Bursting the bubble: Will the iTunes phone disappoint?:Filed under: iTunes, RumorsForbes speculates that the anticipated Sept. 7 announcement of an Apple/Motorola iTunes phone may be disappointing…. The rumor is that the phone’s software will cap the number of songs that can be stored at 25, regardless of the size of the memory card.
Browsing Posts published in September, 2005
Useful tech notes for Mail 2.0:Filed under: How-tos, Tips and tricks, SoftwareHawk Wings is a blog all about Mail that I’m finding more and more informative every day. A mid-august post I’d like to point you towards rounds up the most useful tech notes Apple has released on the in’s and out’s of Tiger’s shiny new Mail 2.0.
GPRS Easy Connect (2 Sep 2005):“When you’re on the road and need to connect to the Internet, sometimes the only way to do it is through a cellular GPRS or GSM connection…. Why not hook up your GSM/GPRS-capable cell phone to your GNU/Linux-based computer and connect that way?
20 Tiger Secrets:Filed under: Tips and tricks, OS, SoftwareMacworld is running a seriously sweet two-page collection of 20 tips – most, if not all, of which I haven’t seen anywhere else yet. head over to Tiger Secrets: System Settings to learn such gems as how to get the System Preferences’ toolbar back, customize Tiger’s PDF print services, network with firewire and more.I think these tips are great examples of some of Mac OSX’s most potent yet ambiguous allure – all the little things that make it such a fantastic experience.
Reuters09:38 AM Sep. 02, 2005 PTVirtually everything that has happened in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina struck was predicted by experts and in computer models, so emergency management specialists wonder why authorities were so unprepared.
Trusted Computing standards won’t apply to Vista – Schneier: Machivelian software machinations
The (Near) Future of PowerPC and Linux:In the wake of Apple’s decision to move from PowerPC to Intel, other vendors are stepping in to meet the Power demand.
CocoaRadio interviews The Coding Monkeys:The Story of SubEthaEdit: “It became the ultimate conference collaboration tool and has a large user base today. Powerbook-toting attendees at O’Reilly’s ETCON 2003 made other less fortunate peers green with envy as much of the session notes were written using SubEthaEdit.
From the article: “That is what we’ll be doing in this article: we will shed more light on the whole Apple versus x86 PC, IBM G5 versus Intel CPU discussion by showing you what the G5 is capable of when running Linux…. As we told you in the previous article, Apple pointed out that Oracle and Sybase should fare better than MySQL on the Xserve platform.
It doesn’t come easy writes “From ‘the end justifies the means department’, the BBC is reporting that bogus emails about the current situation in New Orlean contain links to websites that promptly infect the concerned reader’s computer…. The plan is to create numerous Linux-based public kiosks that boot directly into the Firefox browser and display a special home page with links to various services.
Flood Waters Can’t Sink Net Link:New Orleans may be underwater, but one internet company in a downtown high-rise has been able to keep the lights on. It’s even publishing live, on-the-street reports.
News: Storm brewing over SHA-1 as further breaks are found:Three Chinese researchers refine an attack on the encryption standard used to digitally sign documents, leaving cryptographers to debate whether the Secure Hash Algorithm needs to be mothballed more quickly.
Spurs sign Michael Finley:The San Antonio Spurs today announced that they have signed free agent guard/forward Michael Finley. Per club policy terms of the agreement were not announced.
Trusted Computing And You:sebFlyte writes “There’s an interesting look at the Trusted computing initiative running over on ZDNet UK, written by security guru Bruce Schneier…. The same system that prevents worms and viruses from running on your computer might also stop you from using any legitimate software that your hardware or operating system vendor simply doesn’t like.
Toshiba pushes back launch of HD DVD:You won’t be able to buy an HD DVD player during this holiday season, as Toshiba has decided to postpone the launch of HD DVD devices until 2006.
Alternative browsers pose challenge for cybersleuths | CNET News.com: CNET tech sites: Product reviews ShopTech newsDownloadsSite mapE-mail alerts | News.com Extra | CorrectionsFront PageEnterprise SoftwareEnterprise HardwareSecurityNetworkingPersonal TechnologyThe NetTrack thousands of Web sites in one place: Newsburst Security >> Policy, law, & crimeAlternative browsers pose challenge for cybersleuthsPublished: August 31, 2005, 8:45 PM PDTBy Joris Evers Staff Writer, CNET News.comTrackBackPrintE-mailTalkBackMONTEREY, Calif.–The advent of Firefox and other alternatives to Internet Explorer means cybercops have to learn new tricks for their investigations.Internet Explorer hides nothing from police and other investigators who examine PCs to discover which sites the user has visited, according to a class held Wedensday at the annual training meeting of the High Tech Crime Investigation Association. Investigators know the location of the IE browser cache, cookie files and history, and they know how to read those files.
Infocus: Windows Syscall Shellcode:This article shows how shellcode can be written and executed on a Windows host without using any native API calls at all.
Infocus: A new way to bypass Windows heap protections:This paper looks at a new way to bypass Windows heap protections on Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003.
