Microsoft ballyhoos Vista's lower patch count
Microsoft touted Windows Vista's lower patch count Wednesday, saying it required about 20% fewer fixes in 2007 than the four-year-old Windows XP Service Pack 2
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Losing Money When There is No Volatilty
...lower interest rates but gives the investors an option to call a company's stock. The bondholder is effectively the owner of the option and the issuer is the option writer. A reverse convertible bond gives investors higher interest rates but gives the issuer the right to put shares to the investor. In this case, the bondholder is the seller...
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Thwarting a large-scale phishing attack
...lower volumes, phishers are beginning to move on to new targets
Things you can do to help end phishing and Internet fraud
Learn to recognize and avoid phishing. The Anti-Phishing Working Group has a good list of recommendations
Update your software regularly and run an anti-virus program. If a cyber-criminal gains control of your computer...
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Enabling hierarchical nant builds
...lower down, suddenly there's problems because it depends on properties that are only defined in the root script. I really like being able to run builds from anywhere in the tree for perf - if I'm trying to fix a particular project, I don't necessarily want to wait for unit tests on the entire tree to run in order to see if mine passed
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EarthLink Shutters New Orleans, Staunches Own Losses
...lower churn. Their municipal write-off is lower, too, as they've taken most of the expense, and have offloaded more and more of their future obligations
The company still has the same problem that it had before it started unwinding its services beyond dial-up and broadband: None of its markets are expanding, and it has increasingly poor...
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Ozmo Aims to Steal Bluetooth's Thunder for Peripherals
...lower power use and a lower cost for their chips, because laptop and desktop makers will need to buy into the Intel/Ozmo ecosystem. The demand for this kind of technology is typically driven by users who buy one component and need their computer to interface with it
With Ozmo and Intel apparently planning to debut the Wi-Fi chips and driver...
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Enabling hierarchical nant builds
...lower down, suddenly there's problems because it depends on properties that are only defined in the root script. I really like being able to run builds from anywhere in the tree for perf - if I'm trying to fix a particular project, I don't necessarily want to wait for unit tests on the entire tree to run in order to see if mine passed
Craig...
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Enabling hierarchical nant builds
...lower down, suddenly there's problems because it depends on properties that are only defined in the root script. I really like being able to run builds from anywhere in the tree for perf - if I'm trying to fix a particular project, I don't necessarily want to wait for unit tests on the entire tree to run in order to see if mine passed
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Misconceptions about outsourcing security
...lower costs. In fact many companies end up spending more in the outsourcing scenario. They are willing to pay a higher cost because they gain competencies and get additional capabilities such as 24x7 monitoring or compliance reporting
Outsourcing security means transferring risk. You can transfer the responsibility but not the accountability...
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On virtualisation
...lower level access to emulated hardware. By keeping software in the guest up to date, and hardening it by locking down the operating system and minimising what is run with root or admin privileges, you can reduce the risk of privilege escalation attacks. If an attacker cannot get low level access to the emulated hardware, it will be more...