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Submitted by actz
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Friday, 19 October 2007 |
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Not to be outdone by Murdoch and his slew of MySpace announcements, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has made some pretty big announcements today at the Web 2.0 Conference, speaking on Microsoft’s plans to acquire 20 companies per year for the next five years, ranging from $50 million to $1 billion, reports Venturebeat.
That’s quite a statement, but not entirely surprising. I haven’t kept count of the number of companies Microsoft, or even Google, has snatched up this year alone, but this sure will garner a lot of attention from the entrepreneur and investor community, seemingly eager to feed the Microsoft beast. Will the wounds left from the ’90s still be open, from Microsoft courting startups and then launching its own competing version instead of completing an acquisition?
And will the heavy encouragement of open platforms for online networks with Facebook, MySpace and Google end up doing the same thing to the entrepreneur community, as amassing applications provide great hotbeds for innovative ideas that can be acquired or applied to these larger companies? Source: Mashable
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Submitted by actz
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Monday, 15 October 2007 |
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 Finally, after a long wait, the 5 and 5.5 Generation versions of the firmware for iPod Classic for iPod video is here. Thanks to all of the hardworking devs: xxDriveNxx , bounci.rabbit.123, vettefan, matthew98, supernatural, saXas, and myself (H3X).
Source: http://driven-design.net/
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Submitted by actz
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Friday, 28 September 2007 |
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While Vista was originally touted by Microsoft as the operating system savior we've all been waiting for, it has turned out to be one of the biggest blunders in technology. With a host of issues that are inexcusable and features that are taken from the Mac OS X and Linux playbook, Microsoft has once again lost sight of what we really want.
As we're more than aware, Vista Ultimate comes at a premium. For an additional $160 over the Premium SKU price, Ultimate gives you a complete backup and restore option, BitLocker Drive encryption, the ever so popular Windows Fax & Scan, and the "Ultimate Extras." But what started with a promise of "Extras" by summer, quickly turned into an apology from Microsoft and the eventual release of DreamScene and Windows Hold 'Em (among others) today. And while each of the "Extras" runs just fine, Microsoft's "Extras" blunder is just another reason why the company must abandon Vista before it's too late. View: Full Article
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Submitted by actz
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007 |
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In June of 2006, while working to resolve some indexing issues for a client, I discovered a bug in Google's algorithm that allowed 3rd parties to literally hack a web page out of Google's index and search results. I notified a contact at Google soon after, once I managed to confirm that what we thought we were seeing was really happening. The problem still exists today, so I am making this public in the hope that it will spur some action. I have sat on this information for more than a year now. A good friend has allowed his reputation to suffer, rather than disclose what we knew. I continue to see web sites that are affected by this issue. After giving Google more than a year to resolve the issue, I have decided that the only way to spur them to action is to publish what I know. Disclaimer: What you're about to read is as accurate as it can be, given the fact that I do not work at Google, and have no access to inside information. It's also potentially disruptive to the organic results at Google, until they fix the problem. I hope that publishing this information is for the greater good, but I can't control what others do with it, or how Google responds. I am also not the only person who knows about this hack. Read More
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Submitted by actz
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Monday, 20 August 2007 |
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 The Skype outage last week has been explained, and it appears to have been triggered by a gazillion Windows boxes rebooting after a new system patch had been downloaded last week:
[from Patch Tuesday update triggered Skype outage | The Register]
[...] Skype has blamed last week's prolonged outage on the effects of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday.
The latest security update from Microsoft required a system reboot. The effect of so many machines rebooting and subsequently trying to log onto the Skype VoIP network triggered system instability and a prolonged outage of almost two days starting on Thursday
Source: Click Here
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Submitted by actz
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Wednesday, 15 August 2007 |
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This is a little strange but fun for a few minutes... Click on the link below to see these flash moving realistic portraits of both a dog and human. Not really sure what the point of the site is maybe some of you know. http://www.motionportrait.com.nyud.net:8080/about/TIdog.swf http://www.motionportrait.com.nyud.net:8080/about/TIminoriHair.swf http://www.motionportrait.com
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Submitted by actz
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Wednesday, 15 August 2007 |
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With user agent switcher plugin for Firefox you can now browse just as a googlebot and enter sites that are normally closed down to the public and require registration. These sites are still open for google to spider them and if your a google bot then you can enter them just as easily for free. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 Descriptioon: Googlebot Enter the following as a user agent. Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html) And now set it from the menu to use Googlebot then go to a forum that's usually restricted to browse freely.
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Submitted by actz
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Tuesday, 14 August 2007 |
* @author Mark Slee
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* @package ubersearch
*/
ini_set('memory_limit', '100M'); // to be
safe we are increasing the memory limit for search
include_once $_SERVER['PHP_ROOT'].'/html /init.php'; // final
lib include
include_once $_SERVER['PHP_ROOT'].'/lib/s.php';
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Submitted by actz
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Tuesday, 14 August 2007 |
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Dan Aykroyd has been desperately pushing for a Ghostbusters sequel for over a decade (yes, we're refusing to acknowledge that Ghostbusters 2 exists). He wrote a script years ago called Ghostbusters: Hellbent (later changed to the more descriptive Ghostbusters in Hell when co-conspirator Harold Ramis got involved) where the ghostbusting crew wind up in a version of New York that exists only in Hell. As the original actors aged and the film continued to not get made, the script was changed to accommodate new, younger group of comedy all-stars to play newly-hired ghostbusters—which, for better or worse, was going to include Ben Stiller. Why it didn't get made: Because "Billy" didn't want to get within ten feet of the thing, according to Aykroyd. "Billy" is Bill Murray, who didn't like how the second movie turned out (what second movie?) and has since dedicated his life to making more serious films. To be fair, special effects are fun to watch but not so much fun to act in. Murray, now in his late 50s, probably didn't want to spend half a year in front of green screens, covered in slime and getting thrashed around by hydraulic monsters, with Aykroyd and Ramis calling him "Billy" and giving him big thumbs-up signs the whole time And while we're on the subject: Before the original Ghostbusters came around, Ivan Reitman, Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd were in talks to make Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It was scrapped when Aykroyd came up with the idea for Ghostbusters.
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Submitted by actz
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Tuesday, 14 August 2007 |
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A teenage waitress overdosed on caffeine after drinking 14 shots of espresso. Jasmine Willis, 17, could hardly breathe and was taken to hospital with a high temperature and heart palpitations. She had drunk almost three times the recommended daily amount of caffeine in just four hours. View: Full Story
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