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A bug has been found in Microsoft’s MapPoint online mapping and directions service which may send Norwegian users on a roundtrip through several countries and also including a couple of ferry crossings across the North Sea.
If the user picks driving directions between two Norwegian cities, which can’t be more than a couple of hundred miles apart, the driving directions send the user off on a road trip for 47 hours and 1685 miles later, having travelled though Sweden, Germany and the UK.
A worm similar to the SQL Slammer which devastated Windows servers running SQL Server has began infecting Windows PCs running the popular open source database software, MySQL.
The worm is only know to infect MySQL server installations if running on Windows machines, which is most likely not as many as running on (arguably more secure) Linux.
Although this is simple to do in practice, Java.net have an article walking though how to get Hibernate to participant in CMTs.
Intel recently registered new trademarks that may be an indication of new upcoming products. As a result people have starting speculating what the tradmark symbols mean.
One of the tradmark symbols is ‘VIIV’ – people are currently theorizing that this may be the logo for: