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The U.S. Air Force has hired Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems to study the possibility of integrating additional Missile Defense Agency (MDA) sensors into the U.S. Space Surveillance Network that tracks orbiting satellites, a Raytheon official said Oct. 28. The Tewksbury, Mass.-based company was awarded a $3 million contract from Air Force Space Command for a program called the Enterprise Sensing Prototype Architecture for Space Situational Awareness (ESP-SSA), Joe Chapa, Raytheon’s technical director for national theater security programs, said in an interview. The Air Force’s Space Surveillance Network employs a host of optical telescopes and radars around the world. The telescopes...

There've been satellites orbiting Earth for half a century. But getting information to and from them is still a pain. Which is why Pentagon research arm Darpa is looking to finally hook the orbiting spacecraft up with reliable broadband connections. It's part of a larger movement to extend terrestrial networks into space, and eventually build an "Interplanetary Internet." In the meantime, we might even get less-than-crappy satellite internet service - if the project works out, of course. Darpa recently issued a request for information about supplying "persistent broadband ground connectivity for spacecraft in low-Earth orbit." The idea would be to...

The U.S. Navy conducted successful test flights Sept. 3 and 4 of two Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missiles (FBMs) built by Lockheed Martin. The Navy launched the unarmed missiles from the submerged submarine USS West Virginia (SSBN 736) in the Atlantic Ocean. The Trident II D5 missile now has achieved 129 consecutive successful test flights since 1989 - a record unmatched by any other large ballistic missile or space launch vehicle. "These successful missile tests again demonstrate the readiness and reliability of the entire Trident II D5 Strategic Weapon System," said Melanie A. Sloane, vice president of Fleet Ballistic...

OTTAWA -- The recession in Canada is only over in a technical sense because the recovery is extremely fragile and there are still problems in the job market, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Monday. "We've got (Federal Reserve) Chairman (Ben) Bernanke and others saying the recession is over but I think that's only in a technical sense," Mr. Harper told a televised news conference in Guelph, Ont. "As long as we continue to have challenges in the labor market that affect Canadian families on the ground, then I don't think we can truly say the recession is over. So...

Greetings! I just volunteered for a project at work to chair a team that will look at building a knowledge base for our internal use. We are a technical company that provides computers, software and services with resources that are based around the globe. Our documentation is scattered about with pockets of organization and a lot of head-knowledge. The charter will be to develop a tool that is easy to use (otherwise no one will use it, of course) that allows our resources to access the information via an index or query and provide links to where formal documentation may...

Standard and Poor’s announced that Red Hat would join the S&P 500 as of the close of trading on Friday. Red Hat replaces lender CIT Group, which had a market capitalization below $275 million, ranking it 500th in the index. The market seemed to like the S&P news. In after hours trading Friday, Red Hat was up 8.45 percent to $22.34. Red Hat, the fast-growing provider of open source software solutions to enterprise customers, will be added to the S&P 500 GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard) Systems Software Sub-Industry index. The company has been aggressively pursuing new opportunities to help...

1. “Deregulation is a joke— but it’s probably not as funny for you.” For years the cable business had acted like a typical monopoly, providing lessthan- ideal customer service, skyrocketing prices, and little choice of service. Then along came the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which opened the door for competition and promised weary cable customers relief at last. Too bad that relief never came. Nearly four years after the bill was passed, a mere 286 of the 30,000 U.S. cable markets were being served by more than one provider, according to the Federal Communications Commission. And in the FCC’s most...

Introducing CADIE Research group switches on world's first "artificial intelligence" tasked-array system. For several years now a small research group has been working on some challenging problems in the areas of neural networking, natural language and autonomous problem-solving. Last fall this group achieved a significant breakthrough: a powerful new technique for solving reinforcement learning problems, resulting in the first functional global-scale neuro-evolutionary learning cluster. Since then progress has been rapid, and tonight we're pleased to announce that just moments ago, the world's first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE) was switched on and began performing some initial functions. It's an exciting...

I had a document I had written pages and pages of material on. I plugged in a disk to save it, and made the horrible mistake of sending the OLD version over and replacing the NEW version. I am DESPERATE to get this work back. Does anyone know how to recover an old saved version? I am reasonably certain system restore will not work, that's not what it was designed to do. I have not saved over it in any other way, and I recall some tech geeks telling me it was possible to access old saved versions of a...

I have a problem and I can't find any good answers online. I have a nice new LCD TV that I just got for our kitchen. Unfortunately, there is no cable jack in our kitchen and we have been told by our cable company that they can't put one in. I have an appointment with Best Buy's Geek Squad, who told me they can usually get one in even when the cable company can't. But I'm not certain they can do it. In the meantime I have this awesome HDTV but I get terrible reception as I am using old...

Wondering if anyone else having problems with FR. I'm logged in, but no new articles and jumbled time on dates are coming up on threads posted from as early as Friday AM.

Is there something wrong with the boards? Some articles on News/Activism don't have viewable comments and it appears that new articles are not appearing. I posted a comment on one thread as a test and that does not show up in the thread or in my pings.

There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it: FIRST: Emergency The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobiles is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile; network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it...

I'm working with a few other people in the Rochester area on creating a conservative website/blog. The blogger software for the webhosting company that we have our website on is WordPress. Unfortunately for me, WordPress uses php, something I know little about. I'd like to have a unique look and feel to the website, a patriotic theme preferably a three column theme. I did find a couple of free themes on the web, but they're two columned. I'd rather a Freeper helped us out with this. If you have any ideas, please post here.

Installing a second h/d to a computer. 2nd HD is from pc with dead MB. 2nd HD is formatted with OS (XP) installed. I want to use the #2 HD as a slave and for storage only. HD's are matching ATA/IDE 80GB, 7200 RPM.Question...should I fdisk and reformat before I install as a slave?

Government tests have found bisphenol A — used in plastic baby bottles, dental sealants and linings of metal cans — in 95% of people studied. While scientists haven't yet conducted definitive studies in people, animal tests have linked bisphenol A — which acts like a hormone — to problems such as obesity, early puberty, hyperactivity, and abnormal sexual behavior and reproductive cycles. In their joint statement, however, scientists say they took

Possible virus problem: Keyboard acting funny; numeric key "four" not working, "dollar" not working either. Login screens acting funny as well; i.e. Login to Yahoo mail password field numerics either not entering or returning to start of password field, and arrow keys not working.

340,282,366,920,938,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 new web addresses created by internet chiefs . . . so we won’t run out of space soon, then TO THE lay observer it seems like an infinite network of computers, servers and cables stretching around the globe. But the worldwide web is filling up. So quickly, it turns out, that programmers have had to devise a new one. Of the internet addresses available, more than three quarters are already in use, and the remainder are expected to be assigned by 2009. So, what will happen as more people in developing countries come online? The answer is IPv6, a...

RMS - a man who can polarize a room into warring factions just by walking by. (Joe Barr) If You're Livin' On The Edge... MOVE OVER!..There are people waiting to Jump! You gotta punch the clock, so why not punch your boss? Please don't call IIS unstable, it's simply uptime challenged. As for the philosophical stuff, think of it as broccolli: it's good for you... (Brian Germain) When people look like ants - pull. When ants look like people - pray. There's no place like 127.0.0.1 How many NASA managers does it take to screw in a light bulb? "That...

We Support Our Troops!  For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces.Part 1 Today we'll look at some gadgets that changed the way we lived  in the 1950's, 60's and 70's.  Next week, we'll look at the 80's  and 90's.  I'm sure you can think of MANY more gadgets in these eras.  Please share them with us!*All single starred items below indicate that I had one of these. (If prior to 1973, my parents had one and I got to use it. I started young, folks!)  **All double-starred items indicate...

After many months of not being able to login to FR from my west Texas server, everything now seems to be okay. For many months, whenever I typed in my user name and password at FR and clicked on the "Log In" button, I got only a "dead" response from the server. After trying MANY things, i.e., reformatting, changing my op system, and even changing PCs, I finally wrote to my ISP asking if they had the FR site blocked. After checking, my ISP decided the problem was their "Intrusion Detection" (software?) which was blocking perl script access. The problem...

ACCORDING TO MEDIA reports, the Defense Department is considering canceling two supersonic jet fighters that are on the Pentagon's drawing board: the Air Force's F/A-22 Raptor and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. There is no doubt that even with the defense budget at historical highs, the Pentagon cannot afford the $1.5 trillion worth of weapons that the military services would like to purchase. However, although the Defense Department is correct in trying to slash the F/A-22, it is dead wrong in trying to save money by canceling the Joint Strike Fighter. The F/A-22 Raptor is the most unnecessary weapon system...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Army News Service, Aug. 12, 2005) - Hollywood and the Army continued their cooperative association with the making of the film "The Great Raid." Set in the Philippines near the end World War II, “The Great Raid” tells the true story of the rescue of 500 Prisoners of War by the 6th Ranger Battalion and Filipino guerillas. Infiltrating 30 miles behind Japanese lines, the Rangers risked everything to save men imprisoned for almost three years at the infamous Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp. To provide an accurate portrayal of events, the film makers reached out to the Army...

Today my manager just gave me a listing of my internet activity for the month of July, which was given to him by our MIS department. This was a first time for him and I and we discussed my online activity. While it was quite active, he was cool about it and said he didn't know why it was given to him but for me to take it to heart. Before anyone starts flaming me about surfing FR while at work, keep in mind that that does not interfere whatsoever in my job performance. Considering my job, there are periods...

Assisted Reproductive Technologies are Anti-WomanBy Marie Anderson, M.D., FACOG and John Bruchalski, M.D. "Assisted reproductive technologies" (ART) broadly includes any therapy directed towards improving the chances of conception for an infertile couple. In 1978 one form of this technology made its debut when Louise Brown was born after her mother underwent IVF (in vitro fertilization). At the time, the scientific world marveled at man's accomplishment in creating the first "test tube baby." Now it seems more as if we have opened Pandora's Box. Initially it sounded simple to mix sperm and an egg in a Petri dish, but we...

Yet to be discovered, this "UNKNOWN SCANDAL" is certainly a very "Liberal Party of Canada approach" to: Managing International Foreign Aid Funds. This new scandal has been called by one of those who suffered from this ordeal: "Le scandale du travail au blanc". or "Canadian Diplomats and friends on the take...". Canada spend more or less two billions dollars a year in international assistance programmes. In some cases, benefits made on the back of the poorest of the world can reach 80% of an assistance project budget providing a very loose project management monitoring from obliging Civil servants. In the...

The 'qwerty' keyboard has been the subject of derision and verbal abuse ever since it made its first awkward appearance in 1872. The device has been largely neglected through the march of decades, even as computer components have advanced dramatically. Clearly keyboards need some imagination. A new software program that introduces a level of memory and intelligence to the lowly PC keyboard may just do that. The solution is called the Predictive Keyboard, and it's been developed by the WordLogic Corp. It's scheduled for commercial unveiling later this spring. The Predictive Keyboard can carry out a great many simple and...

The next version of the popular open-source Firefox will likely show up in June of 2005, not March as earlier expected, the browser's lead engineer wrote this weekend in his blog. "In a move that I would hope should surprise exactly nobody, we're pushing back 1.1 by a little bit because of the realities of the work remaining to be done," wrote Ben Goodger. The updated road map for Firefox 1.1 noted that beta should ship in early April, with a final edition to follow in June. The next major revision, dubbed 2.0, is still on track for release sometime...

Solid reputation paints bull's-eye on Mozilla's Firefox Free Web browser is known to be virtually impregnable to viruses and pop-ups, but it isn't hack-proof Sarah Stables CanWest News Service Thursday, January 06, 2005 A reputation for being virtually impregnable to viruses, pop-ups and other nasties of the Web is driving millions of fed-up computer users to ditch Internet Explorer in favour of the supposedly hack-proof alternative, Firefox, Mozilla's free Web browser. There's only one problem: the upstart isn't hack-proof at all. The evidence is at K-Otic.com, a Web site where hackers and security experts post their latest "exploits" - coded...

A European security vendor warned Wednesday that most browsers sport a bug that hackers can exploit to spoof a Web site and trick users into trusting bogus pop-up windows. The vulnerability, which Danish security firm Secunia rated as "moderately critical" is similar to previous bugs in browsers that was disclosed in July and September of 2004. Attackers could use it to add content into a trusted Web site's window by, for instance, inserting a fake form in a pop-up window seemingly opened by that site. Affected browsers, said Secunia, include the popular Internet Explorer and the up-and-coming Firefox, as well...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

A flaw in Sun's Java Virtual Machine can open up the two most popular browsers, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox, to attack, security researchers said Tuesday. According to Reston, Vir.-based iDefense and Danish security vendor Secunia, the bug in Java 2 Runtime Environment (JRE), Standard Edition could let attackers bypass the Java security "sandbox" and all security restrictions within Java applets on Web sites. JRE is the plug-in software that establishes a connection between the browser and the Java platform, and makes it possible for Web browsers to run Java applets stashed on Web sites. Hackers using the exploit...

Windows has a well-deserved reputation as a large operating system. A standard installation of Windows XP (with nothing else installed) can easily occupy something in excess of 1.5 Gbytes of disk space. In part, that's because Windows is a general-purpose operating system. As such, it's a kind of kitchen sink software, with all manner of tools, capabilities, and functions thrown into the mix. That trend started almost a decade ago when Microsoft built HTML rendering functions into Windows: What had previously been part of a separate application--a stand-alone browser--was now inside the operating system and available to any application or...

Anyone having problems today? It times out after I have entered my password info and before it gets to my actual mailpage. Been doing that all morning. Thanks!!

Home | FAQ | Contact | Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe from Alerts Search US-CERT > Advanced Search National Cyber Alert System Cyber Security Alert SA04-286A Multiple Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, and Excel Original release date: October 12, 2004 Last revised: -- Source: US-CERT  Systems Affected Microsoft Windows Microsoft Internet Explorer Microsoft Excel, including Macintosh versions  Overview By taking advantage of one or more vulnerabilities in Microsoft products, an attacker may be able to take control of your computer.  Solution Apply updates Microsoft has released security updates for a number of products, including Windows, Internet Explorer, and Excel....

Is anyone else having problems displaying threads on FR? I use Firefox, and it displays extremely long blank posts on every thread. I tried Internet Explorer and it seems to be having trouble with formatting tables and only shows the article with no other posts. Anyone else experiencing this? Yes, I'm logged on.

Hi - My PC clone has AMD-K6 & Win 98 SE 1. What changes do I have to make, (and how), to make my computer Boot from CD-ROM? I have a CD that has FreeSBIE / (FreeBSD) on it. When I am able to boot from the CD-ROM, then the FreeBSD is supposed to run the computer from the CD. 2. The ribbon cable that goes to the Hard Drive has that extra plastic connector in the middle of the cable. If I connect a 2nd hard drive to that extra connector, (also with the power connection), what else do...

Hackers are using pop-up ads to steal bank details from home computers, it was revealed yesterday. They have planted a 'trojan' virus inside the bogus ads, which appear on screen without any warning. Clicking on the close button to get rid of the advert triggers the virus, which then attempts to install itself on the computer. It waits until the user logs on to their Internet bank account, then it steals personal details such as passwords, by reading key strokes. These are then passed back to the hacker. The virus, named 'pwsteal.refest', marks a new level of sophistication for Internet...

Over the last several days I've been having technical problems with FR and I'm curious if anyone else has been having similar problems. What has been happening is that on some threads and for a while there when view new posts at the root level of the forums the page would load to a certain extent and then stop only reload. When viewing the list of new posts it would vary from moment to moment what I would see as people would post. But invariably I would only be able to see so far down the page or hardly any...

Losing Our Technical Dominance he United States remains the pre-eminent scientific and technological power in the world, but there are signs that it is losing ground to foreign competitors. To some extent this is inevitable — and even desirable. The greater the diffusion of scientific capabilities, the better off the world will probably be. Still, the situation in the United States is worrisome. Fewer and fewer young Americans seem interested in technical careers, and fewer young foreigners will be arriving to take their places. If this trend is not reversed, the pool of trained scientists and engineers in this country...

Michael Savage is talking about Richard Clarke's refusal to testify in 1999. The audio had been fading in and out. Savage, probably facetiously, said he thought it was the liberals messing with the transmission. Is anyone else hearing the same problem??

'Witty' Worm Wrecks Computers The worm targets Windows computers that run specific security firewalls. By Brian Krebs washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Saturday, March 20, 2004; 7:02 PM A quickly spreading Internet worm destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of personal computers worldwide Saturday morning by exploiting a security flaw in a firewall program designed to protect PCs from online threats, computer experts said.

I'm interested in any opinions that Technical Freepers may have about online technical distance education. I'm interested in keeping my technical skills up to date (approaching 20 years in IT) and I believe that my personal schedule would preclude in-class learning. My current career track is in the area of Technical Architecture, so I would like to delve more deeply into the nuts and bolts of Win2K, Windows Server 2003, .net, etc. I've participated in distance education in the past and liked it a lot. A few of my forays include: techies.com which offers dozens of technical courses accessible through...

I have a problem with my pc, I have windows ME, I like it, I have pretty few problems with it, but I have a problem with after uninstalling a program, sometimes I cannot get it out of the startup programs under msconfig, can someone tell me how to remove the programs that are there in msconfig at the startup, there are some things that I want to get rid of that are no longer there. thanks for any help you can lend

update IBM has launched a counterstrike against SCO Group's attack on Linux users, arguing that SCO's demands for Unix license payments are undermined by its earlier shipment of an open-source Linux product. IBM's assertion came in a message to its sales force last Thursday evening, four days after SCO said Linux users must pay the company for a Unix license or face possible legal action. SCO Group, owner of the Unix intellectual property, contends that Unix code was illegally copied line by line into Linux and that companies such as IBM illegally transferred improvements made to Unix into Linux. SCO's...

The Browning Hi-Power is a notable handgun of the last century for a number of reasons. It was John M. Browning's final pistol design. It introduced the concept of the high-capacity double-column magazine. It is considered by many to be an improvement of the famous Colt Government Model of 1911. Finally, it is one of the most-used military service pistols of all time. In fact, during World War II the Hi-Power, also known as the P-35, saw service not only with a number of the allied forces but was also used by the German military. The fact that the Hi-Power...

July 23 — Microsoft issued another passel of warnings about security holes Wednesday, including a “critical” flaw affecting most Windows PCs. The most serious of the flaws involves DirectX, a library of graphics and multimedia programming instructions used by most PC games, and could allow malicious users to run code of their choice on a vulnerable PC.

LONDON, July 1 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced a trio of European government contract wins on Tuesday, the latest salvo in the growing turf battle between the software giant and vendors of the upstart Linux software. The U.S. software giant would not disclose financial terms of the deals, which it said it won after competing head-to-head for the business with various Linux vendors. Microsoft said it would deploy its signature Windows server and desktop software on thousands of computers for the city governments in Frankfurt, the Latvian capital of Riga and Turku in Finland. For the past year, an...

The First Bush Space Policy Frank Sietzen, Jr. Tuesday, May 13, 2003 Today's action puts the first Bush administration 'stamp' on U.S. Space Policy, and while it is only the first policy action in an anticipated series, it has a clearly identifiable cast to its contents. The new space remote sensing policy released today by the National Security Council has a decidedly free market, conservative slant as it seeks to craft a new cooperative framework between U.S. federal users of space photography and the fledgling industry that is struggling to offer such services. Commercial sources of high resolution images...