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Windows Defender misses 47% of malware

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Mytob

on Wednesday February 21 2007, @04:08PM

Mytob writes "Windows Vista antispyware software, Windows Defender, has been slammed after it failed to detect almost 50 percent of malware threats thrown at it during the past year. http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=8 474"

Wikipedia Banned at College

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Zatoichi007

on Wednesday February 21 2007, @01:54PM

Zatoichi007 writes "The NYT is reporting that Wikipedia is now being banned as a source for research at Middlebury College. It seems that the last straw for the college occured when students in a Japanese history class wrongly asserted that the Jesuits aided in the Shambara Rebellion, using Wikipedia as the reference point. Is Wikipedia a valid source for "serious" research or just a starting point to find out what might be interesting about a particular topic?"

Mono commercial applications running on Linux

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21 2007, @01:03PM

An anonymous reader writes "With the announce of a Visual Basic port to Linux, many people is being skeptical about whether it is possible at all to run unmodified .NET based applications on Linux. I've been googling for a while and I've just found a company developing a commercial version control system running on Mono/Linux. Take a look at www.codicesoftware.com and check also their blog with screencasts at codicesoftware.blogspot.com"

Comment: ARM, perhaps? (Score 1) 175

by msloan on Thursday February 01 2007, @12:08AM (#17838870) Attached to: What Micro-Controller Would You Use to Teach With?

I've never used it for robotics (used Stamps and 68hc11s before, though), ARM is a pretty sweet architecture. They're low cost, low power, and have really nice assembly code.