Previous DayIT Anthems returns
Blog Peter Judge, tech journalist sometimes of this parish, has made a dire discovery. Symantec has set up a new rock band called RockDotRock to promote its internet security wares. As with so many...
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Talkback I believe we are moving in the right direction here from a technological perspective, also form a power consumption point of view. Perhaps the development of these new "Disks" should be given more...
Ajax scripting vulnerability
Blog According to an article on Techworld.com, a server side based vulnerability has been identified in Ajax.
Last chance to win an Alienware laptop!
Blog ZDNet UK has teamed up with Alienware to offer a fully featured Area-51 m5550 worth £1,300 to one lucky reader. The competition. to win this prize closes on Tuesday 9th January but there are...
Are UK companies flouting spam laws?
News One in three UK companies is reportedly ignoring privacy regulations, but the information commissioner's office isn't convinced
IT staff face skills and training shortfall
News Study finds a rise in number of UK firms saying their staff lack important ICT skills
Heroes and villains
Leader The Internet Service Providers Association should take a look at itself before accusing others of internet villainy
Mandriva Flash
Review Mandriva Flash gives you a well-stocked and flexible Linux distribution in an extremely portable and secure USB flash drive format. If you're confident of finding a host system that you can reboot...
Cisco NAC vulnerable to attack
News Software that runs Cisco's network access control device contains two serious flaws
Bad idea.
Talkback First of all, you usually go to prison because you have broken the law in some way. In my opinion why should you be given the right to use a computer system when your locked up. Seems to be one of...
OpenOffice hit by 'highly critical' vulnerability
News WMF flaw allows hackers to attack open-source users, who should upgrade or patch
Strange set of values
Talkback Can't say I see a lot of difference between trying to restrict the spam and trying to restrict the gambling sites. Is conning people out of money in the futile hope of a larger penis any different...
Tinkering
Talkback Will definitely stop people being able to practise pulling them apart and learning how this stuff goes together. Will be bad for up and coming young geeks.
Seagate to unveil pocket-sized storage devices
News Hard drive maker plans to reveal a new line of portable storage devices at the Consumer Electronics Show
HP and Tandberg target Cisco with conferencing tie-up
News Video vendors team up to boost sales of Halo collaboration systems to corporate clients
Supercomputer is F1 team's secret weapon
News Formula 1 team BMW-Sauber is using the supercomputer to develop complex aerodynamic components
More critical fixes for Windows
News IT managers and users will receive eight security patches from Microsoft next Tuesday
also cost limitations
Talkback As even a 32Gb drive is wildly more expensive and with the massive increase in stored information this is not enough think this may have only small market at least to start with unless the price...
What
Talkback IOW, why do they insist that a video must play in the browser? Just adding this direct link to the video addresses all browser functionality issues (e.g., the TOC issue they mention). This also...
MySQL steers clear of GPLv3
News Open-source database firm will stick with existing version of the General Public License until its successor 'gains acceptance'
everything has a weakness
Talkback When they put there minds to it everything has its weakness given enough time and effort
Terabyte hard drives are ready
News Hitachi and Seagate are both poised to offer 1TB drives early this year
PDF threat worse than first thought
News Security flaw in Adobe's Acrobat Reader software exposes a user's hard drive to attack
Whiteboard: Confidential data loss
Video All networks are vulnerable to data theft, so make sure you know what steps to take to protect your organisation
