Registration opens for .me domains - Internet - iTnews Australia
Registrations for the .me top level domain started yesterday afternoon, giving users a new crack at getting a personalised web address.
Unlike the recent staggered rollout of the .asia domain, the .me registrations are open to everyone from day one.
The .me domain name was previously assigned to [...]
Community to Gilliard: ‘Consider Open Source’ - Linux & Open Source - iTnews Australia
The Australian Open Source community has called for the consideration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the implementation of the Rudd Government’s Digital Education Revolution Policy.
In an open letter that was submitted last week to the Deputy Prime Minister Julia [...]
Geek Girl Dinners Melbourne can be found on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=15128236963
OLPC Australia is located at:
http://www.olpc.org.au/
New Trojan targets business bankers - Security - iTnews Australia
Security provider RSA is reporting a new and unfamiliar Trojan attack that exploits business bank account holders’ heightened awareness of security and uses it against them.
Customers receive an email claiming to be from their [...]
Microsoft surrenders libraries to Google - Business - iTnews Australia
Writing in his blog, Satya Nadella, senior vice president of Microsoft’s search and advertising group said Microsoft would kill off two sites for searching the contents of books and academic journals.
Live Search will send Web surfers looking for books to non-Microsoft sites.
Instead, Microsoft will be focusing [...]
Ed’s interview with Martin Krafft - one of the lead Debian developers - available in Ogg Vorbis format (20MB):
http://www.rrr.org.au/archive/byte/MartinKrafftInterview.ogg
For more from Martin:
http://debiansystem.info/
http://madduck.net/
BBC NEWS | Technology | Virtual telescope opens night sky
Microsoft has launched WorldWide Telescope, a free tool that stitches together images from some of the best ground- and space-based telescopes.
Collections include pictures from [...]
Keren’s Links:
http://virtualworlds2008.com/
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/
http://www.starwreck.com/
http://xmedialab.com/
http://threeminds.organic.com/
MSN Music customers lose *all* their music the next time they buy a new PC - Boing Boing
People who bought music from the MSN music store have been royally hosed by Microsoft: as of August 31, if you buy a new computer, or refresh your hard-drive or upgrade your OS, you have to kiss [...]
Seagate hard drives in some mac laptops may be prone to failure
UK drive recovery company Retrodata is warning customers of a rash of failures involving a particular Seagate drive model, a SATA unit made in China and used in Apple laptops. This specific mechanism, according to Retrodata’s intake notes, seems to be prone to [...]
Digg - Google releases Zeitgeist 2007
Anna Nicole Smith, facebook, the iPhone were all top searches in 2007. See who else made the list…
Best of 2007: Top 7 Coolest Web Apps
While everyone is trying to create their ultimate list of the winners and losers of 2007, please allow us to take a [...]
BBC NEWS | Europe | Rise in broadband use in Europe
A total of 42% of households in the EU now have a broadband connection, according to an official survey.That represents a 12 percentage point rise on the figure for 2006.
The survey, carried out by national statistics offices across Europe, also appears to confirm a [...]
Filesystem In Userspace (FUSE)
Examples
* ElasticDrive: Amazon S3 backed Virtual storage system
* SSHFS: Provides access to a remote filesystem through SSH
* GmailFS: Filesystem which stores data as mail in Gmail
* EncFS: Encrypted virtual filesystem
* NTFS-3G and Captive NTFS, allowing access to NTFS filesystems
* WikipediaFS : View and edit Wikipedia articles as if they were real [...]
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