KATE BUSH has announced details of her new album.
The singer will release the double-LP ’Aerial’ on November 7.
The record will mark the eccentric performer’s first since 1993’s ’The Red Shoes’.
’Aerial’ will be preceded by the single ’King Of The Mountain’ on October 24.
No live dates have been announced, though Bush has only toured once during her career, in 1979.
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Esta fue la artista que Tory Amos shamelessly ripped off despues de su intento fallido ser una estrella del meeeeeeeeetaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal en Y Kan't Tory Read.
De la discografia de la Bush recomiendo "The Dreaming" y "Hounds of Love". Para los paramecios con ADD ella fue la que originalmente canto "Don't Give Up" con Peter Gabriel en "So".
Ches I like her very much.
Opinion: Five reasons NOT to use Linux
Opinion: Five reasons NOT to use Linux
Aug. 29, 2005
I love Linux. I use it on my servers, I use it on my desktops, and I use it on my entertainment center, where it powers my HDTV TiVo and my D-Link DSM-320 media player, which turns my network into a media library with terabytes of storage. Heck, I even run Linux on my Linksys WRT54G Wi-Fi access points, which hook the whole shebang together.
But, Linux isn't for everyone. Seriously. Here are my top five reasons why you shouldn't move to Linux . . .
Reason number one: Linux is too complicated
Even with the KDE and GNOME graphical windowing interfaces, it's possible -- not likely, but possible -- that you'll need to use a command line now and again, or edit a configuration file.
Compare that with Windows where, it's possible -- not likely, but possible -- that you'll need to use a command line now and again, or edit the Windows registry, where, as they like to tell you, one wrong move could destroy your system forever.
Reason number two: Linux is a pain to set up
It's true. After all, with modern Linuxes like Xandros Desktop or SimplyMEPIS, you need to put in a CD or DVD, press the enter button, give your computer a name, and enter a password for the administrator account.
Gosh, that's hard.
On the other hand, with Windows, all you have to do is put in a CD or DVD, do all the above, and then immediately download all the available patches. After all, Symantec has found that an unpatched Windows PC connected to the Internet will last only a few hours before being compromised.
Unpatched Linux systems? Oh, they last months, but what's the fun of that?
Reason number three: Linux doesn't have enough applications
Really now. I mean, most Linux systems only come with secure Web browsers, like Firefox; e-mail clients, like Evolution; IM clients, like GAIM; office suites, like OpenOffice.org 2.0; Web page editors, like Nvu; and on, and on, and...
Microsoft, on the other hand, gives you Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, the most popular Web browser and e-mail client around -- even though they do have a few little, teeny-weeny problems. Of course, Windows also has an IM-client, Windows Messenger, which, come to think of it, has also had some problems.
And, Microsoft also has Microsoft Office, which -- oh wait, you don't get that with the operating system, do you? You also don't get a Web page editor either, do you?
Well, still, with Windows you get so many more choices of software, don't you? Like Lotus 1-2... oh really? I didn't know that. Or, WordPerfect... oh, pretty much dead too.
Still, so long as you want to run Microsoft programs at Microsoft prices, Windows is the operating system for you!
Reason number 4: Linux isn't secure
If Microsoft says so, it has to be true! So what, if you can scarcely go a week without reading about yet another major Windows security problem in our sister publication, eWEEK.com's security section! Who would you rather believe -- Microsoft, or your own eyes?
Reason number 5: Linux is more expensive
Are you calling Microsoft a liar? Those nasty Linux companies, like Red Hat or Novell/SUSE charge you a fee for support. Others, like Linspire sell you the product. How dare they, when you can download free, fully-functional versions of almost all the Linux distributions.
Your computer, on the other hand, almost certainly came with Windows pre-installed! For free!
Oh wait, it's not free? Windows' actually makes up a large percentage of your PC's price?
Hmmm. Well, still, it's already on there, and it has everything you need.
Right? Of course, right!
Except, of course, you might still want to buy an anti-viral program (Norton Anti-Virus: $40), anti-spyware software (McAfee Anti-Spyware: $25); and a full-featured firewall (Zone Alarm Pro: $35). But, hey, who needs those when you have a secure operating system like Windows!
And so...
When you really think about it, you can see why there are lots of reasons not to use Linux.
There just aren't any good ones.
--Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Aug. 29, 2005
I love Linux. I use it on my servers, I use it on my desktops, and I use it on my entertainment center, where it powers my HDTV TiVo and my D-Link DSM-320 media player, which turns my network into a media library with terabytes of storage. Heck, I even run Linux on my Linksys WRT54G Wi-Fi access points, which hook the whole shebang together.
But, Linux isn't for everyone. Seriously. Here are my top five reasons why you shouldn't move to Linux . . .
Reason number one: Linux is too complicated
Even with the KDE and GNOME graphical windowing interfaces, it's possible -- not likely, but possible -- that you'll need to use a command line now and again, or edit a configuration file.
Compare that with Windows where, it's possible -- not likely, but possible -- that you'll need to use a command line now and again, or edit the Windows registry, where, as they like to tell you, one wrong move could destroy your system forever.
Reason number two: Linux is a pain to set up
It's true. After all, with modern Linuxes like Xandros Desktop or SimplyMEPIS, you need to put in a CD or DVD, press the enter button, give your computer a name, and enter a password for the administrator account.
Gosh, that's hard.
On the other hand, with Windows, all you have to do is put in a CD or DVD, do all the above, and then immediately download all the available patches. After all, Symantec has found that an unpatched Windows PC connected to the Internet will last only a few hours before being compromised.
Unpatched Linux systems? Oh, they last months, but what's the fun of that?
Reason number three: Linux doesn't have enough applications
Really now. I mean, most Linux systems only come with secure Web browsers, like Firefox; e-mail clients, like Evolution; IM clients, like GAIM; office suites, like OpenOffice.org 2.0; Web page editors, like Nvu; and on, and on, and...
Microsoft, on the other hand, gives you Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, the most popular Web browser and e-mail client around -- even though they do have a few little, teeny-weeny problems. Of course, Windows also has an IM-client, Windows Messenger, which, come to think of it, has also had some problems.
And, Microsoft also has Microsoft Office, which -- oh wait, you don't get that with the operating system, do you? You also don't get a Web page editor either, do you?
Well, still, with Windows you get so many more choices of software, don't you? Like Lotus 1-2... oh really? I didn't know that. Or, WordPerfect... oh, pretty much dead too.
Still, so long as you want to run Microsoft programs at Microsoft prices, Windows is the operating system for you!
Reason number 4: Linux isn't secure
If Microsoft says so, it has to be true! So what, if you can scarcely go a week without reading about yet another major Windows security problem in our sister publication, eWEEK.com's security section! Who would you rather believe -- Microsoft, or your own eyes?
Reason number 5: Linux is more expensive
Are you calling Microsoft a liar? Those nasty Linux companies, like Red Hat or Novell/SUSE charge you a fee for support. Others, like Linspire sell you the product. How dare they, when you can download free, fully-functional versions of almost all the Linux distributions.
Your computer, on the other hand, almost certainly came with Windows pre-installed! For free!
Oh wait, it's not free? Windows' actually makes up a large percentage of your PC's price?
Hmmm. Well, still, it's already on there, and it has everything you need.
Right? Of course, right!
Except, of course, you might still want to buy an anti-viral program (Norton Anti-Virus: $40), anti-spyware software (McAfee Anti-Spyware: $25); and a full-featured firewall (Zone Alarm Pro: $35). But, hey, who needs those when you have a secure operating system like Windows!
And so...
When you really think about it, you can see why there are lots of reasons not to use Linux.
There just aren't any good ones.
--Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
:: Interviews : MEPIS: the miniature monster of Morgantown, West Virginia
An Warren Woodford the founder of MEPIS Linux distro. A good read.
Xtreme Defense
Xtreme Defense: "Xtreme Defense
Lightning guns, heat rays, weapons that can make you hear the voice of God. This is what happens when the war on terror meets the entrepreneurial spirit
By Sharon Weinberger
Sunday, August 28, 2005; Page W18
'This is very clandestine,' Pete Bitar whispered, as his red Dodge Caravan idled in the parking lot of a Burger King near Fort Belvoir. 'They called last week, and they wanted delivery this week.'
It did feel a little clandestine, if a bit unlikely. Yet there, in the Burger King parking lot, a small transaction in America's war on terror was about to take place. In the minivan were Bitar, the president and founder of Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems (XADS), Edward Fry, the company's research coordinator, and George Gibbs, of Marine Corps Systems Command, who two years ago plucked Bitar's obscure company out of its paper existence and provided it with more than half a million dollars in Pentagon funding.
They were waiting for Superman.
Bitar had battled start-up disappointments and even ridicule -- not to mention January cold and Beltway rush-hour traffic -- to seal his first Pentagon deal. The procurement order had gone through so quickly that the Indiana-based Bitar, who was in town for a conference, agreed to make his final delivery at the Burger King to avoid the hassle of getting onto the Virginia Army base.
Bitar flipped open a case containing his first sale: the 'dazzler,' one in a line of about a half-dozen 'nonlethal' weapons that XADS is marketing to the military. It looked like an executive pen: slick, green and flecked with gold. But the pen was really a green laser designed to disorient and temporarily blind an enemy. Sale price: $1,100 apiece.
It looked, to use one of Bitar's favorite phrases, really cool.
Bitar glanced up. 'There's Superman.'
Sure enough, a broad-shouldered man materialized in front of the Caravan. He was wearing a leather jacket embroidered with the familiar 'S' emblem and a matching tie.
Superman stuck out his hand and introduced himself: Shane Gilmore. Pentagon folks seem especially fond of quirky nicknames and are not above cultivating that mystique. Asked about the Kryptonian symbols, he'd say only, 'I'm Superman.' But today he wasn't saving the world, just trying to protect it as part of an Army task force buying equipment for troops in Iraq. They had placed an order for 13 of Bitar's dazzlers. Supercharged versions of commercial laser pointers, dazzlers are the lowest-tech of Bitar's weapons, and they're not what initially caught the Pentagon's eye. Rather, it was his concept for a gun that could shoot bolts of artificial lightning to paralyze, but not kill, an enemy, like a 'Star Trek' phaser set on stun.
After handing over the goods, Bitar explained his unusual entry into the high-tech weapons market as he headed into Arlington for dinner. The lightning gun began, literally, as a daydream when Bitar was running a Styrofoam recycling business in the early 1990s. Watching the machinery that cut up the used material, he noticed sparks shooting into the air. He began to wonder, at first idly and then more intensely, if there was a way to extend the sparks' range.
But he had no engineering or technical expertise, and his speculation went nowhere.
A decade later, Bitar was no closer to becoming an experimental weapons entrepreneur. But he did have a new business, founded largely to fund an 'extreme' hobby of his, powered paragliding. The idea was to turn enthusiasts of the sport -- who strap motors to their backs, take off running, then yank open a parachute -- into flying billboards. He called it XADS -- for 'Xtreme Ads,' as in advertising."
Lightning guns, heat rays, weapons that can make you hear the voice of God. This is what happens when the war on terror meets the entrepreneurial spirit
By Sharon Weinberger
Sunday, August 28, 2005; Page W18
'This is very clandestine,' Pete Bitar whispered, as his red Dodge Caravan idled in the parking lot of a Burger King near Fort Belvoir. 'They called last week, and they wanted delivery this week.'
It did feel a little clandestine, if a bit unlikely. Yet there, in the Burger King parking lot, a small transaction in America's war on terror was about to take place. In the minivan were Bitar, the president and founder of Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems (XADS), Edward Fry, the company's research coordinator, and George Gibbs, of Marine Corps Systems Command, who two years ago plucked Bitar's obscure company out of its paper existence and provided it with more than half a million dollars in Pentagon funding.
They were waiting for Superman.
Bitar had battled start-up disappointments and even ridicule -- not to mention January cold and Beltway rush-hour traffic -- to seal his first Pentagon deal. The procurement order had gone through so quickly that the Indiana-based Bitar, who was in town for a conference, agreed to make his final delivery at the Burger King to avoid the hassle of getting onto the Virginia Army base.
Bitar flipped open a case containing his first sale: the 'dazzler,' one in a line of about a half-dozen 'nonlethal' weapons that XADS is marketing to the military. It looked like an executive pen: slick, green and flecked with gold. But the pen was really a green laser designed to disorient and temporarily blind an enemy. Sale price: $1,100 apiece.
It looked, to use one of Bitar's favorite phrases, really cool.
Bitar glanced up. 'There's Superman.'
Sure enough, a broad-shouldered man materialized in front of the Caravan. He was wearing a leather jacket embroidered with the familiar 'S' emblem and a matching tie.
Superman stuck out his hand and introduced himself: Shane Gilmore. Pentagon folks seem especially fond of quirky nicknames and are not above cultivating that mystique. Asked about the Kryptonian symbols, he'd say only, 'I'm Superman.' But today he wasn't saving the world, just trying to protect it as part of an Army task force buying equipment for troops in Iraq. They had placed an order for 13 of Bitar's dazzlers. Supercharged versions of commercial laser pointers, dazzlers are the lowest-tech of Bitar's weapons, and they're not what initially caught the Pentagon's eye. Rather, it was his concept for a gun that could shoot bolts of artificial lightning to paralyze, but not kill, an enemy, like a 'Star Trek' phaser set on stun.
After handing over the goods, Bitar explained his unusual entry into the high-tech weapons market as he headed into Arlington for dinner. The lightning gun began, literally, as a daydream when Bitar was running a Styrofoam recycling business in the early 1990s. Watching the machinery that cut up the used material, he noticed sparks shooting into the air. He began to wonder, at first idly and then more intensely, if there was a way to extend the sparks' range.
But he had no engineering or technical expertise, and his speculation went nowhere.
A decade later, Bitar was no closer to becoming an experimental weapons entrepreneur. But he did have a new business, founded largely to fund an 'extreme' hobby of his, powered paragliding. The idea was to turn enthusiasts of the sport -- who strap motors to their backs, take off running, then yank open a parachute -- into flying billboards. He called it XADS -- for 'Xtreme Ads,' as in advertising."
SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- 5 indicted in spyware e-mail case
SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- 5 indicted in spyware e-mail case: "Jealous lovers could monitor recipients; ex-S.D. man sought
By Onell R. Soto
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
August 27, 2005
The spyware program was designed for private detectives, authorities said, but it really took off when it was marketed to jealous lovers.
'Catch a cheating lover,' the San Diego company's Web site boasted. 'Send them an e-Greeting card!'
Advertisement
The cards, Lover Spy promised, deployed software to track everything that unsuspecting recipients did on their computers. About 1,000 people signed up before the FBI shut the company down in October 2003.
One Laguna Beach man targeted his former girlfriend. A Long Beach woman went after her ex-fiance. An Irvine man wanted to know more about his estranged sister. And a Pennsylvania woman wanted to check out whether her boyfriend was cheating on her.
Federal prosecutors announced computer hacking indictments yesterday against all four and against Carlos Enrique Perez Melara, the 25-year-old former San Diego man who prosecutors say created the software they used.
Perez, a native of El Salvador, probably is in the Los Angeles area, said Stewart Roberts, the second highest-ranking agent at the San Diego FBI office.
Crime Stoppers has offered a $1,000 reward.
Perez is charged with 35 crimes, each of which carries a potential five-year prison sentence if he is convicted.
Spyware is one of the fastest-growing examples of malicious software, a computer security expert said.
It is designed to track what computer users do.
Some types – the fastest-growing segment – use such information to select which pop-up ads users see when using the Internet.
However, other software can be used by identity thieves to get account numbers and passwords, said David Cole, director of Symantec Security Response, part of the company that produces the Norton anti-virus software.
More than half the malicious software submitted to his company by suspicious users and computer security professionals is designed to aid identity theft, he said.
'We're seeing more spyware,' he said.
The FBI has not found any instances of identity theft linked to the Lover Spy software. The agency has notified all 2,000 victims via e-mail.
One of the victims of the program said yesterday she was shocked by the invasion of her privacy.
'I didn't know it was on my computer until the FBI contacted me,' she said.
The resident of a small town in central Pennsylvania said she didn't want her name used because her privacy had been breached enough by the woman who was spying on her.
'She contacted me because she thought that I was dating her boyfriend, but it wasn't true,' she said. 'I had never met him. I didn't know who he was.'
She said she was sympathetic with the suspicious girlfriend and struck up a friendly e-mail relationship.
'She sent me a greeting card on the Internet through my e-mail and that's how she got into my computer,' she said. 'She had access to everything.'
She said she regularly updated her anti-virus software and checked for malicious programs, but none of those measures detected the program when her computer was infected.
Such programs have since been updated to catch the Lover Spy software, which tracked Internet use, e-mail and everything typed on infected computers and could be used to turn on cameras hooked up to the personal computers, said the FBI's Roberts.
Employers and parents use similar surveillance software on computers they own to keep track of their workers and children, he said.
Perez advertised the $89 software on a Web site and through unsolicited e-mail.
The software was deployed on computers around the world, which would send information to Perez's customers and to him at his downtown San Diego apartment, prosecutor Mitch Dembin said.
'People were spying on others simply to learn what they were doing,' he said.
The FBI began investigating after getting a tip from someone who got e-mail spam from the company. Perez was present when agents raided his apartment and took his computers Oct. 10, 2003, but has since disappeared, Roberts said."
By Onell R. Soto
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
August 27, 2005
The spyware program was designed for private detectives, authorities said, but it really took off when it was marketed to jealous lovers.
'Catch a cheating lover,' the San Diego company's Web site boasted. 'Send them an e-Greeting card!'
Advertisement
The cards, Lover Spy promised, deployed software to track everything that unsuspecting recipients did on their computers. About 1,000 people signed up before the FBI shut the company down in October 2003.
One Laguna Beach man targeted his former girlfriend. A Long Beach woman went after her ex-fiance. An Irvine man wanted to know more about his estranged sister. And a Pennsylvania woman wanted to check out whether her boyfriend was cheating on her.
Federal prosecutors announced computer hacking indictments yesterday against all four and against Carlos Enrique Perez Melara, the 25-year-old former San Diego man who prosecutors say created the software they used.
Perez, a native of El Salvador, probably is in the Los Angeles area, said Stewart Roberts, the second highest-ranking agent at the San Diego FBI office.
Crime Stoppers has offered a $1,000 reward.
Perez is charged with 35 crimes, each of which carries a potential five-year prison sentence if he is convicted.
Spyware is one of the fastest-growing examples of malicious software, a computer security expert said.
It is designed to track what computer users do.
Some types – the fastest-growing segment – use such information to select which pop-up ads users see when using the Internet.
However, other software can be used by identity thieves to get account numbers and passwords, said David Cole, director of Symantec Security Response, part of the company that produces the Norton anti-virus software.
More than half the malicious software submitted to his company by suspicious users and computer security professionals is designed to aid identity theft, he said.
'We're seeing more spyware,' he said.
The FBI has not found any instances of identity theft linked to the Lover Spy software. The agency has notified all 2,000 victims via e-mail.
One of the victims of the program said yesterday she was shocked by the invasion of her privacy.
'I didn't know it was on my computer until the FBI contacted me,' she said.
The resident of a small town in central Pennsylvania said she didn't want her name used because her privacy had been breached enough by the woman who was spying on her.
'She contacted me because she thought that I was dating her boyfriend, but it wasn't true,' she said. 'I had never met him. I didn't know who he was.'
She said she was sympathetic with the suspicious girlfriend and struck up a friendly e-mail relationship.
'She sent me a greeting card on the Internet through my e-mail and that's how she got into my computer,' she said. 'She had access to everything.'
She said she regularly updated her anti-virus software and checked for malicious programs, but none of those measures detected the program when her computer was infected.
Such programs have since been updated to catch the Lover Spy software, which tracked Internet use, e-mail and everything typed on infected computers and could be used to turn on cameras hooked up to the personal computers, said the FBI's Roberts.
Employers and parents use similar surveillance software on computers they own to keep track of their workers and children, he said.
Perez advertised the $89 software on a Web site and through unsolicited e-mail.
The software was deployed on computers around the world, which would send information to Perez's customers and to him at his downtown San Diego apartment, prosecutor Mitch Dembin said.
'People were spying on others simply to learn what they were doing,' he said.
The FBI began investigating after getting a tip from someone who got e-mail spam from the company. Perez was present when agents raided his apartment and took his computers Oct. 10, 2003, but has since disappeared, Roberts said."
Sabado 3 de Septiembre @ Nuestro Ambiente
Y las damas entraran GRATIS TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODA LA NOCHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Can you say w00t?
Can you say w00t?
Comunidades de PulsoRock.com - Rese?a Psiconautas y Razorsun @ Communion
Comunidades de PulsoRock.com - Rese?a Psiconautas y Razorsun @ Communion: "Rese?a Psiconautas y Razorsun @ Communion
Strike 1: Larga fila para entrar. Pero puej. Mejor, hicieron plata esa noche.
Strike 2: No happy hour. Pero los tragos estaban cargaditos.
Strike 3: El sonido no ayudo a las bandas para nada
Psiconautas toco un set bastante largo pero cool. Lamentablemente tenian los teclados altisimos y casi no se escuchaba la voz, pero ellos tenian telepatia entre ellos asi que estaban sonando ponchados dentro de las circunstancias. Como dijo To?o tocando a lo guerrillero.
Se nota que Razorsun trajo a su gente y eso porque los estaban aplaudiendo mucho. Ellos quieren ser Evanescence pero el problema es que la cantante no tiene la garganta de Amy, las guitarras estaban tan altas y a veces desafinadas que no se escuchaban ni ella ni la tecladista. Eso si, el batero le mete muy bien a la cosa. Props to him. Pero en verdad imaginense a Yanina (Objetivo Fama) de frontwoman de Evanescence con el toque rockero macondiano (VAYA MI GENTE!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) y pues tienen una idea de lo que es Razorsun. A la cantante le auguro un brillante futuro cantando merengue y bachata en fiestas patronales y cafetines. Y puej, Alejandra no toca teclados en Razorsun pero la que tienen de tecladista esta trinkable. En fin, Razorsun es otro caso mas de PERO LA CANTANTE ESTA BUENA......o algo
Wilie Wanker y el Carlos se botaron como DJ's pero por favor para la proxima vez mejor sonido PLIS!
Ah y por supuesto no podian faltar los gay crackho dancers pero puej todo cool. Eso y el bartender de abajo que le grito a un ignaro EL UNICO HAPPY HOUR QUE TENGO ES DE LECHE me hicieron la noche.
Gracias y buenos dias!"
Strike 1: Larga fila para entrar. Pero puej. Mejor, hicieron plata esa noche.
Strike 2: No happy hour. Pero los tragos estaban cargaditos.
Strike 3: El sonido no ayudo a las bandas para nada
Psiconautas toco un set bastante largo pero cool. Lamentablemente tenian los teclados altisimos y casi no se escuchaba la voz, pero ellos tenian telepatia entre ellos asi que estaban sonando ponchados dentro de las circunstancias. Como dijo To?o tocando a lo guerrillero.
Se nota que Razorsun trajo a su gente y eso porque los estaban aplaudiendo mucho. Ellos quieren ser Evanescence pero el problema es que la cantante no tiene la garganta de Amy, las guitarras estaban tan altas y a veces desafinadas que no se escuchaban ni ella ni la tecladista. Eso si, el batero le mete muy bien a la cosa. Props to him. Pero en verdad imaginense a Yanina (Objetivo Fama) de frontwoman de Evanescence con el toque rockero macondiano (VAYA MI GENTE!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) y pues tienen una idea de lo que es Razorsun. A la cantante le auguro un brillante futuro cantando merengue y bachata en fiestas patronales y cafetines. Y puej, Alejandra no toca teclados en Razorsun pero la que tienen de tecladista esta trinkable. En fin, Razorsun es otro caso mas de PERO LA CANTANTE ESTA BUENA......o algo
Wilie Wanker y el Carlos se botaron como DJ's pero por favor para la proxima vez mejor sonido PLIS!
Ah y por supuesto no podian faltar los gay crackho dancers pero puej todo cool. Eso y el bartender de abajo que le grito a un ignaro EL UNICO HAPPY HOUR QUE TENGO ES DE LECHE me hicieron la noche.
Gracias y buenos dias!"
Blogthings - Your French Name Is...
| Your French Name Is |
 Vachel Ratelle |
That is so...........French! :D
Courtesy of she-who-won't-allow-to-be-named. O algo.
Macleans.ca | Top Stories | Locked-out CBC employees creating Internet broadcasts to stay on the air
Locked-out CBC employees creating Internet broadcasts to stay on the air
JAMES KELLER
HALIFAX (CP) - Locked-out CBC Radio staff have started producing Internet-based audio broadcasts to fill the void left by the labour dispute at Canada's public broadcaster.
And union members say the growing collection of recorded programs - digital audio files known as podcasts - represent a small taste of what CBC listeners can expect if the lockout of the Crown corporation's 5,500 employees drags on.
Last weekend, staff from Fredericton's Information Morning radio program launched one of the first, staff-produced podcasts in the country.
Podcasts are typically recorded as MP3 audio files, which are designed to be played on desktop computers and portable audio players, such as Apple's IPod.
Offered to listeners via a website set up by members of the Canada Media Guild, the seven-minute digital file features interviews and stories about the lockout.
"Our listeners know us through the radio, so we had to communicate with them in an audio format," said Jacques Poitras, a CBC reporter who wrote the script for the podcast and appeared as a guest representing the union.
More podcasts quickly followed in cities across Canada.
"I guess that's what happens when you get 5,500 creative people with nothing to do," said Poitras.
The Fredericton production was also broadcast on the local university radio station. Similar broadcasts have been broadcast from university stations in Calgary, Vancouver and Ottawa.
The CBC locked out its employees in English Canada on Aug. 15 after the two sides failed to reach a tentative agreement after 15 months of negotiations. There have been no formal talks since then and none are planned.
At issue is the broadcaster's desire to create a more flexible workforce by hiring more contract and part-time employees. But the Canadian Media Guild said such a move threatens job security for full-time staff and limits opportunities for future employees.
Since the CBC lockout began, station managers have been putting together scaled-down programming that includes brief newscasts.
The official CBC website currently features a handful of news stories and includes a link to a site explaining the CBC's position in the lockout.
"They're using the CBC brand to communicate one side of the dispute, and we're using a union-labelled brand to communicate the union side of the dispute," said Poitras.
CBC spokesman Jason MacDonald said it's no surprise the journalists are creating content during the lockout, but added that the podcasts won't help end the dispute.
"From our perspective, the focus right now needs to be on bargaining," said MacDonald. "Anything that's not related to that is just a diversion away from the real problem, which is the need to get an agreement in place."
While staff in some cities plan new podcasts of their own, plans are in the works for a national news website produced by locked-out CBC employees.
Meanwhile, the crew that normally produces of the noon-hour radio call-in show based in Halifax planned to stage an in-person version of the show at a local farmers' market on Saturday.
Union spokesman Keith Maskell said from Toronto the locked out workers started the websites, podcasts and on-stage productions on their own. But he said the union will support the sites while negotiators look to end the lockout.
On the web: www.cbcunplugged.com
JAMES KELLER
HALIFAX (CP) - Locked-out CBC Radio staff have started producing Internet-based audio broadcasts to fill the void left by the labour dispute at Canada's public broadcaster.
And union members say the growing collection of recorded programs - digital audio files known as podcasts - represent a small taste of what CBC listeners can expect if the lockout of the Crown corporation's 5,500 employees drags on.
Last weekend, staff from Fredericton's Information Morning radio program launched one of the first, staff-produced podcasts in the country.
Podcasts are typically recorded as MP3 audio files, which are designed to be played on desktop computers and portable audio players, such as Apple's IPod.
Offered to listeners via a website set up by members of the Canada Media Guild, the seven-minute digital file features interviews and stories about the lockout.
"Our listeners know us through the radio, so we had to communicate with them in an audio format," said Jacques Poitras, a CBC reporter who wrote the script for the podcast and appeared as a guest representing the union.
More podcasts quickly followed in cities across Canada.
"I guess that's what happens when you get 5,500 creative people with nothing to do," said Poitras.
The Fredericton production was also broadcast on the local university radio station. Similar broadcasts have been broadcast from university stations in Calgary, Vancouver and Ottawa.
The CBC locked out its employees in English Canada on Aug. 15 after the two sides failed to reach a tentative agreement after 15 months of negotiations. There have been no formal talks since then and none are planned.
At issue is the broadcaster's desire to create a more flexible workforce by hiring more contract and part-time employees. But the Canadian Media Guild said such a move threatens job security for full-time staff and limits opportunities for future employees.
Since the CBC lockout began, station managers have been putting together scaled-down programming that includes brief newscasts.
The official CBC website currently features a handful of news stories and includes a link to a site explaining the CBC's position in the lockout.
"They're using the CBC brand to communicate one side of the dispute, and we're using a union-labelled brand to communicate the union side of the dispute," said Poitras.
CBC spokesman Jason MacDonald said it's no surprise the journalists are creating content during the lockout, but added that the podcasts won't help end the dispute.
"From our perspective, the focus right now needs to be on bargaining," said MacDonald. "Anything that's not related to that is just a diversion away from the real problem, which is the need to get an agreement in place."
While staff in some cities plan new podcasts of their own, plans are in the works for a national news website produced by locked-out CBC employees.
Meanwhile, the crew that normally produces of the noon-hour radio call-in show based in Halifax planned to stage an in-person version of the show at a local farmers' market on Saturday.
Union spokesman Keith Maskell said from Toronto the locked out workers started the websites, podcasts and on-stage productions on their own. But he said the union will support the sites while negotiators look to end the lockout.
On the web: www.cbcunplugged.com
Zone-MR Central Server - [entry]
Zone-MR Central Server - [entry]: "Last Saturday, MoDaCo (the world's largest smartphone community) held a get-together for their forum members. Unfortunately the positive community spirit was soured by an individual who decided to steal one of the charity raffle prizes - a C550 mobile phone.
On Monday, Paul O'Brien (MoDaCo founder) contacted me with information on the stolen phone's IMEI number. I operate the SPV-Developers community which offers the free online SPV-Services unlock tool for this type of phone. It seemed likely that the thief would attempt to remove the SIMLock using this service in order to switch the phone to a non-UK network - bypassing the UK's IMEI blacklist which renders stolen phones useless.
Initially it seemed like there was little I could do to help. The SPV-Services server was not programmed to log the IMEI numbers of it's users. It seemed like a dead end, until I remembered something. When a user unlocks their phone, our server keeps a backup of the phone's first flash block (kept for a few days, in case the changes need to be reversed). This block contains 64kB of RSA-encrypted data such as the phone's SIMLock state, Carrier ID, and other concealed information - it seemed likely the IMEI would be buried within it. Shortly my suspicion was confirmed - after decrypting the block, the IMEI can be found inside (albeit scrambled with a simple transposition).
I started writing a short script - which would check each backup in turn to see if it originated from the stolen phone. After 30 minutes of writing, testing, and running the script - we had a match! The stolen phone had been unlocked. The creation timestamp on the backup file gave us an exact time - August 21, 2005, 10:18:32 PM.
The next step was cross-referencing this information with our web server logs. When a user uses our software to unlock their phone the software uploads the encrypted block to our server, which sends back a list of modifications which need to be made in order to remove the SIMLock. As we knew the exact time when this happened, we could find the corresponding web server entry :
2005-08-21 22:18:32 POST /services/simlock_2.php - 82.163.137.156
Bingo! I passed this IP address back to Paul who cross-referenced it with Modaco's database. From this, he was able to identify the guilty member. A quick lookup confirmed that the IP was used by the account 'Cocky' - a member which had attended the get-together. The event registrations contained the name of our theif, and his mobile number. The next day, Cocky (AKA K. P.) received a short phone call:
Paul: Hi, this is Paul from MoDaCo.
Cocky: Er, Hi.
Paul: You have something of mine, and I want it back.
Not surprisingly, Paul could hear the faint sound of the guy crapping himself at the other end of the line. The phone was returned, via special delivery, the following day. Moral of the story - even if you're enough of a cunt to steal from a charity raffle, don't be fucktarded enough to steal a phone from a community of phone experts."
On Monday, Paul O'Brien (MoDaCo founder) contacted me with information on the stolen phone's IMEI number. I operate the SPV-Developers community which offers the free online SPV-Services unlock tool for this type of phone. It seemed likely that the thief would attempt to remove the SIMLock using this service in order to switch the phone to a non-UK network - bypassing the UK's IMEI blacklist which renders stolen phones useless.
Initially it seemed like there was little I could do to help. The SPV-Services server was not programmed to log the IMEI numbers of it's users. It seemed like a dead end, until I remembered something. When a user unlocks their phone, our server keeps a backup of the phone's first flash block (kept for a few days, in case the changes need to be reversed). This block contains 64kB of RSA-encrypted data such as the phone's SIMLock state, Carrier ID, and other concealed information - it seemed likely the IMEI would be buried within it. Shortly my suspicion was confirmed - after decrypting the block, the IMEI can be found inside (albeit scrambled with a simple transposition).
I started writing a short script - which would check each backup in turn to see if it originated from the stolen phone. After 30 minutes of writing, testing, and running the script - we had a match! The stolen phone had been unlocked. The creation timestamp on the backup file gave us an exact time - August 21, 2005, 10:18:32 PM.
The next step was cross-referencing this information with our web server logs. When a user uses our software to unlock their phone the software uploads the encrypted block to our server, which sends back a list of modifications which need to be made in order to remove the SIMLock. As we knew the exact time when this happened, we could find the corresponding web server entry :
2005-08-21 22:18:32 POST /services/simlock_2.php - 82.163.137.156
Bingo! I passed this IP address back to Paul who cross-referenced it with Modaco's database. From this, he was able to identify the guilty member. A quick lookup confirmed that the IP was used by the account 'Cocky' - a member which had attended the get-together. The event registrations contained the name of our theif, and his mobile number. The next day, Cocky (AKA K. P.) received a short phone call:
Paul: Hi, this is Paul from MoDaCo.
Cocky: Er, Hi.
Paul: You have something of mine, and I want it back.
Not surprisingly, Paul could hear the faint sound of the guy crapping himself at the other end of the line. The phone was returned, via special delivery, the following day. Moral of the story - even if you're enough of a cunt to steal from a charity raffle, don't be fucktarded enough to steal a phone from a community of phone experts."
Wooo! Knoppix-STD rawks!
Knoppix-STD is the shiznit for administrative toolkits. Instead of waiting for the OSI stiff to come over and solve some problems, I just take my Knoppix-STD CD and work on the problem. The forum is *very* helpful and will give you additional information you might need to help you on your tasks.
Google - the new Microsoft? | The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/26/google_as_microsoft/
KESQ NewsChannel 3 Palm Springs, CA: Resident finds missing music producer in creek
KESQ NewsChannel 3 Palm Springs, CA: Resident finds missing music producer in creek: "LOS ANGELES A Grammy-nominated music producer who vanished under odd circumstances six days ago has been found.
A Topanga Canyon resident contacted authorities today after spotting a naked man sitting in a backyard creek and washing his jeans.
Authorities say Christian Julian Irwin was found around 4-30 this afternoon. He agreed to go with police two hours later after authorities located his sister to calm him.
The Sheriff's Department says Irwin told authorities he was afraid he was being chased by Nigerians who had contacted him in an Internet scam.
He was taken to a hospital for examination.
The 48-year-old Irwin has produced recordings for Carly Simon and David Bowie. Authorities began looking for him on Sunday after he made a panicked phone call to a friend, saying he was being pursued by people with dogs.
The backyard where he was found was about a quarter-mile from where he made the call.
The Sheriff's Department says there's no evidence he was being chased."
A Topanga Canyon resident contacted authorities today after spotting a naked man sitting in a backyard creek and washing his jeans.
Authorities say Christian Julian Irwin was found around 4-30 this afternoon. He agreed to go with police two hours later after authorities located his sister to calm him.
The Sheriff's Department says Irwin told authorities he was afraid he was being chased by Nigerians who had contacted him in an Internet scam.
He was taken to a hospital for examination.
The 48-year-old Irwin has produced recordings for Carly Simon and David Bowie. Authorities began looking for him on Sunday after he made a panicked phone call to a friend, saying he was being pursued by people with dogs.
The backyard where he was found was about a quarter-mile from where he made the call.
The Sheriff's Department says there's no evidence he was being chased."
ABC News: Small-Town USA May Offer Solution to Outsourcing
Small-Town USA May Offer Solution to Outsourcing
Company Redeploys Workers to Rural Towns Instead of Sending Jobs Overseas
SEBEKA, Minn., Aug. 25, 2005 — The rural town of Sebeka, population 710, is not exactly Silicon Valley. It's hardly the place computer programmer Dave La Reau expected to find employment.
La Reau, who had been job hunting for years, answered a help wanted ad from CrossUSA — one of a half dozen companies actively recruiting workers to small towns in at least eight states.
He traded his suburban home for a 7-acre farm at a fraction of the price. But La Reau is making half of what he earned in Chicago — before outsourcing put his small company out of business.
"I'm hooked up to the computer in Baltimore," La Reau said while working. "I've got the same screen they have."
Sebeka is 14 miles from the closest traffic light, hours from the nearest Starbucks coffee shop and a far cry from the Chicago suburb he left.
"There is no traffic," said technical consultant Clayton Seal, who also works in Sebeka. "Anytime, day or night, you can cross Main Street — almost don't have to look 'cause there's nobody there."
Seal also lost his job to outsourcing.
Farm Country Competing With Foreign Countries
The workers are part of a growing backlash against the thousands of white-collar jobs sent offshore to places such as India.
High-speed computer lines now make it possible for farm country to compete with foreign countries.
"We speak the language and we understand the business issues," said Nick Debronsky, chief executive officer of CrossUSA.
Debronsky's work force of 25 both in Sebeka and North Dakota maintains computer mainframes around the country. He expects to hire another 75 workers by December.
Debronsky said the town's isolation will help guarantee workers will stick around.
"There's no other work within two, three hundred miles," Debronsky said with a smile.
Analysts predict there will be more companies moving their high-tech operations to rural areas, as they reconsider the costs and the risks of doing business overseas.
"We may be seeing the renaissance of small-town America," said former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, "because if they are wired up, they can actually generate a lot of new jobs."
That is exactly what Carrie Ann Milbradt is hoping. The CrossUSA programmer is also Sebeka's mayor.
"This is a start, and I think Sebeka will grow with it. We might get a traffic light," she said.
Lattes may not be far behind.
ABC News' Barbara Pinto filed this report for "World News Tonight."
Company Redeploys Workers to Rural Towns Instead of Sending Jobs Overseas
SEBEKA, Minn., Aug. 25, 2005 — The rural town of Sebeka, population 710, is not exactly Silicon Valley. It's hardly the place computer programmer Dave La Reau expected to find employment.
La Reau, who had been job hunting for years, answered a help wanted ad from CrossUSA — one of a half dozen companies actively recruiting workers to small towns in at least eight states.
He traded his suburban home for a 7-acre farm at a fraction of the price. But La Reau is making half of what he earned in Chicago — before outsourcing put his small company out of business.
"I'm hooked up to the computer in Baltimore," La Reau said while working. "I've got the same screen they have."
Sebeka is 14 miles from the closest traffic light, hours from the nearest Starbucks coffee shop and a far cry from the Chicago suburb he left.
"There is no traffic," said technical consultant Clayton Seal, who also works in Sebeka. "Anytime, day or night, you can cross Main Street — almost don't have to look 'cause there's nobody there."
Seal also lost his job to outsourcing.
Farm Country Competing With Foreign Countries
The workers are part of a growing backlash against the thousands of white-collar jobs sent offshore to places such as India.
High-speed computer lines now make it possible for farm country to compete with foreign countries.
"We speak the language and we understand the business issues," said Nick Debronsky, chief executive officer of CrossUSA.
Debronsky's work force of 25 both in Sebeka and North Dakota maintains computer mainframes around the country. He expects to hire another 75 workers by December.
Debronsky said the town's isolation will help guarantee workers will stick around.
"There's no other work within two, three hundred miles," Debronsky said with a smile.
Analysts predict there will be more companies moving their high-tech operations to rural areas, as they reconsider the costs and the risks of doing business overseas.
"We may be seeing the renaissance of small-town America," said former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, "because if they are wired up, they can actually generate a lot of new jobs."
That is exactly what Carrie Ann Milbradt is hoping. The CrossUSA programmer is also Sebeka's mayor.
"This is a start, and I think Sebeka will grow with it. We might get a traffic light," she said.
Lattes may not be far behind.
ABC News' Barbara Pinto filed this report for "World News Tonight."
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