Ultimate Travel Library
To compile our list of classic travel books, we asked dozens of travelers (writers, photographers, explorers, editors, and others) to name the books that have most enriched their senses of place and best informed their peregrinations.
Ultimate Travel Library—Around the World in 80+ Books [National Geographic]
ACMA – Click and connect
Click and connect – young Australians’ use of online social media, Posted 08 July 2009
Children and young people have a high level of awareness of cybersafety risks and the key messages for staying safe online.
This ACMA report found that 75 per cent of children surveyed claim they know not to give out their address or phone number online and remember key safety messages such as ‘people aren’t always who they say they are online’.
‘Australian children are telling us the internet is part of their everyday lives, and as they approach high school, it’s increasingly important to their social lives. Up to 97 per cent of 16 to 17 year olds claim to use at least one social networking service,’ said Chris Chapman, Chairman of the ACMA.
Most young people are using online technologies as a way to connect with their real world friends, with a small proportion—17 per cent of 12 to 17 year olds—using online social networking to build networks of new friends.
The report highlights an ongoing need for cybersafety material that resonates with young people, as well an improved flow of cybersafety information to parents.
– Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)
Google Chrome OS
Google enters the OS battle;
… We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve. …
– Introducing the Google Chrome OS (2009-Jul-07) [Official Google Blog]
VirusScan DAT 5664 issues
Based on anecdotes, the glitch appears to be caused when older VirusScan engines install DAT 5664, which McAfee seems to have pushed out in the past 24 hours. Affected systems then begin identifying a wide variety of legitimate – and frequently crucial – system files as malware. Files belonging to Microsoft Internet Explorer, drivers for Compaq computers, and even the McAfee-associated McScript.exe were being identified as a trojan called PWS!hv.aq, according to the posts and interviews.
– McAfee false-positive glitch fells PCs worldwide (2009-Jul-03) [The Register]
… Issue possible just on machnes with engine 5100 and dat 5664. …
… We have had it confirmed by McAfee support that this problem is due to the old engine and that the only solution is to upgrade …
… 5100 is not supported anymore since January 2008 …
… the issue *only* affected people on the 5100 engine. This has been out of support for a very long time. …
False positive after dat 5664 (2009-Jul-03) [McAfee: forums]
The McAfee Product and Technology Support Lifecycle says that the 5200 engine reached end of Engine Support in Jan-09. The biggest question here is why Enterprises were still running the 5100 engine?
If your company was affected, I’d be grilling your own IT staff and ask why they are using an engine that hasn’t been supported since 2008!
Made from beer…
Beer chemistry and Canadians’ beer preferences
G. A. Whitmore, Jane F. Gentleman
McGill University and Statistics Canada
Keywords
Beer chemistry • multiple regression • multivariate data • prediction • taste preference
Abstract
Beer companies want to understand the relationship between the chemical characteristics of beer and the preferences for beer exhibited by consumers. Two data sets were provided to the analysts in this case study. The first set consisted of chemical measurements on 91 beers and preference measurements on the same beers collected from beer consumers in blind taste tests. The analysts were asked to use these data to develop a statistical model relating beer chemistry and consumer preferences for beer. The second data set consisted of chemical measurements on a holdout sample of 37 beers. The analysts were asked to employ their statistical model to predict consumer preferences for the beers in the holdout sample. The case study assesses the success of their modelling efforts.
– Wiley InterScience :: JOURNALS :: Canadian Journal of Statistics (2008-Dec-18)
