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RSS nerd'Nerd' prosecuted for Aussie hack
News The security industry is praising the Australian authorities for successfully pursuing the prosecution of self confessed 'nerd' and cyber-criminal Stephen Dendtler. Dendtler, 22, hacked into one of Australia's largest ISPs, OptusNet, and gained... [19 May 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Messaging without Exchange, Macs not cool shock and Cisco's quarter
Comment It's all very well being cool - but when did your average IT nerd care about that? As a self-confessed technology nerd, I can't help feeling Apple might have done better if it spent its cash elsewhere. [12 Aug 2002]
Just for Fun: Extract 1 - Tell me about your childhood
Comment No, let's face it, I was a nerd. And this was before being a nerd was considered a good thing. A nerd I may have been, and a runt, but I did okay. So in the social rankings I may have been a nerd, but, on the whole, school was good. [14 May 2001]
Microsoft pulls out the stops for Media Center upgrade launch
News After years of playing the nerd, the PC is hoping to land the role of the cool gadget in the living room - a part Microsoft desperately wants to see the computer play. As expected, Microsoft on Tuesday launched Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004... [01 Oct 2003]
Analysis: How does the CIO become the CEO?
Comment That's not to say the image of the IT boss as a commercially naive, sandal-wearing nerd doesn't still exist in many boardrooms but there are signs the old joke of CIO standing for 'career is over' is slowly disappearing. [06 Jan 2006]
Jonathan Zittrain on why the internet is on a knife edge
News I see a real possibility that the generative internet will once again become the province of the hobbyist/nerd types and others will be satisfied with information appliances that take them to established sites and services without easily allowing... [30 Jun 2008]
Photos: Robot racer hits the street
Photo So when the team built Alice for the 2005 race, with classic nerd humour, they thought it would be funny to give the robot the licence plate, "I 8 Bob. Team Caltech, a robotics group at the California Institute of Technology, is one of 35 teams... [27 Sep 2007]
'Geeks' and offshore fears threaten software industry
News Elizabeth Sparrow, chairman of the BCS working party on offshoring, said: "The image of IT is still bad - it's the geek and the nerd. The UK software industry is struggling to deal with the rise of offshoring, a 'geeky' image and the country's IT... [05 Jul 2006]
Hacker chatroom secrets exposed
News However, the domain was not purchased by us, nor did we obtain the credit card details, this was all done way back in early 2000 by an individual we will not name, who very kindly pointed the sub domain irc.nerd.tv at our servers. [24 Oct 2003]
The silicon.com Weekly Round-Up: 23.05.03
Comment Some Sun engineers have already admitted to the LA Times they miss the spontaneous brainstorms and "nerd bonding" with colleagues. "Hell is other people. So wrote French existentialist philosopher and serial café frequenter Jean Paul Sartre. [23 May 2003]
Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford
News But she concluded: "I think both sides will remember Gates as a nerd who made good - and ultimately did a lot of good with the billions he made through his Foundation work. During his career Gates has made Microsoft into one of the biggest... [25 Jun 2008]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 26.10.07
Round-Up Podcast Naked business men, chip and bin, useless gadgets, nerd-herders, the Caption Competition and reader comment of the week all feature in the latest Weekly Round-Up Podcast, hosted by Steve Ranger and featuring Andy McCue, Gemma Simpson and Natasha... [26 Oct 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: What's on my Christmas list
Comment I like gadgets as much as the next nerd but can you sort out some decent battery life for me? Dear Santa, I've been really good all this year and after giving it a lot of thought, I've decided I'd like some presents. [14 Dec 2006]
