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Networking

Submission + - Cisco IOS Shown The Door; Virtualization Welcomed

Submitted by
ThOr101
ThOr101 writes: "Cisco CEO John Chambers first mentioned a change to Cisco's software model back in June. Now it looks like Cisco is following through with that promise and is setting a 5 year goal to replace IOS. Network World published more details this week about how Cisco is going to be changing its pricing and feature sets. The article mentions that it will be a change to how systems are managed, upgraded, and how features are turned on as well. It will also affect those people already certified on Cisco gear. Cisco is hoping it will encourage users to upgrade to newer equipment. Maybe they can take a lead from Vista and ship all their new gear with IPv6 enabled by default and we'll finally get a universal deployment of IPv6."
Security

Apple Closes iSight Security Hole 213

Posted by CmdrTaco from the nobody-wants-to-see-me-naked dept.
Gruber Duckie writes "Apple's security update 2006-008, posted yesterday, is a little more interesting than it sounds. According to information (and a demo!) posted at Macslash the "information leak" mentioned in Apple's advisory actually makes it possible for a web site to send whatever your (isight) web cam sees up to the server. I'm glad they fixed this quickly."
Google

Submission + - Google's CheckOut vs. Ebay's Paypal

Submitted by
hminaya
hminaya writes: "Google is taking the fight straight to Paypal's turf. They have been promoting Google Checkout as a fast and easy alternative for online transactions. Right now they trail Paypal badly, but guiven enough time anything can happen. Most importantly Google will not start charging merchant processing fees until 2007!!!!. More at: http://news.com.com/Google+steps+more+boldly+into+ PayPals+territory/2100-1038_3-6144994.html?tag=nef d.top"
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Sexist billboard, or just honest?

Submitted by
TheFarmerInTheDell
TheFarmerInTheDell writes: "Siliconeer is reporting that e*ecad, a company focusing on electronic design automation, has a billboard on California's Highway 101 that is bringing a lot of attention — mostly negative. It features three women each representing a payment option for the company — the prostitute (hourly), girlfriend (term) and bride (perpetual). One women's group, GraceNet, has given it the "DisGraceful Award in Advertising." It may be a bit misogynistic, but isn't that the way things work in life?"
Wireless Networking

Submission + - WiMAX On The Way

Submitted by PreacherTom
PreacherTom writes: This week, two companies — NextWave and Clearwire — filed to go public and make their fortunes with WiMAX, a wireless broadband technology expected to make serious inroads into the telecom market by offering a high-speed alternative to DSL, Cable, and other current offerings. Market researcher Gartner Dataquest expects the North American WiMAX services market to swell from 30,000 connections in 2006 to 21.2 million by 2011. Could this be the new backbone of the mobile effort?
User Journal

Journal Journal: Nintendo has a winner. 9

Journal by nocomment

Nintendo is the winner of the 'next-gen' wars because they have managed to do the impossible.

My. Wife. Is. Now. A. Gamer.

My wii number thingy (that I"m not usre how to use yet) is:
2658 5111 1778 2819
The Media

Submission + - Next-Gen Nominates Penny-Arcade

Submitted by
zyl0x
zyl0x writes: "Next-Gen just released the 2006 list of the top 25 contributers to the gaming industry, and it's no surprise to see Mike and Jerry pulling it at 23 for their work through Penny-Arcade. From the article:
It's part of the fabric of this business. The site has 3.5 million readers worldwide while the spin-off PAX live event attracted 20,000 people this year. Penny Arcade has partnered with the ESRB in creating an advertising campaign to increase awareness and the duo topped MTV's Most Influential Gamers list in June. It also launched the Penny Arcade Scholarship, a $10,000 annual grant to financially assist a future member of the game industry. Perhaps most importantly, its work for charity Child's Play has raised more than $495,000 worth of toys, games and books on the wish lists of more than 35 participating children's hospitals.
Am I the only one a bit hurt to see EA employee Mitch Lasky at spot 18?"
Security

Month of Apple Bugs Debuts in January 171

Posted by Zonk from the sure-to-raise-some-eyebrows dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A pair of security researchers has picked January 2007 as the Month of Apple Bugs, a project in which each passing day will feature a previously undocumented security hole in Apple's OS X operating system or in Apple applications that run on top of it. According to a post over at The Washington Post's Security Fix blog, the project is being put together by researchers Kevin Finisterre and the guy who ran November's Month of Kernel Bugs project." From the post: "It should be interesting to see whether Apple does anything to try and scuttle this pending project. In November, a researcher who focuses most of his attention on bugs in database giant Oracle's software announced his intention to launch a "Week of Oracle Database Bugs" project during the first week of December. The researcher abruptly canceled the project shortly after the initial announcement, without offering any explanation."
Programming

Submission + - Web programming development environment?

Submitted by
umdenken
umdenken writes: "I'd like to know how other slashdotters do their server-side web programming: We have dozens of perl cgi scripts, and are currently doing development by editing these production scripts in place on the web server. (!!) Our sysadmins have finally installed the svn client on the server (Solaris), and have offered to create a new virtual host that we can use as the development server. I'd like to have an idea of what some best practices currently are, for organizing this kind of set up. Thanks!"
Editorial

Submission + - Video Game Viral Videos of The Year

Submitted by
Larry C
Larry C writes: "If you like baseball, you like Vin Scully and you played the Nintedo Entertainment System as a kid, this video may actually make you cry.

In our series of video game virals of the year this video tugs at my heart strings. As a young boy I watched the 1986 World Series with my brother, my best buddies and hung on the every word of the great Vin Scully's call. (If you haven't had the opportunity to listen to Vin Scully call a baseball game, please do it. You will not regret it)
This video is from earlier in the year and may be the best mashup of a video game and real life ever. Bold statement but to be sure, but this is a work of very, very high quality. Enjoy."
Software

Submission + - PC-BSD calling for translators

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I've been very happy to see the positive response and the dynamic initiative of our translators. It's very nice to see individuals from around the world giving some of their valuable time like us to contribute to a system like PC-BSD, which is community-driven, open-source and free of charge.

http://blog.pcbsd.org/index.php?/archives/10-Publi c-call-for-translators.html
Media

Submission + - Is Bully really so controversial?

Submitted by GoingTurbo
GoingTurbo writes: It's not often that you get to watch a videogames reviewer getting beaten up, but this video review of Rockstar's contraversial new game Bully (Canis Canem Edit) is more violent than the game itself. While describing high-school violence, the reviewer is thrown to a desk by another journalist, and then delivers his thoughts while being crushed half to within an inch of his life. The reviewer describes the game as "exceptionally novel" and "not nearly as morally corrupt as the naysayers feared". Is it, however, a bit gruesome watching the school children beat each other up — apparently "the gameplay can't be faulted". If you've been wondering what all the fuss is about, this is a pretty funny and informative video. It's also refreshingly completely advert-free. It might have upset some people, but Bully looks ingenious.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Giving In to the Terrorists

Journal by Dorozhand

Are we giving the terrorists what they want?

What do terrorists want? They want to "terrorize." The people they kill are only collateral damage; the point of terrorism is not what they do, but our reaction to it: terror. They also kill and destroy so that they can become infamous - to glorify their goals of world domination, to bask in the glory of false importance that is terrorism's reward, and thus to recruit more terrorists.

Software

Submission + - Origin of Quake3's Fast InvSqrt() - Part Two

Submitted by
geo
geo writes: "The end of Beyond3D.com's original article on this topic finished off with us opining about the author, saying that the last man we'd probably ever find that'd touched the code is Gary Tarolli, ex SGI, ex 3dfx, now at NVIDIA. After passing by coding luminaries such as John Carmack, Michael Abrash and Terje Mathison, attributing at least some part of it to Gary seemed pretty fitting given his history and contributions to modern 3D graphics, not least the fact he's a seriously good programmer too, and we left it at that. Thinking that was it, we published and publicised and Slashdot picked it up, giving the piece some very hefty exposure. Exposure enough, it transpires, to have the real author say hello and own up to it. So it's not quite Gary, but rather another Silicon Valley veteran with a name beginning with G. Step forward, Greg Walsh."

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