Once again on Microsoft Platform: One of the world’s nastiest password-stealing trojans evades detection by the majority PCs running anti-virus programs, according to a study that examined 10,000 machines. Zeus, a stealthy piece of malware that sits on a PC and waits for users to log in to bank websites, is detected just 23 per [...]
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Nokia just doesn’t get it – Open letter to Nokia E-71 Support
Posted on 14. Aug, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
When Nokia releases a Business Phone, what exactly do they mean by Business Phone? Does it means a business person can use the phone? Or does it really means it has all the features typically needed by Business person? I think it’s more of the former than latter. That’s why my recently purchases Nokia E71 [...]
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Increasingly Windows users are seeing attacks that are more sophisticated and using techniques unheard before. These attacks continuously point out to a single aspect of windows. And they say it out LOUD. Windows is NOT secure. Period. Then why don’t people get it? PC Invader Costs Ky. County $415,000 Cyber criminals based in Ukraine stole [...]
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VX-200 demonstrates superconducting first stage at full power
Posted on 06. Jul, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
Houston, TX. – Ad Astra Rocket Company has successfully demonstrated operation of its VX-200 plasma engine first stage at full power and under superconducting conditions in tests conducted today at the company’s Houston laboratory. This achievement is a key milestone in the engine’s development and the first time a superconducting plasma rocket has been operated [...]
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Hot! – London Stock Exchange to abandon failed Windows platform
Posted on 04. Jul, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
When massive infrastructure relies on non-linux/non-unix, this should be expected. Although windows is good for quick upstart, major infrastructure simply cannot rely on it. Here’s what computerworld wrote: Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September [...]
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IBM is one of those companies that I admire. Through the years, IBM has done quite lot to promote Open Source and provide quite a big list of projects in the community. “IBM just released Milepost GCC, ‘the world’s first open source machine learning compiler.’ The compiler analyses the software and determines which code optimizations [...]
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Yet another Microsoft Issue that is often hidden from those who purchase Microsoft only products and infrastructure. The TCO is not only upfront investment. It should also be lost productivity, time and money is cleaning someone else’s mess. “Detractors of free software like to point out it’s not really ‘free,’ and claim that its Total [...]
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I’ve been always fascinated by the possibilities of mimicking quantum computing and artificial intelligence in everyday computing. It won’t be far that the face of major computing will change to artificial intelligence doing quite a lot of things around us. This the one of the early steps towards that: A team led by Yale University [...]
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German Foreign Ministry: Cost of Open Source desktop maintenance is by far the lowest
Posted on 14. Jun, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
According to German Foreign ministry: ‘Cost of Open Source desktop maintenance is by far the lowest’ Open source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations, says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry. Schuster was one of the participants [...]
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Actually there may be many more, but here’s a short list: #1: Equipment still wears out As bad as an economic recession becomes, one fact doesn’t change. Power supplies, hard disks, motherboards, displays, and other components still fail. The laws of physics don’t rest just because the economy is in turmoil. Electrical surges still occur, [...]