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ASCII: An artful way around spam filters

An old computer art form is making a comeback as a newer way to evade spam filters. Read more »

Flaw in BGP net protocol

Security researchers have warned of an underlying security issue concerning the Border Gateway Protocol, the core internet routing protocol. Read more »

Firefox extension protects against man-in-the-middle attacks

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have released an extension for Firefox 3 that can protect wireless network users from so-called "man-in-the-middle" attacks. Read more »

Google's math == FAIL!

Google's calculator has some trouble handling math with some large numbers, an issue that's not unheard of in computing circles but that might not sit well at a supremely nerdy company that's named after a humongous number. Read more »

Red Hat gets hacked

Red Hat warned on Friday that a network attack compromised some servers last week that are involved with both its commercially supported and free versions of Linux. Read more »

Mozilla: Web apps faster with Firefox 3.1

Firefox 3.1 will run many Web-based applications such as Gmail faster through incorporation of a feature called TraceMonkey that dramatically speeds up programs written in JavaScript, Mozilla said Friday. Read more »

Push for Intel case to be public

News outlets and advocacy groups are seeking access to sealed court records in AMD's antitrust case against Intel. Read more »

DNS exploits are happening

A fatal flaw with the DNS (Domain Name System) was currently being exploited in internet attacks and more attacks were likely, the security researcher who discovered the flaw said on Thursday in the US Read more »

Microsoft extends Novell pact

Microsoft and Novell have extended their interoperability agreement for server operating systems. Read more »

Microsoft relaxes virtualisation rules

Microsoft has eased up its server licensing rules so that organisations can make more efficient use of servers in virtualised environments. Read more »

Features (1111)

Implementing the Soundex function in C#

For years Microsoft SQL Server has provided developers with a method called Soundex that is used to retrieve an encoded string. Words that sound alike have similar encodings, so you can use this functionality to provide some flexibility in searches. This article shows how to implement Soundex completely in C# without having to use the SQL function. Read more »

Gather query tuning data via Oracle's dynamic performance views

The dynamic performance views supplied with the Oracle database include several that make the process of gathering tuning information easier. This tip describes four of them: V$SQL, V$SQLAREA, V$SQLTEXT, and a new one, V$SQLSTATS. Read more »

Print on all Java platforms with JPS

Java Print Service (JPS) allows you to print even on very size-limited platforms such as J2ME; it also supports standard Java 2D graphics. Learn how to organise printing with this API. Read more »

Using Mirrored Media Sets in SQL Server 2005

Mirrored Media Sets is a new feature in the Enterprise Edition of SQL Server 2005. It enables the creation of redundant copies of a backup file to reduce the possibility of a backup device malfunction. Here's how you make it work. Read more »

Build Web applications without writing code

This article gives an overview of Iceberg -- a tool for building Web application without writing code. Read more »

Secure ASP.NET 2.0 sites with Membership API

Beginning with ASP.NET 2.0, the Membership API was added to simplify adding security to a Web application. This article explains how to use the Membership API with a SQL Server back-end. Read more »

Running totals in SQL Server queries

This article demonstrates how running totals are simple to create in SQL Server queries once you understand the requirements. Read more »

JavaScript -- a Flash competitor?

Open source software has its problems when it's trying to keep up with proprietary software, but when it does what it's good at -- creating ideas and developing them very quickly in public -- it can be revolutionary. Read more »

An outage: Lessons learned

This article talks about two outages that occurred at a college and lessons learned from them. Read more »

Moving the Tempdb and Master Database in SQL Server

This article walks you through the process of moving the Master and Tempdb databases to different drives. Read more »

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Improved GUIs with Windows Presentation Framework

Visual Studio 2008 allows developers to take further advantage of WPF, David McAmis shows you how. Read more »

Future operating systems to remain as Windows and Linux

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Convergence of kernel philosophies

Gernot Heiser, professor of operating systems at UNSW, explains how monolithic kernels are taking some ideas from microkernels, but never shall the two meet. Read more »

Super Techies: Dan Bricklin

In this Super Techies interview, software inventor Dan Bricklin shares with CNET News.com's Dan Farber his thoughts on software innovation past and present. Bricklin discusses how he dreamed up the first electronic spreadsheet, VisiCalc; developing handwriting applications for the tablet PC; and his current role as the inventor of Wikicalc,... Read more »

Super Techies: Marc Benioff

In this Super Techies interview, tech star Marc Benioff talks with CNET's Dan Farber about his career as a business entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Benioff discusses his early work as a programmer for Apple; honing his sales and marketing skills with industry mogul Larry Ellison at Oracle; and his current... Read more »

Gosling, the ATO and useless stats -- Club Builder

This week on Club Builder: James Gosling tells us why Emacs sucks, the ATO feels uncomfortable with using open source and who's to blame for IFRAME attacks? Read more »

rproxy set for revival

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Ballmer on Microsoft's API opening

Microsoft chief executive discusses the software giant's recent concessions regarding open source software. Read more »

Steve Ballmer on Europe and Server 2008

In an interview with News.com's Ina Fried the Microsoft chief executive talked about where Microsoft's new server products as well as relations with Brussels. Read more »

Opening Up! -- Club Builder

Microsoft has opened up some APIs and is giving students free software. We also talk DRM and GPLv3 and finish with the deadliest gun in gaming history. Read more »

Blog (58)

How to Lifestream with WordPress

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Lifestreaming is the act of collecting and publishing all of your social networking activities in one stream. Here's the easy way to get started using your own install of WordPress. Read more »

Microsoft services VS2008 & .NET 3.5

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Microsoft has just announced the release to manufacturing of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Read more »

Q&A with EditMe: A wiki for non-geeks

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Finally, a wiki CMS solution that you can safely give to your clients to use. But sshhhh... don't call it a wiki... Read more »

Software in the courts

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- In week's Roundup explores Google's assertion that privacy no longer exists, the UK-based NASA hacker loses his extradition appeal, Microsoft becomes a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation and the Australian Tax Office chooses Windows and only Windows, again, for electronic submissions. Read more »

Facebook's portal for the masses

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week, Facebook took a number of strategic steps toward its goal of giving people the "power to share and make the world more open and connected." That's how founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the mission statement for Facebook. Read more »

Do you trust data in the cloud?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Cheap hosted storage, app engines, and hosted code libraries. Can you really trust your data, or your client's data in the magical Web 2.0 cloud? Read more »

Google opens up the code for Browser Sync

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- After deciding to discontinue its Browser Sync, Google has decided to make the code open source to let developers continue hacking. Read more »

Google plans new Internet measurement tool

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google is expected to unveil a tool Tuesday that measures Internet use to help advertisers identify the best places to buy ads that will reach its target audience. Read more »

Lets Shindig!

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- At this year's Google Developer Day in Sydney, Dan Peterson and John Hjelmstad talked about Apache Shindig, an open source implementation of OpenSocial and gadgets. Read more »

Social Skills

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- With Facebook usage on the decline, is OpenSocial the next big thing? Read more »

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    Hands up if you missed the Chrome release -- didn't think anyone did. Google's browser arrived with all the fanfare and hype that only Google can produce. Read more »

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