Handler's Diary
WMF FAQ (NEW) — Last Updated: 2006-01-02 03:18:03 UTC by Johannes Ullrich (Version: 2(click to highlight changes)) — [a few users offered translations of this FAQ into various languages. Obviousl...
Conscientious Risk Management and WMF
This past week there have been a lot of questions about the WMF vulnerability, what Microsoft is doing, and what the community should do to protect against it. For many reasons, Microsoft's response ...
Sides chosen in Logan WiFi battle
Wireless and airport lobbies join dispute — Logan International Airport officials' ongoing quest to ban airline lounges from offering passengers free WiFi Internet services is angering a growing arr...
Annual Gadget Show Is Biggest Ever
Do you want to catch "Saturday Night Live" on Sunday, or "Nightline" in the morning? Would you like to watch the football game in a doctor's waiting room or 2,000 miles from home? — Or, what if you...
KDE 4 to Support Apple Dashboard Widgets
The start of something bigger? — It's official; Zack Rusin, a lead developer of KDE, has stated in his journal that the upcoming KDE 4 will be able to run and display Dashboard widgets much in the s...
Working at the PC Isn't So Lonely Anymore
IN the beginning, personal computers were for loners. You sat at the desk and stared at the screen. To involve anyone else in what you were doing, you had to pull up an extra chair at that same desk...
Wearable iPod Headset Displays Video
eMagin Corp, a company that makes video imaging technology for military and industrial uses, has adapted its expertise to create a first of its kind headset accessory for the 5G iPod which displays vi...
The New Deal
How TV executives will find digital dollars in the coming year — Last year, the TV industry discoverd a variety of new ways to deliver their shows - on iPods, on video phones, even online. This yea...
Windows Vista drops support for old DVD drives
Raymond Chen has let slip that Windows Vista will be somewhat choosey with regards to which DVD drives it supports. Chen, who has worked on Windows development since joining Microsoft in 1992 and spe...
Yahoo shapes up online video project Reality series pilot to be broadcast on the Internet
Terry Semel, the former movie studio chief who now leads Yahoo Inc., is back in show business. His Web portal has filmed a pilot for a reality series called "Wow House" that will be broadcast online ...
It's not a bug, it's a feature
What exactly is going wrong with the WMF vulnerability? — Turns out this is not really a bug, it's just bad design. Design from another era. — When Windows Metafiles were designed in late 1980s, ...
Media Alert: Microsoft at 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show
Bill Gates to deliver keynote address at CES 2006. — REDMOND, Wash. — Jan. 2, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. has planned the following press activities for 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES)...
10 Questions with Christopher (Rageboy) Locke on Blogging
For the first 10 Questions Segment of the New Year I thought I would start it off with a bang. Today I am pleased to share with you the interview I did with Christoper (Rageboy) Locke. This intervie...
Mantras Versus Missions
Who among us has not had the horrible experience of an corporate offsite to build teamwork and to craft a mission statement? The offsite usually went like this: — Day 1: Teambuilding. Selection of...
Answering Back to the News Media, Using the Internet
Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, or so goes the old saw. For decades, the famous and the infamous alike largely followed this advice. Even when subjects of news stories fe...
The year of the digital citizen
2005 was arguably the year citizens really started to do it for themselves. Raising mobiles aloft, they did not just talk and text, they snapped, shared and reported the world around them. — Twelve...
Going Back Downstairs
Okay, imagine you go to this huge party over at this big house. As soon as your arrive you can tell it's just one of those parties. There's people everywhere - packed in the living room, out by the ...
Data, Music, Video: Raising a Curtain on Future Gadgetry
The flat-panel televisions will be getting bigger, the MP3 players and cellphones will be getting smaller. And almost everything will be getting cheaper. — But the biggest trend expected at the Int...
Those Born to Shop Can Now Use Cellphones
Calling all retailers: 2006 may finally be the year that consumers start buying goods with their cellphones. — With people already spending billions on ring tones, wallpaper and games for their phon...
Working at the PC Isn't So Lonely Anymore
IN the beginning, personal computers were for loners. You sat at the desk and stared at the screen. To involve anyone else in what you were doing, you had to pull up an extra chair at that same desk...