Open Systems Journal

Planning on getting a new computer this holiday season? Stay safe into the New Year with the overhauled Download.com Security Starter Kit for 2010.

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Whether you’re being shopped for or doing the shopping, good wish lists are very useful to have on-hand. This week we want to hear about your favorite tool for ensuring the lump of coal you get is the one you want.
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The internet has ushered in an era of comparison shopping, searching, product [...]

AP - Time Warner Cable Inc. is asking the public for help as it tries to curtail increases in the programming fees it has to pay to carry cable channels and broadcast stations on its systems.,Time Warner Cable asks help on rising program fees
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And finally, before those of us in the US trip out on tryptophan tomorrow, I’ve updated a few of the scripts that Iwrote about in my GREMGold paper and my SANSFIREtalk. The biggest change is that I have finally integrated Michael Hale Ligh’s malfind2 volatility plugin into the report and I have switched to using [...]

accido writes “As reported by The LA Times, Google has now decided to expand its marketing and data collection to include what you watch on your Tivo. The data collected would help Google, who sells TV ads, show who watches which commercials and who skips right over them. The article outlines how this could be [...]

Microsoft has been issuing takedown notices for publicly hosting its leaked Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) tool. The company sent off “Demand for Immediate Take-Down: Notice of Infringing Activity” to companies hosting websites that offered the tool. The e-mails all start with [...]

A reader sent me a note recently saying that they’d just purchased a boat and needed to name it. Being a DBA, they were thinking to pick some name that is database or SQL related. I thought that was kind of funny, though not something I’d do. We owned a boat at one point, but [...]

Food scientists have transformed traditional Thanksgiving foods with industrial recipes that call for lye, airplane de-icer and pulverization. Cranberries, potatoes and turkeys are now less perishable and much easier to process in factories, for good or for ill.

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We take a look at Biostar’s top end P55 motherboard and find that it really is a heavyweight contender with a middle range price tag….
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