HIGHLIGHTS
News: Google faces more than just a new rival in Wikia
News: Universal to test sales of DRM-free music
News: U.K. report questions role of ISPs in online safety
News: Fujitsu's easy-to-use phone packs advanced features
News: Bankrupt BenQ Mobile sues parent again
Opinion: Video Lessons
Podcast: Daily IT news update
ITwhirled: Bus driver fired for running up $34,000 bill on company phone
NEWS UPDATES
Google faces more than just a new rival in Wikia
Google Inc. and other search engines face far more than just a new rival in Wikia Inc., they face the prospect of hundreds, even thousands of new competitors.
Universal to test sales of DRM-free music
As part of a six-month test to end in January, UMG, a subsidiary of French conglomerate Vivendi Universal SA, will sell a wide range of albums and songs from artists such as 50 Cent, Black Eyed Peas and Sting -- in MP3 format, without DRM (digital rights management) copy protection, the music company confirmed Friday.
U.K. report questions role of ISPs in online safety
A new report on Internet safety has concluded ISPs (Internet service providers) should take more responsibility for online security since end users are often lax.
Fujitsu's easy-to-use phone packs advanced features
The latest model in Fujitsu Ltd.'s Raku Raku cell phone line, which emphasizes ease of use, packs some advanced features.
Bankrupt BenQ Mobile sues parent again
The mobile phones that once flowed from bankrupt German handset manufacturer BenQ Mobile GmbH & Co. OHG are being replaced by lawsuits.
OPINION
Video Lessons
By James Gaskin, ITworld.com
Suddenly it's a video world, or perhaps I'm paying more attention since I mentioned the Altus video products earlier this month. The good news? You can watch plenty of technical videos after you get tired of Diet Coke and Mentos on YouTube. One of the most technical set of videos comes from Cisco and their TechWise TV series of webcasts.
Read the full article here
PODCAST
Universals tests DRM-free music ... MySQL falls out with developer community ... Report says ISPs should help with online security
ITWHIRLED
Bus driver fired for running up $34,000 bill on company phone
Bus drivers in the Polish city of Slupsk get cell phones from their employer, and are supposed to keep their monthly bills to $5. But Leszek Wojcik kept sending text messages -- at 86 cents a pop -- to enter a contest, and rang up charges of $34,000. It's a good thing he stopped when he did: had he won (which he didn't), the prize would have been $36,000.
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Friday, August 10, 2007
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Hacker strips DRM from streaming Netflix movies ... Microsoft reveals roadmap for Commerce Server
HIGHLIGHTS
News: Hacker strips DRM from streaming Netflix movies
News: Microsoft reveals roadmap for Commerce Server
News: Cisco blames site outage on accident
News: Security firm automates generating attack code
News: HP turns to Linux for data center of the future
Windows Tip: Building a supportable enterprise, part 3
ITwhirled: Ten reasons to ditch your cellphone
NEWS UDPATES
Hacker strips DRM from streaming Netflix movies
A hacker has posted instructions for how to save streamed movies from the Netflix Inc. service, undermining Microsoft Corp.'s copy protection technology designed to prevent people from saving the content.
Microsoft reveals roadmap for Commerce Server
Interest in software that enables companies to build marketplaces on the Web is not as keen as it used to be back in the early days of e-commerce. However, Microsoft Corp. Wednesday made a commitment to keep developing its offering in this space for at least the next three years.
Cisco blames site outage on accident
Cisco Systems Inc. blamed an outage that affected part of its Web site Wednesday on an accident during maintenance of a San Jose, California, data center.
DEFCON: Security firm automates generating attack code
Security firm Immunity has released a tool aimed at largely automating the process of putting together security exploits, a move some believe will lead to a dramatic rise in the number of "zero-day" exploits making the rounds.
LINUXWORLD: HP turns to Linux for data center of the future
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s ambition to build the "next-generation data center" depends on Linux and open source, an HP executive said at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Wednesday.
Former SunRocket customers struggle with new provider
Customers of SunRocket Inc., the VOIP company that recently folded, may have hoped their troubles were over when two competitors stepped up to offer them service in the absence of the failed provider. But for some, transferring to one of the new providers hasn't proved to be a better option than SunRocket.
WINDOWS TIP
Building a supportable enterprise, part 3
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises
It's called the law of unintended consequences -- you do "A" to take care of "B", and then "C" unexpectedly happens. In a previous tip, I talked about "leaving well enough alone" and gave the example that when you uninstall Outlook Express from your domain controller (Why not? Who needs an email client on a domain controller? What could go wrong?), an unintended consequence can occur: it breaks your CDO interfaces on your server. While this example might seem a bit obscure to some, there are many more such "hidden dependencies" in Windows, and casual tweaking (in the name of "hardening") can often cause you to run up against these dependencies.
Read the full article here
ITWHIRLED
She's a 10
Ten reasons to ditch your cellphone ... Top 10 transhumanist technologies
... Mars Rovers' 10 most amazing discoveries
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News: Hacker strips DRM from streaming Netflix movies
News: Microsoft reveals roadmap for Commerce Server
News: Cisco blames site outage on accident
News: Security firm automates generating attack code
News: HP turns to Linux for data center of the future
Windows Tip: Building a supportable enterprise, part 3
ITwhirled: Ten reasons to ditch your cellphone
NEWS UDPATES
Hacker strips DRM from streaming Netflix movies
A hacker has posted instructions for how to save streamed movies from the Netflix Inc. service, undermining Microsoft Corp.'s copy protection technology designed to prevent people from saving the content.
Microsoft reveals roadmap for Commerce Server
Interest in software that enables companies to build marketplaces on the Web is not as keen as it used to be back in the early days of e-commerce. However, Microsoft Corp. Wednesday made a commitment to keep developing its offering in this space for at least the next three years.
Cisco blames site outage on accident
Cisco Systems Inc. blamed an outage that affected part of its Web site Wednesday on an accident during maintenance of a San Jose, California, data center.
DEFCON: Security firm automates generating attack code
Security firm Immunity has released a tool aimed at largely automating the process of putting together security exploits, a move some believe will lead to a dramatic rise in the number of "zero-day" exploits making the rounds.
LINUXWORLD: HP turns to Linux for data center of the future
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s ambition to build the "next-generation data center" depends on Linux and open source, an HP executive said at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Wednesday.
Former SunRocket customers struggle with new provider
Customers of SunRocket Inc., the VOIP company that recently folded, may have hoped their troubles were over when two competitors stepped up to offer them service in the absence of the failed provider. But for some, transferring to one of the new providers hasn't proved to be a better option than SunRocket.
WINDOWS TIP
Building a supportable enterprise, part 3
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises
It's called the law of unintended consequences -- you do "A" to take care of "B", and then "C" unexpectedly happens. In a previous tip, I talked about "leaving well enough alone" and gave the example that when you uninstall Outlook Express from your domain controller (Why not? Who needs an email client on a domain controller? What could go wrong?), an unintended consequence can occur: it breaks your CDO interfaces on your server. While this example might seem a bit obscure to some, there are many more such "hidden dependencies" in Windows, and casual tweaking (in the name of "hardening") can often cause you to run up against these dependencies.
Read the full article here
ITWHIRLED
She's a 10
Ten reasons to ditch your cellphone ... Top 10 transhumanist technologies
... Mars Rovers' 10 most amazing discoveries
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007
SAP describes road ahead for PLM software ... Service-pack previews for Vista, XP released
HIGHLIGHTS
News: SAP describes road ahead for its PLM software
News: Nokia discontinues some chipset development
News: Former Brocade CEO guilty of backdating charges
News: Microsoft releases service-pack previews for Vista, XP
News: Sun to axe jobs by mid-2008
Unix Tip: A SCSI mystery: Come and gone
ITwhirled: Argentine doctors perform surgery by cell-phone light
NEWS UPDATES
SAP describes road ahead for its PLM software
Business applications vendor SAP AG on Wednesday laid out the future path for its product lifecycle management (PLM) software over the next three-plus years.
Nokia discontinues some chipset development
Mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. will halt some chipset development and instead rely on technology from other chipset manufacturers, the company said Wednesday.
Former Brocade CEO guilty of backdating charges
A jury has found former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. CEO Gregory Reyes guilty of charges related to the company's backdating of stock-option grants.
Microsoft releases service-pack previews for Vista, XP
Microsoft Corp. has quietly released pre-beta code to two forthcoming Windows service packs to testers in the past week, but the company continues to remain vague about when the final code for Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista SP1 will make it to end users.
Sun to axe jobs by mid-2008
Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to lay off an unspecified number of employees by the middle of 2008 as part of a corporate restructuring effort, according to a filing Tuesday with the SEC.
Cisco sees Web 2.0 boom after posting strong Q4
Cisco Systems Inc. expects Web 2.0 to drive a growth curve similar to the Internet expansion of the 1990s, accelerating the company's revenue growth, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said Tuesday as Cisco announced strong fourth-quarter numbers.
Vodafone decides to hang onto Verizon
Vodafone Group PLC has decided to keep a 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless Inc. in a move to retain a toehold in the important U.S. mobile phone market.
UNIX TIP
A SCSI mystery: Come and gone
By Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld.com
On a late Friday evening, just as I was about to leave for home, one of the servers I manage suddenly started having what appeared to be serious disk problems. Its NFS clients were collecting "NFS server not responding still trying" errors. The system itself was unable to process share and unshare commands. My initial fear was that the system had suffered a disk crash and would have to be rebuilt from spare parts and backups before the staff's arrival on Monday morning.
The system was still running, but having serious problems running ordinary commands and the console was filling up with messages like these...
ITWHIRLED
Argentine doctors perform surgery by cell-phone light
If your surgeon whipped out his or her cell phone while removing your appendix, you'd probably be a little concerned. But when a hospital in Argentina lost power, doctors borrowed mobile phones from the patient's family so that they could see well enough to complete the operation.
News: SAP describes road ahead for its PLM software
News: Nokia discontinues some chipset development
News: Former Brocade CEO guilty of backdating charges
News: Microsoft releases service-pack previews for Vista, XP
News: Sun to axe jobs by mid-2008
Unix Tip: A SCSI mystery: Come and gone
ITwhirled: Argentine doctors perform surgery by cell-phone light
NEWS UPDATES
SAP describes road ahead for its PLM software
Business applications vendor SAP AG on Wednesday laid out the future path for its product lifecycle management (PLM) software over the next three-plus years.
Nokia discontinues some chipset development
Mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. will halt some chipset development and instead rely on technology from other chipset manufacturers, the company said Wednesday.
Former Brocade CEO guilty of backdating charges
A jury has found former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. CEO Gregory Reyes guilty of charges related to the company's backdating of stock-option grants.
Microsoft releases service-pack previews for Vista, XP
Microsoft Corp. has quietly released pre-beta code to two forthcoming Windows service packs to testers in the past week, but the company continues to remain vague about when the final code for Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista SP1 will make it to end users.
Sun to axe jobs by mid-2008
Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to lay off an unspecified number of employees by the middle of 2008 as part of a corporate restructuring effort, according to a filing Tuesday with the SEC.
Cisco sees Web 2.0 boom after posting strong Q4
Cisco Systems Inc. expects Web 2.0 to drive a growth curve similar to the Internet expansion of the 1990s, accelerating the company's revenue growth, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said Tuesday as Cisco announced strong fourth-quarter numbers.
Vodafone decides to hang onto Verizon
Vodafone Group PLC has decided to keep a 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless Inc. in a move to retain a toehold in the important U.S. mobile phone market.
UNIX TIP
A SCSI mystery: Come and gone
By Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld.com
On a late Friday evening, just as I was about to leave for home, one of the servers I manage suddenly started having what appeared to be serious disk problems. Its NFS clients were collecting "NFS server not responding still trying" errors. The system itself was unable to process share and unshare commands. My initial fear was that the system had suffered a disk crash and would have to be rebuilt from spare parts and backups before the staff's arrival on Monday morning.
The system was still running, but having serious problems running ordinary commands and the console was filling up with messages like these...
ITWHIRLED
Argentine doctors perform surgery by cell-phone light
If your surgeon whipped out his or her cell phone while removing your appendix, you'd probably be a little concerned. But when a hospital in Argentina lost power, doctors borrowed mobile phones from the patient's family so that they could see well enough to complete the operation.
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Lenovo and Dell sneak Linux on to new PCs ... Microsoft drops XBox 360 price
HIGHLIGHTS
News: Sybase, HTC aim to improve Windows Mobile devices
News: Web scam: Pssst... wanna buy a house?
News: Mobile Linux group gets wider support
News: Microsoft lowers XBox 360 price
News: Google ups Linux support as OIN licensee
Opinion: The message is the message
ITwhirled: North Dakota texting contest won by an exclamation point
NEWS UPDATES
Sybase, HTC aim to improve Windows Mobile devices
IAnywhere Solutions Inc. has announced a partnership with High Tech Computer Corp. that could help smart phones based on Windows Mobile compete more effectively with the BlackBerry, according to an iAnywhere executive.
Web scam: Pssst... wanna buy a house?
Web scammers are turning to online property forums to collect personal information about users for later attempts to swindle them out of money, according to a security researcher.
LINUXWORLD: Mobile Linux group gets wider support
A nonprofit organization formed by six of the biggest names in the cell phone business to promote the use of Linux of handsets has gotten wider industry support.
Microsoft lowers XBox 360 price
Microsoft is lowering the price of its XBox 360 games console by $50, in an attempt to keep pace with rival Sony Corp.'s own price cuts and introduction of a new model of the Playstation 3.
LINUXWORLD: Google ups Linux support as OIN licensee
Google Inc. has increased its support for the open-source Linux operating system by becoming Open Invention Network's first end-user licensee. Set up in 2005, OIN is an intellectual property company focused on acquiring and pooling patents to protect Linux against patent infringement attacks.
FCC pans 'white space' device from MS, Google, others
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on July 31 said that a prototype device built by Google, archrival Microsoft Corp. and other technology companies doesn't work as promised. The devices were designed to sniff for broadcasts in spectrum before transmitting in the band, to avoid interfering with the TV signal. But the FCC found that the devices do not consistently sense or detect TV broadcast signals and in fact, sometimes could cause interference to TV broadcasts.
LINUXWORLD: Lenovo and Dell sneak Linux on to new PCs
Open source software has made further inroads into Microsoft's heartland this week as both Lenovo and Dell announced Linux-based PCs.
OPINION
The message is the message
By Sean McGrath, ITworld.com
I have been struggling for quite some time now to get to the essence of one of the biggest confusions I see in modern day enterprise application integration practice. On one hand sits the practitioners who think in terms of enterprise objects that talk to each other by means of messages sent to and fro over the wire. On the other hand sits the practitioners who think of webs of services but who also send messages to an fro over the wire to get things done.
Read the full article here
ITWHIRLED
North Dakota texting contest won by an exclamation point
http://www.itworld.com/jpitw/itwtodayblog/itwhirled/#news
When you're sending a text message from your mobile phone, does accuracy really count? It does if you're in a contest at the North Dakota state fair. Kevin Taylor finished typing his message first, but left out an exclamation point -- and missed out on $800 in prize money.
News: Sybase, HTC aim to improve Windows Mobile devices
News: Web scam: Pssst... wanna buy a house?
News: Mobile Linux group gets wider support
News: Microsoft lowers XBox 360 price
News: Google ups Linux support as OIN licensee
Opinion: The message is the message
ITwhirled: North Dakota texting contest won by an exclamation point
NEWS UPDATES
Sybase, HTC aim to improve Windows Mobile devices
IAnywhere Solutions Inc. has announced a partnership with High Tech Computer Corp. that could help smart phones based on Windows Mobile compete more effectively with the BlackBerry, according to an iAnywhere executive.
Web scam: Pssst... wanna buy a house?
Web scammers are turning to online property forums to collect personal information about users for later attempts to swindle them out of money, according to a security researcher.
LINUXWORLD: Mobile Linux group gets wider support
A nonprofit organization formed by six of the biggest names in the cell phone business to promote the use of Linux of handsets has gotten wider industry support.
Microsoft lowers XBox 360 price
Microsoft is lowering the price of its XBox 360 games console by $50, in an attempt to keep pace with rival Sony Corp.'s own price cuts and introduction of a new model of the Playstation 3.
LINUXWORLD: Google ups Linux support as OIN licensee
Google Inc. has increased its support for the open-source Linux operating system by becoming Open Invention Network's first end-user licensee. Set up in 2005, OIN is an intellectual property company focused on acquiring and pooling patents to protect Linux against patent infringement attacks.
FCC pans 'white space' device from MS, Google, others
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on July 31 said that a prototype device built by Google, archrival Microsoft Corp. and other technology companies doesn't work as promised. The devices were designed to sniff for broadcasts in spectrum before transmitting in the band, to avoid interfering with the TV signal. But the FCC found that the devices do not consistently sense or detect TV broadcast signals and in fact, sometimes could cause interference to TV broadcasts.
LINUXWORLD: Lenovo and Dell sneak Linux on to new PCs
Open source software has made further inroads into Microsoft's heartland this week as both Lenovo and Dell announced Linux-based PCs.
OPINION
The message is the message
By Sean McGrath, ITworld.com
I have been struggling for quite some time now to get to the essence of one of the biggest confusions I see in modern day enterprise application integration practice. On one hand sits the practitioners who think in terms of enterprise objects that talk to each other by means of messages sent to and fro over the wire. On the other hand sits the practitioners who think of webs of services but who also send messages to an fro over the wire to get things done.
Read the full article here
ITWHIRLED
North Dakota texting contest won by an exclamation point
http://www.itworld.com/jpitw/itwtodayblog/itwhirled/#news
When you're sending a text message from your mobile phone, does accuracy really count? It does if you're in a contest at the North Dakota state fair. Kevin Taylor finished typing his message first, but left out an exclamation point -- and missed out on $800 in prize money.
Monday, August 06, 2007
Mozilla can patch flaws in 10 days ... Nokia to use Microsoft DRM ... Websense lures Web 2.0 attackers
HIGHLIGHTS
News: Mozilla says it can patch flaws in 10 days
News: Nokia to use Microsoft's latest DRM software
News: Notebooks drive European PC shipments in Q2
News: Congress to probe Yahoo over jailed China journalist
News: Websense lures Web 2.0 attackers with HoneyJax
Windows Tip: Outlook migration
ITwhirled: Online feud leads to cross-country arson vendetta
NEWS UPDATES
BLACK HAT: Mozilla says it can patch flaws in 10 days
A Mozilla Corp. executive has vowed that his company can patch any critical vulnerability in its software within 10 days, a sign that Mozilla may intend to step up its efforts to improve security.
Nokia to use Microsoft's latest DRM software
Nokia Corp. has agreed to license Microsoft Corp.'s new PlayReady DRM (digital rights management) technology, giving the service providers it works with a greater choice of copy protection software.
Gartner: Notebooks drive European PC shipments in Q2
PC shipments in Western Europe increased 9.3 percent in the second quarter compared to the year-earlier period, fueled by strong consumer demand, particularly for notebook computers, according to market research published Monday by Gartner Inc.
Congress to probe Yahoo over jailed China journalist
A U.S. congressional committee plans to investigate whether or not Yahoo Inc. lied during testimony over its role in a human rights case in China that sent journalist Shi Tao to jail for 10 years.
DEFCON: Websense lures Web 2.0 attackers with HoneyJax
Websense Inc. has developed a threat detection system designed to spot Web 2.0 attacks soon after they are launched. Called HoneyJax, the system will root out attacks on social networking sites, blogs and wikis, and then update the company's Web Security Suite to protect users from malicious Web sites or pages.
Red Hat's SMB desktop Linux delayed
Red Hat has released more details about its plans for Linux on the desktop, including news of a launch delay.
Kittens could solve spam
An executive at Microsoft Corp. has an unusual idea for beating spammers. Powerful software tools and supercomputers aren't involved, but kittens are. Or rather, photos of kittens.
New Bluetooth standard approved
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced unanimous approval of the new iteration of the Bluetooth standard by its 8,000-member strong group.
WINDOWS TIP
Two Outlook migration tips
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises
Here are two Outlook migration tips I thought readers might want to know about. The first tip has to do with upgrading ANSI .pst files to UNICODE files. A user we’ll call Bob was running Outlook 2003, but his PST file was originally created with Outlook 2000 (he had previously upgraded his computer from Windows 2000 to Windows XP and had upgraded Office 2000 to Office 2003). The problem was that Outlook 2000 only supported ANSI .pst files, which meant when his .pst file reached 2 GB, Outlook choked (actually it choked long before that point was reached). Outlook 2003 had introduced UNICODE format for .pst files, but Bob hadn’t tried to upgrade his PST file from ANSI to UNICODE (Bob got scared off by some Microsoft Knowledge Base articles he read but couldn’t understand on the subject.)
Read the full article here
ITWHIRLED
Online feud leads to cross-country arson vendetta
John Anderson and Russell Tavares were two of the millions of people who get drawn into pointless, stupid arguments over the Internet every day. Anderson even went so far as to call Tavares a "nerd" and Photoshop an image of him portraying him as such. So naturally Tavares drove 1,300 miles and then burned Anderson's trailer down. He was sentenced to seven years in prison.
News: Mozilla says it can patch flaws in 10 days
News: Nokia to use Microsoft's latest DRM software
News: Notebooks drive European PC shipments in Q2
News: Congress to probe Yahoo over jailed China journalist
News: Websense lures Web 2.0 attackers with HoneyJax
Windows Tip: Outlook migration
ITwhirled: Online feud leads to cross-country arson vendetta
NEWS UPDATES
BLACK HAT: Mozilla says it can patch flaws in 10 days
A Mozilla Corp. executive has vowed that his company can patch any critical vulnerability in its software within 10 days, a sign that Mozilla may intend to step up its efforts to improve security.
Nokia to use Microsoft's latest DRM software
Nokia Corp. has agreed to license Microsoft Corp.'s new PlayReady DRM (digital rights management) technology, giving the service providers it works with a greater choice of copy protection software.
Gartner: Notebooks drive European PC shipments in Q2
PC shipments in Western Europe increased 9.3 percent in the second quarter compared to the year-earlier period, fueled by strong consumer demand, particularly for notebook computers, according to market research published Monday by Gartner Inc.
Congress to probe Yahoo over jailed China journalist
A U.S. congressional committee plans to investigate whether or not Yahoo Inc. lied during testimony over its role in a human rights case in China that sent journalist Shi Tao to jail for 10 years.
DEFCON: Websense lures Web 2.0 attackers with HoneyJax
Websense Inc. has developed a threat detection system designed to spot Web 2.0 attacks soon after they are launched. Called HoneyJax, the system will root out attacks on social networking sites, blogs and wikis, and then update the company's Web Security Suite to protect users from malicious Web sites or pages.
Red Hat's SMB desktop Linux delayed
Red Hat has released more details about its plans for Linux on the desktop, including news of a launch delay.
Kittens could solve spam
An executive at Microsoft Corp. has an unusual idea for beating spammers. Powerful software tools and supercomputers aren't involved, but kittens are. Or rather, photos of kittens.
New Bluetooth standard approved
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced unanimous approval of the new iteration of the Bluetooth standard by its 8,000-member strong group.
WINDOWS TIP
Two Outlook migration tips
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises
Here are two Outlook migration tips I thought readers might want to know about. The first tip has to do with upgrading ANSI .pst files to UNICODE files. A user we’ll call Bob was running Outlook 2003, but his PST file was originally created with Outlook 2000 (he had previously upgraded his computer from Windows 2000 to Windows XP and had upgraded Office 2000 to Office 2003). The problem was that Outlook 2000 only supported ANSI .pst files, which meant when his .pst file reached 2 GB, Outlook choked (actually it choked long before that point was reached). Outlook 2003 had introduced UNICODE format for .pst files, but Bob hadn’t tried to upgrade his PST file from ANSI to UNICODE (Bob got scared off by some Microsoft Knowledge Base articles he read but couldn’t understand on the subject.)
Read the full article here
ITWHIRLED
Online feud leads to cross-country arson vendetta
John Anderson and Russell Tavares were two of the millions of people who get drawn into pointless, stupid arguments over the Internet every day. Anderson even went so far as to call Tavares a "nerd" and Photoshop an image of him portraying him as such. So naturally Tavares drove 1,300 miles and then burned Anderson's trailer down. He was sentenced to seven years in prison.
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