A backdoor in MySpace’s architecture allows anyone who’s interested to see the photographs of some users with private profiles — including those under 16 — despite assurances from MySpace that those pictures can only be seen by people on a user’s friends list.
Microsoft shoots itself in the foot by admitting that ODF support is doable and implicitly suggesting that OOXML is therefore redundant
“Due to its ultra-thin profile, Apple’s new MacBook Air was designed with an integrated 37-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery that is not user-replaceable. Though this has caused some initial concern amongst potential adopters, AppleInsider has learned that the replacement process is quite trivial.”
A lot of important applications stopped working on Ubuntu today such as eclipse, VLC, amule, azureus, xaralx, … Unfortunately this seems to affect almost all java and wxwidgets programs. A bug report with a temporarily solution is available at launchpad. Digg this, so people don’t get stuck
Time Warner wants to charge customers by bandwidth, meaning it could cost up to $30 download an HD movie over Apple TV.
No, the 1.1.3 iPhone hasn’t been jailbroken but for whatever reason, the frameworks documentation for the new version is up and readable over at a familiar site. We’re ready for that February SDK, now!
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’d like to contribute 10 things to avoid and 10 things you can do if you want to increase the chances of getting good results from bug reporting (meaning a fix or solution)” - Ubuntu support analyst.
(Google people) are providing a 3TB drive array (Linux RAID5). The array is provided in “suitcase” and shipped to anyone who wants to send they data to Google. Anyone interested gives Google the file tree, and they SLURP the data off the drive. I believe they can extend this to a larger array (my memory says 20TB).
“First of all, HUGE thanks to TA_Mobile and IMTH for getting us the secpack from 1.1.3 Also, thanks to psp_sully for giving me a 1.1.2 OTB phone to play with. Without them there would be no unlock, and no blog post.” - Awesome
Trolltech, the company behind the cross-platform open source widget toolkit used by the KDE desktop environment, has announced that it will be adopting GPL 3.
This new ad that takes up a good portion of the nytimes.com home page, is one of the best rich media banner ads in a while.
