Comment Re:I'll say.. (Score 3, Informative) 617
Have you used Outlook 2007? The message composing window definitely uses a ribbon.
ICANN and NIST Announce Plans To Sign the DNS Root 94
jhutkd writes "On June 3rd, 2009, ICANN and NIST
announced formal plans to use DNSSEC to sign the DNS root zone by the end of 2009. This is a huge step forward for the deployment of DNSSEC."
Use apt-p2p To Improve Ubuntu 9.04 Upgrade 269
An anonymous reader writes "With Jaunty Jackalope scheduled for release in 12 days on April 23, this blog posting describes how to switch to apt-p2p in preparation for the upgrade. This should help significantly to reduce the load on the mirrors, smooth out the upgrade experience for all involved, and bypass the numerous problems that have occurred in the past on Ubuntu release day. Remember to disable all third-party repositories beforehand."
Comment Don't (Score 1, Insightful) 121
If you're concerned enough to consider encrypting your home directory, you ought to go all the way and use full disk encryption. There are too many artifacts that can escape your home directory (RAM contents saved to swap file or hibernation file) or are never in your home directory to begin with (system logs, print spool, etc).
Comment Re:Why remove it alltogether? (Score 1) 474
Yeah, triple the cost of application development! That'll give users what they want!
Comment Re:DOD Guidlines. Re:"The only fireproof (Score 4, Informative) 527
There's no original because that's not the spec.
The real spec is DoD 5220.22-M, available at http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/html/522022m.htm.
The real spec is DoD 5220.22-M, available at http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/html/522022m.htm.
CAN-SPAM Act Turns 5 Today — What Went Wrong? 301
alphadogg writes "Five years ago, the US tech industry, politicians, and Internet users were wringing their hands over the escalating problem of spam. This prompted Congress to pass a landmark anti-spam bill known as the CAN-SPAM Act in December 2003. Fast forward five years. The number of spam messages sent over the Internet every day has grown more than 10-fold, topping 164 billion worldwide in August 2008. Almost 97% of all e-mails are spam, costing US ISPs and corporations an estimated $42 billion a year. What went wrong here?"
Comment Sprint Xohm WiMax (Score 2, Interesting) 412
Sprint Xohm WiMax. Its available in limited areas only for now (Baltimore & Chicago) but it works great. I'm getting 6Mbps download speeds for just $25/mo (6 month promotional period; $35/mo after) with no setup fee, no contract, and no termination fee.
Clearwire is rolling out similar/same technology in additional regions.
Comment Spreadsheet (Score 5, Informative) 437
Visicalc was an app for the Apple II, not the Mac.
Submission + - China Readies Rival DVD Format Royalty Free
An anonymous reader writes: According to http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/15/HNchinad vdrivalformat_1.html , 'InfoWorld' online magazine in an article titled
"China Readies DVD Rival Format", the Chinese manufacturers of DVD's, players and disks, are preparing to rollout their new format
across China and probably elsewhere. To quote the article with due respect to the holder of copyright, the publishers of 'InfoWorld':
" The DVD player makers plan to switch to EVD (enhanced versatile disc) in an attempt to avoid paying patent royalties on the DVD format, according to published reports. The world's largest producers of DVD players, Chinese electronics companies would use the format instead of standards such as MPEG-4.
Last week, 20 top manufacturers including Haier announced their plans to switch from DVD to EVD entirely by 2008, according to a report in China Economic News."
According to the article, the Chinese electronics industry in order to pursue royalty free hardware in an effort to reduce costs.
The fact that this would also break the media giants monopoly on the industry, hardware and software is not mentioned. Professional industry skeptics claim that China will fail, as have similar initiatives in 2003. The Chinese appear better organized and prepared
this time however, and could easily by governmental edict make fools of these 'skeptics'. It would be a fitting gesture to the world from a power determined to break hegemonies to also make the EVD open source. This would truly break the media hegemony of Sony, MPAA
and RIAA. All the major equipment manufacturers have made the choice of using Chinese manufacturers to make their equipment, so very
little real independant manufacturing capability is outside China save for maybe a Taiwanese manufacturer or two that might not want
to for its own reasons fight the mainland on this. This fact may have not registered on the so called skeptics, as by simple governmental fiat backed up by the largest armed force in the world including nuclear MIRVs, they can order this switch nationwide
and make it a standard within China. They could also suddenly stop making the monopolists DVD's as well and confiscate the so
called 'intellectual property' contained inherent to their manufacture and distribution. As a check on 'retribution', the Chinese
could say simply that we have taken this as is our right as a sovereign nation and it is in our borders...so be quiet and pray that we do not take more! This is the future and the effective end of DRM. It will be taken and coopted by nation states.
Every Vista Computer Gets Its Own Domain Name 388
c_forq writes, "According to APC magazine, every new Windows Vista computer will be given its own domain name to access files remotely. There is a catch though: to use it one must be using IPv6. Is the push for Vista also going to be the push finally to switch everything from IPv4 to IPv6?" Microsoft, meanwhile, is trying to convince businesses to adopt both Vista and Office 2007 at once. An analyst is quoted: 'In all likelihood, enterprises will tie deployment of both Vista and Office 2007 with a hardware upgrade cycle.' His reasoning is that it will be easier for companies to handle one disruption to IT systems than two. Or three.
Comment question (Score 1) 646
Why isn't adult swim funny anymore?
Comment Re:It depends... (Score 1) 713
I've had the very same problems with guys I've dated. They realize that my screenlock is password-protected, then hover behind, waiting for me to unlock it, and then reading over my shoulder at the messages and such I've got while I was away. I finally fixed that by setting up my computer around my bed; the monitor is on the bookshelf next to my pillow. In order to read over my shoulder, poke at the screen, or take over my keyboard, the person has to literally be in the bed with me. (Open season for sexual innuendo!)
I personally never ask for passwords, but they're often handed to me, and I try my hardest to forget them once their purpose has been fulfilled.
I personally never ask for passwords, but they're often handed to me, and I try my hardest to forget them once their purpose has been fulfilled.
