The Open Source Commandments.Open in New Window
Jason Perlow writes about his experiences as a Jewish celebrator of the Passover and then goes on to share his thoughts on the "ten commandments" of open source (though he only comes up with four. read more »
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Jolly good (policy) fellows.Open in New Window
Jen Marsh (Program Coordinator) and Liz Eraker (Policy Analyst) over at Google write about the Google Policy Fellowship and its choice of twelve interns from various colleges to work with large publi read more »
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Will telcos accept an open source switch?Open in New Window
Dana Blankenhorn comments on the open source class 5 switch called the FreeSwitch and whether telecommunications businesses will adopt the switch. He suggests it won't ever happen - as the major tel read more »
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Citrix goes storage light with XenDesktopOpen in New Window
Citrix is releasing a new product for desktop virtualization that allows the administrator to create new Windows images on the fly instead of having them all creating beforehand. read more »
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Spambot cracks Live Hotmail CAPTCHA within 60 seconds.Open in New Window
MS Live/Hotmail CAPTCHAs can now be broken within 60 seconds allowing a single bot to create and use over 14,000 email addresses per day. This illustrates the limited capabilities of CAPTCHAs. read more »
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Sun refreshes Media BeastOpen in New Window
Sun Microsystems has refreshed it's media beast - the Streaming System product line. It's rated to support up to 150,000 concurrent video feeds. Impressive custom hardware in a time in the market read more »
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Microsoft COO downplays Vista update problems.Open in New Window
Kevin Turner, COO for Microsoft, has downplayed the issues Microsoft's Vista SP1 is having with some security oriented software. read more »
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Microsoft: Vista SP1 will break these programs.Open in New Window
Suzanne Tindal writes for ZDNet that Microsoft has released a list of applications that will be broken by Windows Vista SP1. The majority of these applications are security focused, including one app read more »
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