An extraneous bit on a magnetic medium that was not intentionally written, due to a surface defect or recording malfunction.
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- NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversations
- Military linguists have come forward to say that the intelligence services routinely listened in on Americans overseas calling home and on the communications of non-suspect groups like the Red Cross. And, they say, they listened in and even transcribed couples' phone sex, The New York Times reports. ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware
- The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the company's senior director for virtualization product management, Zane Adam. ...
- News items 2008-10-10
- Email Extractor (msi)
- Email Extractor is a tool to extract email address from many different types of files, such as pst, msg, html, txt, and zip. Email Extractor is very easy to use, just drag and drop the folder or files into the process window, then click run, you will get a unique...
- Software downloads 2008-10-10
- MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical
- It will be a very busy Patch Tuesday for administrators managing Microsoft Windows computer systems. According to Microsoft's advance notice mechanism, 11 security bulletins will drop next Tuesday (October 14, 2008), covering a wide range of serious vulnerabilities. Four of the 11 bulletins are...
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Economy-pinched semiconductor industry: How to ride the storm
- The credit crisis and overall economic downturn is starting to hit the semiconductor industry, which saw 5.5 percent sales growth in August. Research firm iSuppli has cut its 2008 sales growth forecast for the semiconductor industry from 4 percent to 3.5 percent and potentially even more if economic conditions continue...
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Apple makes it official. Notebook announcement next week.
- The blogosphere was abuzz this morning with news of a sub-$1,000 Mac notebook - based on a price list that was given to retail stores and subsequently leaked to bloggers. But where's the confirmation from Apple? The company wouldn't announce some sort of milestone - and a sub-$1,000 notebook is...
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Neoxen Visual Modus for SharePoint (exe)
- Visual Modus allows you to manage and share documents, restructure folders, and other resources stored in SharePoint. Drag & Drop to and from your e-mail, local folders, ftp sites, and network locations. Copy, move, add, remove entire folder structures. Check in, check out, send to other locations, or e-mail. Drag...
- Software downloads 2008-10-09
- Where are all the programmers?
- Where are all the programmers?It's worse than you think!I'm in SO CAL. The market for good communicating and highly technical developers vanished back in 2000 with the .com meltdown. The guys from India and China are bright, but come on, business rules that are highly complex are missed when you...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Core i7 sensitive to RAM voltages over 1.65V
- Core i7 sensitive to RAM voltages over 1.65VOf course people will!People will do it anyway thinking it won't happen to them...because we all know that these things happen only to others. And when the CPU makes a funny smell and suddenly the computer is like a big powerless door...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Do we we have a way to defeat global warming?
- Is the recession the ultimate way to fight global warming? That's the suggestrion from one market commentator. Less spending=less greenhouse gas, he says. The outlook from international finance organizations is decidely gloomy. It follows that if spending's down, industrial output from China and elsewhere will...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Accent Access Password Recovery (exe)
- If you lose or forget the password for MS Access, don't despair - you can use Accent Access Password Recovery to recover the password faster than otherwise. The Accent Access Password Recovery can recover the passwords in MS Access 95/97/2000. You simply open your password protected file and this program...
- Software downloads 2008-10-08
- Dot Point Learning Systems Science Calculator (zip)
- This is a useful calculator for science students. The system contains a scientific calculator that can calculate molecular mass, and from this main calculator various other calculators and tools can be called. These include an area and volume calculator, a molar mass calculator for common acids and bases, a measurement...
- Software downloads 2008-10-08
- Microsoft PDC: Will the real cloud platform please stand up?
- Microsoft PDC: Will the real cloud platform please stand up?Its such a mix mash of thingsA lot of the Services/Cloud efforts Microsoft is spearheading seems too conflicting at times. I personally started to use Live Mesh to store documents and other files, yet it does so many of the things...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Scammers introduce ATM skimmers with built-in SMS notification
- The bust of the notorious ATM scammer going under the handle of Cha0 in early September, once again puts ATM skimming in the spotlight. Among the main insecurities scammers face while embedding an ATM skimmer, is the retrieval process of the device that is now containing the credit card details...
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Apple notebooks to be fabricated from a solid "brick" of aluminum
- Apple notebooks to be fabricated from a solid "brick" of aluminumThat is patentable?This is getting ridiculous. Companies have been fabricating all types of items and enclosures out of "bricks" for years.How is this really unique in any way? Becuase it is a laptop enclosure?Does not sound cheapThis news does not...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- SAP: Business drop was 'sudden and unexpected'; Credit crunch hurt IT financing
- SAP: Business drop was 'sudden and unexpected'; Credit crunch hurt IT financingYeap, deflation will do that...Not sure why your trackback system isn't working, but I wrote a response to this on my blog:http://bit.ly/4F4tRl
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Consumers might not be ready for netbooks, but we are
- Consumers might not be ready for netbooks, but we areand then in 2015...after a generation of high school leavers are very familiar with Linux and other FOSS apps, businesses will be able to start switching to Linux without the need to retrain new starters.Then in 2020 when this generation are...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- News to know: AMD; iPhone security; Linux; SAP
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Power Encrypt (rar)
- Actually file encryption is the most reliable way of data protection. Major functions of the program: search engine, virtual file system having standard views and functions of Windows explorer. Cryptographically stable protection. Instant Encryption panels. Automatic encryption and decryption of large volumes of data. Possibility to encrypt files without breaking...
- Software downloads 2008-10-07
- zDoom Launcher (zip)
- This zDoom Launcher is for quick launching of zDoom with all it's addons available. It allows configuration files to be made for each game and run. It also allows additional parameters to be passed at runtime. It provides a drop down and automatically detects a configuration file when it's added...
- Software downloads 2008-10-07
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