Comment Not surprised (Score 1) 324
The microcomputer world is an open sewer. Always has been, always will be.
Comment Nortel IP address range (Score 1) 282
I thought Nortel Networks, which is bankrupt and almost gone now, had a class A address range (47.x.x.x). Will that not be freed up?
Google Street View Shoots the Same Woman 43 Times 106
Geoffrey.landis writes "Terry Southgate discovered that his wife Wendy appears on the Google Street View of his neighborhood not once or twice but a whopping 43 times. From the article: 'It seems as if the Street View car simply followed the same route as Wendy and Trixie. However, Wendy was a little suspicious that the car was doing something on the "tricksie" side. Several of the Street View shots show Wendy looking with some concern towards the car that was, well, to put it politely, crawling along the curb. "I didn't know what it was doing. It was just driving round very, very slowly," Wendy told the Sun.' The next best thing to being a movie star — a Street View star!"
Dumbing Down Programming? 578
RunRevKev writes "The unveiling of Revolution 4.0 has sparked a debate on ZDNet about whether programming is being dumbed down. The new version of the software uses an English-syntax that requires 90 per cent less code than traditional languages. A descendant of Apple's Hypercard, Rev 4 is set to '...empower people who would never have attempted programming to create successful applications.' ZDNet reports that 'One might reasonably hope that this product inspires students in the appropriate way and gets them more interested in programming.'"
Microsoft Says Google Chrome Frame Makes IE Less Secure 459
Mark writes "The release of Google Chrome Frame, a new open source plugin that injects Chrome's renderer and JavaScript engine into Microsoft's browser, earlier this week had many web developers happily dancing long through the night. Finally, someone had found a way to get Internet Explorer users up to speed on the Web. Microsoft, on the other hand, is warning IE users that it does not recommend installing the plugin. What does the company have against the plugin? It makes Internet Explorer less secure. 'With Internet Explorer 8, we made significant advancements and updates to make the browser safer for our customers,' a Microsoft spokesperson told Ars. 'Given the security issues with plugins in general and Google Chrome in particular, Google Chrome Frame running as a plugin has doubled the attack area for malware and malicious scripts. This is not a risk we would recommend our friends and families take.'"
Comment Re:VM/CMS? (Score 1) 875
VM/CMS is very much alive and well, thank you. It is now known as z/VM and runs on the IBM z series mainframes
You can even run Linux in z/VM virtual machines now as well as CMS.
There is an emulator available, called Hercules
And an old VM/CMS is available for free, with source
Comment Re:Woefully incomplete (Score 2, Interesting) 103
They could have gone back even further, VM/370 had a logo starting in about 1975 ...
http://kristof.willen.be/images/vm.png
and later VM/SP (1983) ...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/VM_mascot_-_teddy_bear.png
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