* Gearhead: Reader feedback plus the Nokia 770 * Backspin: High expectations and hacking * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: Reader feedback plus the Nokia 770
A few weeks ago we discussed the Sony Reader and its fabulous display. From your letters it seems that there’s a roughly 50/50 split between those who think that e-books have a future and those that think they will make nice landfill.
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Backspin: High expectations and hacking
A recent Forrester Research report found that as far as CEOs are concerned, IT groups perform up to expectations (hooray!), but those expectations are low (boo). In other words, CEOs think about IT the way Congress thinks about the proposed surge of troops to Iraq: They’re willing to vote against it, but the vote will be nonbinding.
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Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Name that Hack Attempt
In this week’s Backspin wherein I discuss how one man tried to do what he thought was the right thing after discovering a hacking program being systematically conducted by the Chinese aimed at US networks. This program had been going since at least 2003 and the government security wonks even had a name for it: Titan Rain.
Google: Disk Failures Are Not Predictable
I just read, from a Slashdot posting, Google have just released an analysis of their experience with disk failures titled “Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population” and it offers some surprising conclusions such as (the emphasis is mine)…
Crackberry User? How Handle the New DST Change
Yep, there’s now a page about it on the Blackberry site. Git ‘er done …
Winlogin’s Phantom Virus/Worm/Trojan — or — Without a OneCare in the World
Jonathan Klay, a Gearhead reader, sent me a note yesterday in which he relates a curious tale…
