Windows Vista has been ‘pwned’ big time. A couple of researchers attacked Vista by using the way that Internet Explorer handles active scripting and .NET objects which results in effectively bypassing the memory protection safeguards in Vista.
The birth and death of a really useful application in one day.
Where’s the FAT? FAT32 that is. Apparently another one of the many things that have changed in veesta is that it no longer supports formatting a disk or partition in FAT32. This is unfortunate because there are times when FAT32 is still needed. Things like removable media such as floppies (yeah, some people still use them), flash drives, CD-ROM’s and so on.
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Network world has a report of something claiming to be the “world’s cheapest laptop“. However just because this thing can be had for as little as $130 doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a good idea.
It’s called the Impulse NPX-9000. This laptop has a paltry 400mhz cpu in it which [...]
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Y’know, it really sounds just like the telecommunications companies, you know, the one’s that managed to wrangle retroactive immunity for taking part in an illegal domestic spying operation? Well, these souls of altruism have a new old tactic that they’re using. They’re busily suing municipalities that dare to decide [...]
The Congress finally manage to pass the recent FISA Amendments Act in spite of serious opposition from the EFF and a lot of other concerned citizens and organizations all across the country. Fortunately, even though it’s been passed, the fight to get the telecoms held accountable for participating in illegal, warrantless domestic spying is continuing.
Picture this: Joe Sixpack needs to check in on his fave blogs and online news but he hasn’t got the time to wait for Windows to boot. He flips on his computer, five seconds later he’s got a browser running and is getting up to date while the guy next to him is still looking at the Windows logo, waiting for his machine to boot.
I just read a story that’s going to be of interest those who like to be on the bleeding edge of speed capacities… Some physicists at the University of Sydney have come up with an optical chip that’s reportedly capable of speeds up to a hundred times faster than Australia’s current networks are doing.
I’m wondering what the deal is with memory. No, I’m not asking for a price quote, I’m talking about the increase in times when I find that programs I use all the time are running into “out of memory” errors a lot more than they ever used to.
Recently, as part of my never ending effort to keep from falling behind on things technical, I find that the Cat5e cables that I’ve been using for so long are no longer the standard and haven’t been for quite a while now.
