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  • FoTW: “i am going to stop comming to your gay site”

    Mac Intelligentsia takes no prisoners

    Re: How I learned to stop worrying and abandoned OS X From: "Tony Browning" To: <andrew.orlowski@theregister.co.uk> Subject: (no subject) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:35:13 -0800 Hey, About that article you posed about OS X... You must have never really even used the freakin thing because the GUI is simply stunning and X.2 …

    Letters 29 Jan 2002, 05:00

  • Greene ‘Lame and rather unknowledgeable Linux wannabee’

    Harry Go Home-owner

    Re: Mr. Thomas C Greene: From the sound of it, you didn't have to force SuSE at all. Maybe you should have named the article "Too Lame to Understand Mandrake" or better, "I Should Just Run FreeBSD and Forget All This Distro Crap." You started out with, "The Presario 1200 is an exceptionally poor candidate for Linux.." and …

    Letters 29 Jan 2002, 05:06

  • Windows now “friendlier than the Mac”

    You need Soul

    Apple's spiritual swami Steve Jobs has robbed the Mac of its soul, writes one Macintosh loyalist as the debate over Mac OS X rages. "Apple arrogance sickens me" writes another. Since we published our AquaRant™, Apple has made X the default OS on new Macs, and the acclaim that greeted the decision from Mac community sites spoke …

    Letters 29 Jan 2002, 06:08

  • Letters: Eat Yourself Fitter with a Vulture Diet

    Roundup Our State of the Carrion address

    The Letters Page hasn't been cancelled, it's just been buried under an avalanche of er, .... Letters. Which is the same as being unable to see the wood for the trees, I guess. (Although this is a phrase that has always caused me immense problems:- a recursive idiom with no apparent stop condition. ) Enough already. Here are a …

    Letters 29 Jan 2002, 06:49

  • Welcome to The Confused Lounge

    Disorienteering

    The Flame of the Week feature has been running for over two years here at Vulture Central. But it's time for a companion award: the most confused correspondent of the week. As we're sure you'll agree, these two set an exceptionally high standard. Subject: do RH matters? if red had realy matters anymore then ? whioute the …

    Letters 29 Jan 2002, 06:50

  • Peek-A-Booty to debut at grassroots P2P show

    Reclaiming the meme

    Peer-to-peer was 2000's most overused buzzword, and perhaps the only way to reclaim it is through grassroots organization. That's what Bram Cohen thinks, anyway. Cohen worked on MojoNation before quitting last April to concentrate on his BitTorrent project, and he's convening hackers in downtown San Francisco next month for a …

    Security 29 Jan 2002, 08:06

  • Tiscali attacked by DDoSers

    Unclear and present danger

    Tiscali appears to have become the latest ISP targeted whose service has been disrupted by denial of service attacks from unknown Internet vandals. A posting on ISP's status page on Sunday (since removed) said: "We are currently experiencing a denial of service attack on our infrastructure. Tiscali customers can still surf the …

    Security 29 Jan 2002, 09:04

  • That ‘Microsoft’ RTFM page (and sundry spoofs)

    Updated In the Whitehouse

    Our inboxes are filling with links to a rogue "How to RTFM" page posted supposedly on Microsoft's Web site. For those of you who have never worked in tech support, RTFM means Read The Fscking Manual. If this page for lamers really did appear on Microsoft.com it would be hilarious/disgraceful/career-limiting for the poster etc …

    Bootnotes 29 Jan 2002, 09:58

  • UK Net usage grows

    Oftel takes credit

    Oftel's taking the credit - yet again - for the UK having some of the widest range and most competitively priced Internet access in the world. Publishing its latest research into the UK Internet market, the telecoms regulator found that 45 per cent of UK households (11 million homes) are connected to the Internet, compared to …

    Media 29 Jan 2002, 10:04

  • Russian hacker breaks into US bank database

    Now he's in big trouble

    A Russian computer hacker has been detained on suspicion of extorting $10,000 from a US bank after breaking into its database and threatening to publish account details. The suspect, identified only as Nikolai, was detained in the western Siberian town of Surgut after Moscow police's computer fraud unit was approached by …

    Security 29 Jan 2002, 10:24

  • Lotus roadmaps full J2EE 1.3 support

    Notes and Domino 6 due in Q3

    Lotus Software pushed squarely into the web services arena yesterday when it laid out a roadmap that will result in the company offering full support for Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.3. At the same time, the IBM software unit used its Lotusphere 2002 conference to announce the availability of the pre release beta of Notes …

    Software 29 Jan 2002, 11:09

  • 'BOFH II – Son of the Bastard' set to top Reg bestseller list

    Devilish spawn indeed

    As the sweet scent of Spring wafts through the server room, there is some exciting news for all you BOFH fans out there. First up, we are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Bastard Operator from Hell II - Son of the Bastard, the follow-up book to the highly successful Bastard Operator from Hell. Also we have …

    BOFH 29 Jan 2002, 11:18

  • Egg buys Zebank

    Focuses on 'up-market and metropolitan' punters

    Egg is to buy Zebank for E8 million (£5 million) in cash and expand its online banking business into France. The UK ebank will go live in France – which has the third largest financial services market in Europe - later this year. Egg expects to spend around £15 million in development costs to get the venture off the ground. …

    e-Business 29 Jan 2002, 12:44

  • New BT chief rules out network sale

    No means no - apparently

    BT's new chief exec, Ben Verwaayen, said yesterday that the telco's network is not for sale. Speaking at a press conference in Munich, the new broom sought to draw a line under speculation that BT might consider selling part, or all, of its UK network. The move – just days before Mr Verwaayen officially takes up his post as …

    Data Networking 29 Jan 2002, 12:47

  • Cookie monster bites Netscape and Mozilla users

    Masquerade risk unmasked

    A security bug in Netscape and Mozilla browsers could allow a malicious web site operator to access cookies on users' computers. The vulnerability, which affects Netscape older than 6.2.1 and versions of Mozilla prior to 0.9.7, allows an attacker to steal a user's cookies - if he succeeds in tricking a victim into visiting a …

    Security 29 Jan 2002, 12:51

  • Solaris on Intel out? Does that mean Linux is in?

    Probably not

    It's not that Sun is killing off Solaris on Intel, it's simply that the company isn't planning yet to move Solaris 9 to the Intel family. Graham Lovell, Sun's director of Solaris product marketing, explains that Sun isn't making any further investments in Solaris on Intel for several reasons and that the company may yet port …

    Data Center 29 Jan 2002, 13:49

  • Back Microsoft and win an iPaq

    Redmond supporters deploy techtoys

    Back Redmond and win an iPaq? Strange but true, this was indeed the offer made to a select mailing list of likely Microsoft supporters by lobbying group Americans for Technology Leadership, according to an AP report today. The offer was made in a mailshot to attendees of this week's Conservative Political Action Conference, a …

    Software 29 Jan 2002, 14:09

  • US crackers top Internet attack league

    Britain fails to chart

    Internet attacks are on the rise and more crackers come from the United States than any other country. That's the main findings of a study by real-time security services outfit RipTech of attack trends obtained from a sample of more than 300 companies in more than 25 countries during the last six months of last year. In the …

    Security 29 Jan 2002, 15:05

  • Cisco pulls plugs on new Scottish office

    Disappointment for Glasgow

    Cisco has shelved plans to establish a Scottish office that would have housed staff from two of its existing three centres in the country. The economic slowdown has forced the networking giant to review its long-term real estate plans and drop plans to unify its Bellshill and Cumbernauld offices, Cisco spokeswoman Angela Hesse …

    Data Networking 29 Jan 2002, 15:08

  • Symbian gang of five stumps up another £20m funding

    Expecting 2.5G postal orders from Q2...

    Symbian's shareholders have dug into their pockets to find an extra £20.75 million to take it "through the next phase of its development." The money comes pro-rata from existing shareholders Matsushita, Motorola, Nokia and Psion (which warned it would likely have to cough up last autumn), and from Sony Ericsson taking up …

    Data Networking 29 Jan 2002, 16:02

  • Aramiska in Northern Ireland broadband deal

    Back-scratching benefits business

    Businesses in Northern Ireland are being offered grants to hook up to broadband by satellite Some 250 small and medium-sized businesses could receive up to £1,500 each to subsidise set-up and running costs for hi-speed Net access supplied by Aramiska. The scheme is a public/private initiative funded by the Industrial Research …

    Broadband 29 Jan 2002, 16:15

  • Kodak sued in camera fiasco

    Say 'cheese'

    More than 200 people have contacted the lawyers leading the legal fight against Kodak and its disputed cut-price digital camera offer. They claim they are dissatisfied with the way they have been treated by Kodak and are eagerly awaiting the outcome of legal action against the camera company. London-based law firm Beale and …

    Media 29 Jan 2002, 18:01

  • Check Point looks to bridge small biz security gap

    Hitting the SonicWALL barrier

    Check Point Software is going after the SME market with firewall products tailored to the needs of small offices. The VPN-1/FireWall-1 SmallOffice Next Generation and lower-end Safe@Office/Home Pro products, which are based as the same underlying stateful inspection technology as Check Point's corporate offerings, are targeting …

    Security 29 Jan 2002, 18:02

  • ElcomSoft attacks DMCA in Sklyarov test case

    Vague, overly broad, misapplied

    ElcomSoft, the employer of freed Russian software developer Dmitry Sklyarov, will attack the entire basis of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) when its case comes to trial. The Russian firm will seek to establish that the DMCA is vague, overly broad and was misapplied in its case, according to motions filed by …

    Software 29 Jan 2002, 21:19

  • Palmisano confirmed as IBM CEO

    Lou 'I fell in love with IBM' Gerstner

    The only secret was when the announcement would be made: Sam Palmisano, the president and chief operating officer (COO) of IBM, will become CEO when incumbent Lou Gerstner steps down in March. This is by way of smooth succession planning. Palmisano was anointed Gerstner's successor by everyone, including us in July 2000, when …

    Business 29 Jan 2002, 21:51