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Comment Motive (Score 1) 118

by BlueBiker on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @12:54AM (#51517037) Attached to: Hackers Break Into Ringo Starr's Twitter Account With Simple Password Reset

Uh-oh, hope Pete Best has an alibi :-/

Feed Grisoft offers free rootkit fighting tool (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @06:32PM

AVG Anti-Rootkit can detect and remove malicious software used to hide other nefarious applications on PCs.

Submission + - Linspire to be based on Kubuntu

Submitted by

FliesLikeABrick

on Monday March 12, 2007 @03:05AM

FliesLikeABrick writes: "The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter has unveiled that Linspire announced that they will be switching to base their distribution off Ubuntu. With their polished KDE desktop this makes Linspire the latest in the impressive list of operating systems based off Kubuntu.

It was also announced that Linspire's Click and Run install programme would be added to the Ubuntu archive, giving users of all Ubuntu distributions easy access to a large range of free and proprietary software."

Submission + - Wikipedia reveals plans for a web search engine

Submitted by jasonoik on Saturday March 10, 2007 @02:44PM

jasonoik writes: Wikia, the company behind wikipedia reveals plans for a new, editable search engine. They say that the goal of the project is to get 5% of the search market. The service does not yet an official release date. The article also leaves open the possibility that the search results may contain advertisments, and concludes by listing figures of the web advertisment market.

Comment Re:Floppies more reliable than CD/DVD ?! (Score 1) 616

by BlueBiker on Tuesday January 30, 2007 @08:27PM (#17822108) Attached to: Farewell To the Floppy Disk

Guess I don't understand. You nudge your case rather harshly many times? Why would anybody do that and be surprised when something fails?

Maybe the real problem was poor quality CD media, or a burner with firmware issues, or BurnProof wasn't enabled and the machine couldn't keep up with the data stream (possibly because DMA wasn't configured for the controller).

Don't get me wrong: I still have occasional maintenance jobs that require a floppy, but would much rather use CD/flash.

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