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OS/2 Community Tries Bounty System 293

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 07, 2008 @02:34PM from the warped-minds dept.

Grayskull writes "The OS/2 and eComStation community are trying to get open source software ported to that platform by opening bounties and allowing people to chip in with prize money. Currently the most important open bounties are Java 6 port, Icon routines in OS/2, VirtualBox port, Extend multimedia and OpenWengo ports."

Drive-By Pharming In the Wild 205

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 22, 2008 @07:08PM from the just-change-the-default-password-already dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Symantec reported Tuesday that the first case of drive-by pharming, in which a hacker changes the DNS settings on a customer's broadband router or wireless access point and directs the link to a fraudulent Web site, has been observed in the wild. The first drive-by pharming attack has been observed against a Mexican bank: 'It's associated with an e-mail pretending to be from a legitimate Spanish-language e-greeting card company, Gusanito.com,' says Symantec Security Response principal researcher Zulfikar Ramzan. Inside the e-mail is an HTML image tag but instead of displaying images, it sends a request to the home router to tamper with it."

Submission + - The Secret of the Sun's Heated Atmosphere (space.com) 1

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Tuesday January 22, 2008 @11:23AM

eldavojohn writes: "There has always been speculation on what causes the Sun's surface to be a mere ten thousand degrees while the atmosphere can reach millions. Space.com is reporting the confirmation of Alfven waves and now scientists understand why the atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than the surface. These power full magnetic waves do indeed act as a catalyst for moving energy and heat from the sun's surface to its atmosphere."

Comment Re:We have JPop but Jazz isn't an option? (Score 1) 875

by tarvo on Tuesday November 07, 2006 @04:24AM (#16749029) Attached to: What Kind of Music Do You Code To?

Jazz, for me, is _absolutely_ the most stimulating stuff to listen to; especially Be-Bop. I struggle to code sensibly to some styles which are... out there - particularly Monk - but for the most part, Coltrane, Burrel, Davis and particularly Hancock are great to work to.

I'm also a big fan of Blues but, since I'm such a great fan I kinda get lost in the the action a little too much - a great Buddy Guy solo and I'm kinda drifting off, away from the task at hand.

If things are a little moody though, it's got to be Radiohead. Que 'em up - The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac and Hail... all in a row. That is a killer day of coding!

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