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Submission + - 5 Things You Can't Discuss about Linux

Submitted by gondwannabe on Thursday March 08, 2007 @12:13AM

gondwannabe writes: Flamebait for the /. crowd? How about The Five Things You Aren't Allowed to Discuss About Linux With considerable chutzpa, an insightful Rob Enderle takes on what he considers five dogmas in the OSS community and explains why they're wrong. Examples: Linux is secure, "communes" actually work in the long haul, and that Linux is "pro-developer.

Journal Journal: BBC Says Don't Upgrade to Vista.

Journal by twitter on Friday March 02, 2007 @12:37PM

Tim Weber, BBC Business editor, described his Vista upgrade ordeal and warns users not to do it. The Vista Upgrade Advisor underestimated what he needed, it took him more than three hours, cost more than $200 in new parts, broke his web cam and pocket PC and left him with an unstable system. The vendors tell him there will be no drivers and that he should have bought new devices long ago. He summarizes the end result:

Worm Exploiting Solaris Telnetd Vulnerability 164

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 02, 2007 @12:26PM from the beware-of-rotten-fruit dept.

MichaelSmith writes "Several news sites are reporting that a worm is starting to exploit the Solaris Telnet 0-day vulnerability. By adding simple text to the Telnet command, the system will skip asking for a username and password. If the systems are installed out of the box, they automatically come Telnet-enabled. 'The SANS Internet Storm Center, which monitors Internet threats, has noticed some increase in activity on the network port used by Solaris' telnet feature, according to an ISC blog posted on Tuesday. "One hopes that there aren't that many publicly reachable Solaris systems running telnet," ISC staffer Joel Esler wrote.'"

Submission + - Athlon FX Mobile?

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Friday March 02, 2007 @12:23PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Sager notebook is offering notebooks featuring AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 processors. Is that physically possible or would the thing overheat in a matter of minutes?"

Submission + - Music Downloads Don't Decrease Album Sales

Submitted by DocForbin on Friday March 02, 2007 @12:20PM

DocForbin writes: Koleman Strumpf, Koch Professor of Economics at The University of Kansas, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee of Harvard University analyzed millions of music downloads from 2002. Their Conclusion: "Downloads have an effect on sales that is statistically indistinguishable from zero." The findings, initially published in 2004, faced heavy criticism. After re-analyzing the data, Strumpf and Oberholzer-Gee defended their conclusions again in the Feb. 14 issue of the Journal of Political Economy.

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