Topic: COMPUTER - on March 30, 2005 at 9:36:00 AM CEST
E-mailer says suits drove it bankrupt
E-mail marketer Scott Richter fought lawman Eliot Spitzer, but he's knuckling under to the world's richest man, Bill Gates.
Richter's company, Westminster-based OptInRealBig.com, has filed for bankruptcy protection in Denver. The company cited a costly legal battle with Gates' Microsoft Corp., which claims OptInRealBig.com illegally spams computer users.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 30, 2005 at 9:04:00 AM CEST
Breaking Firewalls with OpenSSH and PuTTY
If the system administrator deliberately filters out all traffic except port 22 (ssh), to a single server, it is very likely that you can still gain access other computers behind the firewall. This article shows how remote Linux and Windows users can gain access to firewalled samba, mail, and http servers. In essence, it shows how openSSH and PuTTY can be used as a VPN solution for your home or workplace.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 29, 2005 at 8:09:00 PM CEST
The Birth of the Notebook
History has a way of reinventing itself. Like Michael Jackson, the past makes strange and sometimes hideous transformations -- and, as with Jacko, it's not always easy to tell what exactly happened.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 29, 2005 at 8:06:00 PM CEST
A Word to the unwise -- program's grammar check isn't so smart
Microsoft the company should big improve Word grammar check.
No, your eyes aren't deceiving you. That sentence is a confusing jumble. However, it is perfectly fine in the assessment of Microsoft Word's built-in grammar checker, which detects no problem with the prose.
Sandeep Krishnamurthy thinks Microsoft can do a lot better.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 29, 2005 at 12:55:00 PM CEST
Linux system squishes into Ethernet connector
German electronics company Kleinhenz is shipping a network-enabled Linux system barely larger than a standard RJ-45 Ethernet jack. "Picotux" is based on the DigiConnect ME module from NetSilicon, along with a 2.4.27 uClinux port that was probably developed by German embedded system specialist FS Forth Systeme.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 26, 2005 at 3:24:00 PM CET
DVForge Virus Prize 2005
A $25,000 Prize For The First 'In The Wild' OS X Virus
Contest goal: To lay to rest, once and for all, the myths surrounding the lack of spreading computer virii on the Macintosh OS X operating system.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 21, 2005 at 10:35:00 AM CET
Open Source PearPC 2.25x faster than CherryOS
Open source program that runs a G4 speed 2.25x faster than CherryOS. It always being updated so who knows, it might get to G5 speeds.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 19, 2005 at 10:46:00 AM CET
MIT Backs Brazil's Free Software Over Microsoft
MIT's Media Lab has recommended Brazil install open-source software instead of proprietary software offered by Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) on thousands of computers that will be sold to the poor, according to a letter obtained by Reuters.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 19, 2005 at 10:44:00 AM CET
UK police foil massive bank theft
Police in London say they have foiled one of the biggest attempted bank thefts in Britain.
The plan was to steal £220m ($423m) from the London offices of the Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 15, 2005 at 2:46:00 PM CET
Microsoft to unveil own search engine ads
Microsoft will on Wednesday signal a direct assault on one of the main profit-generators of Google and Yahoo when it unveils an advertising service that lets users link their messages to the results of Internet searches.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 15, 2005 at 11:18:00 AM CET
Weekend Hack Infects Hosting Servers
The Internet Storm Center (ISC) tracked a large-scale hack over the weekend that infected site-hosting servers, which in turn transformed all the hosted sites into distributors of malicious code.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 15, 2005 at 11:15:00 AM CET
300gig ipod
flamingballofwreckage sent us a link to instructions for using a standard 3.5” hard disk with your ipod. after making the adapter, there is another howto for formatting the drive so that it will be correctly recognized by the device.
‘but j,’ you say, ‘that 3.5” drive would make my ipod simply ginormous!’
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