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China’s cyber warfare army is marching on, and India is suffering silently. Over the past one and a half years, officials said, China has mounted almost daily attacks on Indian computer networks, both government and private, showing its intent and capability.

The sustained assault almost coincides with the history of the present political disquiet between the two countries.

According to senior government officials, these attacks are not isolated incidents of something so generic or basic as "hacking" — they are far more sophisticated and complete — and there is a method behind the madness.


Publicly, senior government officials, when questioned, take refuge under the argument that "hacking" is a routine activity and happens from many areas around the world. But privately, they acknowledge that the cyber warfare threat from China is more real than from other countries.

The core of the assault is that the Chinese are constantly scanning and mapping India’s official networks. This gives them a very good idea of not only the content but also of how to disable the networks or distract them during a conflict.

Awesome stuff, war that doesn't involve people dying. Still, if China and India decide to tear at each others throats the world will suck just a little bit more.

China mounts cyber attacks on Indian sites
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Linux is Unix in a new Package?

May 3rd 2008 07:14
Troubled software maker SCO's chief executive has claimed the Linux operating system includes Unix source code, during a court case in which Novell is suing SCO for royalties on Unix.

In the hearing, which concludes on Friday, SCO chief executive Darl McBride made claims--including that "Linux is a copy of Unix"--which are directly contradicted by the open-source community and apparently run counter to other SCO testimony, according to trial watchers, including Ars Technica.

SCO sued IBM in 2003, claiming that the IT giant had used copyright code from the Unix operating system which SCO sold, and later extended this suit to other Linux vendors. However, last August, Judge Dale Kimball ruled that Novell, not SCO, owns Unix. A four-day court case is now determining Novell's claim for up to $20 million in royalties from SCO, which declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year.


Sounds more like desperation.



SCO chief testifies: 'Linux is a copy of Unix'
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Linux is Begging You To Install It

April 30th 2008 12:38
The image kind of says it all, 'Please, install me on as many computers as possible! See how awesome I am? I really am!'.

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To everyone who bought the 2G iPhone, or worse, imported it from the US: Sucker.

When the 3G iPhone is introduced this summer, AT&T, the exclusive U.S. iPhone sales partner with Apple, will cut the price by as much as $200, according to a person familiar with the strategy.

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Sentinels

April 29th 2008 13:39
Continuing with our post apocalyptic theme it seems that we now have the sentinels from 'The Matrix' to worry about:


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Now all we need is to make it work with millions of pieces a whole lot faster

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Firefox Safari Internet Explorer
One argument against Microsoft based software is that they are less 'secure'. Now personally I don't understand the concept of software being less secure, if you're not doing anything stupid you probably won't have to deal with anything nasty.

Having said that I think it is becoming more and more obvious, if Microsoft’s software was ever less secure it was not because of poor software practices but rather the obscurity of its competitors. Unfortunately for the open source community they can no longer just talk as such software as Firefox becomes more and more mainstream


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WHY? WHY? Can someone please tell me just WHY? Why do people prefer Macs over PCs? Why do people want to pay $700 more for a system that is effectively half as powerful as that of a competitors.

The cheapest Macbook Pro on Apple.com.au is being sold for a whopping $2700, what does it come with? Lets see, 2gb RAM, 200GB hard drive, 15 inch widescreen monitor, 2.4ghz core 2 duo, and the infamous 'super drive' (i.e. dvd burner


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Why Windows Won't Collapse

April 12th 2008 15:38
Windows Logo
Lots of people make a living predicting the 'inevitable' end of Microsoft's dominance, indeed long after Microsoft’s honeymoon with the tech community ended an entire new breed of journalists and market analysts have come into being, their sole job is predicting when Microsoft will collapse and just how it will collapse. Fact of the matter is Microsoft won't collapse and Gartner's recent blabber does not change that.

The reason Windows won't collapse is because Microsoft stays ahead of the game, now I know this might not be the correct thing to say considering it is a rule of thumb to 'know' that Microsoft does nothing but copy. Yet, here's the thing, Gartner says that the future of computing will be OS independent, that is everything will run from a browser. He believes Google Docs, which is a direct competitor with Microsoft Word, is an example of how Microsoft will lose its grip in the OS world


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Apple Sends Mixed Message

March 27th 2008 11:15
Someone actually read the Firefox EULA, wow, and found draconian terms and conditions (who would have thought?).

In using Apple Software Update to slip his Safari browser onto millions of Windows PCs, Steve Jobs didn't just undermine "the security of the whole Web". He's made a mockery of end user licensing agreements.

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