A nest of poisoned websites has been quietly attacking unsuspecting visitors using an arsenal of thirteen different exploits. If the site visitor has javascript enabled and is vulnerable to any of those exploits then in no time at all their system will be compromised with a Trojan not yet recognised…
Archive for January 19th, 2008
Jan19
NVIDIA 8800GT Option for Older Mac Pros Soon?
With the release of the Penryn-based Mac Pros only two weeks ago, Apple introduced a new video card option for the Mac Pros — the NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT. Existing Mac Pro owners saw this is an opportunity to upgrade from current cards as well as ai…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Jan19
Handling HTML multi-selects in PL/SQL
Dealing with HTML multi-selects in Oracle’s PL/SQL is a bit trickier than I’d like. Depending on how many items the user picks out of the multi-select, you either get back a simple VARCHAR2 object or a special array object. This means you have to write two separate methods to deal…
Filed in: Software
Jan19
Online Dating: A Fix for the Farmer’s Dilemma
When a new girlfriend showed up to see dairy farmer Joe Engel at work, he took an anxious breath when she walked through the barn door. No doubt about it, she was cute. However, Engel, 26, had been down this country road before. “I glanced up and saw her holding her nose, and that was it,” said the farmer, whose family owns Luck-E Holsteins in Hampshire, Ill.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Jan19
Iran’s Supercomputer Envy Doesn’t Make All Iranian IT Pros Evil
In order to make the point that Iran’s illicit acquisition of AMD processors to build a supercomputer should not be allowed to fuel a blanket indictment of the Iranian IT community, I asserted in a column I wrote last month that the vast majority of Iranian technologists are no different from their U.S. counterparts. Was that a stretch? Some readers thought so.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Jan19
New Regulations for China’s YouTube Wannabes
With the number of Chinese Internet users soaring past 160 million, many venture capitalists from the U.S. are rushing to fund Web startups providing new services for China’s net surfers. Nowhere is this more evident than in video, one of the hottest sectors around. IDG Technology Venture Investment, for example, has invested in a video-sharing site, an online movie site, and a mobile-phone video site.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Jan19
New iPhone Apps: A Tantalizing Taste of What’s Ahead
At Macworld last week, Apple CEO Steve Jobs made the icons on his touch-screen iPhone jiggle. That’s right, jiggle. “They all get a little restless,” he said. The jiggling comes courtesy of Apple’s January 2008 iPhone Software Update, and it’s a feature that indicates a new mode of customization that lets you change the position of application icons on the iPhone’s home screen.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Jan19
Macworld San Francisco 2008 Concludes
Macworld San Francisco 2008 has come to a close. The 5 day conference and expo started on Monday, January 14th and ran until Friday January 18th. MacRumors.com was there for our traditional keynote coverage as well as extended floor coverage.
Filed in: Apple/Mac
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