Comment: So, if I get this correctly... (Score 5, Insightful) 366
This article compares Apple, a hardware maker, with Google and Android, who provides software to hardware makers? How is that a fair comparison?
Shortcuts to a High Tech House
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phaedrus9779 writes "I'm a recently married man about to take on the next big adventure: home ownership! I came across a great house in a great community but I need a little bit extra: a high tech house. The problem: money, I'm on a budget. I'd love to have home theaters, super high tech weather stations and iPads seamlessly installed in all the walls — but this just isn't possible. So my question to the Slashdot community is: how can I build a high tech house that will be the envy of my friends, provide lots of useful gadgets, and not break the bank?
Also, as always, the cooler the better!"
Also, as always, the cooler the better!"
Comment: Re:I like this (Score 5, Insightful) 116
Seeing how the target demographic of that package is mostly MBAs, I think it works out pretty well.
Comment: I like this (Score 2) 116
This actually looks nice for a prototype! The data is well laid out. This is probably the first app that convinced me that Metro might work out in the end.
Comment: Re:no surprise (Score 1) 381
I think this is what they may aim for, with
If I got this correctly, you could just use managed
Museum Helps Domesday Reloaded Project 70
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timothy
from the time-capsule-by-another-name dept.
from the time-capsule-by-another-name dept.
purehavnet writes "For many months the volunteers at the Centre for Computing History have been working on capturing and preserving the data from the BBC Domesday System. A complete set of data from the community disc was supplied to the BBC, who have now released the Domesday Reloaded project. This allows most of the community data from the original system to be viewed online."
Comment: Re:The numbers are wrong (wild guess) (Score 5, Informative) 486
NATO aircrafts have OTAN printed on it because the two official languages used in NATO are English and French. OTAN means Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord.
Comment: Re:Why... (Score 1) 239
Facebook would be a good example of this. In IE, rendering time allows the full page with images to be loaded before displaying it. I used to have up to 70% of my CPU eaten by IE7 trying to display the page (just to resituate, this was on an Eee PC 701). Chrome on the other hand displays the page much faster, and images are still loading after the page render. CPU utilization was also lower, hovering around 20%.
I did not time both browsers and I don't have my Eee anymore. But I think it is (or was) a good example of a Javascript heavy website.
Gmail is also a good example of a Javascript-loaded website.
Comment: How about Robogeisha? (Score 1) 277
How about Robogeisha? Is she safe?
Comment: Re:one time CC numbers (Score 1) 367
I don't know about elsewhere, but this exists in France already. It's called e-Carte Bleue. You have a program on your computer, you enter an amount of money, you press generate. It calls back your bank, asks for authorization and responds back with a one-time CC number. While it doesn't work absolutely everywhere, it's damn useful to test out stuff. It costs not much IIRC, I don't use it that much these days (I only buy from trusted sources)...
Of course, you cannot book tickets you have to retrieve at the station/airport with this, but it's the most convenient system I found yet.
Of course, you cannot book tickets you have to retrieve at the station/airport with this, but it's the most convenient system I found yet.
Open Source Malware Search Engine 123
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from the in-case-your-computer-isn't-infected-already dept.
from the in-case-your-computer-isn't-infected-already dept.
chr0.ot writes "Metasploit creator HD Moore has released an open-source search engine that finds live malware samples through Google queries. From the article: 'The new Malware Search project provides a Web interface that allows anyone to enter the name of a known virus or Trojan and find Google results for Web sites hosting malicious executables.' The tool then searches for actual malware signatures and uses the signature output from ClamAV to find the name of the malware. This is then used in conjunction with a PE signature matching method to form a Google query. Afterwards the malware can then be downloaded directly from Google."
Ship Logs Suggest Upcoming Polar Reversal 349
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from the straight-on-till-morning dept.
from the straight-on-till-morning dept.
Nyerp writes "Researchers are using naval logs dating back as far as 1590 to arrive at better estimates of the decline of Earth's magnetic field. The results suggest that there may be a reversal of earth's magnetic field in about 2000 years." Also worth noting, our ancestors have lived through a number of polar reversals, and we're still here, so no need to fret!
Run Windows Applications Natively in OS X? 521
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Zonk
from the predictiontastic dept.
from the predictiontastic dept.
mcho writes "Unlike other speculators, who get no spam, Robert X. Cringely offers an intriguing reason behind Apple's recent strategy of Boot Camp. From the article: 'I believe that Apple will offer Windows Vista as an option for those big customers who demand it, but I also believe that Apple will offer in OS X 10.5 the ability to run native Windows XP applications with no copy of XP installed on the machine at all. This will be accomplished not by using compatibility middleware like Wine, but rather by Apple implementing the Windows API directly in OS X 10.5.'
Open Source For Perimeter Security 56
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from the people-still-afraid-of-oss dept.
An anonymous reader writes "IT Observer has a look at some of the perceived problems with an OpenSource approach to security and what could be done to improve the situation. From the article: 'There is a widespread and wholly inaccurate impression that open source development is somehow haphazard and undisciplined, a free-for-all among brilliant but uncoordinated individuals. In fact, most major open source projects are very tightly managed highly disciplined teams. This article gives examples of very successful Open Source security projects -- netfilter and Snort -- and also describes some weaknesses that need to be addressed by IT organizations or vendors.'"