After a relaxative holiday on Malta, I’m back at work again. Malta has some beautiful areas, awesome lagoons and is well known for diving and snorkeling. If you come to Malta you should try the Leyland buses there, you won’t need to go on any adventure tour thereafter (don’t eat too much before a bus [...]

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A new study (PDF) says that IT experts and their jobs are boring.  WTF?
Do undergraduates want a career in IT?
A study of the attitudes of current
UK undergraduates in relation to
careers and work in the IT sector.

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Ok, they are chimpanzees, but is this probably applicable to humans too?

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PhotoRec is a software for recovering files independently from the file system. From their website:
PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its ‘Photo Recovery’ name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the [...]

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This article in Technology Review (German) describes the emerging problems of infrastructural assets like power plants when they are connected to the internet for economic reasons. When SCADA systems are controlable from remote we will experience serious attacks in future.
But not only attacks are dangerous. The more connected computers and software are the more they [...]

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The D programming language is a static typed language similar to C++ but has much more built-in features (like associative arrays, garbage collection, unit tests, …) that makes development extremely efficient compared to C++ and Java (and even Lisp).

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Google has recently changed its favicon. When it first catched my eye I only had a strange feeling that something was wrong. Here you can see both icons compared.
It’ll be only a matter of time until we’re familiarized with the new icon again …

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NVLabs offers papers and source for accessing BitLocker partitions (Vista ultimate).

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A hacker has used a loophole to collect more than $50,000 from Google Checkout and online brokerage firms, a few cents at a time.
I really would like to hear a lawyer in this case. There may be some chance that this is legal, at least in my humble opinion.

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