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The perennial Mars hoax e-mail
The perennial Mars hoax e-mail
Every August e-mails circulate which suggest we are about to have a close encounter with Mars. The e-mails are a hoax, but they say something about our fascination with the Red Planet.
The e-mail seems to promise something truly remarkable.
It often starts: "The Red Planet is about to be spectacular."
It ends with the screaming caps: "NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN."
The message tells of Mars being close to the earth on 27 August, close enough to be as big as the moon with the naked eye.
Sadly, in three weeks' time, on 27 August, Mars will be a long way away. But between then and now, astronomers will be bombarded with questions by curious punters about this close encounter.
"The e-mails and rumours go out every year but it isn't true. It's something we get asked in the planetarium a lot," says Dr Claire Bretherton, astronomy learning officer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich....
IT professionals urged to achieve chartered status to boost projects
IT professionals urged to achieve chartered status to boost projects
New study finds that properly qualified IT professionals are best placed to lead IT projects to success, thus saving money on rectifying mistakes at a later date
Employers in government and industry should put a greater importance on qualified IT professionals to lead and manage major IT projects, according to a significant report by three of the UKs most influential IT membership bodies.
The number of public sector IT projects that fail or generate huge overspends is an issue not just for government, but for the UK IT industry­ and private sector IT has also had its share of disasters.
Solving these high-profile problems could save the taxpayer billions of pounds. According to Engineering Values in IT, a new study from the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and the British Computer Society (BCS), such failings...
Critical Windows 7 bug risks derailing product launch
Critical Windows 7 bug risks derailing product launch
Oh boy! It appears that Microsofts glowing track record with Windows 7 is about to come to an abrupt and unceremonious end. According to various Web sources, the RTM build 7600.16385 includes a potentially fatal bug that, once triggered, could bring down the entire OS in a matter of seconds. The bug in question -- a massive memory leak involving the chkdsk.exe utility -- appears when you attempt to run the program against a secondary (that is, not the boot partition) hard disk using the "/r" (read and verify all file data) parameter. The problem affects both 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and is classified as a "showstopper" in that it can cause the OS to crash (Blue Screen of Death) as it runs out of physical memory.
Full story at InfoWorld.com.
Mainframe skills - the new black ?
Mainframe skills - the new black ?
People possessing mainframe skills will be in high demand by key UK and European employers, says James O'Malley, Senior Director, Mainframe, CA. However, mainframes are changing and new skills are required.
Recent research into 180 organisations across six European countries has demonstrated that the mainframe, a technology platform over 45 years old, remains a lynchpin of enterprise computing. Distributed networks have been integrated with mainframes to handle today's high-demand, 24/7 availability IT requirements.
Whether it's a mobile phone call, visiting the cashpoint or printing bank statements for millions of customers, most large businesses wouldn't survive without their oldest but most reliable computing resource.
Mainframes are also a highly cost-efficient IT option for organisations that want to drive down costs in the current 'down economy'. Far from being a dying breed, IT staff who...
Wake up and smell the certification
Wake up and smell the certification
Individuals are increasingly aware of the value of certification, but smart employers should do too, says Matthew Poyiadgi, European VP of CompTIA. Those that do so do not run the risk of losing their best people as soon as the economic recovery begins.
The IT sector has traditionally been backward in certifying its people. Note that I specifically refer to certifying, not necessarily training. What individuals rather than companies are starting to realise is that training without certification never delivers value for money. The result is that people are no longer relying on their employer to validate their skills, but are taking matters into their own hands.
Full story : here
The top of Cisco Certificate: CCA(Cisco Certified Architect)
The top of Cisco Certificate: CCA(Cisco Certified Architect)
Cisco has released a new certification: CCA, the full name is Cisco Certified Architect, is a more advanced than the CCIE certification. CCA test conditions is very high, the examination fee of U.S. 15,000 to say the least, must have a CCIE or CCDE the title and 10 years relevant industry experience.
Blog: Here
Cisco's Page: Here
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Is this Cisco's version of the MCA from Microsoft? Well the title and cost of it would make it appear so...
Certiport and ETS Announce the Development of iCritical Thinking Certification
Certiport and ETS Announce the Development of iCritical Thinking Certification Powered by ETS
New Certification Program Validating Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills in Technology-Enabled Environments Enters Beta Test Period for Slated November 2009 Launch
TORONTO--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--In response to the growing need for digitally literate workers and students with in-demand, applied ICT skills, Educational Testing Service and Certiportthe acknowledged leaders in educational assessment and certificationhave developed a new certification program: iCritical Thinking Certification powered by ETS.
The core of the iCritical Thinking Certification program is an outcomes-based examination that can be used to assess and validate critical thinking and problem solving skills in technology-enabled academic and workplace environments.
The iCritical Thinking Certification exam measures the range of cognitive and applied ICT...
Researchers find insecure BIOS 'rootkit' pre-loaded in laptops
Researchers find insecure BIOS 'rootkit' pre-loaded in laptops
LAS VEGAS - A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers.
The service - called Computrace LoJack for Laptops - contains design vulnerabilities and a lack of strong authentication that can lead to “a complete and persistent compromise of an affected system,” according to Black Hat conference presentation by researchers Alfredo Ortega and Anibal Sacco from Core Security Technologies.
Computrace LoJack for Laptops, which is is pre-installed on about 60 percent of all new laptops, is a software agent that lives in the BIOS and periodically calls home to a central authority for instructions in case a laptop is stolen. The call-home mechanism allows the central authority to instruct the BIOS agent to...
Microsoft and Yahoo seal web deal
Microsoft and Yahoo seal web deal
Yahoo and Microsoft have announced a long-rumoured internet search deal that will help the two companies take on chief rival Google.
Microsoft's Bing search engine will power the Yahoo website and Yahoo will in turn become the advertising sales team for Microsoft's online offering.
Yahoo has been struggling to make profits in recent years.
But last year it rebuffed several takeover bids from Microsoft in an attempt to go it alone.
Full story : here
Microsoft in new EU browser offer
Microsoft in new EU browser offer
Microsoft has made a new proposal to European competition regulators that it hopes will end their row over the firm's Internet Explorer web browser.
It proposes that European buyers of its new Windows 7 operating system will be offered a list of potential browsers when they first install the software.
The move comes a month after Microsoft said European buyers of Windows 7 would have to download a web browser.
Brussels ruled in January that pre-bundling Explorer hurt competition.
Full story : here
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