Andy Pennell from Microsoft responds to the question of where Microsoft BMP format is defined and points to the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats, which seems to be an excellent resource on everything graphics-related. Even if you’re not re-inventing the next GIF format, there’s a useful chapter on the basics of data compression as well as multimedia formats.
Blue Security will supposedly rock your world by parsing your spam, following the links onto it, finding the contact forms on the Web site that actually sells the stuff and asking the owner nicely to please stop spamming. After analyzing user’s spam report, they will send a message to the spammer each time another Blue Frog user reports receiving e-mail from the outfit.
So after signing up I was given an address to forward my spam to - prostoalex@reports.bluesecurity.com - and there’s a client to download. The purpose of the client, as far as I get it, is to complain every 10 minutes about being logged out, so you have to bring up the log-in window and re-type the username and password. But overall, interesting approach.
Are you a proud owner of Kia Rio, Mitsubishi Lancer, Nissan Sentra, Ford Ranger, Ford Explorer Sport Trac, Dodge Neon, Chrysler Sebring, Lincoln LS V-6, Lincoln Navigator or Mazda B-series vehicle? Forbes magazine has some news - these cars made it into the list of the worst cars you can currently buy. Forbes created the list based on three criteria: the worst crash test scores, the lowest projected reliability and the lowest projected residual values.
Considering the way that the commute to work is getting longer and longer while free time is getting shorter and shorter; Here is an article about how to make that long drive just a little bit more enjoyable and you might just be able to get something done.
Virtualization is the process of dividing a physical server to run more workloads. Therefore, virtualization makes hardware more efficient. However, if you decide to consolidate the workloads of many physical servers onto a single physical server that runs virtualization technology, there is a drawback.
Get two research companies in the room, and you’ll likely end up with three opinions. Bear Sterns quotes ComScore Networks data, which says that Google’s share of searches is slipping, down to 36.9% in June 2005. WebSideStory, a Web research company, on the other hand, claims that in June 2005 hit a new record as far as share of searches, hitting 52%, leaving rivals far behind.
When Jerome K. Jerome in 1889 described going to the British Museum to read medical encyclopedia and subsequently finding symptoms of almost all diseases in his body, he didn’t realize the problem would exacerbate more than a century later. Web hypochondriacs are calling up doctors with requests for prescriptions for all sorts of diseases, since they discovered some similar symptoms on the Web. Wall Street Journal quotes a doctor: “My impression is that people believe more of what they read than what I tell them. It seems that traditional Western medicine based on scientific evidence is less and less trusted by the general public. Meanwhile, some dubious theory from the Internet will be swallowed hook, line and sinker nine times out of 10.”
The inventor of Ethernet Bob Metcalfe is interviewed by AlwaysOn on current issues. Metcalfe is known for challenging commonly accepted wisdom and this time he’s quite confrontational.
On open source and operating systems:
If you look at Windows and Linux, both are based on 25-year-old technology. Windows is sort of a GUI version of the Mac’s operating system, and Linux is of course Unix, which stems from 1968. These are both old clunkers. So the question is, Where are the new operating systems likely to come from?
On IPv6 adoption and IETF:
Back when you attended the IETF, you all looked down your noses at the ITU (or I guess it was called CCITT at the time)—the entrenched, corporately manipulated, corrupt, competent standards being embodied in IT. We were the IETF—the swashbuckling, institution-oriented, open people, the rebels. That’s changed now. The Internet has arrived, and all of those people are now just like ITU: IETF has become the ITU.
Good discussion on setting up an LLC, and whether you’d need a lawyer and accountant.
Pamela is a plugin for skype with ton of great features including: 2-way call recording, create podcasts, email forwarding of voice messages, fully customisable greeting messages, time scheduling function, and more.