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Microsoft issues SP2 patch
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Link to Friends | Posted by Jeff Partridge
"Microsoft has announced it is to patch a patch - it's fixed a
hole in XP Service Pack 2. Microsoft has published the patch through
its website. It fixes a problem that installing XP SP2 creates with
VPNs and can be downloaded here. Once installed, XP SP2 can cause
users to see a 'cannot establish a connection' message if a machine
tries to connect to IP addresses in the loopback address range,
according to Microsoft's... [Continued]
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Study: Life without the Net is unbearable
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Study: Life without the Net is unbearable :: AO Researchers
investigating how people would react to not having access to the
Internet had a tough time getting started. "It was incredibly
difficult to recruit participants as people weren't willing to be
without the Internet for two weeks," explained Wenda Harris Millard,
chief sales officer of Yahoo, and a sponsor of the study. All
participants found living without the Net more difficult than
expected, and in... [Continued]
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Google Soon To Release Gbrowser
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Link to Friends | Posted by Melissa Ray
As the New York Post reports, it looks like Google plans to launch
its own Web browser and other software products to challenge
Microsoft. "Based on the half-dozen hires in recent weeks, Google
appears to be planning to launch its own Web browser and other
software products to challenge Microsoft.... [Continued]
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AOL shuns Microsoft's anti-spam technology
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Link to Friends | Posted by Marc Erickson
"Add America Online Inc. to the growing list of companies and
organizations shunning a spam-fighting proposal from Microsoft Corp.
"advertisement AOL cited 'tepid support' for Microsoft's so-called
Sender ID technology, which seeks to cut down on junk e-mail by making
it difficult for spammers to forge e-mail headers and addresses, a
common technique for hiding their origins. "(MSNBC is a Microsoft -
NBC joint venture.) "Thursday's announcement came on the heels of a
recent decision... [Continued]
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Photo molecules flip current (Science)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Marc Erickson
Free registration required to read the Science abstract. "Many
research teams are working to make electronic components from
molecules. Such small electronics would be faster and more powerful
than today's versions. Researchers from Kyoto University in Japan have
constructed a photodiode that consists of a mix of slightly different
peptide molecules anchored to a gold surface. Photodiodes produce
electricity when they are stimulated by light; they can detect and
generate electricity from light. The work... [Continued]
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Nintendo and Sony Square Off in Handheld Game
Market (Entertainment)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Marc Erickson
Free registration required to read the article. "Japan's Nintendo
Co. Ltd. struck the first blow in what is set to be an all-out war
with Sony Corp. for the lucrative handheld game console market,
aggressively pricing its new dual-screen model at $149.99 and setting
its U.S. launch date for Nov. 21. For its part, Sony kept mum on the
price and exact launch date of its long-awaited PlayStation Portable
(PSP), but also went on the... [Continued]
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PeopleSoft, Unfazed, Announces 5-Year Pact
With I.B.M. (Business)
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Free registration required to read the article. "PeopleSoft
announced a broad partnership with I.B.M. on Tuesday, in an attempt to
show that it is moving forward aggressively despite the turmoil
created by Oracle's $7.7-billion hostile takeover bid. PeopleSoft's
chief executive, Craig Conway, told more than 11,000 corporate
customers gathered for its annual user convention that the deal with
I.B.M. would help PeopleSoft customers adapt to changing technology.
The deal, which has been in the works... [Continued]
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Ask Jeeves Gets Personal, Too (Internet)
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Unlike it was just a few years ago, no none has any use for other
search engines other than Google anymore. This is reality folks. With
other search engines perched into survival mode, some of them are
trying to make superficial changes in some futile attempt to out
themselves from the closet once more. For instance, Ask Jeeves has
added the ability to save previous search results. Wow, who cares! If
you are not able... [Continued]
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Windows XP Security Guide v2.0
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Link to Friends | Posted by Marc Erickson
"The Windows® XP Security Guide v2.0 describes the features and
recommended settings for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2).
The Guide includes thoroughly tested templates for security settings
for Windows Firewall, which replaces Internet Connection Firewall
(ICF). Information is provided about closing ports, Remote Procedure
Call (RPC) communications, memory protection, e-mail handling, Web
download controls, spyware controls, and much more. Any IT environment
is only as secure as its weakest link. Unfortunately, client
operating... [Continued]
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Symantec to Buy Security Firm @stake
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Link to Friends | Posted by Marc Erickson
"Security giant Symantec is buying digital security company @stake
for an undisclosed sum in a deal that is expected to close in October.
The primary business of @stake is digital security consulting
services, but it also provides security auditing and security analysis
products. One of @stake's main security consulting competitors,
Foundstone, was snapped up in mid-August by Symantec's rival McAfee
for $86 million in cash. Gail Hamilton, executive vice president of
Symantec Global Services and... [Continued]
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Mobile Athlon 64 challenges Centrino
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"AMD has fleshed out its mobile chip catalogue this week by
shipping the Mobile AMD Athlon 64 3000+ processor. It joins a range of
mobile models, from 2800+ to 3400+, but is the first to be built using
90nm technology. Aimed at 'thin and light' notebooks, the first
commercial use of the chip will be in new models of Acer's Ferrari
range of laptops due in Europe later this month and worldwide in
October. The... [Continued]
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Genes From Engineered Grass Spread for Miles
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Free registration required to read the story. "A new study shows
that genes from genetically engineered grass can spread much farther
than previously known, a finding that raises questions about the
straying of other plants altered through biotechnology and that could
hurt the efforts of two companies to win approval for the first
bioengineered grass. The two companies, Monsanto and Scotts, have
developed a strain of creeping bentgrass for use on golf courses that
is... [Continued]
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MIT searches for solar power in spinach
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See Popeye was right all along! Why in the heck have we been using
conventional technology to harness the power of the sun when we should
have been using spinach all along. OK, that is sort of weird.
Regardless though, MIT may truly be onto something with their advanced
solar research and the old fashion can a of spinach.... [Continued]
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It's the end of the 'Net as we know it
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The Internet end times? OK, this seems to be Intel's conclusion,
but I tend to disagree. In actuality I see it as a maturing process.
Growth bound Web sites are content centered rather than gimmick
centered as they were back in the 1990's. I think that this is only
the beginning.... [Continued]
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Water and methane maps overlap on Mars: a new
clue? (Life on Other Planets)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Marc Erickson
"Recent analyses of ESA's Mars Express data reveal that
concentrations of water vapour and methane in the atmosphere of Mars
significantly overlap. This result, from data obtained by the
Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS), gives a boost to understanding
of geological and atmospheric processes on Mars, and provides
important new hints to evaluate the hypothesis of present life on the
Red Planet. PFS observed that, at 10-15 kilometres above the surface,
water vapour is well mixed... [Continued]
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