-=PCTechTalk=- Interesting Articles
- From: "Bashfulbob" <bashfulbob@xxxxxxx>
- To: "PCTT" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:29:03 -0500
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20050613-1712-ca-borders-internettaxes.html
SAN FRANCISCO - A little-noticed appellate court ruling against Borders Group
Inc. sets a precedent that could enable California to force some major Internet
retailers to start paying state sales tax for books, music and other goods sold
online to state residents, analysts said Monday.
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http://www.assetmetrix.com/forms/index.asp?template_id=13&intNew=79
OTTAWA, Canada, June 14, 2005 - AssetMetrix, the leading provider of on-demand
business intelligence for IT, today announced the findings of the most recent
report from its research division, AssetMetrix Research Labs. The report
findings indicate Microsoft Windows 2000 remains a widely deployed operating
system in corporate IT environments, losing only four percentage points in
popularity from 52% in Q4-2003 to 48% in Q1-2005, while Windows XP rose in
popularity from 6.6% to 38%. Mainstream support for Windows 2000 is set to
expire on June 30, 2005.
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http://news.com.com/The+slow+road+to+Windows+XP/2100-1016_3-5746046.html?part=rss&tag=5746046&subj=news
Use of Microsoft Windows XP has grown inside corporations, but a new study
shows that nearly half of business PC's are still running the older Windows
2000.
The study, released Tuesday by AssetMetrix underscores a recurring problem for
Microsoft: While the company spends billions of dollars developing new versions
of Windows and its Office desktop software, many customers are slow to give up
older versions of software that's paid for and works just fine.
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http://whurleyvision.blogspot.com/2005/06/self-defending-networks-aggressive.html
Self Defending Networks, Aggressive Network Self-Defense, and Vigilantes on the
net
Today is the one-year anniversary of my interview with NewScientist magazine on
what, at the time, was the highly controversial subject of "countermeasures"
technologies. The interview was one of many I did with Symbiot in response to
the March 2004 release of the company's iSIMS (intelligent Security
Infrastructure Management Software) technology.
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http://www.lifehack.org/
There is a good online book available for reverse engineering software: 'This
book is an attempt to provide an introduction to reverse engineering software
under both Linux and Microsoft Windows. Since reverse engineering is under
legal fire, the authors figure the best response is to make the knowledge
widespread...'"
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigmil/RevEng/
Abstract
This book is an attempt to provide an introduction to reverse engineering
software under both Linux and Microsoft Windows©. Since reverse engineering is
under legal fire, the authors figure the best response is to make the knowledge
widespread. The idea is that since discussing specific reverse engineering
feats is now illegal in many cases, we should then discuss general approaches,
so that it is within every motivated user's ability to obtain information
locked inside the black box. Furthermore, interoperability issues with
closed-source proprietary systems are just plain annoying, and something needs
to be done to educate more open source developers as to how to implement this
functionality in their software.
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