Microsoft sends flowers, cites the 'good time' with IE6 (see image, below)

The mock funeral for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) last night was more Irish wake than somber processional, the Web design firm that hosted the event said today.

"It was great to get together with other people in the business and share remembrances of IE6, commiserate together," said Jon Clark, the business development manager for Aten Design Group of Denver, Colo. "People were really happy at the funeral, and it was all in good fun."

Last week, Aten Design announced the death of IE6 on a site, IE6funeral.com...

gFTP is typical of most Linux-based software. It does not have to suffer code bloat to be a powerful program. Much like a file management tool, gFTP makes it easy to manage files at either end of the connection. Sure, there are other file transfer apps available to Linux users, but I found that gFTP is among the smallest and easiest packages to use.

I am an avid user of open source software and a firm believer in the benefits of FOSS. I have a choice of operating systems at my disposal, but I now cringe whenever I have to work in the Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) world. I much prefer the vast arra...

It's the talk of consumer electronics and gaming. Depending on who you ask, 3D could change the way we watch TV and play computer games, but there's one thing it seems everyone is agreed on: who wants to wear those goofy glasses?

It turns out you might not have to. At this week's Cebit IT fair, engineers are showing a new breed of screen that projects a 3D image towards the viewer's eyes so glasses aren't required.

Glasses are used to select which of two images each eye sees, allowing the right eye to see one and the left eye the other using either color filters or shutters synchronized with...

The arrests in Spain of three men alleged to have run the notorious Mariposa botnet is the latest win for the good guys. Security professionals have been stepping up their collaboration with authorities to wrest control of legions of zombie computers from the command-and-control centers they report to. However, these victories may serve more to illustrate the magnitude of the problem than to solve it.

The three men accused of unleashing a vicious cyberassault that infected millions of computers worldwide may now be in jail, but the damage they left behind should serve as a warning for compute...

"It used to be a kiss of death to present yourself as a genuine alternative to Windows," said Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth on opening new users' eyes to desktop Linux distros. "But the success of the Web and the success of Apple have really made the PC companies think that it is possible to offer something that is perceived to be valuable even if it is not Windows."

Canonical founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth, developer of the Ubuntu open source operating system, announced in December that he was stepping aside to develop cloud product design and curry new partners.

He named Chief Ope...

Microsoft will issue two bulletins fixing eight vulnerabilities rated "important" in Windows and Microsoft Office products on Tuesday, the company announced on Thursday.

This represents a light Patch Tuesday, a contrast to last month when the company patched 26 holes with 13 bulletins, including critical vulnerabilities for Windows.

Meanwhile, Microsoft is continuing to monitor the situation with a VBScript vulnerability that was disclosed on Monday, Jerry Bryant, senior security communications manager lead at the company, wrote in a blog post.

Proof-of-concept code has been published on t...

Ignition Entertainment and Zombie Studios have designed a near-future FPS that is expected to offer "AAA-quality" military action in a downloadable package.

According to Ajay Chada of Ignition, Epic's Unreal 3 Engine brings the strange world of Blacklight: Tango Down to life with "disturbingly" detailed, old-world architecture.



"[The game] drips with modern sci-fi lighting and brightly lit advertisements, an effect that causes each environment to appear both futuristically alien as well as hauntingly familiar," said Chada.

"Blacklight is set to change the way gamers view the po...