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Edited on 2010-03-15 19:32:06 by MetalHead
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Try my lightweight Ajax Amazon search?!
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Try my lightweight Amazon search?!
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Try my lightweight Amazon search?!
Edited on 2008-03-01 09:35:39 by MetalHead [added clustrmaps]
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Edited on 2007-10-25 12:38:44 by MetalHead [changed to picture-floating-right layout]
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Edited on 2007-10-25 12:36:48 by MetalHead [added fsf banner]
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![[FSF Associate Member]](images/fsf.png "WikiImage")
?Edited on 2007-10-07 07:11:42 by MetalHead [added thesis link]
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Last but not least, my thesis!
Edited on 2007-10-07 06:43:21 by MetalHead [changed wip note]
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Here you'll find some information about myself, programs I've written and other stuff. It'll always be more or less work in progress, so don't expect too much. Feel free to comment on this page or drop me an email? if there's anything you'd like me to know though.
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Here you'll find some information about myself, programs I've written and other stuff. At the moment, it's more or less work in progress, so don't expect too much. Feel free to comment on this page or drop me an email? if there's anything you'd like me to know though.
Edited on 2007-10-07 06:39:39 by MetalHead [new base url]
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Welcome to larsko.org!
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Welcome to metalhead.ws!
Edited on 2006-07-30 17:54:18 by MetalHead [added random page]
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Edited on 2006-07-28 21:13:33 by MetalHead [added ComicsPage link]
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~- ComicsPage
Edited on 2006-06-24 14:49:09 by MetalHead
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I had to disable comments on some pages because of the amount of spam. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Edited on 2006-06-17 16:24:05 by MetalHead [removed newsfeed]
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Recent changes
LarskoOrg - HomePage
- VisualisationPlayground
2013-03-31 19:24:32 by MetalHead - add gallery - HomePage
2013-03-30 18:07:22 by MetalHead - flickr link - TalkPage
2010-10-16 14:25:02 by MetalHead - fix link - AmazonSearch
2010-04-20 19:50:33 by MetalHead - RandomPage
2010-03-20 18:04:15 by MetalHead - OpenBlockNetBSD
2009-01-11 20:31:55 by MetalHead - fixing link - MetalHead
2009-01-11 16:48:21 by MetalHead - updated status - wget
2008-07-31 10:35:31 by MetalHead - updated status, added link to wget bug report - PasoriRuby
2008-07-12 14:50:50 by MetalHead - added presentation link - backgroundPage
2008-03-22 11:54:30 by MetalHead - added resolution info
Edited on 2006-06-09 21:38:32 by MetalHead [added note about comments & spam]
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I had to disable comments on some pages because of the amount of spam. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Edited on 2006-04-09 16:49:55 by MetalHead [changed recentchanges to rss feed]
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LarskoOrg - HomePage
- VisualisationPlayground
2013-03-31 19:24:32 by MetalHead - add gallery - HomePage
2013-03-30 18:07:22 by MetalHead - flickr link - TalkPage
2010-10-16 14:25:02 by MetalHead - fix link - AmazonSearch
2010-04-20 19:50:33 by MetalHead - RandomPage
2010-03-20 18:04:15 by MetalHead - OpenBlockNetBSD
2009-01-11 20:31:55 by MetalHead - fixing link - MetalHead
2009-01-11 16:48:21 by MetalHead - updated status - wget
2008-07-31 10:35:31 by MetalHead - updated status, added link to wget bug report - PasoriRuby
2008-07-12 14:50:50 by MetalHead - added presentation link - backgroundPage
2008-03-22 11:54:30 by MetalHead - added resolution info
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(14:25 CEST) [history] - TalkPage → MetalHead [fix link]
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(19:50 CEST) [history] - AmazonSearch → MetalHead
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(18:04 CET) [history] - RandomPage → MetalHead
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(20:31 CET) [history] - OpenBlockNetBSD → MetalHead [fixing link]
(16:48 CET) [history] - MetalHead → MetalHead [updated status]
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(10:35 CEST) [history] - wget → MetalHead [updated status, added link to wget bug report]
Sat, 12 Jul 2008:
(14:50 CEST) [history] - PasoriRuby → MetalHead [added presentation link]
Sat, 22 Mar 2008:
(11:54 CET) [history] - backgroundPage → MetalHead [added resolution info]
Thu, 20 Mar 2008:
(12:43 CET) [history] - ImportareSrc → MetalHead [initial setup]
(12:35 CET) [history] - ShellCode → MetalHead [oops, link hiccups]
Sun, 27 Jan 2008:
(09:31 CET) [history] - RubyCode → MetalHead [added link to pasori-ruby]
Sun, 11 Nov 2007:
(05:35 CET) [history] - s3backup → MetalHead [added reference to presentation]
Sat, 27 Oct 2007:
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Sun, 07 Oct 2007:
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(06:56 CEST) [history] - ConstraintSolver → MetalHead [parent action hiccups]
(06:46 CEST) [history] - TeX → MetalHead [initial setup]
(06:46 CEST) [history] - gnuplottex → MetalHead [added more information, updated with terminal selection feature]
Mon, 24 Sep 2007:
(04:17 CEST) [history] - PublicationsPage → MetalHead [fixed links]
Sat, 10 Mar 2007:
(17:04 CET) [history] - ConstraintProblemSolver → MetalHead [fixed typo]
Tue, 16 Jan 2007:
(13:31 CET) [history] - NetHack → MetalHead [changed screenshot to linked thumbnail]
Fri, 29 Dec 2006:
(13:38 CET) [history] - ReadingPage → MetalHead [added DOET]
Mon, 02 Oct 2006:
(14:04 CEST) [history] - sitemap → MetalHead [added new version info]
Sat, 19 Aug 2006:
(17:20 CEST) [history] - CCode → MetalHead [added wget]
Tue, 01 Aug 2006:
(22:05 CEST) [history] - linuxHeap → MetalHead [clarified uncaught SIGSEGV effect]
Sun, 30 Jul 2006:
(17:58 CEST) [history] - ComicsPage → MetalHead [made header bigger]
Sun, 23 Jul 2006:
(17:31 CEST) [history] - SysInfo → WikkaInstaller (unregistered user) [Upgrading from 1.1.6.0 to 1.1.6.2]
(17:31 CEST) [history] - FormattingRules → WikkaInstaller (unregistered user) [Upgrading from 1.1.6.0 to 1.1.6.2]
Fri, 14 Jul 2006:
(21:08 CEST) [history] - CodePage → MetalHead [added wishlist link]
Sat, 08 Jul 2006:
(17:16 CEST) [history] - histobin → MetalHead [initial setup]
(17:08 CEST) [history] - PerlCode → MetalHead
Sun, 02 Jul 2006:
(13:14 CEST) [history] - tgrep → MetalHead [added link to TimeDate patch]
(13:13 CEST) [history] - TimeDate → MetalHead [initial setup]
Sun, 25 Jun 2006:
(16:52 CEST) [history] - BullshitBingo → MetalHead [added version information]
Sat, 24 Jun 2006:
(17:43 CEST) [history] - CategoryPerl → MetalHead [initial setup]
Wed, 05 Apr 2006:
(14:47 CEST) [history] - CategoryCategory → MetalHead [disabled comments box]
Mon, 03 Apr 2006:
(21:10 CEST) [history] - LaTeXCode → MetalHead [changed description, added gnuplottex]
(14:27 CEST) [history] - JavaCode → MetalHead [added constraint problem thingy]
Thu, 02 Feb 2006:
(21:19 CET) [history] - ping → MetalHead [fixed typo]
(21:18 CET) [history] - bubblemon → MetalHead [added link + update]
(20:24 CET) [history] - kernel → MetalHead [added link to kernel.org]
(20:20 CET) [history] - Dirstats → MetalHead [added example output]
(20:17 CET) [history] - loop → MetalHead [added some explanatory text and link]
Fri, 27 Jan 2006:
(01:03 CET) [history] - PoetryPage → MetalHead [added parent]
(01:01 CET) [history] - GamesPage → MetalHead [added parent]
(01:00 CET) [history] - data → MetalHead [added parent]
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(00:59 CET) [history] - RRDtool → MetalHead [added parent]
(00:58 CET) [history] - rsa → MetalHead [added parent]
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(18:07 CET) [history] - HomePage → MetalHead [flickr link]
Sat, 16 Oct 2010:
(14:25 CEST) [history] - TalkPage → MetalHead [fix link]
Tue, 20 Apr 2010:
(19:50 CEST) [history] - AmazonSearch → MetalHead
Sat, 20 Mar 2010:
(18:04 CET) [history] - RandomPage → MetalHead
Sun, 11 Jan 2009:
(20:31 CET) [history] - OpenBlockNetBSD → MetalHead [fixing link]
(16:48 CET) [history] - MetalHead → MetalHead [updated status]
Thu, 31 Jul 2008:
(10:35 CEST) [history] - wget → MetalHead [updated status, added link to wget bug report]
Sat, 12 Jul 2008:
(14:50 CEST) [history] - PasoriRuby → MetalHead [added presentation link]
Sat, 22 Mar 2008:
(11:54 CET) [history] - backgroundPage → MetalHead [added resolution info]
Thu, 20 Mar 2008:
(12:43 CET) [history] - ImportareSrc → MetalHead [initial setup]
(12:35 CET) [history] - ShellCode → MetalHead [oops, link hiccups]
Sun, 27 Jan 2008:
(09:31 CET) [history] - RubyCode → MetalHead [added link to pasori-ruby]
Sun, 11 Nov 2007:
(05:35 CET) [history] - s3backup → MetalHead [added reference to presentation]
Sat, 27 Oct 2007:
(09:46 CEST) [history] - thesis → MetalHead [added link to thesis presentation]
Sun, 07 Oct 2007:
(06:57 CEST) [history] - CategoryThesis → MetalHead [initial setup]
(06:56 CEST) [history] - ConstraintSolver → MetalHead [parent action hiccups]
(06:46 CEST) [history] - TeX → MetalHead [initial setup]
(06:46 CEST) [history] - gnuplottex → MetalHead [added more information, updated with terminal selection feature]
Mon, 24 Sep 2007:
(04:17 CEST) [history] - PublicationsPage → MetalHead [fixed links]
Sat, 10 Mar 2007:
(17:04 CET) [history] - ConstraintProblemSolver → MetalHead [fixed typo]
Tue, 16 Jan 2007:
(13:31 CET) [history] - NetHack → MetalHead [changed screenshot to linked thumbnail]
Fri, 29 Dec 2006:
(13:38 CET) [history] - ReadingPage → MetalHead [added DOET]
Mon, 02 Oct 2006:
(14:04 CEST) [history] - sitemap → MetalHead [added new version info]
Sat, 19 Aug 2006:
(17:20 CEST) [history] - CCode → MetalHead [added wget]
Tue, 01 Aug 2006:
(22:05 CEST) [history] - linuxHeap → MetalHead [clarified uncaught SIGSEGV effect]
Sun, 30 Jul 2006:
(17:58 CEST) [history] - ComicsPage → MetalHead [made header bigger]
Sun, 23 Jul 2006:
(17:31 CEST) [history] - SysInfo → WikkaInstaller (unregistered user) [Upgrading from 1.1.6.0 to 1.1.6.2]
(17:31 CEST) [history] - FormattingRules → WikkaInstaller (unregistered user) [Upgrading from 1.1.6.0 to 1.1.6.2]
Fri, 14 Jul 2006:
(21:08 CEST) [history] - CodePage → MetalHead [added wishlist link]
Sat, 08 Jul 2006:
(17:16 CEST) [history] - histobin → MetalHead [initial setup]
(17:08 CEST) [history] - PerlCode → MetalHead
Sun, 02 Jul 2006:
(13:14 CEST) [history] - tgrep → MetalHead [added link to TimeDate patch]
(13:13 CEST) [history] - TimeDate → MetalHead [initial setup]
Sun, 25 Jun 2006:
(16:52 CEST) [history] - BullshitBingo → MetalHead [added version information]
Sat, 24 Jun 2006:
(17:43 CEST) [history] - CategoryPerl → MetalHead [initial setup]
Wed, 05 Apr 2006:
(14:47 CEST) [history] - CategoryCategory → MetalHead [disabled comments box]
Mon, 03 Apr 2006:
(21:10 CEST) [history] - LaTeXCode → MetalHead [changed description, added gnuplottex]
(14:27 CEST) [history] - JavaCode → MetalHead [added constraint problem thingy]
Thu, 02 Feb 2006:
(21:19 CET) [history] - ping → MetalHead [fixed typo]
(21:18 CET) [history] - bubblemon → MetalHead [added link + update]
(20:24 CET) [history] - kernel → MetalHead [added link to kernel.org]
(20:20 CET) [history] - Dirstats → MetalHead [added example output]
(20:17 CET) [history] - loop → MetalHead [added some explanatory text and link]
Fri, 27 Jan 2006:
(01:03 CET) [history] - PoetryPage → MetalHead [added parent]
(01:01 CET) [history] - GamesPage → MetalHead [added parent]
(01:00 CET) [history] - data → MetalHead [added parent]
(00:59 CET) [history] - VimCode → MetalHead [added parent]
(00:59 CET) [history] - RRDtool → MetalHead [added parent]
(00:58 CET) [history] - rsa → MetalHead [added parent]
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The Register
- Icahn doubles down on Dell offer with $14 per share buyback scheme
Confirms he's now Dell's largest private investor – short of Big Mike, that is
With exactly a month to go before the special meeting of Dell shareholders that could decide the company's fate, investor Carl Icahn has increased the pressure for a better deal for shareholders – chiefly himself.…
- Kiwi telco Two Degrees to roll out 4G in 2014
BNZ backs Huawei kit buy
Junior New Zealand telco Two Degrees Mobile is getting ready to roll out 4G, with deployment to start in 2014.…
- TypeScript 0.9 arrives with new compiler, support for generics
Biggest update yet for Microsoft's JavaScript alternative
Microsoft on Tuesday announced TypeScript 0.9.0, the latest version of its
JavaScript killeralternative web language, which Redmond describes as the "largest update to TypeScript to date."… - Google mounts legal challenge to surveillance gag orders
Argues free speech trumps security secrecy
Google has filed a legal petition "respectfully requesting" the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) release it from a gag order, and allow the company to tell users how often the NSA comes calling for data.…
- It's time to suck the marrow from the NBN debate
The Reg has a plan to ensure Australia knows what its billions will buy
Australia has, for the past decade, enjoyed a vivid but not-always productive debate on appropriate broadband infrastructure for the nation. The Reg wants to set that to rights.…
- Increased cell phone coverage tied to uptick in African violence
'Significantly and substantially increases the probability of violent conflict'
The increasing availability of cell phone coverage in Africa is contributing to an increase of violence on that continent, a recent study contends.…
- Remote code execution vuln appears in Puppet
Big trouble in automated clouds
Puppet Labs has blasted out a security advisory about a vulnerability in the popular infrastructure management tool Puppet.…
- Canonical unveils Carrier Advisory Group for Ubuntu phones
Eight possible launch partners already signed on
Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has announced the formation of a Carrier Advisory Group (CAG) to help advocate for the open source OS as a smartphone platform.…
- Soylent days and soylent nights
Food 2.0 fails the post-pub nosh test
Green beans, chilli con carne, fresh mackerel, olives, zucchini, pork belly stuffed with chilli and garlic – these are some of the things we've been thinking of during our self-imposed Soylent diet. Clearly, we're not the right market for the stuff.…
- Tor users locked out of Facebook after wave of dodgy traffic
Don't panic, a solution is at hand
Users of the Tor traffic anonymizing service are currently locked out of Facebook after a flood of dodgy traffic triggered an automatic lockdown by the social network's security systems.…
- GE partners with Amazon for 'industrial internet'
Proprietary cloud for the internet of things, with help from Accenture and Pivotal
GE has announced a cloud-based analytics platform for net-connected devices as the manufacturing giant tries to forge a set of technologies for what it terms "the industrial internet".…
- Ex-HTC execs launch UK-based smartphone maker Kazam
Startup threatens to 'disrupt status quo' this year
As struggling smartphone maker HTC continues to reel from what looks like a mass exodus of executives, two former HTC execs have announced that they are forming their own smartphone company with the goal of "disrupting the status quo."…
- Nvidia stretches CUDA coding to ARM chips
OpenACC is building up momentum as Chipzilla ignores it
ISC 2013 Nvidia's new CUDA 5.5 release aims to overcome the inherent mathematical suckiness of the ARM architecture by unleashing the powers of GPUs working in conjunction with those popular low-power chips – and not just ones from Nvidia.…
- Apple's screw-up leaves tethered iPhones easily crackable
24 seconds from pickup to pwned
iPhones being used as Wi-Fi hotspots are open to attack because of lax security protocols in the automatic password generation system Apple has in place, according to new research from the University of Erlangen in Germany.…
- Huawei unwraps Ascend P6: World's slimmest smartphone
Don't mention the info war
Huawei's latest handset ticks all the right boxes, and is only 6mm thick, but surrounded by headlines about government intrusion, the timing of the launch could've been a lot better for a company that was being accused of government spying well before PRISM made it fashionable.…
- HP PCs 'n' printers boss steps down, replaced by Brit
Just check that seat to see if it can be dropped into a furnace
HP has snatched the reins of its bogged-down global PC and printer biz from exec Todd Bradley, just a year after stitching the units together, as it struggles to compete in the mobile slablet world.…
- UK telcos chuck another £1m at online child abuse watchdog
Web enforcers IWF gain power to seek and destroy illegal content
Britain's largest ISPs have agreed to contribute a further £1m to the Internet Watch Foundation, following a meeting with Culture Secretary Maria Miller about child sex abuse images and videos found online.…
- Ask Trevor Pott ANYTHING about Office 365
Here, online, 24 June, 2pm BST 9am EST
Live Chat Our favourite sysadmin Trevor Pott has been digging deep into Office 365 in recent weeks.…
- CLOUD TO SUCK UP ALL YOUR CASH: Govts around world slash IT spending
Survey: Bring your own device, because we sure as hell won't buy you one
Governments around the world have made plans to cut their IT spending, according to a study, although apparently they're still really keen on the "cloud" and have also shown some interest in "Big Data".…
- BBC-featured call centre slapped with hefty fine for unwanted calls
PPI pests: Swansea-based firm stung for £225k by ICO
A company that is currently featuring on the BBC3 television programme The Call Centre has been fined £225,000 for making nuisance calls to Brits, the Information Commissioner's Office said today.…
- HPC server sales spike: Buyers get chops around juicy cheap flops
Big Data-supercomputing mash up, coprocessors included
ISC 2013 The plain vanilla server racket may have struggled in the first quarter, but sales of machinery aimed at high performance computing workloads -both traditional simulation workloads and new-fangled "Big Data" jobs - bucked the downward trends in the first quarter, according to the latest research from IDC.…
- Robbing a bank? Carberp toolkit now available for just $5k
Trojan forum sale may mark split in Carberp gang
Cybercrooks are selling the source code for the Carberp banking Trojan toolkit through underground forums - at just $5,000 a pop.…
- Yahoo! joins! rivals! in! PRISM! data! request! admission!
Keep calm and carry on using American tech firms, folks
Yahoo! has become the latest big-hitting American tech firm to reveal exactly how much information it has handed to US spooks.…
- Latest NASA ASTRONAUT class is HALF FEMALE
Newbie 'nauts include lady Marine fighter pilot, male doctor
NASA has picked four women and four men for its latest batch of trainee astronauts - and that's the highest percentage of female space rookies ever selected for one class.…
- O2 averts strike action over mass Capita outsourcing deal
Details of new agreement not yet released
The Communication Workers' Union has called off its strike ballot, scheduled to close today, following a last-minute deal with O2 and outsourcing giant Capita, the details of which haven't been released.…
- Microsoft lures buy-curious vixens, corduroys with a cheap fondle
Surface slab sales latest: Will no one rid Ballmer of these turbulent tabs?
Microsoft is slashing the price on its Windows 8-powered Surface RT tablets to slap the unwanted kit into students' palms.…
- Drug gang hacks into Belgian seaport, cops seize TONNE of smack
9 nabbed after shipping container system used to transport heroin, cocaine
Police in the Netherlands and Belgium have seized a tonne of cocaine, a tonne of heroin and a suitcase stuffed with €1.3m after uncovering a massive drug smuggling operation that used hackers to break into the systems of shipping companies.…
- France Telecom dials up support for its capitaine in Sarkozy gov cash probe
Surrender? Jamais! Je suis innocent, imbéciles
France Telecom’s board is standing by chief executive Stéphane Richard despite the fraud investigation into his time as a top government aide.…
- Spin doctors brazenly fiddle with tiny bits in front of the neighbours
Quantum computer address bus just nanometres wide
The University of New South Wales, working with Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, is celebrating what it hopes will be another step towards large-scale quantum computing: a technique that can address single electron qubits separated by mere nanometres.…
- Shrinking iPads, Ultrabooks will lead to disk boost: WD boss
As EMC, Netapp become the meat in a cloudy enterprise sandwich
WD showed a slide at its annual summit earlier this month that described the current computing market as "very chaotic". That would be a highly relative description, given the storage giant had booked the summit into Istanbul just as a sit-in at a park in the Turkish city had escalated into a three-day battle between protesters and riot police, with satellite skirmishes in other towns and cities across the country.…
Edited on 2006-01-28 21:12:12 by MetalHead [made header bigger]
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Welcome to metalhead.ws!
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Welcome to metalhead.ws!
Edited on 2006-01-26 23:55:57 by MetalHead [added PuclicationsPage]
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~- PublicationsPage
Oldest known version of this page was edited on 2005-12-04 01:03:25 by MetalHead []
Welcome to metalhead.ws!
Here you'll find some information about myself, programs I've written and other stuff. At the moment, it's more or less work in progress, so don't expect too much. Feel free to comment on this page or drop me an email? if there's anything you'd like me to know though.
The Register
- Icahn doubles down on Dell offer with $14 per share buyback scheme
Confirms he's now Dell's largest private investor – short of Big Mike, that is
With exactly a month to go before the special meeting of Dell shareholders that could decide the company's fate, investor Carl Icahn has increased the pressure for a better deal for shareholders – chiefly himself.…
- Kiwi telco Two Degrees to roll out 4G in 2014
BNZ backs Huawei kit buy
Junior New Zealand telco Two Degrees Mobile is getting ready to roll out 4G, with deployment to start in 2014.…
- TypeScript 0.9 arrives with new compiler, support for generics
Biggest update yet for Microsoft's JavaScript alternative
Microsoft on Tuesday announced TypeScript 0.9.0, the latest version of its
JavaScript killeralternative web language, which Redmond describes as the "largest update to TypeScript to date."… - Google mounts legal challenge to surveillance gag orders
Argues free speech trumps security secrecy
Google has filed a legal petition "respectfully requesting" the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) release it from a gag order, and allow the company to tell users how often the NSA comes calling for data.…
- It's time to suck the marrow from the NBN debate
The Reg has a plan to ensure Australia knows what its billions will buy
Australia has, for the past decade, enjoyed a vivid but not-always productive debate on appropriate broadband infrastructure for the nation. The Reg wants to set that to rights.…
- Increased cell phone coverage tied to uptick in African violence
'Significantly and substantially increases the probability of violent conflict'
The increasing availability of cell phone coverage in Africa is contributing to an increase of violence on that continent, a recent study contends.…
- Remote code execution vuln appears in Puppet
Big trouble in automated clouds
Puppet Labs has blasted out a security advisory about a vulnerability in the popular infrastructure management tool Puppet.…
- Canonical unveils Carrier Advisory Group for Ubuntu phones
Eight possible launch partners already signed on
Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has announced the formation of a Carrier Advisory Group (CAG) to help advocate for the open source OS as a smartphone platform.…
- Soylent days and soylent nights
Food 2.0 fails the post-pub nosh test
Green beans, chilli con carne, fresh mackerel, olives, zucchini, pork belly stuffed with chilli and garlic – these are some of the things we've been thinking of during our self-imposed Soylent diet. Clearly, we're not the right market for the stuff.…
- Tor users locked out of Facebook after wave of dodgy traffic
Don't panic, a solution is at hand
Users of the Tor traffic anonymizing service are currently locked out of Facebook after a flood of dodgy traffic triggered an automatic lockdown by the social network's security systems.…
- GE partners with Amazon for 'industrial internet'
Proprietary cloud for the internet of things, with help from Accenture and Pivotal
GE has announced a cloud-based analytics platform for net-connected devices as the manufacturing giant tries to forge a set of technologies for what it terms "the industrial internet".…
- Ex-HTC execs launch UK-based smartphone maker Kazam
Startup threatens to 'disrupt status quo' this year
As struggling smartphone maker HTC continues to reel from what looks like a mass exodus of executives, two former HTC execs have announced that they are forming their own smartphone company with the goal of "disrupting the status quo."…
- Nvidia stretches CUDA coding to ARM chips
OpenACC is building up momentum as Chipzilla ignores it
ISC 2013 Nvidia's new CUDA 5.5 release aims to overcome the inherent mathematical suckiness of the ARM architecture by unleashing the powers of GPUs working in conjunction with those popular low-power chips – and not just ones from Nvidia.…
- Apple's screw-up leaves tethered iPhones easily crackable
24 seconds from pickup to pwned
iPhones being used as Wi-Fi hotspots are open to attack because of lax security protocols in the automatic password generation system Apple has in place, according to new research from the University of Erlangen in Germany.…
- Huawei unwraps Ascend P6: World's slimmest smartphone
Don't mention the info war
Huawei's latest handset ticks all the right boxes, and is only 6mm thick, but surrounded by headlines about government intrusion, the timing of the launch could've been a lot better for a company that was being accused of government spying well before PRISM made it fashionable.…
- HP PCs 'n' printers boss steps down, replaced by Brit
Just check that seat to see if it can be dropped into a furnace
HP has snatched the reins of its bogged-down global PC and printer biz from exec Todd Bradley, just a year after stitching the units together, as it struggles to compete in the mobile slablet world.…
- UK telcos chuck another £1m at online child abuse watchdog
Web enforcers IWF gain power to seek and destroy illegal content
Britain's largest ISPs have agreed to contribute a further £1m to the Internet Watch Foundation, following a meeting with Culture Secretary Maria Miller about child sex abuse images and videos found online.…
- Ask Trevor Pott ANYTHING about Office 365
Here, online, 24 June, 2pm BST 9am EST
Live Chat Our favourite sysadmin Trevor Pott has been digging deep into Office 365 in recent weeks.…
- CLOUD TO SUCK UP ALL YOUR CASH: Govts around world slash IT spending
Survey: Bring your own device, because we sure as hell won't buy you one
Governments around the world have made plans to cut their IT spending, according to a study, although apparently they're still really keen on the "cloud" and have also shown some interest in "Big Data".…
- BBC-featured call centre slapped with hefty fine for unwanted calls
PPI pests: Swansea-based firm stung for £225k by ICO
A company that is currently featuring on the BBC3 television programme The Call Centre has been fined £225,000 for making nuisance calls to Brits, the Information Commissioner's Office said today.…
- HPC server sales spike: Buyers get chops around juicy cheap flops
Big Data-supercomputing mash up, coprocessors included
ISC 2013 The plain vanilla server racket may have struggled in the first quarter, but sales of machinery aimed at high performance computing workloads -both traditional simulation workloads and new-fangled "Big Data" jobs - bucked the downward trends in the first quarter, according to the latest research from IDC.…
- Robbing a bank? Carberp toolkit now available for just $5k
Trojan forum sale may mark split in Carberp gang
Cybercrooks are selling the source code for the Carberp banking Trojan toolkit through underground forums - at just $5,000 a pop.…
- Yahoo! joins! rivals! in! PRISM! data! request! admission!
Keep calm and carry on using American tech firms, folks
Yahoo! has become the latest big-hitting American tech firm to reveal exactly how much information it has handed to US spooks.…
- Latest NASA ASTRONAUT class is HALF FEMALE
Newbie 'nauts include lady Marine fighter pilot, male doctor
NASA has picked four women and four men for its latest batch of trainee astronauts - and that's the highest percentage of female space rookies ever selected for one class.…
- O2 averts strike action over mass Capita outsourcing deal
Details of new agreement not yet released
The Communication Workers' Union has called off its strike ballot, scheduled to close today, following a last-minute deal with O2 and outsourcing giant Capita, the details of which haven't been released.…
- Microsoft lures buy-curious vixens, corduroys with a cheap fondle
Surface slab sales latest: Will no one rid Ballmer of these turbulent tabs?
Microsoft is slashing the price on its Windows 8-powered Surface RT tablets to slap the unwanted kit into students' palms.…
- Drug gang hacks into Belgian seaport, cops seize TONNE of smack
9 nabbed after shipping container system used to transport heroin, cocaine
Police in the Netherlands and Belgium have seized a tonne of cocaine, a tonne of heroin and a suitcase stuffed with €1.3m after uncovering a massive drug smuggling operation that used hackers to break into the systems of shipping companies.…
- France Telecom dials up support for its capitaine in Sarkozy gov cash probe
Surrender? Jamais! Je suis innocent, imbéciles
France Telecom’s board is standing by chief executive Stéphane Richard despite the fraud investigation into his time as a top government aide.…
- Spin doctors brazenly fiddle with tiny bits in front of the neighbours
Quantum computer address bus just nanometres wide
The University of New South Wales, working with Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, is celebrating what it hopes will be another step towards large-scale quantum computing: a technique that can address single electron qubits separated by mere nanometres.…
- Shrinking iPads, Ultrabooks will lead to disk boost: WD boss
As EMC, Netapp become the meat in a cloudy enterprise sandwich
WD showed a slide at its annual summit earlier this month that described the current computing market as "very chaotic". That would be a highly relative description, given the storage giant had booked the summit into Istanbul just as a sit-in at a park in the Turkish city had escalated into a three-day battle between protesters and riot police, with satellite skirmishes in other towns and cities across the country.…