By early 2008, you will not be able to buy Windows XP on a new computer, your only choice will be Windows Vista. Microsoft is doing this because people are still buying XP on their new PCs. I imagine this is because the users want to avoid the compatibility issues and don’t see the benefits of learning something different.
XP works for them.
I haven’t upgraded to Vista yet, and I am waiting for most of the bugs to be worked out. XP does everything I need, is quick, stable, and problem-free.
104-bit WEP, a very common security mechanism for 802.11b/g/n home and office WiFi networks can now be cracked in as little as one or two minutes with a standard computer. That the security mechanism could be broken easily is not new news, but that it can be done so quickly, with standard hardware, is.
If you want to secure your home network, consider using WPA or WPA2. Use WPA2 if your hardware supports it. Look through the documentation for your wireless router and wireless network card to figure out how to implement WPA.
More information can be found in this article from the great Ars Technica.
Yahoo! has decided that it’s going to give users unlimited email storage for free.
They cite the big jump in users sharing storage-intensive files like images, audio, and video as attachments. It’s amazing that just a year or two ago, 1 GB was seen as a huge amount of space for free email.
Currently, Yahoo! users are allowed 1 GB of storage space for emails, users of Google’s free GMAIL service are permitted 2.8 GB, users of Microsoft’s free Hotmail service are allowed 2 GB.
More from Reuters, here.
Posted April 2nd, 2007 in:
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