Earlier this week, YouTube pulled the plug on funnyman and media artist Santeri Ojala, whose hilarious and popular “shredding” videos poke fun at the world’s greatest guitar players. Here, for your viewing pleasure, are the videos YouTube refuses to host.
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Microsoft has been looking for a new head of its OEM business since late last year. It has found one: Steve Guggenheimer, head of the company’s application platform business.
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Be gentle on your fingers, and try the Wacker BH24 for all your cement-drilling needs. The 57-pound demo machine purports to reduce shudder to the operator’s body, while hammering through some of the hardest surfaces.
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Discover how the leap year came into being, and why those unfortunate people born between born September 3 to 13 had no birthday in 1752.
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SCALE is no Macworld. First of all, the Linux community doesn’t have a charismatic marketing genius like Steve Jobs hawking products on a stage with a three-story screen behind him and an audiovisual program to make U2 jealous. No, we’ve got Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman — and they’re not here.
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The battle for the hearts and minds of social networkers goes on. Facebook fired the latest shot Thursday with the launch of a Spanish-language version of its site.
It plans to launch French and German versions by April. Chief rival MySpace is already available in 13 languages.
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Mozilla released an update Thursday that corrects several vulnerabilities in the Firefox Web browser. Firefox 2.0.0.12 patches critical flaws that could result in Web browsing history and forward navigation stealing; privilege escalation that could allow cross-site scripting exploits; and crashes with evidence of memory corruption.
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It is important for a security professional to have good security resources in his or her virtual toolbox. This article is a simple list of some of the resources I keep handy these days. This list covers a wide range, including an encryption resource, a way to quickly…
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It’s important for a security professional to have good security resources in his or her virtual toolbox. Here’s a simple list of some of the resources I keep handy these days. This list covers a wide range, including an encryption resource, a way to quickly search for exploits, a recent…
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If you haven’t already heard, the U.S. government is going digital. Exhibit A: President Bush submitted his 2009 budget proposal to Congress electronically, and he held up a tablet PC for the photogs to illustrate just how tech-savvy he is. OK, so that’s not exactly Web 2.0, but then there’s Exhibit B: The TSA has started a blog called “Evolution of Security.”
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