8th November 2002 Archive

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Ant magic at IT-Minds.com

30 per cent off 'The Ant Developers Handbook'

This week's featured book from Reg associate IT-minds.com offers Reg readers the chance to acquaint themselves with Ant. As an open source tool, Ant is a readily available and cost-effective tool for Java developers. Until now, however, users have not had the benefit of a comprehensive written guide. The Ant Developers …

Site News 8 Nov 2002, 13:00
Xbox pulls ahead of GameCube in UK

PS2 still the Daddy

While sales of the PS2 continues to thrash everything out of sight, the battle for second place is where the real action is, with Microsoft forging ahead of Nintendo in the latest figures released. Largely thanks to the Sega value bundle, Xbox sales for the week ending November 3rd soared by some 42 per cent to 10,371, …

Personal 8 Nov 2002, 14:25
The XXX Clause is Obscene

This article may be freely reproduced

Last summer, the EU passed a new Copyright Directive, which is intended to limit your future ability to listen to, share, trade and enjoy digital music, films or books. The UK's proposed implementation of that Directive (available at http://www.patent.gov.uk/about/consultations/eccopyright/summary.htm ) appears to have been …

Music and Media 8 Nov 2002, 15:26
Of TCPA, Palladium and Wernher von Braun

And whether you'll be able to trust your computer, RSN...

The Register left the pub fairly early, so we can't be absolutely certain that yesterday's Trusted Computing Masterclass in London passed off without bloodshed, but we're pretty certain it did. The audience was well-behaved, Alan Cox just about kept the lid on cruel jibes about convicted monopolists, and Microsoft Palladium …

Software 8 Nov 2002, 17:15
Kaspersky mailing list hijacked!

Script kiddies inject Braid worm

Oops! Kaspersky Labs' antivirus mailing list became the unwitting vector for the spread of Braid, the latest email worm, today after script kiddies outfoxed the veteran Russian virus fighters. Recipients to the mailing list looked on in bemusement, and some concern, as the original virus-ladened email generated multiple bounced …

Anti-Virus 8 Nov 2002, 22:13
“This MS Antitrust story was created by a computer program”

Can you tell?

Google's News service is remarkable: and the most astonishing thing about it is that it is generated automatically. " The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program," says a note at the foot of each page. But why stop there? Why not use Perl scripts to generate the copy …

Software 8 Nov 2002, 22:36