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Submission + - iPhone brings down Duke wifi network

Submitted by ecklesweb on Wednesday July 18, 2007 @12:02PM

ecklesweb writes: Inside Higher Education has a story that the iPhone is too popular at Duke. In nine incidents since Friday — the most recent Tuesday afternoon — as many as 30 of university's wireless routers have been knocked out of service for 10 minute intervals, after being flooded with as many as 18,000 requests per second that are believed to be coming from the iPhone's built-in 802.11b/g wi-fi adapter.

Submission + - MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain

Submitted by

nadamsieee

on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @02:32PM

nadamsieee writes: "Eliot Van Buskirk has an interesting piece over at Wired about the fall-out from Microsoft's recent courtroom loss to Alcatel-Lucent over MP3 patents. From the article: "Alcatel-Lucent isn't the only winner in a federal jury's $1.52 billion patent infringement award against Microsoft this week. Other beneficiaries are the many rivals to the MP3 audio-compression format... Now, with a cloud over the de facto industry standard, companies that rely on MP3 may finally have sufficient motivation to move on. And that raises some tantalizing possibilities, including a real long shot: Open-source, royalty-free formats win.""

Submission + - DST, the new Y2K for Consultants

Submitted by

fatalwall

on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @01:58PM

fatalwall writes: "I work at a consultant firm that is has been looking at the Daylight Savings Time change of three weeks earlier and what updates are needed for various software. We have discovered that there is an update for Windows, Exchange, Outlook, blackberry ect. Grandly Microsoft has not provided updates through Microsoft updates for all of these. We have found various tools online that will help however we have some clients that use outlook with PST's which requires every user to run an update. The only thing I can find our people complaining they cant find a solution. How is everyone else dealing with this problem? What have you found for solutions?"

'Daylight Savings Bugs' Loom 403

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, 2007 @01:07PM from the crush-those-critters dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet has front page coverage of the looming daylight savings changeover, and the bugs that may crop up this year. With the extension of daylight savings time by four weeks, some engineers and programmers are warning that unprepared companies will experience serious problems in March. While companies like Microsoft have already patched their software, Gartner is warning that bugs in the travel and banking sectors could have unforeseen consequences in the coming months. ' In addition, trading applications might execute purchases and sales at the wrong time, and cell phone-billing software could charge peak rates at off-peak hours. On top of that, the effect is expected to be felt around the world: Canada and Bermuda are conforming to the U.S.-mandated change, and time zone shifts have happened in other locales as well.'" Is this just more Y2K doomsaying, or do you think there's a serious problem here?

Submission + - Bionic eye could restore vision

Submitted by

MattSparkes

on Friday February 16, 2007 @11:24AM

MattSparkes writes: "A new bionic eye could restore vision to the profoundly blind. A prototype was tested on six patients and "within a few weeks all could detect light, identify objects and even perceive motion again. For one patient, this was the first time he had seen anything in half a century." The user wears a pair of glasses that contain a miniature camera and that wirelessly transmits video to a cellphone-sized computer in the wearer's pocket. This computer processes the image information and wirelessly transmits it to a tiny electronic receiver implanted in the wearer's head."

Submission + - Hacks no longer joking matter at MIT

Submitted by ecklesweb on Friday February 16, 2007 @10:40AM

ecklesweb writes: The Boston Globe reprots that Hacks are no longer a joke at MIT. Three students tripped an alarm while "exploring" the Faculty Club under the cover of dark. Instead of fines or community service, the three students face up to 20 years in prison on charges of felony breaking and entering and trespassing. Of course, maybe it's just *botched* hacks that are no joke at MIT...

Submission + - Burying the Environmental Problem, Literally

Submitted by

MattSparkes

on Friday February 16, 2007 @10:13AM

MattSparkes writes: "The largest carbon burial experiment in the world began in earnest on Thursday when the drilling of a 2100-metre well began in southern Australia. If all goes well, carbon dioxide will be injected into the well in July. Carbon burial is one of several techniques being developed to reduce the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere when coal, oil, or gas are burned. The gas, which causes global warming, could be captured from power plants and then stored underground."

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