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Submission + - Registry for *nix?

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hellsDisciple
hellsDisciple writes: "The registry is often touted as being the source of many of Windows' faults. But the horrid messy binary blob does unify configurations of many system services and paves the way for Group Policy and AD to control a lot of the machine's behaviour. With Samba's recent push to emulate AD fully for Windows and LDAP being suggested as the basis of a central management system, is it not time to get applications like Apache and Samba into shape for unified control? Should a standard config file syntax be agreed on and where should the data be stored? A push towards an "open registry" in *nix would make remote management really a snap."
The Internet

Submission + - Spy Act Only Protects Vendors and Their DRM

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An anonymous reader writes: Last week a subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce approved H.R. 964, the Spy Act, which bans some of the more blatant forms of spyware such as those that hijack computer or log keystrokes. The bill now goes to the full committee for approval, and it's expected to move quickly as it has strong bipartisan support.

Infoworld's Ed Foster explains in his blog that "If Congress' approach on this sounds vaguely familiar, it should. It's basically the same formula Congress adopted four years to deal with spam. As we know, the dreadful Can Spam Act of 2003 proved to be the "Yes, You Can Spam Act." If wiser heads in Congress don't prevail — and who knows if there are any — I fear the Spy Act of 2007 will just prove to be the "Vendors Can Spy Act."
Programming

Static Code Analysis Tools? 87

Posted by Cliff from the something-else-for-the-tool-box dept.
rewt66 asks: "We are looking for a good static analysis tool for a fairly large (half a million lines) C/C++ project. What tools do you recommend? What do you recommend avoiding? What experience (good or bad) have you had with such tools?"
Google

Submission + - YouTube's Battle For YouTube.CL

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The domain wars continue. Today's bout: YouTube.com, Google's popular video site, which is threatening to launch a lawsuit to gain control over YouTube.cl, a domain that currently hosts a website developed for Chilean audiences, aggregating online videos from YouTube.com.

http://www.dailydomainer.com/2007129-youtubes-batt le-for-youtubecl.html
Power

Submission + - Geeks Are The New Bullies

Submitted by writertype
writertype writes: Kicking someone's butt on the playground is so twentieth-century. These days, humiliating someone online and via mobile phones is the new rage. And not surprisingly, the person with the most skills (and in some cases, the most motivation) is the poor dweeb that gets picked on. You know, us, or at least us back in our school days. The problem is, those geeks are taking their power to extremes and becoming bullies themselves.
Security

Submission + - Windows Animated Cursor 0-Day being exploited

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: On a limited scale, people who use Outlook Express get send self-executing e-mails containing animated cursors. This is due to a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows since W2k. There is little one can do to mitigate this problem at this time, except to stop using Outlook Express, or to hope that a virus scanner catches the e-mail. Outlook 2003 and Vista Mail are also vulnerable using their default settings, and Microsoft Internet Explorer is yet another attack vector. I guess it is only a matter of time before a mail-worm will pop up.
The Internet

Submission + - ICANN Cans .XXX Top Level Domain

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eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "ICANN has finally rejected the .xxx TLD which was initially proposed to be an indicator that a website had pornographic material on it. The debate has gone on for quite sometime between the obvious benefits of being easier to control where people go on the web versus the obvious problems of deciding what technically is 'pornographic.' From the article, "Many of the board members said they were concerned about the possibility that ICANN could find itself in the content regulation business if the domain name was approved. Others criticized that, saying ICANN should not block new domains over fears like that, noting that local, state and national laws could be used to decide what is pornographic and what is not. Other board members said they believed that opposition to the domain by the adult industry, including Web masters, content providers and others, was proof that the issue was divisive and that ".xxx" was not a welcome domain.""
Bug

Submission + - LHC magnet assembly fails under pressure test

Submitted by ettlz
ettlz writes: It seems that on Tuesday a Fermilab-built assembly holding the so-called "Inner Triplet" superconducting focusing magnets at CERN's Large Hadron Collider buckled under the pressure of 20 atm during a test. Thankfully, no-one was injured. From the article, while "the full cause of the problem is not yet known, failure to account for the asymmetric loads in the engineering design of the magnet appears to be a likely cause ... [a]t this point the consequences, if any, for the LHC schedule are not yet known." Let's just hope they aren't too grave, and we'll still be on course to finding New Physics (if it's there!) next year.
Software

Submission + - Apple Hardware Test: Disk Utility's Ugly Step-Sist

Submitted by
Colonel Panic
Colonel Panic writes: "Apple Hardware Test: Disk Utility's Ugly Step-Sister http://macenstein.com/default/archives/569 If you are experiencing frequent kernel panics or random shut downs, perhaps it is time to take a look at the little-known (and free) Apple Hardware Test app that ships with every Mac. As most people know, rebooting your Mac from the software restore CD that comes with your Mac by holding the "C" key during will allow you to run Apple's Disk Utility app. However, if you restart your computer with that same disk in your DVD drive and hold down the "D" key, you will be treated to a bit of nostalgia in the form of Apple's Hardware Test. Looking very OS 9-ish, the Apple Hardware test allows you to run a series of tests on your system's RAM, logic board, modem (if present) video RAM, and Apple's Airport Card. It will not test 3rd party video cards, PCI cards, or Non-Apple devices, but you should have tried trouble-shooting those devices already by this point."

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