Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Windows Vista held out longer than Mac OS X, but in the end only Ubuntu stood unscathed. The Mac machine was p0wn3d through a Safari exploit (by making the machine "visit" a web site that could take advantage of the undisclosed vulnerability), and the Microsoft machine, surprisingly, took a Flash exploit to finally crack it.

Flash flaw leads to Vista laptop's fall

Great post over at Good Math Bad Math today about PERT charts.

PERT stands for "Project Evaluation and Review Technique. Basically it's a way to aid in planning and scheduling tasks.

I also liked one of the comments:
My experience with using these charts is that all the nice theory breaks down when you add in the inherent non-linearity introduced by the amount of time you spend maintaining the goddamn charts.

Apple on Tuesday said that some video iPods that shipped after September 12, 2006 contained a known Windows virus. While the company didn't disclose the exact amount of affected iPods, they said it is less than one percent of shipments.

"So far we have seen less than 25 reports -- it may be far less than one percent," Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of Worldwide iPod Marketing, told Macworld. "The iPod nano and Shuffle are not affected."

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The video game Left Behind seemed destined to tear a giant fiery swath of controversy through the digital landscape. Based on the series of novels of the same name, Left Behind is a Christian-themed game set in New York City, a few years after the arrival of the Anti-Christ and the ascent of one-third of the world's population (presumably the "good third") into heaven. As a player, you must direct and expand the "Tribulation Force," a military organization that attempts to either convert or kill the remaining population.

Yes, this is not your father's Bible Adventures. The game

Sun plugs serious holes in Java

Very alarming - with a headline like that and then a bold intro that reads:

Sun Microsystems has fixed five security bugs in Java that expose computers running Windows, Linux and Solaris to hacker attack.

What are the \"security bugs in Java\" which leave various OS machines exposed to \"hacker attack\".

There are flaws and they do affect the JRE and JDK but they dont exactly expose all computers with Java to \"hacker attack !!! run

The crew at Keyboard-emanations.org has a very detailed research paper which outlines the process by which they are able to listen to the sounds "emanating" from a keyboard as you type and, assuming English is in use, determine what is being typed only from the sound with a 90% accuracy.

I wont pretend to have complete comprehension of the very detailed process but a very rough overview is that the researchers have mathematically identified groups of keys that are commonly typed with known pressure and angles and thus different sounds (and del

Time to flash that firmware folks.