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Microsoft eyeing Google, Apple with Windows 8 development
Microsoft will focus on evolving and optimizing "the Windows brand experience," specifically the "trifecta" of Windows brands for the consumer audience (Windows 7, Windows Live, and Windows phone) in the years to come with Windows 8 and beyond, sources said. More broadly, Microsoft leaders and colleagues will be trying to refine "the holistic brand strategy" for Windows Client, Windows Server, Windows Azure, and Windows Embedded.
Mozilla thinks mobile Firefox will kill app stores - Browsers - News - DMXzone.COM
This is precisely the issue Mozilla feels they can address with their upcoming mobile version of Firefox (aka Fennec). According to an article from PC Pro, Fennec, when it's released, will have the fastest javascript engine of any mobile browser available in the smartphone market. This, according to Mozilla, will allow developers to create their applications to work in the browser, as opposed to running it directly from the phone's platform. Jay Sullivan, VP of mobile at Mozilla, says that Fennec will make it so that "anyone who knows javascript and HTML can develop a great app without having to learn a specific mobile platform." He's also realistic, admitting that it will be a while before developers move away from app stores and embrace the web model.
Chrome OS browser leaks onto the internet
geoken on 16 Oct 2009 - 00:46
All these people reporting on "ChromeOS" leaks are making me realize just how clueless the tech 'blogosphere' has become. If you venture too far outside of sites like Ars or AnandTech all you get is reposted material, mislabeled by people who barely understand it.
If nothing else, the pics themselves should tell you this isn't ChromeOS. How can an OS be running inside another OS un-virtualized? It would be like showing a pic of WMP12 functioning in Vista then claiming you have a screenshot of Win 7.
#9.2 freeeekyyy on 16 Oct 2009 - 01:25
geoken said,
All these people reporting on "ChromeOS" leaks are making me realize just how clueless the tech 'blogosphere' has become. If you venture too far outside of sites like Ars or AnandTech all you get is reposted material, mislabeled by people who barely understand it.
If nothing else, the pics themselves should tell you this isn't ChromeOS. How can an OS be running inside another OS un-virtualized? It would be like showing a pic of WMP12 functioning in Vista then claiming you have a screenshot of Win 7.
this is one of the best things I've read in ages. So many "tech" sites are really just for geek types to complain about visual styles. Neowin is definitely that way. People are much more concerned with things like the appearance of Windows 7 than any new functionality or technical features. An operating system is primarily a utility to run other software, nothing more.
PayPal Suspends Researcher’s Account for Distributing Hacking Tools | Threat Level | Wired.com
“This is a vulnerability that would affect every SSL implementation,” Marlinspike told Threat Level in July, “because almost everybody who has ever tried to implement SSL has made the same mistake.”
7 Simple PC Precautions College Students Should Know - InsideTech.com
Saying "steer clear of file sharing" is really bad advice. It's like recommending abstinence to the same group of people (and much like the fact that underage drinking and sex are also illegal, the people doing it do not give a shit about the law in the first place and are well aware of it). People can, will, and do share files. What they need to know is how to minimize risk while doing it. Some important beginner's points are:
1. use a good client for a good network. Bittorrent is a good network, uTorrent is a decent client, so is Vuze. Anonymous networks are better for safety but tend to have fewer users (Bittorrent is *not* anonymous).
2. Get a peerguardian IP filter for your client of choice - Vuze has a plugin, uTorrent is slightly more complicated but there's a good guide floating around on how to install and keep filters up to date. kTorrent on linux also has a plugin.
3. ALWAYS USE ENCRYPTION and do not accept connections from non-encrypted users. This will cut off the lower 80% of the network's users. That is a GOOD THING.
4. Use a trusted torrent tracker (everyone loves the pirate bay). Don't Google your torrents.
5. Turn on protected/anonymous mode on your browser while searching for torrents (in Chrome, click the wrench icon -> new incognito window). This will leave fewer traces on your pc of where you went and what you did (although you'll still have the smoking gun in the form of the .torrent file and the stuff you downloaded).
5. Use deniable encryption for your downloaded content. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption - TrueCrypt is a good piece of software to help you out with this. It's not much good in the UK, but in the US your 5th amendment rights protect you against being forced to give up your encryption key, and without that if you've done a good job of keeping your files encrypted the government has to plan ahead to plant a virus or an EMF bug to capture your password before they can get at your files (strong encryption is uncrackable with present technology).
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Nick Bradbury: If You Want to Write Useful Software, You Have to Do Tech Support
If you really want to write useful software, stop spending all your time keeping up with technology. Don't worry if your resume isn't filled with the latest buzzwords. Instead, invest your time in talking with your customers. They don't care what programming language you use - they only care whether your software meets their needs, and the best way to ensure that is by breaking out of your cone of silence and opening the lines of communication.
Nick Bradbury: Born to Code, Part II
It bugged me how I'd be handed a list of requirements for a specific application, yet I never got to talk with the people who would actually use the finished software - I knew my work didn't meet the needs of the people using it, which bothered the hell out of me. I decided that if I was going to be a career programmer, I should at least like my work, and I should feel that I was spending my time doing something useful.
China Attacks Itself | Open The Future | Fast Company
This move by China's government has all the trappings of a social auto-immune disorder.
Back in September 2007, I wrote about this metaphor for understanding unintended consequences over at Open the Future. We see, time and again, efforts undertaken to protect the social body from some kind of feared harm instead resulting in real damage to society. It struck me that there was a strong parallel to medical auto-immune disorders, where the body's own immune system goes on the attack against the body itself. A minor but familiar example of a social auto-immune disorder is the "security theater" in airports, such as having to remove shoes, dump liquids, and the like. Security experts such as Bruce Schneier see such measures as having dubious value in actually preventing a terrorist attack, while having a measurable, and significant, economic cost.
pc mall(The concept apparently has some conceptual value. Earlier this month, in a bit of parallel thinking, the Yorkshire Ranter" elaborated on the idea, building on David Kilcullen's 2009 The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One.)
The problem with social auto-immune disorders is that because they're responses to perceived systemic threats, it can be very difficult for more thoughtful leadership to scale back the reaction. Any successful attack subsequent to the scaling back of an overreaction--no matter how unrelated to the attempted defense--would be seen as evidence that the initial overreaction was correct. The more thoughtful leadership would be vilified by political rivals, whether on the pages of national newspapers or in Party meetings. Thus, bad decisions, with clearly harmful results, can become institutionalized.
Slife's Killer Productivity App Now Integrates With FreshBooks
Slife 3.0
Slife is an open source software application that runs in the background to effortlessly and keep track of the way you use the Web, desktop applications, work with documents, etc. You can then check your account on the Slife site to view some pretty awesome insights in to how you're spending you're time.
In late March, the company launched Slife 3.0, which made the product the slim client it is now, backed by a a more in-depth Web interface.
Bmlet: An Online Directory of Bookmarklets
If you've been looking for a great resource for finding bookmarklets, you're going to love the new site at bmlet.com, an online directory and search engine just for bookmarklets.
You may experience performance problems when you are working with items in a large .pst file or in a large .ost file in Outlook 2007
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 momentarily stops responding during typical operations. This includes when you read e-mail messages, move e-mail messages, or delete e-mail messages.
These symptoms are most noticeable during mail delivery or during synchronization. These symptoms become more pronounced as store size increases. They are more likely to occur when the size of the .pst file or the size of the .ost file approaches 2 gigabytes (GB). Additionally, they are more pronounced in a very large .pst file or in a very large .ost file that is 4 GB or larger.
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Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 momentarily stops responding during typical operations. This includes when you read e-mail messages, move e-mail messages, or delete e-mail messages.
These symptoms are most noticeable during mail delivery or during synchronization. These symptoms become more pronounced as store size increases. They are more likely to occur when the size of the .pst file or the size of the .ost file approaches 2 gigabytes (GB). Additionally, they are more pronounced in a very large .pst file or in a very large .ost file that is 4 GB or larger. -
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 momentarily stops responding during typical operations. This includes when you read e-mail messages, move e-mail messages, or delete e-mail messages.
These symptoms are most noticeable during mail delivery or during synchronization. These symptoms become more pronounced as store size increases. They are more likely to occur when the size of the .pst file or the size of the .ost file approaches 2 gigabytes (GB). Additionally, they are more pronounced in a very large .pst file or in a very large .ost file that is 4 GB or larger
outlook installation Re: OST Import
If you have not removed the original Exchange account from Outlook, you can run Outlook in Offline mode and have access to the contents of the OST. You can then create a PST and copy that data to the PST. You do not have to create a new OST, since the new Exchange account will create one for you. You can copy the data in the PST to your mailbox.
Questions for Pwn2Own hacker Charlie Miller | Zero Day | ZDNet.com
On a scale of 1-10, how impressive was the Nils’ sweep of exploiting all three main browsers?
I was surprised. For IE 8, I’d give him a 9 out of 10. For Safari, maybe a 2. It’s just too easy to pop Safari. For Firefox on Windows, I give him a 10. That was the most impressive of the three. It’s really hard to exploit Firefox on Windows.
Really? What’s the difference between what you can do on IE but can’t do on Firefox?
The technique he used works against IE but not Firefox. It allows you to place code in a specific spot in memory. Mark Dowd and Alex Sotirov talked about this at last year’s Black Hat. You can use a technique to make .net not opt into the mitigations and jump over hurdled easily. With Firefox, you can’t do that.
For all the browsers on operating systems, the hardest target is Firefox on Windows. With Firefox on Mac OS X, you can do whatever you want. There’s nothing in the Mac operating system that will stop you.
You talked earlier about the value of vulnerabilities. Was it a surprise that he (Nils) basically gave up three “high-value” bugs for $5,000 each?
It’s clear he’s incredibly talented. I was shocked when I saw someone sign up to go after IE 8. You can get paid a lot more than $5,000 for one of those bugs. I’ve talked to a lot of smart, knowledgeable people and no one knows exactly how he did it. He could easily get $50,000 for that vulnerability. I’d say $50,000 is a low-end price point.
For the amount of time he spent to do what he did on IE and Firefox, he could have found and exploited five or 10 Safari bugs. With the way they’re paying $5,000 for every verifiable bug, he could have spent that same time and resources and make $25,000 or $30,000 easily just by going after Safari on Mac.
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