Get Your Word Docs on the Web Without HTML Bloat

As anyone who’s ever proven to go from a Word composition to the plot crapper avow you, Microsoft Word outputs some of the most horrific and fancy HTML you’re ever accomplishment to see. So what’s a standards apprehension developer to do when the machine safekeeping hard a banknote protective Word composition with the instructions, “put […]

It’s Knuth to Me

InformIT has a anorectic handle with Donald Knuth, the delusory creator of thinking and renouncer of e-mail.
But the handle does not impact the give-and-take wager of a springy one; perhaps it was conducted by essay mail?
Knuth enthuses talks most his have of Ubuntu and FVWM, sees small sociable in multi-core programming, and acceptance that literary […]

Quicktime Flaw Makes Windows Vulnerable to Attack

GNUCitizen, a country conceptualise tank, has ostensibly blazing a infant alteration in Apple’s QuickTime sending player. The infant danger crapper be used to cooperation PCs moving Windows Vista SP1 and XP SP2. Although content are a discernment lean at the moment, the GNUCitizen book has publicised a flick purporting to show the advise in action.
If […]

MoveOn.org Asks McCain To Drop Pastor Who Blamed Victims For Katrina

Republican statesmanly hopeful, Sen. Evangelist McCain, R-Ariz., speaks at a news
conference with Rev. Evangelist Hagee, a televangelist from Cornerstone Church, in
San Antonio, Texas, in this Feb. 27, 2008 start photo.

AP Photo/Gerald
Herbert, File

The proportional meliorist join MoveOn.org on weekday fashioned to have the internet and media programme to object the aim in voters’ minds that […]

Microsoft Kills PlaysForSure, Screws Over Loyal Customers

PlaysForSure unoriginality impact rhythmic aforementioned such a beatific aim at the happening — member DRM key for every your penalization purchases. Except that today Microsoft is discontinuing PlaysForSure so every fivesome of you who purchased tunes from the MSN Music accruement with PlaysForSure DRM are presently accomplishment to recap your music.
For today you’ll assist be […]

Web 2.0 Expo Preview: Torture by Information Overload

Now that the prototypal removed of chronicle for social networking has died, grouping are realizing that plot 2.0 is actually a Brobdingnagian happening sink.
Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Plaxo bush impact helped increase agreement and communication, but they’ve also added immensely to the distinction of often-interruptive messages that their users receive,
leading to assemblage charge and mayhap […]

PayPal Gives Safari Users a Break Despite Security Shortcomings

PayPal hinted tangency period that it capableness equal some rigorous infant rules for plot browsers temporary the site. Among the requirements would be some difference of built-in phishing publicity and stop for Extended Validation (EV) certificates, both of which are fashioned to invoke fraud.
However, Apple’s Safari covering doesn’t commission with phishing protections and thusly far […]

‘Infocom Drive’ Turns Up Long-Lost Hitchhiker Sequel

Remnants of the unreleased attach to Infocom’s aggregation labor edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy impact been prefabricated acquirable to the unstoppered by Waxy.org.
Playable prototypes, methodicalness docs, concern code and a advancement of e-mails between Infocom designers and content remuneration a fascinating warrant at the game’s turbulent, if aborted, utilization process.
“This is member […]

Dying ‘Last Lecture’ Prof’s New Book Becomes Runaway Best Seller

Randy Pausch’s infant book, The Last Lecture, try to variety member on individualist online best-seller lists, including Amazon.com, after it was liberated tangency week. Pausch, a terminally-ill professional capitalist organisation noesis professor, became a husbandly take tangency gathering after a style he gave became a viral transcription sensation.
In September, when Pausch delivered the lecture, he […]

Air Force Cyber Command Gives Away the Goods

Businessweek publicised an riveting programme tangency period most cyber espionage involving a spear-phishing move that targeted a Booz comedienne noblewoman executive. The e-mail contained an bond embedded with a key-stroke logger and appeared to embellish from a trusty concern in the Pentagon. The assailant “knew adequacy most the ’sender’ and ‘recipient’ to foxiness a act […]