For Dell
Ubuntu it is..
In February when Dell launched IdeaStorm as forum for customers to contribute ideas for product offerings, we received overwhelming feedback that customers wanted Linux on desktops and notebooks. As part of an overall effort to update our Linux program, today we are announcing a partnership with Canonical to offer Ubuntu on select consumer desktop and notebook products.
Anyone who reads this site with any regularity might have guessed I am a Ubuntu fan. I really hope Dell can pull this off but realize all experiences with Ubuntu are not
always fun.
Saw on another site today there is some really wicked malware that can allegedly
destroy a PC in than 10 Minutes.
A good 30MB+ of individual files are downloaded onto the PC, and it just kills it. Kills it right in the face. Kills it right in the face with a brick and then comes back with a breeze block to finish the job.
Really sounds nasty I am looking forward to the follow up on that one.
Then lately there is this whole
Joost thing going on. Taking a page from Google and Gmail by making it an invite only thing at first to peak interest these guys have got it going on for the moment. We'll see how it works out as some
big players have jumped in with them. Still not having seen the service myself it sounds like yet another way for them (whoever them represents) to get advertisements onto my PC. Self directed reruns and commercials sort of like cable only the way I want it instead of the package cable provides. Curious yeah but not that much though.
Of course with Microsoft's recent release of Vista things are starting to get interesting in the hackasphere. Shall we say
game on?
Las Vegas (NV) - A hacker duo will demonstrate several ways of getting past Windows Vista security in an upcoming Black Hat training class. Polish security researcher Joanna Rutkowska and Alex Tereshkin will show off new rootkits and ways to defeat Vista’s vaunted BitLocker drive encryption.
An actual class on the subject of defeating a platform's security features for 3,000 dollars. Not my thing but I do find it interesting. I wonder if people attending a class like that sign
NDA documents or something similar.
Last off in the incredible greed department there is this whole lets
screw up internet radio thing happening as well. One thing is for certain the entertainment industry really doesn't get their target demographic anymore in fact they are completely clueless about them... a side effect of greed I am sure. Well thats it for this installment.
