Mac OS X Server Free with Mac Pro?

With the release of the new Mac Pro, it appears that Apple UK Store is offering Mac OS X 10.4 Server (10-Client) for free with the purchase of a new Mac Pro.
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‘Longhorn’ Server April CTP Released to Testers

Microsoft just released Longhorn Server, build 6001.16497 (compiled on March 31st) to Technical Beta testers. The FAQ is expremely sparce (allthough it is called beta_3_faq, so they are definitely gearing up for the 3rd beta), so no word yet on what is different. But if you’re a beta tester, log into Connect and download it [...]

Why cell phones are still grounded

It’s because phones interfere with airplane electronics, right? Wrong.
At this time, all electronic devices, including cell phones and two-way pagers, must be turned off and put away. After takeoff, I’ll let you know when you may use approved electronic portable devices.”
Of course, those “approved electronic portable devices” won’t include your cell phone, not until after [...]

Vista Protected Processes Bypassed

Security Researcher Alex Ionescu strikes again, this time with a proof of concept program that will arbitrarily enable and foremost disable the protection of so-called ‘protected processes’ in Windows Vista. Not only threatening Vista DRM and friends, it’s also another step towards hardened and even more annoying malware. Normally, only specially signed processes made by [...]

Get naked and support web standards

What happened to the design?
To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the

Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information.
The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play [...]

8-core or quad-core Mac Pro workstation

Meet the latest addition to the Mac Pro family: The world’s first 3.0GHz, 8-core Intel Xeon-based Mac Pro. Consider the bar officially raised.
No matter which Mac Pro model you choose — 8-core or quad-core Intel Xeon — each delivers advanced performance, workstation graphics, and unparalleled expansion in so many possible configurations, your imagination has finally [...]

Amazon Patents Humans Assisting Computers

A hybrid machine/human computing arrangement which advantageously involves humans to assist a computer to solve particular tasks, allowing the computer to solve the tasks more efficiently. In one embodiment, a computer system decomposes a task, such as, for example, image or speech comparison, into subtasks for human performance, and requests the performances. The computer system [...]

Microsoft Makes Expression Tools Available to MSDN Subscribers

When we announced Expression Studio last December, we saw great excitement from both the design and development community – excitement that is clearly reflected in the hundreds of thousands of CTP and trial downloads we’ve already seen. Following the announcement we received a lot of questions about why we did not include some of [...]

Breaking 104 bit WEP in less than 60 seconds

Abstract. We demonstrate an active attack on the WEP protocol that is able to recover a
104-bit WEP key using less than 40.000 frames with a success probability of 50%. In order to
succeed in 95% of all cases, 85.000 packets are needed. The IV of these packets can be randomly
chosen. This is an improvement in the [...]

Apple is violating antitrust laws

Today the European Union (EU) announced that an investigation of Apple is underway for antitrust violations related to the pricing of music sold through the iTunes store.
What’s happened so far is that the European Commission (EC) has issued Apple with a statement of objections to Apple. This statement lays out how Apple, along with [...]