Jordan Ostreff

Jordan Ostreff

  • Joined: 25 февруари 2005
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Too much money to tax

MICROSOFT founder Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, said today the tax office in the US has to store his financial data on a special computer because his fortune is so vast. „My tax return in the United States has…

BLURB

Less than 20 days since the Core Duo was officially released, and T-minus ?? days until Core Solo is officially released. Yet, if we turn to Intel’s Errata documentation for the Core Duo and Core Solo lines, we already find…

Latops with Intel Core…

With updated benchmarks and a more level playing field comparison to the Pentium M and Athlon 64 X2, we’re truly able to see the potential of Intel’s Core Duo processor.  Our initial analysis still holds true, that for a notebook…

Computer Virus Timeline

1949 Theories for self-replicating programs are first developed. 1981 Apple Viruses 1, 2, and 3 are some of the first viruses “in the wild,” or in the public domain. Found on the Apple II operating system, the viruses spread through…

FreeBSD 6.1 will provide full support for Xen 3.0

Kip Macy just sent an important email on the Xen Mailing List, annoncing nearly complete support for Xen 3.0 in FreeBSD CURRENT branch. He’s also confident the complete Xen 3.0 x86 support will be ready for the FreeBSD 6.1 launch…

New Skype version fixes DEP flaw

A new version of Skype 2.0 for Windows has been released that corrects a Data Execution Prevention (DEP) flaw that makes the app appear to be virus-like to some protection software like Windows OneCare. Ed Bott pointed this issue out…

Macbook Pro

Apple are launching today the Macbook Pro, a brand new laptop powered by a dual-core Intel chip. The Macbok Pro solves the heat issue that Apple had trying to get a G5 chip into a Powerbook. Slightly thinner than an…