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  • Thank God someone's finally exposing this charlatan

    Reg backers stand tall

    See also: You both make good points, but we're still leaning in Steve's direction Steve walks on water; you're a moron, and so's your old man Have you seen the latest vuln dev posts from this morning? Gibson's taking crap from all angles. Looks like consenses from the list is that he's pretty clueless and only out for PR. …

    Letters 9 Jul 2001, 01:14

  • You both make good points, but we're still leaning in Steve's direction

    No need to be so reasonable about it....

    See also: Thank God someone's finally exposing this charlatan Steve walks on water; you're a moron, and so's your old man In your article posted on www.theregister.co.uk, you make some interesting observations. I think many people failed to understand your point that Win XP won't necessarily increase the number of zombie …

    Letters 9 Jul 2001, 02:55

  • Steve walks on water; you're a moron, and so's your old man

    Everyone's an expert

    See also: Thank God someone's finally exposing this charlatan You both make good points, but we're still leaning in Steve's direction Dear Mr. Greene, While I don't want to come across as strident, you don't seem to have read the "thousands of words on his Web site" you mention Steve Gibson as having written. There is one …

    Letters 9 Jul 2001, 05:56

  • The Gibson letters

    Reg readers express gratitude, spew venom

    Few stories in Register history have generated the volume of accolades, essays and flames that our coverage WinXP raw-socket Cassandra Steve Gibson has done. Herewith your letters, divided in three categories: 1. Thank God someone's finally exposing this charlatan 2. You both make good points, but we're still leaning in Steve …

    Software 9 Jul 2001, 06:07

  • UK homes on Net pass 10 million mark

    Broadband take-up still on the floor

    Ten million homes in the UK are hooked up to the Net, according to the latest research from telecoms regulator Oftel. While four million homes have connected to the Net during the last year, one-and-a-half million homes signed up in the three months between February 2001 and May 2001. The rise in home usage appears to tie-in …

    Telecoms 9 Jul 2001, 09:45

  • ‘MS antipiracy’ hoax triggers paranoia attacks

    Sometimes the simplest gags are the best ones...

    So there you are, lurking on IRC somewhere beyond the fringes of legality, and you're not sure if all of the software on your machine is entirely legitimate. Or, to paint a more realistic scenario, deep down you know that not all of the software on your machine is entirely legitimate. Then Microsoft's anti-piracy people take …

    Software 9 Jul 2001, 11:20

  • France to spend FF30bn on broadband for all push

    Sod the market, govt intervention needed to make this thing work

    France is set to commit itself to nation-wide broadband Net access by 2005, according to a Reuters report over the weekend. It's estimated that wiring up the country would cost around FF30 billion (£3 billion). However, the French Government realises that the private sector alone will not fork out for such an investment - …

    Telecoms 9 Jul 2001, 12:02

  • Half of British Airways' IT staff to get push

    So says internal memo

    British Airways is about to sack half its IT contractors, according to an internal memo seen by Silicon.com. The estimated 150 losses will happen by September but far from the cuts remaining permanent, existing contractors will instead be replaced by cheaper staff from India, Silicon alleges. The memo, dated 2 July 2001, comes …

    Hardware 9 Jul 2001, 12:10

  • Marconi's Mayo kicked out; board keeps head down

    Announced late Friday

    Marconi announced late on Friday that its deputy CEO John Mayo has resigned from the telecoms equipment manufacturer, following a disastrous profit warning on Thursday that saw shares fall by over 50 per cent. Stakeholders were furious and bayed for senior management scalps. Mayo's departure will keep the hordes at bay - at …

    Data Networking 9 Jul 2001, 12:38

  • AOL UK stuffs Freeserve in popularity battle

    How the once mighty have fallen

    Freeserve's dominance of the domestic UK ISP market appears to be at an end, according to the latest research from telecoms regulator, Oftel. The winged watchdog's survey Consumers' use of Internet: Oftel residential survey Q5 May 2001 shows that Le Freeswerve's share of the domestic market has slumped from 29 per cent in July …

    Music and Media 9 Jul 2001, 13:43

  • Mono to open source .NET by mid 2002

    Cheeky monkeys

    A software libre implementation of Microsoft's .NET broke cover today, with GNOME lead Miguel de Icaza promising to have .NET code ready by the middle of next year. Ximian's Mono project (that's Spanish for monkey) consists of three parts: a Linux C# compiler, a virtual machine, and the common language runtime, so Linux …

    Software 9 Jul 2001, 13:54

  • PoizonBOx hacks past security firm's ‘honey pot’

    Leaves sticky stuff on face of Kiwi security specialists

    New Zealand security firm Co-Logic has become one of the latest victims of prolific hacking group PoizonBOx. In order to monitor hacker activity the security assessment firm had set up a "honey pot" server, a poorly protected section of its Web infrastructure that contained no real data and was designed purely to log the …

    Security 9 Jul 2001, 13:55

  • Telewest and ntl in joint bid to plug broadband

    Bless

    Telewest and NTL are to run a joint advertising campaign to promote broadband services and "accelerate the take-up of broadband services throughout Britain", the cablecos confirmed today. The campaign - believed to cost around £4 million - will begin in a fortnight and run until mid September. It's designed to highlight the …

    Telecoms 9 Jul 2001, 14:33

  • Web caching tech boosts network performance 400%

    Transfering the approach to the enterprise

    Networking firm Expand Networks is trying to extend the benefits of Web caching to all enterprise data traffic with appliances it claims can boost network performance by as much as 400 per cent. Expand's Accelerator product line works with a variety of network configurations including ADSL, ISDN, Managed Frame Relay and …

    Data Networking 9 Jul 2001, 14:52

  • Diary of a dotcom demise

    Brighthand founder documents his own boom to bust

    Handheld site Brighthand is currently in limbo while its founder Steve Bush decides what to do. But, interestingly, he has written a lengthy document on the history of the dotcom and why it's in trouble. Called "apology.html" it is basically a first-person account of that now-familiar phenomenon - the dotcom burst bubble. You …

    Music and Media 9 Jul 2001, 15:05

  • ‘Waiting for i845’ syndrome lands Intel with P4 glut

    But the first rev's probably not worth waiting for...

    Sources in Silicon Valley claim Intel is facing a nightmare glut of P4s, as cannier buyers hold off pending the arrival of the i845 chipset and the associated cheaper memory. The i845, due in the middle of this quarter, will initially allow you to use PC133 rather than RDRAM, and considering the ramifications of that one might …

    Channel 9 Jul 2001, 15:23

  • £31 billion hostile bid for AT&T Broadband

    Comcast wants it; AT&T playing safe

    Cable TV company Comcast has made a $44.5 billion (£31.5 billion) hostile bid for AT&T's broadband division. The arm includes the giant telco's cable and Internet interests, including Excite@Home. If the buy were to go ahead, it would create a broadband giant with 22 million subscribers. The unsolicited bid was made on the same …

    Telecoms 9 Jul 2001, 15:55

  • Anti abortion activists step up UK Net campaign

    Doctors wanted for online 'Hall of Shame'

    A Scottish pro-life group plans to step up its campaign to put the names of British doctors and NHS staff involved in abortion on the Internet. The UK Life League is encouraging surfers to send in the names and contact details of anyone involved with family planning or abortion in Britain. These details are then put on the " …

    Music and Media 9 Jul 2001, 16:07

  • Why it pays to embrace and extend .NET – de Icaza

    A GNOME run

    Miguel de Icaza has told us why he is leading an open source project to implement Microsoft's .NET development framework on Linux. Mono was unveiled earlier today, and promises to provide an alternative toolchain and execution environment for .NET developers. It'll run on Linux and Windows first, but should be portable to almost …

    Software 9 Jul 2001, 17:46

  • Naked man with no product waggles his dotcom

    Guardian 'experiment' revealed

    A fictional brand that offers no product has managed to fool more than 1,500 people into responding to its ads. The brand, called Joy, was advertised in the national press for six days, as well as on an advertising hoarding plastered on the back of a truck and driven around London. The ad showed a naked man leaping around in a …

    e-Business 9 Jul 2001, 18:01

  • Coming soon: mobile phone multi player gaming via GPRS

    iFone plans to score

    The technology pieces that will bring together multiplayer gaming on mobile phones are beginning to be brought together. Mobile entertainment firm iFone plans to publish a GPRS and bluetooth compatible multiplayer football game, called iSoccer, which is designed to allow gamers to take advantage of the latest advances in …

    Data Networking 9 Jul 2001, 18:06

  • Reg temporarily disappoints Gibson fans/bashers

    Missing audio file will return

    Last Thursday I squared off with WXP raw-sockets doomsayer Steve Gibson on the radio show Online Tonight with David Lawrence. Gibson and I covered a decent amount of material during the ninety-minute debate. Our readers have been keenly interested in the topic, so I posted a copy of the audio file on the Reg site Monday. …

    Software 9 Jul 2001, 18:20

  • WinXP prices out – buy now while stocks get built

    And do we detect an attempt at artificial home/business segmentation?

    Prices are out for Windows XP, although it's not currently clear whether they've leaked prematurely, or whether Microsoft is poised to make them official. At time of writing the prices were available on amazon.com, but Microsoft seemed not to have officially announced them. Search for Windows XP on amazon.com, and you'll get …

    Software 9 Jul 2001, 18:59