Mar 11th 2007
This Week in Tech 90
Idiocracy
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Microsoft's OneCare fails the av test, the Microsoft way, and Sony Home...
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Microsoft's OneCare fails the av test, the Microsoft way, and Sony Home...
- Read interviews with several programmers, including Bill Gates, from the 80s in Programmers at Work.
- Microsoft's own Windows Onecare fails to protect Windows. It scored the lowest in a test by AV-Comparatives.
- Clam AV is an open source antivirus software.
- Frontpage is gone from the Office suite. However, it serves as a foundation for Sharepoint Designer 2007 and Expression Web Designer.
- There won't be any patches on March's patch Tuesday.
- Idiocracy is a fantastic movie about how the world's society became dumber and dumber throughout the future.
- Samsung has begun shipping hybrid hard drives.
- An IBM consultant has stated that Vista was meant to run on 4gb of RAM.
- BBC has stricken a deal with YouTube, but it turns out that they'll simply only put promos on the site.
- Apple has patented an iPod/iPhone lanyard.
- Steve Jobs was spotted at his kid's soccer game wearing headphones that he was allegedly talking to. Was he using an iPhone?
- Sony has announced the Playstation Home which is basically their competitor to Second Life.
- There is a Second Life Liberation Army that attempted to "destroy" things in the virtual world.
- Intel "accidentally" deleted court-ordered emails.
- A startup is going to provide Second Life avatar ratings.
- Feeling lazy constantly? A new class of FDA-approved stimulant drugs will keep you going and going...