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El Lobo writes:
A new microkernel, .Net-based operating system is available now. COSMOS is an acronym for C# Open Source Managed Operating System. Even though the name C# is part of the name of Cosmos, Cosmos can work with any .NET language that compiles to pure IL without P/Invokes.
Technically, Cosmos is a set of operating system legos written completely in C# that allow developers to easily build custom OSes with little OS experience by simply selecting new project in Visual Studio, then pressing F5 to build, deploy, and debug.
Cosmos has a lot of similarity compared to Microsoft's Singularity. But unlike Singularity, Cosmos is publicly available now with full source code at Codeplex.
COSMOS Website can be found here.
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El Lobo writes:
A video spoof shown during the CES 2008 keynote by Bill Gates about his last full day at Microsoft in July starring himself, Brian Williams, Steve Ballmer, Matthew McConaugheyr, Robbie Bach, Jay-Z, Bono, Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, Jon Stewart, Kevin Turner, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Al Gore, Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie,
Amazing who they can call for a guest appearance in the name of Bill Gates.
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El Lobo writes:
Celebrity gossip "queen" Perez Hilton said he's unlikely to post videos on YouTube any longer and instead will probably host them on his own site, Perezhilton.com. As informed on TVWeek.com, the blogger and the biggest video-sharing service are feuding after YouTube pulled some of his videos due to complaints from copyright holders. Mr. Hilton, said he's disappointed by the way YouTube handled the matter. After discussion, Mr. Hilton's YouTube account was reinstated Thursday afternoon and he promptly posted a YouTube kiss-off video, telling the site to "F — off." "The way they treated me with this whole incident makes me feel not appreciated," Mr. Hilton said. "They didn't do anything. Not to overestimate my own worth, but I probably have sent more traffic to YouTube than anyone else on the Internet."
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El Lobo writes:
MacTopic is featuring an article about how big of a disappointment Leopard acyually is. The article doesn't talk about the firewall debacle or the broken Time Machine, but it focuses instead on much simplier things like "the Finder from hell". From the article: "No cutting in the Finder. You can copy, you can paste, but you can't cut... Open and Save dialogue boxes from hell. The open and save dialogue boxes are moronically disabled..., Column view is irritating and doesn't work right....,The amazing bad design of the transparent toolbar, etc...". The author was flummoxed that even Steve Jobs would have the balls to hint at forthcoming "secret features" and then get on stage and reveal the lame tacked-on additions to the OS that he did. He must have been mortified to say that he was going to reveal 10 new features and then only reveal 3...while pretending that they were all new, despite having given them away a long time ago.
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El Lobo writes:
A swedish phone company (Telia) is being sued by the german Deutsche Telekom (swedish only). The cause of the disput? Telia is using magenta color for their image (logotype, web site, etc). So is Deutsche Telekom even if they are not using an exact shade of magenta (see the color comparation in the article)
"Magenta is one of the most important aspects of our image"- says a Deutsche Telekom representant. They are suing Telia for copyright infringement and want to get 3,4 miljarder euro as a compensation.
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El Lobo writes:
Raymond Chen writes in his blog about Why are INI files deprecated in favor of the registry and raises many interesting questions, like how the INI file security is not granular enough, or how ini files can only store (non-unicode) strings and can suffer a denial of service.
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El Lobo writes:
Security software firm Intego is warning Mac OS X users today about a trojan horse that targets the Mac. OSX.RSPlug. A is showing up on pornography sites disguised as a movie. When someone clicks the link to watch the video clip, a Web page states that a new QuickTime codec must be installed. If the option to Open "Safe" Files After Downloading is enabled in Safari (which is the default), the image opens automatically. The trojan changes the computer's DNS settings to point to phishing sites or ads for other pornography sites.
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El Lobo writes:
Microsoft Corp.'s best quarterly revenue growth in eight years, helped by a surge in sales for the Windows operating system, capped a strong earnings season for the technology industry that has made it a rare bright spot for investors this fall.
Microsoft's 23% boost in net income, reported after the 4 p.m. close of markets, lifted its shares more than 10%. For now, demand is strong for Office and Windows, including Windows Vista, introduced last year, and its predecessor, Windows XP. Quarterly sales at the Windows division jumped 27% to $3.37 billion.
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El Lobo writes:
IT SEEMS LIKE JUST A YEAR AGO THAT WE WERE CELEBRATING THE MUCH-MALIGNED 'CAPS-LOCK' KEY. NOW, JUST 365 DAYS AND ONE KEYBOARD LATER, IT'S ONCE AGAIN INTERNATIONAL CAPS-LOCK DAY.
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El Lobo writes:
It seems that it's not only Apple, Dell and Sony who are having a though time with their batteries. Nokia is now replacing more than 46 million batteries that are experiencing overheating. This advisory applies only to the batteries manufactured by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006.
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El Lobo writes:
A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.
"The notion was that a chemical that would probably be pleasant in the human body in low quantities could be identified, and by virtue of either breathing or having their skin exposed to this chemical, the notion was that soliders would become gay," explained Edward Hammond, of Berkeley's Sunshine Project.
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El Lobo writes:
Gates, who dropped out of Harvard and co-founded Microsoft Corp. (Charts, Fortune 500) to become the world's richest person, stopped off at his former stomping grounds to collect an honorary law degree.
I've been waiting for more than 30 years to say this: Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree," Gates, 51, told the crowd, which included his father, also named Bill.
Jobs and Gates share the spotlight
"I'll be changing my job next year, and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume," said Gates in a reference to his plan to shift full time into philanthropy.
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El Lobo writes:
If you think back a few years to IIS 5.0, the future for Microsoft's web server looked rather bleak. With IIS 6.0, Microsoft made "locked down" mode settings the default at installation, which helped minimize security problems, and helped IIS 6.0 recapture a major part of trust that IIS 5.0 lost. No major security disasters have been reported since the release of IIS 6.0. Now, Microsoft is looking to consolidate IIS 7.0's position as a secure and robust web server.
A recent market survey indicated that Microsoft's IIS has a 31.13 percent market share, which places it in second position behind the open source Apache Web Server. Another survey by Port80 Software that takes Fortune 1000 companies into consideration reports that IIS has overtaken Apache among Fortune 1000 sites.
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El Lobo writes:
CBC news is reporting that Lenovo has agreed to buy up to $1.3 billion US in software from Microsoft Corp. to preinstall Windows and other software suites on its computers.The Lenovo-Microsoft deal, the largest single agreement announced Wednesday, is similar to a $1.2-billion deal signed between the two companies last year.
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El Lobo writes:
Computer Sweden (Swedish only) is reporting that The Pirate Bay has been hacked. Millions of identities and passwords have been stolen. "Arga unga hackare" (Angry Young Hackers) is the organization responsible for the incident.
