Comment Re:Bank of America (Score 1, Funny) 359
Yea, but then you have to deal with Bank of America, who charges a fee if you even think about your accounts.
Comment Re:No news is good news (Score 1) 386
I'm say saying ISA is perfect by any means. I've run into its limitations on many occasions (only just NOW does it get SIP support!?). But I mostly deal with companies of 20 people or less, and they just don't have the budget for a dedicated firewall appliance with the features that ISA provides. Besides, anything in the wrong hands is going to be a problem, which is why I make sure the client stays out of it and calls me when they need something changed. It was just a good balance between price and feature set (as long as you knew where the limits were) that is going to be hard to match.
Comment Re:No news is good news (Score 1) 386
Seconded on removing ISA Server. I prefer it over SonicWall or other firewall appliances for small installations where the client doesn't have the money for anything larger, and its removal hurt.
Comment Re:IPV4 addresses are NOT running out (Score 1) 425
Three words: Session Initiation Protocol
It does not work through NAT without some nasty hacks, and even then it rarely works when there is NAT at both ends. It requires special SIP filters, keep-alives, and packet mangling, all of which become increasingly unfeasible as you scale up, and none of which are handled by UPnP
Comment Re:stretch? (Score 4, Insightful) 260
But then wouldn't the lack of demosaicing itself be the tell-tale sign that it was taken with a Foveon X3 sensor?
Unusual Open Source 262
Dumitru Erhan writes "The Economist has a special report on open-source. It analyzes the way open-source projects succeed and finds that a rigid, business-like organizational structure is of vital importance to the quality of the final product. It cites Firefox, MySQL and (more recently) Wikipedia as examples of projects that do not simply allow anarchy to rein in, but which have 'real checks and balances, and real leadership taking place'. There is also a discussion of open-source methods being applied to non-software projects." From the article: "Constant self-policing is required to ensure its quality. This lesson was brought home to Wikipedia last December, after a former American newspaper editor lambasted it for an entry about himself that had been written by a prankster. His denunciations spoke for many, who question how something built by the wisdom of crowds can become anything other than mob rule."
iTunes Use Surges Past QuickTime, RealPlayer 281
QuatermassX writes "Forget increased sales of Mac computers, think media players. The iPod 'halo effect' shows its true power in recently compiled statistics from Nielsen/NetRatings and Apple. From the report on WebSiteOptimization.com: 'Podcasting is taking off and iPods are seemingly ubiquitous. Unique users of Apple's iTunes player should pass RealPlayer by mid-2006 with nearly 30 million users in the US alone. People are tuning in over twice as long with iTunes than with RealPlayer or Windows Media Player. As broadband penetration increases we are spending more time on our computers.'"
Gates Mocks MIT's $100 Laptop 816
QuietLagoon writes 'Reuters is reporting that Bill Gates is making fun of the one laptop per child initiative to revolutionize how the world's children are educated. 'The last thing you want to do for a shared use computer is have it be something without a disk ... and with a tiny little screen,' Gates said at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum in suburban Washington. 'Hardware is a small part of the cost' of providing computing capabilities, he said, adding that the big costs come from network connectivity, applications and support. 'If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user, geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type,' Gates said.'
Windows XP on Intel Mac Confirmed 627
niemassacre writes "According to winxponmac.com, the contest has been won - nearly $14k to narf2006 for submitting a working solution to dual-booting Windows XP and Mac OS X on an Intel-Powered mac. A thread on osx86project.org has confirmations from several testers that the procedure works on the 17" iMac, the Mac mini, and the MacBook Pro. Many sets of pictures and videos (such as this installation video) are floating around (and mentioned in the thread). The solution itself should be posted soon." Poit! Congratulations to narf.
UK Demands Sourcecode for Strike Fighters 800
An anonymous reader writes ""The UK has warned America that it will cancel its £12bn order for the Joint Strike Fighter if the US does not hand over full access to the computer software code that controls the jets"
Lord Drayson, minister for defense procurement, told the The Daily Telegraph that the planes were useless without control of the software as they could effectively be "switched off" by the Americans without warning."
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