Topic: COMPUTER - on December 10, 2006 at 12:27:00 PM CET
Make Mashups Without A Webserver - Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments - simile
Exhibit is a lightweight structured data publishing framework that lets you create web pages with support for sorting, filtering, and rich visualizations by writing only HTML and optionally some CSS and Javascript code.
It's like Google Maps and Timeline, but for structured data normally published through database-backed web sites. Exhibit essentially removes the need for a database or a server side web application. Its Javascript-based engine makes it easy for everyone who has a little bit of knowledge of HTML and small data sets to share them with the world and let people easily interact with them.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 9, 2006 at 4:11:00 PM CET
5 Displays You Can’t Buy
Our editors have compiled a list of five displays you can’t buy, or at least anytime soon.
Sharp’s 2-Way LCD Toshiba’s Interactive 3D Display Concrete Display FOLED - Flexible OLED Display E-Paper SVGA Display
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 9, 2006 at 2:27:00 PM CET
How Microsoft fights off 100,000 attacks per month
Microsoft Corp. has long encouraged its employees to "RAS" into the corporate network from home or from the road to access e-mail, shared files and applications.
RAS, short for Remote Access Services, is an old Microsoft term for what most people now call a client VPN.
Microsoft, of course, maintains valuable intellectual property on its internal network, including the source code to all its operating systems and applications. These are constant targets for hackers, and Microsoft tries to protect its most valuable assets with defenses in depth; they are behind firewalls and on networks segmented with IPsec. In addition, the entire network is monitored for suspicious activity, scanned for malware and so on.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 9, 2006 at 1:19:00 PM CET
Pirates crack Vista Activation Server
Pirates have released another ingenious workaround to Vista's copy protection: a hacked copy of Microsoft's yet-to-be-released volume licencing activation server, running in VMware.
Volume Activation 2.0 is one of the more controversial features of Vista: it means that every copy of Vista has to be activated, even the Business/Enterprise volume licenced editions.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 8, 2006 at 1:40:00 PM CET
Metacafe Acquisition: $200 Million is a Steal
YNet news has the exclusive that Tel Aviv-based video sharing site Metacafe may be sold for $200 million. There were a few rumors involving Yahoo, but now YNet says talks with an unnamed company are in the “advanced stages”.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 8, 2006 at 12:59:00 PM CET
Underground market for security exploits is growing
Visit a place the groups.icq.com's hackers lounge and you will find a lot of offers to sell credit cards and other stuffs, some even for 3 dollars. Well could this be true? May be or may not. This could be just kids or wannabe hackers or pranksters or even malicious minds trying to earn some fast bucks by fooling the people flocking places like this or this could be even what you can call a mutual bluffing. But on the other side it is not far from reality that this could be true since the truth is that ICQ is being used for activities like this. It has become a hackers haven.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 6, 2006 at 11:40:00 AM CET
FREE Linux Books
A comprehensive reference guide for Linux administrators giving a detailed overview of topics such as SELinux, VPN, access control and monitoring, attack detection and virus prevention
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 6, 2006 at 11:34:00 AM CET
How to play HDTV content on your PC
As I mentioned in my How to Download HDTV post, downloadable HDTV programming comes in a variety of types. Because of this, building an HTPC (Home Theatre PC) can be a daunting task for the first time. I’ll try to make things as easy as possible, keeping quality in mind of course.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 4, 2006 at 2:20:00 PM CET
30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows
Recently, I received a fresh new laptop from Dell. Upon receiving it, I did the traditional “installation of Windows from scratch” on it to remove a lot of the garbage that is preinstalled on Dells. Then I got really busy installing tons of great software that takes care of pretty much every software need I have. Not only was all of the software free, every piece of it was open source, which means that the code is peer-reviewed; no spyware here!
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 3, 2006 at 3:12:00 PM CET
Blu-Ray Already Ripped on PS3
As soon as we installed Linux on our office PS3, it was clear that trouble would be brewing quickly. We began taking bets on how soon someone would hack the PS3. While we haven't heard of anyone truly cracking the PS3 software yet, thanks to Linux, Blu-Ray movies are now being ripped onto the PS3 hard drive.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 3, 2006 at 2:17:00 PM CET
Vista vulnerable to malware from 2004
Microsoft's Vista may be vulnerable to at least three pieces of widespread malware, two of which date back to 2004 , according to security vendor Sophos.
At least three well-known Internet worms--labelled Stratio-Zip, Netsky-D and MyDoom-O by Sophos--are able to execute on the OS, according Sophos.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 2, 2006 at 12:52:00 PM CET
Trace Any IP Address
The traceroute tool is available on practically all Unix-like operating systems. Variants with similar functionality are also available, such as tracepath on modern Linux installations and tracert on Microsoft Windows operating systems. Windows NT-based operating systems also provide pathping, which provides similar functionality
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