Monday, April 13, 2009

Is Our Internet Infrastructure Safe? And Free Hubble Wallpaper

Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayer

The fiber-optic outage—actually sabotage—in the Bay Area on Thursday reveals a dirty little secret: Our infrastructure is ridiculously vulnerable and it only takes a few vandals (or terrorists) to bring communication to its knees.

Microsoft to start pushing IE 8 to existing IE users

Microsoft already has pushed via Auto Update the final version of Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) to customers who had installed the beta version of its latest browser. Starting next week, the company plans to begin delivering IE 8 via Automatic Update to users with older versions of IE installed.

Windows 7: 83% Of Businesses Won't Deploy Next Year

The success of Windows 7 will depend a great deal on if large businesses will finally upgrade. New data shows that the vast majority of corporate IT departments won't touch Microsoft's next OS until at least 2011.

Free Music Archive: Free MP3s, and yes, they're legal

Do you like free music? Who doesn’t? If you’ve been downloading music illegally because you’re just too strapped for cash to go out and buy the record — because that’s the only reason you would do that, right? — then there’s a new solution for you.

Hubble Site - Wallpaper for your Computer

The Hubblesite.org Website offers a ton of free wallpaper for your computer. And it comes in various sizes for different monitor settings. Chose the one that is right for you. If you like images from far off places, check this out.

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