“Israel” uses his social engineering skills to improve his company’s security… walks out the door with $3500 in computers, gets enough information on an employee to make identity theft very easy (with the director of security sitting right beside him with an expression of disbelief glued to his face)

A fascinating read and breakdown of the different strategies companies use to generate revenue from OS software.

Open source presents a large potential competitive advantage for hardware and software vendors, and vendors of complementary or substitute services. Linux has contributed greatly to the adoption and success of OSS. Companies such as IBM, HP, Red Hat, Oracle, […]

It’s always good to read level-headed arguments and opinions from tech journalist. This article goes over some of the issues of why people may despise RedHat, even more than Microsoft. However, in the Linux community it’s almost silly to get mad at one distribution since there are almost over 100 to choose from.
Another funny thing […]

making inexpensive, powerful wifi equipment out of assorted chinese cooking tools

A nice article on how one software development firm uses OSS in their daily functions. What also makes this interesting is that they discuss their transition from COBOL to Java and what tools were needed (including the consultant).

Open-source software has been an aide to our software development firm and as I sit here, writing this […]

As everyone knows Six Apart has released the 3.0 version of their Movable Type publishing software. With this release comes a new licensing model that has stirred up a lot of contempt amongst the community. Timothy Appnel offers a little more level-headed critique in his article Movable Type 3.0 and Eating.
Timothy voices his concern about […]

I can see a lot of people being excited about this, but does anyone else besides me find this scary as hell?

The lights were filmed on March 5 by pilots using infrared equipment. They appeared to be flying at an altitude of about 11,500 feet, and reportedly surrounded the jet as it conducted routine anti-drug […]

Okay so we have another portable gaming console. Its not enough that we have the new Nintendo DS or the Sony PSP or the NGage *snicker*. Nope we needed another one and this one supports PC games. Well that is something different, but with the massive 533mhz CPU on the bad boy I can’t think […]

Josh pointed me to a great resource. At Whitespace I was bemoaning the fact that ClearType and CRTs just don’t seem to mix. If I implemented it the text just seemed more blurry and would make my head spin. Well Microsoft has a ClearType tuner that works really well with LCDs, but also with CRTs. […]

The US Energy Dept. announced on 12th May their intention to build a supercomputer that, at 50 teraflops (50 trillion operations per second), will overtake the current, long-standing champion - Japan’s Earth Simulator.
The proposed supercomputer project will involve Cray Inc., IBM and Silicon Graphics Inc., all private companies that have been deeply involved in […]

We know COBOL is not dead, but there certainly are going to be a lot of applications moving from COBOL to Java and Sun needs to take advantage of this. To tackle the situation at hand they have been working on a secret project dubbed “Rave” which makes Java development as easy as VB. So […]

It’s a really interesting site run by a really interesting guy, Raffi Krikorian - who wastes his time doing research for MIT Media Labs. How trite, isn’t it?

That’s what Andrew has to say about mehack. Always fun to read sites where people do it just for fun. Hmmmm, sort of like this one.
He even […]

This is the review that seals the deal. I have read many different opinions of GMail, but this review really wishes I could get my hands on it. There are just too many features that surpass the current online services that it would be crazy to not setup at least one account (I have 3-4 […]

Nice read on how scientists are building nanomachines the size of an aspirin that could detect the enviornment around them. This becomes very useful in preventing forest fires for example as the little buggers could tell when things are getting just a little too hot.

Dozens of universities, venture capitalists, technology start-ups and major corporations are […]

Nintendo today announced their newest hand-held gaming console, the Nintendo DS. Pictures have been circulating from a USA Today article this morning, and Nintendo’s Press Conference just ended, providing more details.
Some of the features are listed below:

2 Independantly Programmable Screens
1 of the screens is touch sensitive, either with a stylus or your fingertip
The DS is […]

The Internet Archive has a new toy — the “petabox.”