9 Good Things The Internet Has Ruined Forever
Sometimes nostalgia can actually serve a mirror into our lives and show how really screwed up we really are. Like, for instance, what life was like before high speed Internet. Sure, our lives sucked then as much as it sucks now, but we blame the Internet for ruining a few things that were once good and holy.
Pinch and Spread: The Battle Over Multitouch Tech Is On
The Pre, Palm’s new mobile phone, stole the show at CES this year. Looks helped, but mainly it was the Pre’s iPhone-like touchscreen tech that wowed the industry crowd. Two weeks later, Apple COO Tim Cook expressed his irritation (without directly naming Palm) to analysts on a conference call: “We will not stand for having our IP ripped off”
Apple sued for promoting iPhone as eBook reader
Linux : Linux Kernel 2.6.29 Includes the Brtfs Filesystem.
None other than Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, announced last evening the immediate availability of Linux kernel 2.6.29, a version that brings initial support for the highly expected Brtfs filesystem. Brtfs is a brand new filesystem created by Chris Mason and designed to act like the ZFS or WAFL ones. When Brtfs will be stable, it will….
Do Linux users pay a "Microsoft tax?"
Steve Ballmer recently caught flack for essentially saying that Apple users pay an Apple tax of 0 for buying Macs compared to PCs. Does that mean that Linux users are forced to pay a Microsoft tax every time they buy a PC with Microsoft software on it?As I wrote in my blog yesterday, Steve Ballmer claims that when people buy a Mac rather..
.CA Registrar Trying To Preempt Conficker
clover kicker writes “The CBC reports that the group managing Canada’s .ca internet domain is working to foil an internet worm set to attack starting April Fool’s Day. ‘This is the first virus that’s really focused on domain names as part of propagating the virus itself,’ said Byron Holland, CEO of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, a non-profit organization that represents those who hold a .ca domain. CIRA’s strategy includes pre-emptively registering and isolating previously unregistered .ca domain names that Conficker C is expected to try and generate, said a news release issued by the group. That would make those names unavailable for anyone to register in order to set up a website to host the worm’s ‘command and control’ file. A list of the names has been predicted by security experts based on the worm’s code. In addition, CIRA is investigating and monitoring activity at names on the list that have already been registered and will ‘take appropriate action if suspicious activity is detected.'”
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