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Comment Re:Today? (Score 3) 75

by prijks on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:17PM (#52049965) Attached to: Microsoft Overhauls SharePoint To Compete With Slack In The Mobile Era

SharePoint 2016 was released officially today (it's been out a while but General Availability was announced today). During the announcement webcast they previewed many of these features. So it wasn't so much overhauled today as it was shown publicly for the first time today...

New Massive Botnet Building On Windows Hole 223

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 01, 2008 @11:29PM from the so-patch-it-already dept.

CWmike writes "The worm exploiting a critical Windows bug that Microsoft patched with an emergency fix in late October is now being used to build a fast-growing botnet, said Ivan Macalintal, a senior research engineer with Trend Micro. Dubbed 'Downad.a' by Trend (and 'Conficker.a' by Microsoft and 'Downadup' by Symantec), the worm is a key component in a massive new botnet that a new criminal element, not associated with McColo, is creating. 'We think 500,000 is a ballpark figure,' said Macalintal when asked the size of the new botnet. 'That's not as large as some, such as [the] Kraken [botnet], or Storm earlier, but it's... starting to grow.'"

French Record Labels Go After Limewire, SourceForge 326

Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 16, 2008 @02:56AM from the lawyers-on-airplanes dept.

An anonymous reader notes that TorrentFreak is reporting: "French record labels have received the green light to sue four US-based companies that develop P2P applications, including the BitTorrent client Vuze, Limewire, and Morpheus. Shareaza is the fourth application, for which the labels are going after the open source development platform SourceForge. ... Putting aside the discussion on the responsibilities of application developers for their users activities, the decision to go after SourceForge for hosting a application that can potentially infringe, is stretching credibility beyond all bounds." SourceForge is Slashdot's corporate parent.

Comment Re:Apple is their only real competitor... (Score 1) 959

by prijks on Thursday July 29, 2004 @10:44PM (#9839892) Attached to: Most Reliable Personal Computer I've Owned:

...except for their power cords. I've had four power cords for two powerbooks go bad. My most recent one only lasted a year, despite my being extra-cautious with it, given my past experience.

And I know one person who claims to have gone through three cords on his current powerbook and another friend is on his second cord for his powerbook he's only had a couple years.

You'd think at $80 a piece, they could make the things last a little longer.

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