14th December 2007 Archive

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Code

• Groovy: XML without the bloat Hands on, part 1 Flexible strings
• IBM digs in with Eclipse for weapons It's... 'complex'

Hardware: Servers

• Sun's Rock chip waves goodbye to 2008 ship date Shaky silicon eyes 2009

Hardware: Virtualization

• Microsoft surprises itself with six-month late Hyper-V beta Easy to impress

Lifecycle: Plan

• Close the gap between analysis and design Book extract, part 3 Get robust

Management: IT Director

• BBC pinches hot new columnist from Microsoft Sizzling secrets with Billy G

Management: Law

• Americans can swear at toilets, judge rules First Amendment protects Pennsylvania bog-cuss woman
• New Jersey scraps death penalty 'Had not deterred murder'

Management: Public Sector

• Police give up on lost CDs Maybe Santa will bring them

Management: Reg Weekly

• Microsoft delays reduced, Dell goes to the High Street and all is well with AMD Subscribe to El Reg's weekly newsletter here

Music and Media

• BBC redesigns and 'widgetizes' homepage What would Lord Reith make of The Daily Me?

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD confirms short-term GPU roadmap Dual-GPU 3950 X2 monster planned
• Nvidia rolls out 'tri-SLI' Not quite 3x performance
• The transistor turns 60 Forgotten Tech Birthday on Sunday

News: Hi-Def

• Microsoft unveils Xbox 360 HD DVD drive emulator To the HD disc format what IE is to the web?

News: Useless... but Cool

• Yes! It's the the wireless USB Missile Launcher Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!

News: Wii

• Nintendo Wii said to 'attract cockroaches' Cue predictable gag from PS3/Xbox fanboys
• Wii shortage costs Nintendo dear, analyst claims Demand - supply = profit lost

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Balancing the budget... Episode 42 With an end-of-year purchasing frenzy

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Brit workers: The Xmas skive starts today Work? Stuff that
• German air passenger quaffs litre of vodka Let's see, I can't take the bottle on the plane, so...

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Warner Bros to remake Clash of the Titans New ideas? We've heard of 'em

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Paris Hilton goes for gold while crims are pretty in pink Comments w00t!

On the Job

• Skills shortage: it's mind over matter Aptitude beats experience

Reviews: Accessories

• UGC Renegade gaming chair Review Sit on this...

Science: Biology

• UK anthrax victim infected by drum skin West African percussion of death

Security

• Botnets linked to political hacking in Russia Traceroute
• Update glitch derails Kaspersky Update 2 Lock-up issues

Security: Crime

• S&M blogger outs web host malware attack When Google meets kink

Security: Enterprise Security

• Traffic snags on Juniper router glitch 'Interface flapping'

Software: Applications

• Google kicks Wikipedia in the googlies Move over, Jimbo - we're in the content biz now