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Comment Re:Not really... (Score 3, Informative) 587

by colinleroy (#42843607) Attached to: Woz Says iPhone Features Are 'Behind'
Motorola tried that with the Razr Maxx with is just a thicker Razr, with a bigger (3.3Ah) battery fitted in. The thickness difference is not much, but one can squeeze out five days of use out of the Maxx, which is better than most smartphones I know of but still not much when compared to oldies like the famous Nokia 3310.

Korean DDoS Bots To Self-Destruct 501

Posted by timothy from the someone-needs-a-little-hanging-before-bed dept.
tsu doh nimh writes "Several news sources are reporting that the tens of thousands of Microsoft Windows systems infected with the Mydoom worm and being used in an ongoing denial of service attack against US and S. Korean government Web sites will likely have their hard drives wiped of data come Friday. From The Washington Post's Security Fix blog, the malware is 'designed to download a payload from a set of Web servers. Included in that payload is a Trojan horse program that overwrites the data on the hard drive with a message that reads "memory of the independence day," followed by as many "u" characters as it takes to write over every sector of every physical drive attached to the compromised system.' ChannelNews Asia carries similar information."

Comment Re:At the risk of getting serious... (Score 1) 376

by colinleroy (#21828288) Attached to: How Would You Design Your Dream Office?
5. Re-read #4, but substitute the word back-up as appropriate. You need to be able to back-up fast enough that you are not tempted to skip backing up just because you'll be the last one out of the building if you do.

Backup should be automatic. Change the tape each morning, don't think about it, test tape restore once a month.
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Firefox Usage Near 25% In Europe 391

Posted by kdawson from the edge-of-the-wedge dept.
A user writes "French researcher Xiti claims that Mozilla Firefox keeps winning terrain in Europe. 24.1% of Internet users in Europe use Firefox. Slovenia (44.5%), Finland (41.3%), Croatia (36.5%), and Germany (36.2%) lead the way, followed by a group of mostly Eastern European countries. Remarkably, The Netherlands is only at 13.3%, right before Andorra. Oceania maintains a slight lead over Europe, at 24.8%; the rest of the world trails at 11.9% to 15.1%."

Beware Your Online Presence 677

Posted by Zonk from the watch-what-you-put-out-there dept.
Mz6 wrote to mention an article in the NY Daily News stating that an increasing number of employers are Googling their prospective employees during the interview/hiring process. From the article: "'A friend of mine posted a picture of me on My Space with my eyes half closed and a caption that suggests I've smoked something illegal,' says Kluttz. While the caption was a joke, Kluttz now wonders whether the past two employers she interviewed with thought it was so funny. Both expressed interest in hiring Kluttz, but at the 11th hour went with someone else."

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