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Comment Re:How much? Where? (Score 1) 161

by GodBlessTexas on Sunday August 31, 2008 @02:17AM (#24816707) Attached to: A Device to Grab Data From Cell Phones

Paraben has renamed PDA Seizure to Device Seizure, and it supports Blackberry forensics acquisition. Also, check out this link at blackberryforums.com that explains the caveats of blackberry forensics and data acquisition.

Oracle Lines Up Unbreakable MySQL 132

Posted by Hemos on Monday January 29, 2007 @01:10PM from the the-swirling-of-large-and-small dept.

munchola writes "MySQL CEO, Marten Mickos, has revealed to CBRonline that Oracle has threatened to provide support for MySQL and is already distributing the open source database. "They have hinted to us that they will," said Mickos, indicating that the database giant is planning to repeat its October 2006 Unbreakable Linux plan, which saw it undercut Red Hat with enterprise Linux support. Despite the competitive threat, Mickos is unmoved. "I hope they do that," he said, noting that it would be seen as an endorsement of the open source database.""

Submission + - Another interesting patent attempt

Submitted by

DocHart

on Monday January 29, 2007 @01:05PM

DocHart writes: "Here's a report from Groklaw on an interesting patent request: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200701280 8444146"

Vendor Give Intel a Piece of Your Mind 178

Submitted by OSTG Marketing Dept. on Monday January 29, 2007 @12:55PM

Most tech product advertising and even "advertorial sections" you see in newspaper and magazines and on Web sites are one-way: they talk to you but there's no way for you to talk to them. But this is Slashdot, so you are allowed to talk back to Intel in this section. In fact, you're encouraged to talk back to them.

Submission + - US missle interceptor tests a success

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Monday January 29, 2007 @12:48PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and Lockheed Martin conducted a successful flight test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) weapon system on January 26, intercepting a unitary target in THAAD's first flight test at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) on Kauai, HI. This hit-to-kill intercept demonstrated THAAD's precision against in-bound threats and its ability to provide increased protection for troops and assets."

Submission + - Microsoft plans attacks on small customers

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 29, 2007 @12:39PM

An anonymous reader writes: PC Advisor reports http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=8 235 that Microsoft is going to start getting tough with its UK customers. It is going to examine its small customer licence database — any discrepancies and it will call you for an audit. If you refuse it will send in the BSA and the legal heavies. Forced with a full licence cost, many small businesses may go to the wall. Is this another gift for the small business Linux community? And how can we make small companies aware before it's too late?

Submission + - DOPA returns from the dead

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 29, 2007 @12:39PM

An anonymous reader writes: Perhaps it was a little premature to write an obituary for the Delete Online Predators Act (DOPA), as senator Ted "the Internet's a bunch of tubes" Stevens has proposed the new Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act which has a rather DOPA-esque ring to it, and would essentially ban the use of social software — such as blogs, wikis, and social networks — in schools and libraries which receive federal funding.

Submission + - MS responds to BlueJ Patent Issues

Submitted by

twofish

on Monday January 29, 2007 @12:13PM

twofish writes: "In his blog, Dan Fernandez, the lead project manager for Visual Studio Express, responded to the flurry of messages and blog postings that circulated since Michael Kolling first blogged about Microsofts patten application that threatened BlueJ, an educational tool used to teach OO. (See slashdot here or blueJ here)

Dan has gone so far as to offer an apology to Michael Koumllling and the BlueJ community. "We can officially say that the patent application was a mistake and one that should not have happened. To fix this, Microsoft will be removing the patent application in question."

Additionally, the Product Unit Manager is investigating how and why the application was made."

Submission + - SCO Admitting the End My Be Near?

Submitted by

inetsee

on Monday January 29, 2007 @11:46AM

inetsee writes: "According to Groklaw, SCO has admitted in a 10K filing that if the court grants any or all of IBM's six motions for summary judgement, 'We can not guarantee whether our claims against IBM or Novell will be heard by a jury.'"

Submission + - Online BS degrees

Submitted by on Monday January 29, 2007 @10:30AM

An anonymous reader writes: I'm currently attending DeVry University. I'm taking all of my classes online. DeVry is pretty expensive. I'm wondering how valuable my CIS degree from DeVry will be. Do any of you have a degree from DeVry? Is it a rip-off? I currently have a 4.0 GPA, and I feel that I'm learning a lot. I just want to know how seriously people will take the degree I'm spending $58K on.

Submission + - DNF Screenshot Causes Ruckus

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Monday January 29, 2007 @09:42AM

eldavojohn writes: "A Duke Nukem Forever Screenshot has been released in a job advertisement by 3D Realms hoping to attract programmers. The tiny image is "in game footage" confirmed by 3D Realms that shows "Duke standing in a random hallway." Is this a case of actual screenshots with release dates being thrown around or attempt to attract attention by playing the DNF card one more time?"

Submission + - Things to know before Google indexes your website

Submitted by

Etherfast

on Monday January 29, 2007 @07:05AM

Etherfast writes: "The same way you clean up your house before your guests arrive, the same way you should get your website ready for Google's crawler, as this is one of the most important guests you will ever have. According to that, here are 10 things you should double check before submitting your website to the index. If you want, you can view this article as the correction of the top 10 mistakes made by webmasters.
1. If you have a splash page on your website, make sure you have a text link that allows you to pass it. I've seen many websites with a fancy flash introduction on the index and no other way to navigate around it. Well, Google can't read into your flash page, and therefore it cannot bypass it. All you have to do is put a text link to your website's second index, and the deed is done.
2. Make sure you have no broken links I know this is kind of obvious, but you'll be surprised to find out how many errors is the Google crawler experiencing daily due broken links. Therefore, you'd better check and double check every internal link of your webpage before submission. Don't forget that your links are also your visitor's paths to your content. It's not all about Google, you know :)
3. Check the TITLE tags Since you are able to search in title tags on Google and since the title tags is displayed in the top of your browser window, I'd say this is an important aspect you need to check. This doesn't mean you have to compile a >20 keywords list there. Instead, make it a readable sentence since it's viewable by both crawlers and surfers.
4. Check the META tags Rumors about Google not caring about META tags are not 100% correct. Google relies on these tags to describe a site when there's a lot of navigation code that wouldn't make sense to a human searcher, so why not make sure you're all in order and set up some valid KEYWORDS and a valid DESCRIPTION. You never know.
5. Check your ALT tags The ALT tags are probably the most neglected aspect of a website since no one bothers to put them in order. It's definitely a plus if you do, so Google spider can get a clue about all of your graphics. However, don't go extreme and start explaining in an ALT tag that a list bullet is a list bullet.
6. Check your frames If you use frames on your website, you might not be indexed 100%. Google actually recommends that you read an article of Danny Sullivan on Search Engines and Frames. You have to make sure that either Google can read from your frames, either that it has an alternative, defined via the NOFRAMES tag.
7. Do you have dynamically generated pages? I know the web evolved so much in the last period of time, and more and more websites based on dynamic scripting languages (PHP, ASP, etc) are coming out every second, but Google said they are limiting the amount of dynamic webpages they're indexing. It's not too late to consider a compromise and include some static content in your pages. It helps.
8. Update your content regularly This is an important aspect that you should consider, since Google indexes more quickly pages that get updated on a regular basis. You will notice that the number of pages indexed by the search engine will increase day by day if you update, but will stagnate or decrease if you don't bring something new. I suggest setting up a META option in the header that will tell Google how frequently should it come back for a reindexing.
9. The robots.txt This file is a powerful resource if used properly. You have the chance to filter out the bots that crawl your website, and you have the chance of restricting access to certain URL's that should not be indexed (login pages, admin backends, etc).
10. To cache or not to cache? Google caches some webpages for quick access, but some webmasters do not like that. The procedure is quite simple. All you have to do is write a line of code between your HEAD tags.
META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE" — should be enough to stop all robots from caching and archiving the page where the code is embedded. All these being said, you can now submit your website to Google's index."

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