11th August 2007 Archive

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Investigator ridicules UK visa site

'Upside down pyramid' about to topple

Security on websites used to apply for UK visas is utter crap, an independent investigator looking into the matter has concluded - in so many words. They should remain shuttered until a list of improvements are completed by the governmental agency responsible for processing applications and the India-based private contractor …

Security 11 Aug 2007, 00:04
Novell owns Unix copyrights after all

Judge tells SCO to find its checkbook

The SCO Group today took a major shot to the groin, when a judge confirmed that Novell still owns the Unix operating system copyrights. US District Judge Dale Kimball issued a decision that spent 100 pages working its way through the various claims and counterclaims presented by SCO and Novell over the years, concerning Unix …

Servers 11 Aug 2007, 00:32
AK-wielding geckos levitate in from the Tower of Doom

Comments We're all too busy smirting to stop them

Another week goes by and there are more lizards, more weapons, more examples of verbal silliness and, of course, more comments. Note: some comments are attributed to "Anon". This is shorthand and stands for "The Anointed One"; he who is all-knowing, all-reading and on-all-commenting. Desperate for something to do with …

Letters 11 Aug 2007, 00:39
Australia declares war on net porn

Filter this!

Within the last 24 hours the Australian Commonwealth Government announced that they would be spending AUS$189m (US$162m) on a range of packages and programs designed to protect Australian Internet users against all that the Internet has to offer, under the name Netalert. With increasing increasing coverage by the Australian …

Telecoms 11 Aug 2007, 01:36
Manchester music impresario dies

So farewell then, Tony Wilson

Rare was the day when Anthony Wilson, the Manchester music impresario and local TV presenter who died yesterday, couldn't walk down the street in his home city without a murmur of "wanker" and "twat". It was as much as a part of the city as the incessant drizzle. But Wilson revelled in the role of camp, ironic, antihero and …

Music and Media 11 Aug 2007, 05:22
State of the ALM art

Interview Xeau's Barry Gilbert speaks with David Norfolk

I've been an enthusiast for ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) since the days of AD Cycle in the 1980s – but I can't help noticing that universal adoption still seems to be some way off. Perhaps it's the "hero culture" we have in IT: the ALM promises of "getting it right first time, good alignment with the business and no …

Developer 11 Aug 2007, 08:02
Google's permanent video sales less-than-permanent

Stupid people out of luck

So much for buying and renting videos from Google. On Wednesday, August 15, the world's most popular search engine waves goodbye to the DTO/DTR (download-to-own/download-to-rent) feature on Google Video, the video site that's played a barely-audible second fiddle ever since Google acquired the nothing-but-free-clips YouTube late …

Music and Media 11 Aug 2007, 08:25