Topic: COMPUTER - on November 23, 2003 at 2:17:49 AM CET
DVD Jon unlocks iTunes' locked music QTFairUse
Jon Lech Johansen, better known as DVD Jon for his authorship of the DeCSS decryption software, has turned his attention to Apple's locked music format.
While he hasn't decrypted the DRM which Apple uses, he has produced a simple Windows command line utility which will install a DLL which dumps the output of a QuickTime stream to a file.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 22, 2003 at 10:53:05 PM CET
Computers 'hamper the workplace'
Computer systems at work are not working as they should, despite costing millions, a report says.
The problem lies with people rather than the systems themselves, concludes the iSociety think-tank.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 22, 2003 at 9:43:48 PM CET
Presenting the top 10 personal computers of all time
Nothing brings home how important the personal computer has become than having teenagers in the house. As I watch both my daughters work four or five instant messaging windows at once -- and knowing that the friends with whom they're chatting are doing the same as well -- I realize that the home computer has changed a major aspect of middle-class American life.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 22, 2003 at 5:42:14 PM CET
Gates tops generosity list
Magazine says Microsoft chairman and his wife have given away $23B, half their net worth.
In the magazine's second-annual ranking of the top 50 philanthropists in the United States, the Gates' are worth a net $46 billion -- the rough equivalent of Hungary's entire gross domestic product. With the couple's having donated 54 percent of their net worth, Business Week dubbed them "the reigning royalty of a new class of self-made superphilanthropists."
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 22, 2003 at 1:20:31 PM CET
MSN NEWSBOT Beta
A new way to find news
MSN Newsbot (beta) is an experimental, automated news service. We gather news from over 4,000 sources on the internet and speed your discovery of news stories. News headlines are clustered together to allow you to compare coverage from multiple sources and each story links to the publisher's site where you can read the full article.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 22, 2003 at 11:22:07 AM CET
Shockwards 2003
Zum zweiten Mal findet am 21. November 2003 die Fachkonferenz "Shockwards" an der Hochschule der Medien (HdM) in Stuttgart statt. Sie wird von der Online In4mation GmbH, Stuttgart, in Zusammenarbeit mit der HdM organisiert. In Kombination mit Shockwards findet dieses Jahr die 5. deutsche Flashkonferenz an der HdM statt, die bisher Teil des deutschen Multimedia-Kongresses war.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 21, 2003 at 3:56:09 PM CET
EU hi-tech crime agency created
The European Union is setting up an agency to co-ordinate work to combat the rising tide of cybercrime.
The European Network and Information Security Agency will help educate the public about viruses, hacker attacks and other security problems.
It will also act as a co-ordinator for Europe-wide investigations into virus outbreaks or electronic attacks.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 21, 2003 at 3:16:59 PM CET
Best Use Of G4 Cube Ever
I've had this machine in my possession, after salvaging it from a garbage bin, for almost 3 years now. It was originally a (very) dead 450mhz G4 cube that someone apparently tossed, failing to see the potential greatness it still held. I always knew it would make an awesome aquarium, but just never quite got around to working on it. After packing it up, as we moved from San Jose, CA to Tacoma, WA, and then to Seattle, WA, I figured it was finally time to really get this project underway.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 19, 2003 at 1:02:43 PM CET
Kasparov and Computer End 3-D Chess Series in Tie
World No. 1 chess player Garry Kasparov's latest attempt to conquer a computer program ended in a tie on Tuesday when he drew the fourth and final game of his match against "X3D Fritz," which had voice-recognition and virtual reality features.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 19, 2003 at 12:10:13 AM CET
Fraunhofer: MPEG4-Codec kostenlos zum Download
Von den MP3-Erfindern kommt jetzt ein Gratis-Codec für das MPEG4-Format. Im Download-Paket ist ein Encoder und ein Player enthalten.
¬> chip ¬> download
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 18, 2003 at 10:01:34 PM CET
Backed by president, Brazil leans away from Microsoft
If he is to make good on his promise to improve life for the tens of millions of Brazilians who live in dire poverty, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva knows that one key challenge is to bridge a massive technology gap.
And if that means shunning Microsoft Corp software in South America's largest country, then so be it.
Silva's top technology officer wants to transform the land of samba and Carnival into a tech-savvy nation where everyone from schoolchildren to government bureaucrats uses open-source software instead of costly Windows products.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 18, 2003 at 9:53:16 AM CET
Schnipseljagd im Stasi-Müll
Das Berliner Fraunhofer-Institut und die Lufthansa Systems Group haben ihr Konzept zur Rekonstruktion zerrissener Stasi-Akten vorgelegt. Die Entscheidung liegt jetzt beim Deutschen Bundestag.
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