Severe severe = safer, but not actually safeEveryone's favourite knockabout security minister, Lord Alan West of Spithead, has said that the UK security services are aware of "complex plots" - in particular "another great plot" by jihadi terrorists - "building"

IT projects could be sent downThe Ministry of Justice has confirmed it is considering spending cuts that could possibly affect IT systems....

Cyber Cynic: "If you write software for Linux though you can pretty much do whatever you want, except, of course, you shouldn't. Because if you do re-invent the wheel every time you write for Linux, we end up with software

Works With U: "One of the three fundamental principles of the Ubuntu philosophy is the availability of software in a user's native language, whatever that happens to be. While those of us who grew up speaking one of the world's

Silicon.com: "The BBC iPlayer's download function will soon be coming to Linux and Macs, thanks to a deal between Auntie and Adobe."

Linux Magazine: "What we do suggest is that the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of the machines'

Electronics Weekly: "Linux has gained a firm position in the embedded market. This raises the question of whether it is worth developing new products with Linux and replacing an existing operating system with Linux. There is effort and risk in

Between the Lines: "The only price for access to this incredible wealth of software is to obey the Free Software licenses and give their customers the same freedoms that they themselves have."

InformationWeek: "There's little question that Linux on laptops (and on PCs in general) is no longer nearly as complicated or painful as it used to be. The new problem is whether notebook manufacturers are going to readily offer Linux to

Linux Journal: "Discovery's sound-producing architecture is straightforward subtractive synthesis enriched with a variety of tools for further sonic bending and blending. The screenshot in Figure 1 shows how the GUI is organized to represent the synthesis signal flow. The output

Seeing Through Windows: "The final version of OpenOffice 3 is out today, and if you're looking to save yourself plenty of money, download it instead of buying Microsoft Office --- you could save yourself hundreds of dollars, and not lose

ZDNet: "I have just opened and defused an email positively crackling with anger, frustration and hurt. It was followed at speed with eight more, by way of illustration. Having read them all, I second every emotion."

CNet: "The Universal Digital Library, a book-scanning project backed by several major libraries across the globe, has completed the digitization of 1.5 million books and on Tuesday made them free and publically available."

Linux Magazine: "When you open the Firefox browser, it knows where you are and immediately opens websites for nearby restaurants, stores and other attractions."

VoIP Planet: "What looks like Skype and works like an open-source PBX? "Skype on Asterisk," of course."

I'm a Super.com: "What if there was a type of cookie that could:Stay on your computer for an unlimited amount of timeStore 100 kb of data by default, with an unlimited maxCouldn't be deleted by your browser"

ReadWriteWeb: "How do you make money if you give your software away for free? That's the classic question asked of Open Source software vendors and the expected reply is that they charge customers for software customization and support. That's not

The aftertaste of InfiniBandChip maker Intel today said that it paid $8m to acquire the assets of NetEffect, a maker of Ethernet networking adapters and ASICs. NetEffect was founded a decade ago to create InfiniBand networking technology and a business

The CMDB software of my desireNovell intends to buy Managed Objects, maker of business service management (BSM) software, for an undisclosed sum. The deal is expected to close during Novell's first fiscal quarter 2009, which ends next January....

Like testing ABS brakes by pushing a car over a cliff'Anti-malware vendors have launched a counter-attack on a study questioning the effectiveness of internet security suites, suggesting that the methodology in tests carried out by vulnerability notification firm Secunia was