Date: 02/01/08 (Open Source)    Keywords: software

If a project's "owner" becomes obnoxious it is both the right and duty of its community to fork that project under a Foundation. Think of the split as a software Declaration of Independence.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/227391130/

Date: 02/04/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: software, java

I just finished interviewing a candidate with B.Tech. in Computer Science from W.B.U.T. University. He claimed that he knows C, Core Java & Software Engineering in his resume. After some time of interviewing, I hit on an inspiration. I asked him to write Hello World!, the simplest Java program you can think of. He was unable [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/interview-of-a-btech-computer-science-graduate/

Date: 02/07/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: software

Top 10 credos of a Klingon programmer covering (Klingon) Software Development Life Cycle: Specifications are for the weak and timid! You cannot really appreciate ‘User Friendly’ until you’ve read it in the original Klingon. A TRUE Klingon Warrior does not comment his code! Behold, the keyboard of Kalis! The greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived! Indentation? - I [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-credos-of-klingon-programmer/

Date: 02/07/08 (Computer Help)    Keywords: software, xml

Hey everyone. I posted a while ago here with my issue of my computer freezing COMPLETELY randomly. I did make sure my video drivers were up to date by getting the newest ones. However, it's still happening. I don't have the money yet to invest in hardware (such as a new power source) that might not fix the problem.

So I thought I'd post here again with the new issue that's cropped up and see if this sheds some light on the situation.

Once in a while, this is probably the third time, I'll come back to my computer after a while and it'll be at a blue screen that says Physical Memory Dump, and a bunch of information about 'if this is the first time this has happened ignore it' etc etc. I rebooted and Windows brought up a warning saying it was restarted incorrectly and ran its little checker and this is what it gave me:

error signature
BCCode : 10000050 BCP1 : DE24DEDC BCP2 : 00000000 BCP3 : 804E8D84
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 3_0 Product : 256_1

and in that

error report contents
C:\DOCUME~1\Lavie\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERed59.dir00\Mini020608-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\Lavie\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERed59.dir00\sysdata.xml

Once again my computer stats are:

Windows XP Pro version 2002 Service pack 3, v3180
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.40GHz
2.41 GHz, 786 MB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 256 MB
Direct X 9.0

Is this a software issue? Should I just try wiping my whole drive and redoing Windows altogether? I REALLY don't wanna do that if it won't help, because I have SO much stuff I'd have to back up. Or is this a ram issue? Or power source?

Any and all help is REALLY appreciated, I'm really at a loss and really stressed out about this.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/863761.html

Date: 02/07/08 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, microsoft

In 2005, hot new startup XenSource was positioning itself as the open source alternative to VMware and Microsoft Virtual Server. Then came a controversial pact in 2006 between the powers that be at the Palo Alto virtualization software company and Microsoft. The mail goal, XenSource executives argued, was to ensure interoperability between the two platforms [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/231044917/

Date: 02/07/08 (Security)    Keywords: software

CollabNet CTO Jack Repenning called in yesterday, all a-dither about Jazz being a "trojan horse" on behalf of IBM's Rational software tools. Jazz is merely a checkpoint to indicate distributed software development tools are still coming, he said. "I used Rational as a user for years, and...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1986

Date: 02/09/08 (Security)    Keywords: software

AV Test reported that it saw 5.49 mln unique samples of malicious software in 2007, 5x more than the 972,606 it saw in 2006. by AM

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13886

Date: 02/12/08 (Security)    Keywords: software

George Ou highlights problems with Vista's speech recognition software and wonders why the issue hasn't been fixed for more than a year. The reason: Risk management. Here's George's description of what he calls a flaw in Vista's speech recognition--some folks debate whether it's a flaw or not....

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=876

Date: 02/13/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft has chosen Amalga as the name for its hospital IT system and will launch the product at HIMSS in Orlando later this month. A key selling point for Amalga will be its integration, spanning clinical, operational and financial functions.The company calls this kind of software a...

Source: http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=710

Date: 02/13/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: software

I just read the notice that Sun had acquired innotek, the creators of Virtualbox, a virtual machine software product. Before I had a chance to really look into this move, I wondered why Sun would acquire another virtual machine software product when it had a program to integrate the Xen...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=341

Date: 02/13/08 (Security)    Keywords: software, security

Bain Capital, the private equity firm trying to engineer a takeover of 3Com with Huawei Technologies, is reportedly offering to divest security software firm TippingPoint to win U.S. approval. According to Reuters, Bain offered up TippingPoint and other proposals to safeguard national security interests. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=879

Date: 02/14/08 (Web Technology)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Information Week is reporting on a new Microsoft initiative designed to convince young people of the serious consequences associated with copyright infringement. Microsoft recently conducted a series of studies and found that kids were less likely to violate copyright law (whether for software or digital media) if they were...

Source: http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1526

Date: 02/14/08 (Open Source)    Keywords: software

Thanks to the Internet you can organize a fork from many places all at once. This is an important check on corporate power over software, as is every customer's ability to do their own support, or outsource it to a third party.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/235031917/

Date: 02/19/08 (Open Source)    Keywords: software

Crouch writes that the court is asking some basic questions, including whether the State Street decision, which allowed business methods patents, should be overturned. That case is also used to justify software patents.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/237721058/

Date: 02/19/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: software

Apple on Tuesday released its Xsan 2 package, a major revision to its Storage Area Networking software package. The update revamps administration tools, adds support for third-party storage and features Spotlight/Leopard Server optimizations. The new Xsan 2 tools let storage managers easily tune the Xsan 2 for...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1322

Date: 02/20/08 (Security)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft outlined what it does with incoming vulnerability research, how it designates flaws and playing the cloak-and-dagger game with hackers. In a Q&A with Ryan Naraine, Jonathan Ness, the lead software engineer on Microsoft's SWI Defense team, addressed a big emerging issue between the software giant and...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=892

Date: 02/22/08 (Open Source)    Keywords: software

Hardware is software.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/239441472/

Date: 02/25/08 (Security)    Keywords: software, security

Core Security Technologies said Monday that it has discovered vulnerability in VMware's desktop virtualization software that allows an attacker to gain complete control a system and launch executable files on the host operating system. The discovery is notable given that virtualization security is largely uncharted territory. However,...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=902

Date: 02/27/08 (Security)    Keywords: software, technology, security

It didn't take long for VMware to answer the security bell. The company on Wednesday announced a technology called VMsafe that aims to integrate security software with the hypervisor--the linchpin of virtualization software. With VMsafe VMware will provide APIs to allow security application vendors to develop products...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=905

Date: 02/27/08 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: software, linux, microsoft

I normally wouldn't post something like this, but after a year of head scratching, my works IT desktop support department failing to find a solution and hours googling, I admit defeat.

When using a work computer, I am required to remote desktop into a server (windows server 2003) to log into the helpdesk software. Occasionally when using this, and switching back to the local PC (XP SP2), my mouse will lose the ability to click and drag objects in outlook and in windows itself (desktop items etc, not windows) The click and drag does work on desktop items on the remote computer. I am still able to click buttons and right click items.

I have tried:
reinstalling mouse drivers and a new mouse
Recently I got a new work computer (uipdated from SP1 to SP2). I didn't copy any settings over from the old one. New hardware, new profile. It kept happening.
I then deleted my profile from the remote PC. It keeps happening. I have brought in my own mouse from home and installed seperate drivers for it (logitech), it still happens, I have updated remote desktop to the latest version from microsoft.com. The only solution is to power off the PC, logging out and back in doesn't fix it. I have recently found however, that logging out of remote desktop, then waiting 5 clears it up, making it more annoying than critical. But this doesn't make me happy, as it's an itch that I can't leave alone till I fix it (that'd be the geek in me!). Every variable has been changed. It still happens. But not to anyone else.

This doesn't appear anywhere in microsofts help files. It doesn't happen to the other 3 people who I share this PC with. I am starting to think it knows I defected from windows to linux and am now a mac user. Anyone? Anything?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1155143.html