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5th January 2008 Archive

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  • Remembering the Cray-1

    This Old Box When computers and furniture collide

    The triumphant return of This Old Box! You begged and pleaded, and we listened. Ok, ok… nobody said anything — but your indifference speaks volumes to our hearts! Apathy is the seed of enthusiasm. Or something. In this installment of TOB, we’re taking another gander at one of the big boys of computing. And, oh my, it’s a …

    Servers 5 Jan 01:10

  • Contest seeks the most diminutive XSS worm

    Let the hacking begin

    Think you have a gift for writing compact code that replicates using one of the web's most vexing classes of security vulnerabilities? Then Security researcher RSnake (aka Robert Hansen) would like to hear from you. He has set up a contest to see who can write a self-propagating cross-site scripting (XSS) worm using the fewest …

    Channel Register 5 Jan 01:21

  • Warner Bros gives all its hi-def loving to Blu-ray

    Ditches HD DVD camp

    Warner Bros is abandoning HD-DVD to settle down in monogamous bliss with Sony's Blu-ray. The company today cited "consumer demand" for its decision to stop selling HD-DVD-format movie titles at the end of May. It is the only movie major to sell high-definition DVDs in both formats, but has already tired of playing the field. …

    Reg Hardware 5 Jan 01:30

  • Verizon sues Alltel over homicidal guinea pig

    'Our customers are not caged rodents'

    Little more than two months after forking over one million smackers to settle accusations it was guilty of false advertising, Verizon Wireless has accused one of its biggest competitors of false advertising. On Wednesday, Verizon slapped a federal lawsuit on Alltel Corp., insisting that Alltel is making untrue claims about …

    Telecoms 5 Jan 01:40

  • 'Draconian' Microsoft promises to make Office work again

    Update Busting through SP3

    Microsoft has threatened to release a fix for an Office 2003 update that may well have the productivity suite work as intended once again. As reported earlier Service Pack 3 for Office takes the unprecedented step of barring access to files created with earlier versions of the product. Install the Service Pack and your stash of …

    Applications 5 Jan 05:43

  • Why there will never be another GSM

    Comment Ofcom squares up to EU over spectrum carve-up

    Ofcom is changing the way spectrum is licensed in the UK to remove usage restrictions, but the EU is calling for region-wide harmonisation of use to create economies of scale. These diverse approaches are going to lead to an unavoidable clash of ideologies that could mean the success of GSM is never repeated. Great chunks of …

    Mobile 5 Jan 07:02