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FTC seeks to secure more than a million servers that can be spoofed by spammers. The Federal Trade Commission has identified more than 1 million IP addresses that provide open proxies or open relays, which spammers can tap to hide their identities, and is alerting server owners that they might be inadvertently helping spam.
2.4 vs 2.6 Linux Kernel Shootout “Infoworld are currently running an interesting comparison of the 2.4 series kernel against the new 2.6 release on Xeon, Opteron and Itanium CPUs with some surprising benchmark results for common server-related tasks. Basically the new scheduler helps the 2.6 kernel to cream the old 2.4: Samba tests showing up […]
MS drop authentication technique to foil phishing Redmond’s plans to remove support for handling user names and passwords in HTTP or HTTPS URLs in IE are designed to protect Web surfers from being lured to malicious constructed or fraudulent sites.
Cellphones safe – at least in short term The first in a series of eagerly anticipated nationwide studies has concluded that the use of mobile phones poses no increased risk of brain cancer – at least not for the first 10 years
So this is what his hair looks like when he wakes up in the morning!
Declining testosterone might put men at risk for Alzheimer’s Low levels of the male sex hormone testosterone may put healthy men at risk of developing Alzheimer’s years later, a new study suggests.
U.S. to start airline background checks Homeland Security officials say a government plan to check all airline passengers’ backgrounds before they board a plane could be implemented by this summer.
Vlad sent me these, they’re pretty funny… check em out… Video 1 Video 2 Video 3
Bob Keeshan, Captain Kangaroo, dies at 76 Bob Keeshan, who gently entertained and educated generations of children as television’s walrus-mustachioed Captain Kangaroo, died Friday at 76, his family said
Have an ADC based LCD panel from Apple you’d like to use on your PC? Look no further than the Dr. Bott DVIator DVI-ADC Adapter. http://dviator.com/us/DVIator.html
New server installed LWN is now running on its newer, faster server; thanks to Rackspace for giving us an upgrade! We think everything is working, but no doubt one little problem still lurks somewhere. If you encounter any paranormal phenomena, please let us know at [email protected].
Deodorants plus shaving linked to breast cancer Frequent underarm shaving combined with deodorant use might increase women’s chances of getting breast cancer, claims a study based on a survey of over 400 women with breast cancer in the US. It is the first evidence of such a link to appear in a peer-reviewed journal, but […]
San Antonio area personal income tops $46.5 billion The four-county San Antonio metropolitan area accounted for nearly $47 billion, or 7.6 percent, of the personal income in Texas in 2001, according to a new study.
Mystery Deaths on London Flights A 19-year-old British woman died Monday on board a Virgin Atlantic flight from Miami to London’s Heathrow Airport, the airline said. A day earlier, two passengers on a British Airways flight from Miami to Heathrow died, including one from suspected viral meningitis.
‘Just Sleep On It’ Solves Tricky Problems? An anonymous reader writes “CBC news reports that the effectiveness of ‘sleeping on it’ when faced with a difficult task may have more than just anecdotal roots. 66 students were trained to perform a calculation on an eight digit number using two simple rules which would take seven […]
Organizational Behavior: The Enemy Next Door Can too much in-house rivalry among coworkers be a good thing? Not if your management style demands teamwork, yet pits one employee against another or makes one a star. Here’s how to avoid the pitfalls and promote greater collaboration.
How HP invented the market for iPod resellers Apple’s iPod is the killer device of online music, and HP very well should have owned it.
While I was driving down the road the other day (going a little faster than I should have been) I passed over a bridge only to see a cop on the other side with a radar gun laying in wait. The cop pulled me over, walked up to the car, and with that classic patronizing […]
I’m a bit fan of the F11 trick on Max OS X called Expose. So its reasonable for me to want to have it on my WinXP laptop… and I found WinExpose which claimed to do the same thing on Windows. Don’t buy it. It sucks. I found a copy of it flying around the […]
TV’s ‘Queer’ Guy Opts for the Musical Life Jai Rodriguez, the culture maven of Bravo/NBC hit reality series “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” is in the studio recording his debut album. (Thanks Carlie)
Rackspace earns Frost & Sullivan’s telecom Product of the Year award Rackspace Managed Hosting has been awarded the 2004 Frost & Sullivan Product of the Year Award in the telecommunications services market for its Intensive Hosting division.
Rickshaw-reminiscent pedicabs cycle past novelty status Pedicabs have grown in the past decade from being a tourist ride on boardwalks and beaches to a way to transport people at airports and even the Super Bowl.
What are motion cards and how do they work? Motion cards are appearing everywhere these days. They have been around for some time, but have increased dramatically in the number of images on a card in recent years. Early versions only had two or three images, but new ones can hold enough images to simulate […]
If you’ve EVER used Canon’s ZoomBrowser you’ll probably want to read this… It appears that ZooomBrowser has a bug and will save photos with a “temporary” attribute assigned to them. When this happens, certain applications will refuse to load those photos. This is a known bug in Zoombrowser and the patch can be downloaded here. […]
Yahoo tests RSS for MyYahoo Yahoo plans to test RSS technology for its personalization tools, giving people the ability to automatically receive news and information feeds from third parties onto MyYahoo pages.
Amazon CEO strikes a pose Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos has been known to strike a “yeeaaah baby” Austin Powers-esque pose. And on Monday, he’s doing just that in an old photo posted to a page in the company’s online mall. The key to finding the photo? Type the words “old fart” into Amazon’s search box.
Cosmetic chemicals found in breast tumours Preservative chemicals found in samples of breast tumours probably came from underarm deodorants, UK scientists have claimed.
Fake fog could defend nuclear plants Clouds of artificial fog could be used to defend nuclear power stations against airborne terrorist attacks under proposals currently being considered in Germany.
Rackspace hires Gary Kofnovec as company’s new CFO San Antonio-based Rackspace Managed Hosting on Monday announced that it has hired Gary Kofnovec to join Rackspace’s management as the company’s new chief financial officer.
Major New TiVo Service Offerings “At the Consumer Electronics Show today, Mike Ramsay of TiVo announced three major new product offerings to come in the next year. First off there’s the DVD Recorders, HD DVR, and Home Networked Enabled Products. TiVo/DVD Recorder boxes have been out for a bit now but looks like the offerings […]
Woman gets ‘tits out’ online for charity A Somerset woman is getting her “tits out” to raise money for a multiple sclerosis (MS) charity.
Herbal medicine boom threatens plants Natural remedies have become so popular that many wild plants are now being harvested to the point of extinction, say botanists
Webloggers upload digital doodles using smart pens Smart pens have become the latest way to post messages to online diaries, or weblogs, while on the move.
My friend, Susan, sent me this: While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. Now, while doing this, draw the number “6” in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction and there’s nothing you can do about it!
Bart sent me these funny dog food ads from Britain… check’em out.
Caffeine vs Type II Diabetes “New research out of the Harvard School of Public Health indicates that coffee may lower your risk of Type II Diabetes. Men who drank 6 cups of coffee a day lowered their risk by 50%, while womens risk dropped 30%. The release also includes audio discussions about the suprising findings.”
Microsoft Notebook: Microsoft has plans to take on … Apple? The hand-held devices, called Portable Media Centers, will store and play back video, music and photos. Microsoft unveiled a prototype at last year’s Consumer Electronics Show, under the code name Media2Go. The company had originally hoped to see at least one of the devices on […]
While on the air, David challenged me to produce a 5.25″ floppy disk and put it on the my webcam… so I did… SO THERE! 🙂
Carbs counted out: How they came to be the enemy Ron Perry, 57, a mortgage banker in Lawrence, Kan., never counted calories, fat grams, points or anything else when it came to his diet. Until now.
Since I hadn’t been keeping up with the lander stuff, I had to get a crash coarse to maintain my “geek” image… here are some videos that distill everything down so you can get everything you need to know in a few minutes… 🙂 http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/video/challenges.html