit. Davidson also said his imagery was used on the page and his server is used serve up McCain's MySpace images.
Submission + - IBM Announces 160Gbps Optical Networking Chip
haddieman writes: Ars Technica has a story about a new chip from IBM that can acheive blazing fast transfer rates.
FTA:
"IBM has announced a prototype optical transceiver chipset that can transmit data over optical fiber at speeds of up to 160Gbps. IBM informs us that it's fast enough to transmit "a typical high-definition movie" per second."
This is surely a great day for thepiratebay.
FTA:
"IBM has announced a prototype optical transceiver chipset that can transmit data over optical fiber at speeds of up to 160Gbps. IBM informs us that it's fast enough to transmit "a typical high-definition movie" per second."
This is surely a great day for thepiratebay.
Submission + - Present your project virtually at Web 2.0.
Zeus Jones writes: "Web-collaboration company Yugma is using its software to turn its booth at Web 2.0 into a live virtual presentation stage for "companies and individuals who wouldn't otherwise have a presence."
They have set up a form on their site where you can pitch a not-yet-ready-for-primetime project you'd like to see included.
http://www.yugma.com/stage2"
Submission + - Croquet SDK 1.0 Released
InfiniteBits writes: "After nearly ten years of development (or more if you count the development of Squeak), the Croquet SDK has achieved its 1.0 general release. Also, the Croquet Consortium, an open source development organization, has been formed to further the development of Croquet and its user community. From the press release: "DURHAM, N.C. — March 27, 2007 — A nonprofit consortium of academic
and corporate partners announced Tuesday the release of a free
software tool kit for developers to use in creating 3-D "virtual
environments."
"We're seeking to enable the creation of a rich series of
interconnected 'Croquet worlds' where people can engage in productive
collaborative interactions in support of learning and commerce — worlds that can be created, maintained and continually modified
without the constraints of proprietary computer code," said Julian
Lombardi, assistant vice president of Duke's Office of Information
Technology.
The Croquet Consortium's new "3-D Virtual Environments Software
Developer's Kit" (Croquet SDK 1.0) will promote collaboration among
far-flung research teams working on everything from cancer cells to
hurricanes, as well as active learning among students and their
instructors. These networked 3-D teams from research, education and
industry will be able to work together across a variety of computer
platforms and devices, from laptops to cell phones."
More info and downloads available at http://opencroquet.org/"
Submission + - Managing high-volume CPU processes with Bash
Jane Walker writes: "Learn how to use and modify a simple Bash script to alert you when CPU processes reach abnormally high levels."
Submission + - Delphi for PHP Released
Lou writes: Delphi for PHP, a complete PHP RAD tool for developing PHP web applications has been released by CodeGear ( the Developer Tools Group subsidiary of Borland). The tool only runs on the Windows XP/2000/2003 platform, but allows developer to target multiple platforms. The tool looks similar to its Delphi and C++ developer studio, only it generates pure PHP code. Bravo Codegear on your first new product. Supports several databases including MySQL and includes the VCL components library for PHP (over 50 useable controls), which will be managed as an Open Source project. Developing web applications has now become easier.
Link to Announcement: http://www.codegear.com/AboutUs/News/DelphiForPHPN owAvailable/tabid/251/Default.aspx
Submission + - DTrace for Mozilla
jayed_99 writes: DTrace is a'dynamic tracing framework' developed by Sun for Solaris 10 that's been ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. DTrace is performance analysis on steroids. Now there's an OpenSolaris project to port it to the Mozilla environment. Here are some examples of dtracing javascript.
With javascript's importance in modern application delivery, it's difficult to overstate the importance of having one tool that can probe every layer of the software stack from operating system to database to web server to application.
With javascript's importance in modern application delivery, it's difficult to overstate the importance of having one tool that can probe every layer of the software stack from operating system to database to web server to application.
Submission + - ODF threat to Microsoft in US governments grows
Tookis writes: California has introduced a bill to make open document format (ODF) a mandatory requirement for agencies when acquiring software, turning up the heat on Microsoft. The bill follows similar legislation in Texas and Minnesota and adds further to the pressure on Microsoft which is pushing its own proprietary Office Open XML (OOXML) document format in the recently released Office 2007. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/10150/53/
Submission + - Defragment windows up to 10X faster
crazlunatic writes: "Windows users have long been complaining about extremely long defrag times. In Vista, the situation is worsened as users are forced to go thorugh the analyze process and are sometimes left with a defrag session that doesn't end! VistaRewired has written up an easy tutorial for XP and Vista users who want to greatly decrease their time spent defragging. Using this tutorial, the author managed to defrag 20 gigabytes in only 8 minutes compared to 75 minutes using the Windows defrag tool . A combination of software including contig.exe and Power Defragmenter
are used."
Submission + - Bill Gates on The Future of Computing
pigscanfly.ca writes: Back in 1989 (in the Windows 2.0 days), Bill Gates came to talk to the students of the University of Waterloo on the early days of Microsoft and the future of computing. It's an interesting blast to the past. He even touches on his 640K statement. He also covers lots of other topics, including OS/2, software piracy, the history of the software industry, and his role at Microsoft.The talk is available in a number of audio formats from the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club website.
Submission + - New Java research obfuscator with examples
An anonymous reader writes: JBCO is a new Java Obfuscator developed by a graduate student at McGill University. What's most interesting is the examples of decompiled source showing the results of these obfuscations. The results of the duplicate bytecode sequence reuse transformation is particularly interesting. The research paper is availablehere.
Journal Journal: Office 2007 Wrecks Outlook Express Spell Check.
Much to the delight of Francophiles everywhere, Microsoft's Office 2007 switches Outlook Express spell-checkers to work only in French. Those disposed to communicate in other languages are being advised to use third-party programs.
No, that's not good. Microsoft French is probably worse than mine. I'm glad to be a Kontact user.
Submission + - Stallman to step down as Emacs maintainer
davids-world.com writes: "Richard Stallman is planning to step down as head maintainer of the GNU Emacs project. In an e-mail to fellow Emacs developers, he today asked for candidates to succeed him. RMS wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor in 1975 at MIT's AI Lab. Seen by many as the founder and chief advocate of the free software movement, Stallman has also been actively involved in Emacs' development. GNU Emacs 22, due soon, will be the first major release of the editor since 2001."
Submission + - Will Blogging Get Me Fired?
petercasier writes: "Will blogging get me fired? A blogger muses on the sudden recent success of one of his pieces. What are the norms of self discipline and self censorship (in a way) to be used when writing about controversial issues? And what are the commonalities between a young attractive US flight attendant and the highest ranking UN official in Sudan? Well, they both got fired about their blog. Kind of."
