Thunderbird still has potential to fly despite developers leaving the nest
Thunderbird is a pretty great open sourced mail client that is available on multiple platforms and for free. From the beginning its development has been mostly be shadowed by FireFox. The two core developers of Thunderbird have left Mozilla, which is a big blow to the ongoing development of Thunderbird. Will Thunderbird not longer get as many updates or new features? Will development complete stop? Only time will tell.
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Hacker exploits forgotten eBay administrative system
Another hacker finds a way to cause some trouble within eBay’s system, using an old administration system.
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Hacker exploits forgotten eBay administrative system –A hacker disabled an assortment of eBay user accounts on Friday after gaining access to the vestigial components of an old eBay administrative system.Read More…
Slashdot’s CmdrTaco Looks Back at 10 Years of ‘News for Nerds’
One of the best technology news sites for nerds, this is one of the sites that I check on a regular basis.
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Slashdot's CmdrTaco Looks Back at 10 Years of 'News for Nerds' – Slasdhot turns 10 this month. The influential “news for nerds” site famous for swamping unsuspecting websites with boatloads of traffic turns 10 in October, and parties are popping up all around the country. Without the influence of Slashdot there would be no Digg. Let’s pay respects. [Digg Main]
Microsoft Offers Further Open Source Patent Threats
Again Microsoft is trying to bully open source distributions and projects to buy into their patent protection that Novell has already sank money into.
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Microsoft Offers Further Open Source Patent Threats – An anonymous reader writes “Via Groklaw comes comments from Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer at a UK event, in which the company once again threatens Linux distributions that haven’t signed up with their program. ‘”People who use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense have an obligation to compensate us,” Ballmer said last week … Ballmer praised Novell at the UK event for valuing intellectual property, and suggested that open source vendors will be forced to strike similar deals with other patent holders. He predicted that firms like Eolas will soon come after open source vendors or users. Microsoft paid $521m to settle a patent claim by Eolas in August.'”Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Fluxbox-1.0 released!
This is one of the best xwindows/xorg windows managers ever made. I use this on all my work stations because of its awesome features which include.
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Interpol Unscrambles Doctored Photo In Manhunt
This is a pretty crazy story about how Interpol within Paris reverted a doctored photo of a man who was sexually exploiting children, the photo was blur’d using photoshop and they somehow were able to remove the blur and actually reveal the mans face. They’re not sharing what technique was used top remove the doctored portion of the photo.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 due in Q1 ’08
Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 due in Q1 '08 – The first service pack for Windows Vista is on its way, and PC Magazine has a preview of an early private beta version. [Digg Main]
Microsoft backports Vista features for new Windows XP SP3 beta
Microsoft knows that XP will still be alive on desktops for the next 2-3 years before hardware will be put in place to utilize Vista. Therefore they have made available some of the features within Vista, in a new service pack for XP. At this point, Vista is really buggy and crashes often. I’ve even reverted back to XP after continued nightmares with Vista. I hope the new service for Vista brings some stability to the operating system that was originally slated to replace XP, but hasn’t done so quite yet.
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iPhone, iPod touch v1.1.1 jailbroken, apps ported and running
It looks as though its not going to be that easy to hack up the 1.1.1 Firmware on the iPhone as it was with the 1.0.2 firmware. Right now it looks like you can jailbreak the phone but not unlock it. Apple has a good product here, why hinder the use of it and the ever growing third party apps?
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LG to supply TV converters for US government program
Very interesting, no more analog TV channles. I wonder if Canada will follow suit.
LG to supply TV converters for US government program – For some, February 17, 2009 is going to be a frustrating day, as it marks the end of the line for American analog television broadcasts. Those with old-school wood-paneled TVs are going to either need to go out and buy a new set or purchase a converter box to be able to view the new digital channels. If I wasn’t already gadget-obsessed, I’d be mad as hell if someone forced me to upgrade my TV and I’d be even more furious once I found out how much it was going to cost me. Luckily, your trusty National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)has a solution.Read More