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RulerOf writes:
In a not-so-surprising move amidst the anticipation surrounding the impending release of OS X 10.5 Leopard, Apple has pulled the Boot Camp 1.4 Beta from their web site. It will from now on presumably only be usable as a fully released product, bundled with Leopard. Of course, this doesn't leave current Boot Camp users in the dust; from the article:
"Not to worry, though: if you've used Boot Camp [...] your Windows partition should continue to work just like it [used] to. Remember, however, that Apple will ignore any problems you might encounter, and the Boot Camp utility itself will stop working."
This comes on the heels of a previous announcement at the beginning of the month, where v1.2 of Boot Camp expired on October 1st.
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RulerOf writes:
I work for a small business as an IT manager, and we're currently orchestrating a move to a new location because we have more than outgrown our original office. With this move, we're (finally) investing in a proper business class PBX-based phone system, but due to my limited experience with various phone systems, I am having trouble making my own decisions on what particular features and technologies I should consider when I look at my boss and say "This is what we should get." The nerd in me wants to recommend an IP based phone system for the elegance and potential features they should offer, but the realist in me is having a hard time justifying the additional expenditure inherently associated with an IP based phone system and PBX.
In your experience, is there any phone system that can give the features I desire, such as full accounting with Active Directory and Exchange integration (big plus), web management with Windows Authentication, and all the features one would expect out of any PBX-based phone system? Would these features consequently only exist in an IP based phone system? Can I find what I'm looking for in a more traditional system and save money?
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RulerOf writes:
I went to look up a local butcher this morning that I needed place a phone order with as I usually do, by finding them on Google Maps and utilizing the "Call" feature that Google added to thier maps service back in November of last year. I've found it to be an incredibly useful tool, but I was rife with disappointment this morning when I scoured the Google Maps page, only to find that the "Call" button had gone missing.
I later confirmed my fears, ironically through a Google News search, by finding an article detailing that Google has killed its click-to-call program.
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RulerOf writes:
Musicians recently unlocked a 600 year old mystery that had been encoded into the walls of the Rosslyn Chapel that was featured in "The Da Vinci Code." The song was carved into the walls of the chapel not using traditional notes, but in the form of geometric shapes known as cymatics, or Chladni patterns. After the entire song was decoded, it was set to traditional lyrics and recorded, and can be heard in a video featured here, at the musicians' website. The video also gives a visual representation of how the engravings match up to the cymatic patterns.
From the article:
"The music has been frozen in time by symbolism...They are of such exquisite detail and so beautiful that we thought there must be a message here." The two men matched each of the patterns on the carved cubes to a Chladni pitch, and were able finally to unlock the melody.
Lastly, a direct link to the video.
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RulerOf writes:
The AACS Decryption utility released this past December known as BackupHDDVD originally authored by Muslix64 of the Doom9 forums has received its first official DMCA Takedown Notice. It has been widely speculated that the utility itself was not an infringing piece of software due to the fact that it is merely "a textbook implementation of AACS," written with the help of documents publicly available at the AACS LA's website, and that the AACS Volume Unique Keys that the end user isn't supposed to have access to are in fact the infringing content, but it appears that such is not the case. From the thread:
"...you must input keys and then it will decrypt the encrypted content. If this is the case, than according to the language of the DMCA it does sound like it is infringing. Section 1201(a) says that it is an infringement to "circumvent a technological measure." The phrase, "circumvent a technological measure" is defined as "descramb(ling) a scrambled work or decrypt(ing) an encrypted work, ... without the authority of the copyright owner." If BackupHDDVD does in fact decrypt encrypted content than per the DMCA it needs a license to do that.
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RulerOf writes:
Three days ago a video was posted on YouTube called "How to Sign Up for GoogleTV Beta" along with four others as part of a series called "Infinite Solutions with Mark Erickson." The video was covered over at Gizmodo and after reading the article's comments, the joke becomes much more obvious. Follow the links for some very well done pranks from How to Unlock a Hidden Minesweeper Mode to Boosting your WiFi signal with a salad bowl.
It's all wonderfully wrapped up with a reassuring video that, among highlighting the jokes, gives a much better shot of the GoogleTV beta.
