The OLPC laptops would not run a bourgeois operating system like Windows. Instead, they would run Sugar, a special version of Linux, the people’s platform. They would even use Marxist technology like mesh networking, which shares an Internet connection “from each computer according to its ability, to each according to its need.
The Netbook Revolution is Over. So What Did You Win? at Laptop MagazineTorch is a stopgap measure at best. It can only hope to stem the tide of BlackBerry defectors, but clearly it has no hope of stealing customers from iPhone and Android. That’s bad news, considering iPhone and Android are rolling in cash by stealing customers from RIM. Clearly RIM needs to be less concerned about the party clothes, and more concerned about what’s beneath.
Ken Segall, BlackBerry’s Little Dream World. (via nerdcast)BBC News - Call to improve password security.
The growing use of graphics cards as surrogate supercomputers could spell trouble for users of short passwords. Researchers say the growing number of processors on graphics cards will soon make it trivial for them to crack short passwords. A password of seven characters or less will soon be “hopelessly inadequate” they claim. The researchers suggest passwords should be at least 12 characters long to be safe.
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