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IBM Distributes USB Malware At Security Conference 73

Posted by kdawson on Friday May 21, 2010 @08:33AM from the just-testing-ya dept.

bennyboy64 and other readers let us know that IBM sent out an email to all attendees to the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) 2010 conference, warning them that some of the USB drives handed out to delegates contained malware. Fortunately it was old malware, which all anti-virus products have detected since 2008. Two years ago telecommunications company Telstra distributed malware-infected USB drives at the same conference.

Ubuntu Desktop In the Cloud 83

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @03:41PM from the free-floating dept.

jimjimovich writes "One new feature in Ubuntu 10.04 that caught my attention is the Desktop in the Cloud project. Ubuntu already has great EC2 support, and it's getting even better. Now you can launch Ubuntu Desktop instances on EC2 and connect to them with an NX client."

7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators 289

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 30, 2010 @08:36PM from the open-in-tabs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "One of the basic utilities supplied with any operating system is a desktop calculator. These are often simple utilities that are perfectly adequate for basic use. They typically include trigonometric functions, logarithms, factorials, parentheses and a memory function. However, the calculators featured in this article are significantly more sophisticated with the ability to process difficult mathematical functions, to plot graphs in 2D and 3D, and much more. Occasionally, the calculator tool provided with an operating system did not engender any confidence. The classic example being the calculator shipped with Windows 3.1 which could not even reliably subtract two numbers. Rest assured, the calculators listed below are of precision quality."

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 440

by neifirst on Thursday June 08, 2006 @10:37PM (#15499652) Attached to: PS3 Apparently A Computer

I have not used Xcode. I have tried to "like" OSX but to no avail. But I have developed on Windows and Linux for a while. It probably really boils down to your personal preference, but I have not been able to find an IDE on Linux that I think compares with VS. Eclipse is great for Java (I love it for that purpose), but for C/C++, the CDT just falls way short. And to all the vi/emacs "purists", I'm sorry but a hook into GDB and the addition of CTAGS do not a modern IDE make. I hate command line debugging. I want the memory dumps, break points, variables, and everything else the IDE provides in plain sight and configurable. Just my two cents. To each her/his own.

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