I live directly in the city and every apartment seems to have its own access point it seems. It's even worse when I put my computer near the window.

Where's the rack mounted server in this video? The outdated desktop wanna be server was already half assembled.

Indeed. I have a Hotmail account to check if the mails from my servers arrive there. Sometimes they don't, sometimes they do without a recognizable pattern. But when I do log in once or twice a year my mailbox is filled with spam. I want to know how the spammers get their mails into the system.

I forward everything coming from @hotmail.com and @aol.com to /dev/null

First off: I have a smartphone, I'm a *nix person, I've been using a Mac since 2006 (great UI) and my phone is a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone .... stupid. I know.

My phones does everything. But really I only use it for phone calls. Often I get a phone call and I can't get it because the software has crashed and I need to reboot the phone. My old Motorola C115 was perfect. It could only really be used as a phone and never crashed.

Because I use a Mac I also carry around an iPod Touch (wlan, Apps, iCal, Music, Videos) and because I'm a photographer I still always carry around a "real" camera (Lumix LX3), and I only carry that camera for snapshots. For the "real thing" I carry much heavier gear.

The only thing I consider removing from this mix is my smartphone. All the other good things are there to stay.

If I remember correctly this is what Clifford Stoll did back in the 80s. Nothing new here.

Does this really tell me anything? Not really? What kind of "cyber attacks" are that? SSH break-in attempts? Bots looking for known holes? Script kiddies? Mail relay attempts? Or targeted attempts specifically designed to get access to their system? If I go for the script kiddie/SSH category I get around 25.000 attempts a year on one server alone, according to ossec.
This could also just mean that the number of attacks has risen generally and not specifically against the DoD.

So many unanswered questions ...

It might be, but I have not thought about it consciously.

Anyway - MS can publish its own browser, but I just want them to adhere to standards, like all other browsers do. I'm really not principally against a MS web browser , I'm just against it when companies ignore well established standards.

No, I don't want extra money. I do the optimizing without requesting extra money. But I would want my extra UNPAID free time back which I need to to optimize for IE. It's not about making money, it's about the stupidity of MS that requires me to invest extra time, which I only need for IE compatibility and not for the other four browsers which by default support the standards brought forward by w3c (because they know what standards are, as previously mentioned).

That is exactly what we are doing! We build the necessary workarounds for the end-users, so that the web pages look the same in every browser. BUT making pages work in IE takes extra effort and time (=money) BECAUSE Microsoft doesn't care about standards. I wouldn't care about IE if it would adhere to the standards like every other browser, but MS are so full of themselves that they ignore standards. THAT is the problem, not lazy web developers.

Why can't MS just let IE die. It's been such a fail since around IE 5/6 when websites started to use more CSS and JavaScript (or shall be say JScript?). I don't know how many hours and hours I have lost to IE because it wouldn't render a website correctly which every other freaking browser (FF, Safari, Opera, Chrome) renders correctly. I feel MS should pay compensation to every webdeveloper out there due to all the headaches their complete piece of junk has caused everyone. I'm not a person who normally hates, I'm all for loving, sharing and giving but I hate, hate, hate - HATE! - IE and MS. The only reason why I had to buy Parallels Desktop for my Mac (80€) was so I don't have to turn on my old Windows system to test websites with IE. MS should give me back those 80€, at least.

Well.... I had a Linux Laptop, Pentium 133Mhz - 48mb of RAM, Slackware 10 running until recently. I ran Opera 6 and Firefox 0.7 on it because anything higher wasn't acceptable ----> it was soooooooo slow. Then with all the Javascript and Flash going around which 1. mostly doesn't work on such an old browser version and 2. it nearly kills the machine, if it runs. I really really can't image what wondrous 133Mhz system you had which could do what you say. I ran X with UWM, a small, very very lightweight window manager. Then there was no office suite which would run at an acceptable speed, so I had to use a plain text editor for simple notes, writing LaTeX if I needed a formated output. Maybe if you only use the console and links it might work....

Sorry, I can't believe you.

If you take the time and have the language skills to the read the comment you'll see that at least 75% of the comments are related to how people can install XP/Vista or reports by people who report how easy it was to install XP/Vista. People just buy these notebooks to get the cheap hardware without included Microsoft licensing costs and the throw their pirated copy of Windows on them. And those people who actually use Linux will probably install their own preferred flavor of Linux on it. The product description even says "XP/Vista drivers included". So get real - this is not a Linux revolution, people are not switching to Linux, they are just running because these things are cheap! So real lesson we learn: People like to buy cheap notebooks and install Windows on their own, instead of buy more expensive notebooks with the Microsoft licensing costs already included.

Well, the battery for the Canon 5D MkII also contains a chip. If you buy an aftermarket battery for it the battery status won't show on the 5D MkII because the chip as not been cloned yet. So if you buy a battery for the 5D MkII by another brand you'll have to use a special charger and can't use the one from Canon. Most of my friends are now buying the original Canon batteries for their 5D MkII now.

Other than that, the Panasonic LX3 is great compact, which is not included in this firmware "upgrade".

I love libraries, I love the internet. Both have their uses. I find it quite comfortable to search my local library catalog. This is grumpy old man who is sticking to what he knows and is comfortable with. Just ignore it. I know other grumpy old people who hate technology because they don't know it and thus are afraid of it.