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Remotely Accessing Your Home Computer Posted By : John V. W. Howe

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Windows XP operating system contains the software needed to remotely access your home computer from any Internet connection. This is a powerful tool when you are traveling and need to have full access to your home computer to keep your business running efficiently.

What is Web 2.0

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

One answer is that Web 2.0 refers to the propensity of recent Internet applications to be more collaborative and provide for a richer user experience:
Web 1.0 was a Web site that looked like a brochure or a resume. Web 2.0 is a blog.
Web 1.0 was your newspaper’s classified ads — just “Webified.” Web 2.0 is […]

Sexiest PC - £159,000 prize offered by Intel

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

“Intel is offering $1m in prizes to designers and manufacturers who can come up with sexier alternatives to the “big, beige box”.
The Intel Core Processor Challenge is looking for smaller, more stylish multimedia PCs.
The only condition is that entries must be powered by Intel Viiv technology, using the chip giant’s Core 2 Duo processors.
Beyond that, […]

Unemployed Scottish dad set to be next UK internet millionaire

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

AN UNEMPLOYED dad is set to become the next UK self-made internet millionaire - and make a complete stranger a millionaire as well.
29-year-old Stephen Brady from Glasgow, Scotland, set up a unique website www.stepuptoamillion.com last month, with an idea that’s never been tried before.
Already he is being compared to British internet entrepreneur Alex Tew, who […]

Hackers target home users for cash - say Symantec

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Vulnerabilities in desktop applications and the increased use of stealth techniques are on the rise among members of the digital underground, according to the latest edition of Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report.
The report, which covers the first half of 2006, suggests that consumer security protection is weak, leaving Joe Public easy prey to identity thieves, […]

Robots with a Sense of Taste for Wine Posted By : Alison White

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

NEC System Technologies, a technology-oriented IT company provides customers with infrastructure and solutions that best fit their business requirements and by consolidating accumulated knowledge create valuable solutions for the new generation and deliver them to customers.

Browser bug could get early patch

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Microsoft is considering the early release of a fix for a bug in Internet Explorer that malicious hackers are actively exploiting online.
The software giant usually only releases patches once a month but said it might put the fix out sooner if the problem grew severe enough.
Via the bug, hackers can take over Windows machines and […]

splogs

Monday, September 25th, 2006

My blog search engine SproutSearch is now indexing over 8 million blogs. I am now working on changing the way the blogs are ranked. For now, they are sorted by the sheer amount of content they contain. I noticed a big problem with this method is that many spam blogs contain masses of content. I don’t like SproutSearch linking to so much spam, so I need to find a way to remove a lot of these listings.

It is not practical for me to read 8 million blogs, so I need to come up with an automated method to detect spam. Many spam blogs use the same words over and over. So I wrote a program to count the number of repeated words. Most spam blogs seem to use a similar number of words per post. I made another program that computes the standard deviation of the number of words in a post. Using these metrics, I will make a program that flags potential spam so I can review and delete it.

eBay Seeks Grid Standards as It Expands Massive System

Monday, September 25th, 2006

EBay Inc. is using grid computing to deliver online auction services to millions of users. Paul Strong, the company’s distinguished research scientist, said the biggest technology issue facing eBay is managing its shared grid infrastructure, which is spread across more than 15,000 servers. Instead of managing individual servers, eBay wants its systems administrators to […]

DVD Duplication And Replication Posted By : Michael Colucci

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

There are two primary methods that are used to copy DVDs, and these are DVD Duplication and DVD Replication. With the replication method, the disc will be compressed via a glass master, and the image will be printed on the surface of the disc.