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Six Questions To Ask Before Telecommuting

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:36:46 +0000

Lucas123 writes “With gas prices 30% higher this summer over last, telecommuting is back on everyone’s radar. According to a Computerworld story, however, IT and telecommuting don’t have a great record of success. For example, citing negative impacts on productivity,…

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A Mozilla Plugin to Help Overcome IE Rendering Flaw

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:36:44 +0000

least_weasel writes “An article on Ars Technica reveals Mozilla’s intention to create and release a plugin for Internet Explorer that would allow the often-criticized IE to utilize some of the cooler rendering code developed for Firefox. The current WIP focuses…

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Why Corporates Hate Perl

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:36:14 +0000

Anti-Globalism recommends a posting up at O’Reilly’s ONLamp on reasons that some companies are turning away from Perl. “[In one company] [m]anagement have started to refer to Perl-based systems as ‘legacy’ and to generally disparage it. This attitude has seeped…

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Adobe Flash Ads Launching Clipboard Hijack Attacks

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:36:13 +0000

bullyBEEF writes “Malicious hackers are using booby-trapped Flash banner ads to hijack clipboards for use in rogue security software attacks. In the Web attacks, which affect Mac, Windows, and Linux users running Firefox, IE, and Safari, bad guys are seizing…

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Why One-time Passwords Suck For MITM Attacks

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:33:39 +0000

whitehartstag writes “Black Hat 08 disclosed several SSL VPN and DNS vulnerabilities that caused several people to sit up and take notice. Some of these new exploits performed a brilliant Man-In-The-Middle attack on SSL VPN tunnels. This article walks you…

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Boost 1.36 Released

admin — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:28:43 +0000

AndrewStephens writes “Good news for C++ programmers: Boost 1.36 has been released with 4 new libraries (including very useful exception templates) and a host of updates. In particular, boost.asio (the cross platform AsyncIO library) has seen major additions and now…

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Sun Open-Sources Java UI Toolkit

admin — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:28:42 +0000

ruphus13 writes “As the mobile space heats up, Sun has released the source code for Java Lightweight UI Toolkit under the GPL v2 license. ZDNet quotes Sun’s senior director of embedded software saying, ‘By creating LWUIT, Sun is reaffirming its…

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McCain Releases Technology Platform

admin — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:16:28 +0000

I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “John McCain has finally released a technology platform. Most of it is the same old stuff; lower corporate taxes, protect children from porn, and avoid Internet regulation unless ‘necessary.’ Alas, in his view,…

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How Important Is Protecting Streaming Media?

admin — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:16:26 +0000

spaj writes “In the ongoing battle with the MPAA and RIAA, there seems to be an ongoing argument about who is to blame. If you leave a $20 bill on the sidewalk, can you report it stolen when someone takes…

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Strange Ubuntu/Vista Compatibility Bug, Solved

admin — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:45:18 +0000

Walter Vos writes “Since I’ve been running Vista and Ubuntu in dual boot with a shared FAT32 partition for my personal folders, I’ve been seeing some strange compatibility issues between these two operating systems. Somehow Vista locks the folders on…

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