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Thoron
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Thoron (19565)

Submitted by on Friday February 29, @05:53PM
An anonymous reader writes "A finnish security student seems to find a really fast way to extract OS X username and password from a mac using a firewire memory forencis technique. The blog entry claims that a password can be extracted from a mac waked up from hibernation in under 10 seconds with an iPod. Next time doublecheck what you let people to plug into your firewire. Similar attacks have also been demonstrated against Windows XP machines."
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 [+] submission, apple, security

  Hardware: XP On 8-MHz Pentium With 20 MB RAM 2007-02-25 01:55

Posted by kdawson on Sunday February 25 2007, @01:55AM
from the golden-hourglass dept.
swehack writes "The guys over at winhistory.de managed to get their Windows XP Professional running on a very minimal box: an Intel Pentium clocked down to 8 MHz with 20 MB of RAM. (The installer won't work with less than 64 MB, but after installing you can remove memory.) The link has plenty of pictures of their progress in achieving this dubious milestone. They deserve a Golden Hourglass award for 'extreme waste of time.' What obscure hardware configurations have you managed to get Windows running on?"
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 [+] story, hardware, humor, windows, because, why

  Your Rights Online: Mr. Ballmer, Show Us the Code 2007-02-24 20:56

Posted by kdawson on Saturday February 24 2007, @08:56PM
from the open-letter dept.
DigDuality writes "A new campaign, Showusthecode.com, requests every leader in the Linux world, and companies invested in Linux, to stand up and demand that Steve Ballmer show the world where Linux violates Microsoft's intellectual property. He has been making these claims since the Novell-Microsoft deal. If Microsoft answers this challenge — by May 1st — then Linux developers will be able to modify the code so that it remains 'free' software. If such infringing code doesn't exist, we will have called Microsoft's bluff. And if the campaign garners enough attention and if Steve Ballmer maintains silence, then the community and companies behind Linux can take the silence for the admission that it is."
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 [+] story, yro, patents, microsoft, linux, showusthecode, lies

  Science: Building the Interplanetary Internet 2007-02-22 11:33

Posted by kdawson on Thursday February 22 2007, @11:33AM
from the ping-and-wait dept.
sighted writes "Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, now a Google VP, is leading a NASA effort to create a permanent network link to Mars within the next two years. As Cerf outlined in a recent talk, the 'InterPlaNet' protocol is designed to handle the delay caused by interplanetary distances. A signal traveling between the Earth and Mars can take up to 20 minutes."
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 [+] story, science, space, networking, tubesinspace, uucp, internet

  Linux: Ballmer Repeats Threats Against Linux 2007-02-21 11:07

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 21 2007, @11:07AM
from the this-can-only-end-badly dept.
daria42 writes "Steve Ballmer has reissued Microsoft's patent threat against Linux, warning open-source vendors that they must respect his company's intellectual property. In a no-nonsense presentation to New York financial analysts last week, Microsoft's chief executive said the company's partnership with Novell, which it signed in November 2006, "demonstrated clearly the value of intellectual property, even in the open-source world.""
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 [+] story, linux, microsoft, chairthrowing, monkeyboy, fud

  IT: Solaris Telnet 0-day vulnerability 2007-02-12 09:40

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 12 2007, @09:40AM
from the frantically-trying-to-fix dept.
philos writes "According to SANS ISC, there's a vulnerability in Solaris 10 and 11 telnet that allows anyone to remotely connect as any account, including root, without authentication. Remote access can be gained with nothing more than a telnet client. More information and a Snort signature can be found at riosec.com. Worse, this is almost identical to a bug in AIX and Linux rlogin from way back in 1994."
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 [+] story, it, security, sun, os, vulnerability

  Yahoo Pipes 2007-02-08 16:07

Posted by kdawson on Thursday February 08 2007, @04:07PM
from the let-the-tubes-jokes-begin dept.
ahab_2001 writes "Yahoo has introduced a new product called Pipes. It seems to be a GUI-based interface for building applications that aggregate RSS feeds and other services, creating Web-based apps from various sources, and publishing those apps. Sounds very cool. TechCrunch has a decent write-up, and Tim O'Reilly is all over it. The site was down for a few hours and is just back up. Has anybody tried this?" From the TechCrunch article: "Pipes is... akin to a shell scripting environment for the web rather than just a simple conduit between applications."

  Linux: Canonical and Linspire Make a Deal 2007-02-08 15:28

Posted by kdawson on Thursday February 08 2007, @03:28PM
from the consolidating dept.
Nate writes "Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, has teamed up with Linspire to share technologies between the two distros. When Freespire 2.0 arrives in April, it will use Ubuntu as its base, moving off of the current Debian. Ubuntu users will get access to proprietary software (DVD players, media codecs) via Linspire's newly opened Click 'N Run. Check out the press release and the obligatory FAQ."
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 [+] story, linux, linuxbusiness, ubuntu, freespire, linspire

  Did Gates Fib About H1-B Salaries? 2007-02-08 14:11

Posted by kdawson on Thursday February 08 2007, @02:11PM
from the little-white-ones dept.
netbuzz writes "While in Washington last year lobbying for higher H1-B visa limits, Bill Gates told David Broder of the Washington Post that Microsoft starts such workers at about $100,000. An analysis by one offshoring critic suggests that's not true. If his analysis is correct, it would undermine part of the case for lifting H1-B ceilings.
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 [+] story, microsoft, business, liar, h1b, no

  Canadian Phone Company Selling Porn 2007-01-29 01:05

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 29 2007, @01:05AM
from the couldn't-make-it-up dept.
westcoaster004 writes "Telus, Canada's second-largest telecommunications carrier has started selling pornography to its cellular subscribers. The service allows subscribers with mobile browsers to purchase both photographic and video adult-oriented content from Telus, at an average of CD$4 per download. Telus decided to introduce the service after noticing that there existed a certain 'segment of the population that is interested in that content' from review of the mobile Web browsing habits of their subscribers 'on an aggregate level.' They are the first telecommunications company in Canada to offer such content. A Telus spokesman said: 'We're fairly certain that if our competitors in Canada haven't launched it, they will soon. Same in the US.'"
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 [+] story, communications, pr0n, money, pornography, canada

  Gates Proclaims Internet to Revolutionize TV in 5 Years 2007-01-28 13:07

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday January 28 2007, @01:07PM
from the for-some-of-us-it-already-has dept.
adamlazz writes "With an explosion of online video content on sites like YouTube and Google Video, Bill Gates believes that the Internet will revoloutionize the television within the next 5 years. 'I'm stunned how people aren't seeing that with TV, in five years from now, people will laugh at what we've had,' Gates told business leaders and politicians at the World Economic Forum. "
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 [+] story, tv, microsoft, drm, revoloutionize, borg

  Spamming Google Maps 2007-01-28 11:02

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday January 28 2007, @11:02AM
from the already-getting-lame dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Google organized a flyover of Sydney, Australia last Friday for Australia Day. The images taken on the day will be posted to Google Maps in a few weeks. A number of dotcoms spent hours making huge signs that would be visible from the air. It will be interesting to see whether Google will repeat the event in other cities. If they do, get prepared early. What sign would you make?"
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 [+] story, google, spam, goatse, googlemaps, advertising

  Linux: Debian Gets Win32 Installer 2007-01-28 03:10

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 28 2007, @03:10AM
from the no-CD-no-USB-no-problem dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Debian hacker Robert Millan has just announced the availability of a Debian-Installer Loader for win32. The program, inspired by Ubuntu's similar project, features 64-bit CPU auto-detection, download of linux/initrd netboot images, and chainloading into Debian-Installer via grub4dos. The frontend site goodbye-microsoft.com/ has been set up for advocacy purposes. Here are some screenshots."
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 [+] story, linux, debian, slashdotted, software, windows

  Linux: OSDL's Review of Desktop Linux In 2006 2007-01-27 22:58

Posted by kdawson on Saturday January 27 2007, @10:58PM
from the it's-a-wrap dept.
derrida writes "The OSDL's Desktop Linux Working Group has published its first year-end report on the state of the overall desktop Linux ecosystem. The report provides insight into the year's key accomplishments in functionality, standards, applications, distributions, market penetration, and more. Of great interest is the Market Growth part. Quoting from there: 'Most observers believe that much of the growth will take place outside of the United States. "It will be in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) countries," said Gerry Riveros, Red Hat, "because of the price and because they aren't locked in yet."'"
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 [+] story, linux, linuxbusiness, stillnocureforcancer, slideware

  YouTube To Pay For User-Generated Content 2007-01-27 14:12

Posted by kdawson on Saturday January 27 2007, @02:12PM
from the sharing-it dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Speaking at the World Economic Forum, YouTube CEO Chad Hurley has revealed that the company plans to financially compensate users who produce and upload their content. With Google's purchase of YouTube last year, followed by more aggressive attempts to monetize the site (such as the deal struck with Verizon Wireless), it was inevitable that YouTube would come under pressure to share some of those fruits with ordinary users. But why didn't YouTube pay its users from the start? Hurley said: 'We didn't want to build a system that was motivated by monetary reward. We wanted to really build a true community around video. When you start out with giving money to people from day one, the people you do attract will just switch to the next provider who's paying more. We're at a scale now that we feel we can do that and still have a true community around video.'"
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 [+] story, google, youtube, money

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