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Submission + - Two Worm "Families" Make Up Most Botnets

Submitted by JMoon on Monday April 09, 2007 @10:57AM

JMoon writes: HNS has an article about the Sdbot and Gaobot families which are responsible for most botnets worldwide. These two families were responsible for 80 percent of detections related to bots during the first quarter of 2007. Other culprits, although on a much lesser scale, included Oscarbot, IRCbot or RXbot.

Feed Immune Response Altered For Viruses Like HIV And Hepatitis C (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Monday April 09, 2007 @10:12AM

After an acute viral infection, some T cells generated to kill virus-infected cells remain on guard to establish long-term immunity. These so-called memory T cells, which derive from CD8 T cells, engage in a self-renewal process essential to their persistence. Now, a new study shows that the CD8 T cells produced to fight a chronic infection operate under an entirely different maintenance scheme than do the CD8 T cells that become memory T cells.

Feed Writing and publishing with Emacs Muse (newsforge.com)

From feed by nffeed on Monday April 09, 2007 @10:12AM

Emacs a text editor, but it can be much more: a personal information manager, task manager, and an email client, for instance. For me, Emacs is a tool for writing and publishing -- especially when used with Muse mode.

Submission + - The Implications of Free Java

Submitted by dsginter on Monday April 09, 2007 @09:21AM

dsginter writes: Last November, when Sun announced that they would be adopting GPLv2 licensing for Java, I expected somewhat of a bigger splash. Is this truly a non-event or does the assumption of such a robust tool set on GNU systems change the landscape? What happens to LAMP? Will Tomcat move in as the web server du jour? Can PHP finally die? What about the venerable Portable Operating System Interface? It seems like there is a lot of room that could be filled by this move.

Submission + - Drobo equals USB pseudo-RAID

Submitted by

mcoko

on Monday April 09, 2007 @09:13AM

mcoko writes: "I saw this little fella running at Photoshop World in Boston. Drobo is a USB hard drive enclosure that provides full mirrored protection in box. Basically you load it up with 2-4 hard drives of any size and it will mirror data across the drives. Once protection is achieved you can hot swap or loose any drive with out loosing data. If and when a drive is lost or removed the Drobo will re-mirror/reorganize the data to ensure that another drive can be lost. Of course the total storage does not equal that of the drives installed. A simple set of lights indicate when data is completely protected and you can risk loosing one drive. The lights indicate when you are running low on space and when you are not in a protected mode. Check out the community site to read some in depth discussions. Here are a few short reviews."

Submission + - Hacker's Case May Add to Students' Privacy Rights

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09, 2007 @05:37AM

An anonymous reader writes: Article in Inside Higher Ed says the legal loss of a hacker in federal appeals court may result in students at public universities having MORE privacy rights. The hacker lost, but federal appeals court also said he had (generally) a right to privacy on computer in his dorm room:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/09/heck enkamp

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