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Tech News Weekly: Edition 45
Darwin:
Have you tried Zotero? If so, how does it measure up against Endnote?
-J-Mac (November 07, 2008, 12:00 AM)
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I did try Zotero at one point and was very impressed. However, I have over 6000 articles and books entered into Endnote and didn't really putting Zotero through its paces. I have Firefox installed on my other machine and will take another look - if it will import Endnote indexes and integrate with Word, I may be a convert. Endnote keeps adding functionality, but the yearly upgrade at $80 to get the added functionality is steep.
Darwin:
Impressive. Zotero DOES have a Word add-in and (apparently) you can import an Endnote database into it. Unfortunately, I cannot get my database imported :( Will keep trying... If I didn't already have Endnote (I've been using it since 2000) and have so much invested into it re: time and references, I'd stick with Zotero.
Ehtyar:
Thanks everyone :)
Thanks Ehtyar, and congrats on the new position as Jr. IT Admin!
Amnesia Razorfish wouldn't happen to be the Australian internet censoring company would it? ;) :P
-Deozaan (November 06, 2008, 09:46 PM)
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Ahahaha, would you believe Amnesia don't even filter their own internet traffic? :tellme:
"Remote Buffer Overflow Bug Bites Linux Kernel"
- actually fixed back in early October when it was found (Ubuntu patched it within 24 hours). Another reason to open source drivers, so many eyes can see the problem.
-zridling (November 06, 2008, 11:18 PM)
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Thanks for the info zridling. I forgot to mention in the metanews as I should have that a few of the stories are older than a week as I forgot to check my read-it-later-list last week.
Once I get my browser back (backup in progress) I intend to try Zotero myself. Though I'll have little use for it I'll let everyone know how things go.
Ehtyar.
ewemoa:
Number 5:
A single cyber crime group has stolen more than a half million bank, credit and debit card accounts over the past two-and-a-half years using one of the most advanced strains of computer spyware in existence, according to research to be published today. The discovery is among the largest stolen data caches ever recovered.
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Am I the only one wondering when these things surface: How would you know whether your data was among that which was obtained? Can you check some how?
I think some (many?) people have more than one account at the same bank (e.g. savings + checkings) say, so perhaps a better thing to focus on is how many individuals' details have been compromised -- the current estimate could easily be inflated by a fair bit)...but then I guess the total numbers thrown around in the news would be smaller and it just wouldn't be as attention-grabbing...
Bonus question: so, what's the chance any given individual Internet user is directly affected? :)
J-Mac:
13. Porn Breath Tests for PCs Heralds 'stop and Scan'
"The disc goes into the CD-ROM drive of the PC and if files are found, the user connects a USB-DVD writer to the back of the computer, and the images that are stored in memory in the RAM of the computer are written to the DVD," Professor Valli said. "Nothing gets written to the original evidence at all, which is the key."
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This thing doesn't scan for deleted files and there's no mention of any uber-sophisticated (or otherwise) decryption+pattern search technology either. Wonder how many child pornographers innocent shlobs with nudies of their wives/girlfriends will be ensnared by this little beauty.
-nosh (November 07, 2008, 03:56 AM)
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Or someone else's wives or girlfriends... ;D 8)
Jim
(And if you don’t ever hear from me again, you'll know that my darling, lovely wife saw this... :) )
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