Spam is 30-years-old and growing stronger

The 30th anniversary of unsolicited e-mail passed by last week with very little fanfare, but its rise to a global multi-million dollar industry from the humble beginnings of one man’s attempt to sell electronic products is nothing less than astronomical. Experts say there no end in sight.

Although the motivation may be the same there’s now very little to relate today’s spammers to the original daddy of unsolicited e-mail, according to technology security experts.

Some 30 years ago, Gary Thuerk, sent out what is widely credited as the first unsolicited marketing e-mail to about 400 of the more than 2,600 people using ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet.

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Ubuntu Hardy Heron and Really Slow Internet

Canonical Ltd. has released the newest update to their extremely popular Linux operating system Ubuntu: Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04 LTS), in short this is an amazing release, we are very impressed by it and will be writing more about this soon. However in our testing we have found it to have a much slower Internet connection than we were used to on the previous release Gutsy Gibbon.

This turns out what may be a problem with the Operating System, the consensus seems to be that is a problem that was experienced in Ubuntu Edgy Eft (version 6.10) and Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (version 7.10), although we never seen it in 7.10. The symptoms include an abnormally slow internet connection, inability to access certain domains, slow log-on times, slow application launch times, etc. There doesn’t seem to be any official acknowledgement of the issue by Canonical, yet.

The problem seems to stem from the Ubuntu configuration. By default IPv6 is the default network interface, and if you’re on an IPv4-only network (like most of the world) Ubuntu will try (sometimes for many seconds) the IPv6 network connection before switching to the IPv4 connection.

The fix is quite easy though, just disable IPv6, here is the instructions:

In Terminal:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases

You might need to enter your password here.

Gedit opens:

Look for:

ALIAS NET-PF-10 IPV6

Comment this line out so it looks like:

#ALIAS NET-PF-10 IPV6

And add a line right underneath that looks like this:

ALIAS NET-PF-10 OFF

Save the file, exit terminal, restart your system and things should be speedy again.

You can also watch this video of the whole process (note this shows 7.10, but the process is the same).

Cairo-Dock

Total eye-candy for your desktop! Cairo-Dock is an application dock similar to the dock in Mac OS X. We have been using the Linux application dock and launcher Avant Window Navigator (AWN) and this free utility compares well. For a demo check out this video.

Cairo-Dock is a free download for Linux systems only and is easily installed on Ubuntu and Debian-based systems.
How to install Cairo-Dock via Tombuntu.

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Zune to arrive in Canadian stores in mid-June

While it hasn’t generated the same hype as the iPhone launch, Microsoft announced Tuesday that the Zune, which was released in the US back in November 2006, will finally arrive in Canada on June 13.

OpenOffice.org 3 beta is ready for testing

The OpenOffice.org Community is pleased to announce that the public beta release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is now available. This beta release is made available to allow a broad user base to test and evaluate the next major version of OpenOffice.org, but is not recommended for production use at this stage.

RBC Royal Bank Giving Away Free Eee PCs

I remember when you opened a bank account you would get a toaster, a coffee maker, or a calculator and more recently we’ve seen banks give away iPod shuffles. But look at this, RBC Royal Bank is giving away ASUS Eee PCs when you open a chequing account.

Newspapers are dead

I read local news, business updates, technology news, sports headlines, as well as numerous other sources of information and news on topics ranging from productivity to design to technology. All in all, over 200 sources of news and information are sent to me and it usually arrives before ever reaching the print version. Oh and did I mention it’s free.

Shed that Winter Fat with Wii Fit

There have been numerous reports of people using the Nintendo Wii in their exercise regime to lose weight. The interactivity of the Nintendo gaming platform has no doubt contributed to the incredible sales figures of the system. The ultimate “game” to take on this phenomenon from Nintendo is a virtual gym, Wii Fit. Wii Fit is scheduled to be released on May 21st. If you want this product, you should pre-order, or deal with some long lines and sold-out products.

Virtual Earth 3D (Beta)

Add realistic 3D capabilities to your online Live Search Maps. Virtual Earth 3D brings you another step closer to knowing “what it is like out there”. You can search, browse, and organize local information viewed in three dimensions, just the way it exists in the real world. This enables you to more effectively find the data that is relevant to you, making Live Maps more useful than ever. Even better — it’s just plain fun!

NewsGator Inbox Integrates RSS with Outlook

If you spend much of your day interacting with Outlook, take advantage of the ability to track and manage all of your RSS content within the application. Get news and information delivered right to your Microsoft Outlook ^® folders with NewsGator Inbox.