Can WinXP Product Activation be reverse engineered?
Can WinXP Product Activation be reverse engineered?. It’s beginning to look possible… [The Register]
Archive for the ‘misc’ Category.
social scientists looking at how Internet2 is affecting those who use it
MIT Technology Review: Work the Problem, People. While researchers tap Internet2 to extend collaboration between universities and push the limits of new Internet technologies, another group of social scientists is looking at how Internet2 is affecting those who use it–in effect, researching the researchers. [Tomalak’s Realm]
Request Tracker 2.0.1-test3 (Development)
Request Tracker 2.0.1-test3 (Development). Web, command-line, and email-based trouble ticketing and bugtracking package. [freshmeat.net]
More Microsoft Free Software
More Microsoft Free Software
“When the 602 Office software suite is registered all pop-up windows about registration will stop and the spell checker will be enabled! What are you waiting for? It’s FREE! “[via Scripting News] [Adam Curry: CurryDotCom]
Microsoft doesn’t care much about shared source or Smart Tags and we are wasting our time following their marketing trail
John Rhodes: “Microsoft doesn’t care much about shared source or Smart Tags and we are wasting our time following their marketing trail.”
Although Dave
Winer seems to think that Microsoft "dropped
a bombshell" with their .Net
shared source announcement, I am not taking my eye off the ball. While
we bow to Scoble because he
figured everything
out, I am not going to take my eye off the ball. While people flock to
Slashdot to read
the story and comment on it, I am not going to take my eye off the ball.
While people continue to point to the original story on O’Reilly and shake
their stunned
heads, I am not going to take my eyes off the ball.Listen to me very
closely. Shared source is trivial. Smart tags are trivial. No big deal. What
does Microsoft want? Here is the mind bomb: Microsoft’s business
model no longer revolves around software. Instead, it revolves around
services, transactions, and extracting value from activity on the
internet.
Microsoft to me: We’re turning off your Office
ZDNet: by David Coursey, Executive Editor,Microsoft to me: We’re turning off your Office.
A funny thing happened on the way to PC Expo: Microsoft killed my copy of Office. Or at least that’s what the error message said, threatening me with something called “Reduced Functionality Mode” if I didn’t immediately insert my original Office disc and have my software reactivated.
“If you don’t perform the reactivation steps, Microsoft Office will go into Reduced Functionality Mode. In that mode you will not be able to save modifications to documents, or create a new document, and additional functionality may be reduced” said the “help” screen attached to the error message. (The error itself could not be copied and pasted so I didn’t save the exact language; I must say I was a little stunned).
TeXtrace 0.45 (Default)
TeXtrace 0.45 (Default). Converts TeX fonts into .pfb files.
TeXtrace is a collection of scripts that convert any TeX font into a Type1 .pfb outline font immediately suitable for use with dvips, pdftex, Acroread, and many other programs. The main advantage of using Type1 fonts with TeX is that Acroread renders TeX’s bitmap fonts ugly on screen, but it renders outline fonts beutifully and fast.
Startups aim to prevent DoS attacks
Startups aim to prevent DoS attacks. VNU Jun 22 2001 5:08AM ET [Computer security news]
