MC2 Post 832 Why DO We Accept A Faulty OS

Why DO We Accept A Faulty OS

Link: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/why-do-people-accept-fault-operating-systems-42185

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/22kurkx

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AMC Struck Dramatic Gold
The Last Few Years with

Mad Men

Breaking Bad

Rubicon

and Tonight's
 Offering:

The Walking Dead

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Okay,  It's Your Move

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Chess Set Designed to

Blade Runner's

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Meet the Edward Scissorhands of Pumpkin Carving

 

 
Pumpkin Scupltures by Ray Villafane

Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/25/eveningnews/main6990706.shtml

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Link: http://blogthememachine.com/54-absolutely-stunning-3d-pumpkin-carvings/

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Happy Halloween

From Wingman at

MC2

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MC2 Post 831 How About Some Light Microsoft eBook Reading

Free, as in Microsoft Press...

( The Tux made me Say That.)

Yes, the Link below will let you Download FREE Chapters 

From Select Microsoft Press eBooks

( in PDF format).

I was able to Find a Few that were worthy of a Download. 

Like the Screen Capture of the One on 

Windows Phone 7 Programming.

Link:  http://bink.nu/news/free-ebooks-from-microsoft-press.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+binkdotnu+%28Bink.nu%29

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/2adbemh

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MC2 Post 830 Five Ways to Shear Firesheep

From http://www.zdnet.com

Link:  http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/five-ways-to-shear-firesheep/283

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/2u4qy24

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From http://www.sfgate.com

What IS Firesheep?

Firesheep: Making Web-Connection Hijacking Easy

Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/hottopics/detail?entry_id=75679

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/25a6xpl

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If You Blink, You're Too Late!

Xbox 360 Kinect Pre-Orders Sold Out at 

 

BestBuy.com, Amazon.com

Or has Windows Learn Something From Apple?

 

Link:  http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-entertainment-brief/52256-xbox-360-kinect-pre-orders-sold-out-at-bestbuycom-amazoncom

 

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/2dvb7jz

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MC2 Post 829 The King Is China's New World's Fastest Computer

World's Fastest Supercomputer 

Makes Debut in China

China has knocked the US off the Top Spot with the unveiling of a the most powerful 

Supercomputer in the world.

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Now fully operational, it has set a new performance record of 2.507 petaflops, as measured by the LINPACK benchmark. It combines massively parallel GPUs with multi-core CPUs, and is based on 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 GPUs and 14,336 CPUs.

The announcement marks the end of the US' dominance in supercomputing. The record was previously held by the AMD Opteron-based Cray XT5 Jaguar at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

As well as cutting down on size, the use of GPUs cuts the system's power requirements dramatically. While a 2.507 petaflop system built entirely with CPUs would consume over 12MW, Tianhe-1A consumes only 4.04MW.

 

 

Link: http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/52238-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-makes-debut-in-china

 

 

 

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/396ycmg

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MC2 Post 828 WHEN Can We Get 1 Gbps on DSL

Vendors Closing in On 1 Gbps 

Using DSL

DSL vendors are using a variety of methods such as bonding several copper lines, creating virtual ones and using advanced noise cancellation to increase broadband over copper to several hundred megabits per second.

At the Broadband World Forum in Paris, Nokia Siemens Networks became the latest vendor to brag about its copper prowess. It can now transmit speeds of up to 825M bps over a distance of 400 meters, it said on Monday.

  

400 meters = 437.444 Yards

Roughly 4 and 1/3

Football fields


See, Metrics isn't that bad.

Link: http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/365686/vendors_closing_1gbps_using_dsl/

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/36tupw8

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MC2 Post 827 Tightening Allen Belt Makes Strange Bedfellows

From http://www.hardocp.com

Google Joins Apple in Counterattack 

Against Paul Allen

It looks like Apple has teamed up with Google to fight off patent infringement lawsuits filed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo and six other companies were named in the patent suit file by Allen back in August.

Link:

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2010/10/25/google_joins_apple_in_counterattack_against_paul_allen/

TinyURL Link:  http://tinyurl.com/39kpqf3

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Leo Cullum, New Yorker Cartoonist, Dies at 68

NYTimes Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/26/arts/26cullum.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

New Yorker

Wikipedia On the New Yorker Magazine:

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Yorker

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Alexander Anderson Jr. dies at 90; created TV cartoon characters Rocky, Bullwinkle and others

Anderson teamed for a time with his friend Jay Ward to create cartoons for television but eventually went into advertising.

LATimes Link: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-alexander-anderson-20101026,0,5114226.story

TinyURL Link: http://tinyurl.com/22mlhmf

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iPhone iOS 4 .1 Password Security Unlock Flaw: Access Contacts

Link: http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2010/10/25/iphone-ios-4-1-password-security-unlock-flaw-access-contacts/

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/24xob8k

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Two Snaps of the Texas Canon

How About Them Cowboys?

 
Blackberry and the Playoff's recap.

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MC2 Post 826 The 8086 Chip Began in 1978

Android PIX

TGDaily Story: Is The PC dying a slow, 

horrible death?

You Can File This Article NEXT To the 

Wired Magazine September 2010 Cover Story:

The Web is dead.  

Lots of Chuckles There Too.

What Did Twain (Who's Auto-Bio Will Be Out Soon), 

Have To Say About That?

Link: http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/52166-is-the-pc-dying-a-slow-horrible-death?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tgdaily_all_sections+%28TG+Daily+-+All+News%29

First out of the Chute at a Chunky 190 Characters that could easily be TRIMMED to 26 Characters, Like This:

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/2cycehv

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My Take On It All? 

Perspective is Good, Just Don't Get Fooled 

by Impressionists. 

Try To Get The Whole Picture.

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As  for the Girlie-Bot Picture?  
I Like Androids...

Wingman, Talking.

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MC2 Post 825 Asterisk 1.8 Released. Now You're Talkin'

Asterisk 1.8 Released with Support for 

Google Voice, Calendaring, and More

Some of the notable new features in Asterisk 1.8 include:

    Google Talk and Google Voice support -- Inbound and outbound support for Google Talk and Google Voice calling.

    Calendar integration -- Support for Microsoft Exchange, CalDav and iCalendar.

    Default de-noise for conference bridge calls -- Conference calls will sound clearer.

    Multicast RTP paging -- Extremely efficient and scalable method for handset paging.

    High-resolution timestamps for call data records (CDR) -- Carrier and enterprise users can track call times to the microsecond.

Link:  http://ostatic.com/blog/asterisk-1-8-released-with-support-for-google-voice-calendaring-and-more

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/2v2pqzh

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Asterisk Download Page:
For Linux. 

http://www.asterisk.org/downloads

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MC2 Post 824 The Flaws in the Ointment, A Patchwork Reality

 Mozilla Firefox Patches Dirty Dozen 

'Critical' Browser Flaws

Link:  

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/firefox-dirty-dozen-mozilla-patches-critical-browser-flaws/7494?tag=mantle_skin;content

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/2e57xwt

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A "Good" Patch Story.

 12-Year-Old Finds Critical Firefox Flaw, 

Earns $3,000 Bounty

Link: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/12-year-old-finds-critical-firefox-flaw-earns-3000-bounty/7524

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/352p3g3

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 Adobe Security Problems Persist:

In part because of their ubiquity, Adobe products have become a major target for attackers in recent years. 

To improve security, Adobe is introducing sandboxing technology into Adobe Reader for Windows.

The update is scheduled to come in the next few weeks.

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Critical Adobe Shockwave Player 

Vulnerability Surfaces

Link:  http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Critical-Adobe-Shockwave-Player-Vulnerability-Surfaces-723680/?kc=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RSS%2Ftech+%28eWEEK+Technology+News%29

The Undisputed Record? 201 Characters to 26...

Try entering THAT in a Smart Phone.  

Really Dumb.

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/295r5bu

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Microsoft Points Out Large Increase in 

Java Hacker Attacks

Link: http://news.techworld.com/security/3244727/microsoft-points-out-large-increase-in-java-hacker-attacks/?intcmp=ros-md-acc-p-nws

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/2fj3k7n

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MC2 Post 823 The Technologies Jobs Has or Will Kill

From TechCrunch Yep, 

Apple Killed The CD Today

Link:  http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/20/a-compact-death/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

TinyURL:   http://tinyurl.com/24jmat3

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And The Seven Other Technologies That 

Jobs Killed Yesterday

 
(actually Wednesday)

Link:  http://www.cultofmac.com/the-seven-technologies-that-steve-jobs-killed-yesterday/64909?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cultofmac%2FbFow+%28Cult+of+Mac%29

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/2uj4g5d

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Apple To Remove Java from Mac OS X?

Link: http://www.osnews.com/story/23923/Apple_To_Remove_Java_from_Mac_OS_X_

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After the news that the new MacBook Airs do not ship with Flash pre-installed (which is news considering Flash has been part of Mac OS X for a very long time), we now have news that Apple is also taking what appears to be the first steps towards removing Apple's own Java runtime from Mac OS X.

The wording is a tiny little bit ambiguous, but it would seem like Apple is preparing to ditch Java as a standard part of Mac OS X. In the 'new and noteworthy' section of the release notes for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3, they note the deprecation of Java.

"As of the release of Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3, the version of Java that is ported by Apple, and that ships with Mac OS X, is deprecated," Apple notes, "This means that the Apple-produced runtime will not be maintained at the same level, and may be removed from future versions of Mac OS X. The Java runtime shipping in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, will continue to be supported and maintained through the standard support cycles of those products."

The devil is in the details here. Apple produces its own Java runtime, and it's that one that's facing the chopping board, but as you can see, it may be removed from future releases. The Cocoa bindings were removed some time ago.

As far as I know, there's no alternative at this point, so I'm not sure what would your options would be if Apple did remove the runtime altogether.

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MC2 Post 822 Nokia Gives Developers HTML5 and QT Target

Nokia Ends Talk of Symbian^4, 

Adopts HTML5 in Qt Framework

Another App Store Starts Digging In...

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/21/nokia-refines-development-stategy-adopts-html5-in-qt-and-ends-s/

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/2cd6nwy

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MC2 Post 821 Browsers Part Deu Chrome Browser Updates

From http://www.theinquirer.net

Google Releases Two Versions of Its 

Chrome Browser

Link:  http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1797548/google-releases-versions-chrome-browser

Chrome (version 7.0.517.41)

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/25qzzso

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I missed a couple of Browsers in yesterday post, 
that I Like now and then.
Safari for Windows and Lunascape 6.
And For PDF's I Use FoxIt Reader.
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