vB Easy Archive - LG CU500 as modem help?
My friend and I each have one of these CU500s and we each have an Intel Mac. Last week we got this figured out and even did an iChat with each other while both of us were tethered over Bluetooth. We got pretty good throughput too - close to DSL speeds both up and down.

VMWare plays Lab Manager | The Register
One of the oft-quoted advantages of virtualisation is the re-use of existing server resources, a capability which need not just apply to servers working in a production environment.

Wireless insecurity: do not use the cheerleader defence | The Register
The message boards are alive with misguided advice about wireless networks. Switch off your security, they say: you’ll get away with murder.

DWP computers ‘unreliable’ | The Register
Staff performance at Department for Work and Pensions’ contact centres is being damaged by problems with computer systems, says the Delivering effective services through contact centres report from MPs on the public accounts committee, published last week.

Is your software free, open or litigated? | The Register
By agreeing to license Microsoft’s intellectual property, SuSE distributor Novell has created a potentially fatal division in what’s called F/OSS, the Free/Open Source Software movement. What has Novell done, and why is it so potentially damaging?

Download your Blue Screen of Death - from Microsoft | The Register
Who says Microsoft has not got broad shoulders. Witness this neat little app - BlueScreen Saver 3.2 - available for download from Microsoft’s very own website.

Armchair downloaders want it all | The Register
Downloading movies, music and other media content onto computers in the comfort of your own home is more popular than ever, but people are simply not prepared to pay for it.

Pennsylvania court says viewing child porn ‘not illegal’ | The Register
A US court has ruled that viewing child pornography on a website without deliberately saving it to a computer is not a crime. The judge said that the state penal code was ambiguous, so he must rule in favour of the defendant.

Whatever happened to… The Wisdom of Crowds? | The Register
Future social historians looking back at the web cult - which met in San Francisco this week for a $3,000-a-head “summit” - may wonder what made them tick. Scholars could do worse than examine their superstitions. We’ll bet that lurking on the bookshelf of almost every “delegate” was a copy of James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds. It’s as ubiquitous as Erik Von Daniken books were in the 1970s.

Humans taste of bacon, says gourmet robot | The Register
There’s a commonly-held belief that just about every animal on Earth tastes of chicken* - except, of course, those which taste like steak, or bacon.