OK, in Italian we say "Don't shoot at the red cross", but this is too hilarious.

Nobody wants a Microsoft Zune for Christmas

To think that this man is M$ CEO...

Steve Ballmer - Developers developers developers developers

One of the many parody videos featuring Steve Ballmer and his extravagant speech he did at Microsoft. This one follows the iPod ads legacy, very well done.

Zune Ballmer - iPod version

This never gets old. Slashdot reports that a security loophole in the pseudo-random number generator used by Windows was recently detailed in a paper presented by researchers at the University of Haifa. The team found a way to decipher how the number generator works, and thus compute previous and future encryption keys used by the computer, and eavesdrop on private communication. Their conclusion is that Microsoft needs to improve the way it encodes information. They recommend that Microsoft publish the code of their random number generators as well as of other elements of the Windows security system to enable computer security experts outside Microsoft to evaluate their effectiveness. Although they only checked Windows 2000, they assume that XP and Vista use similar random number generators and may also be vulnerable. The full text of the paper is available in PDF format.

Now, what was that about closed source software and security?

Now there no more excuses. You can official install debian GNU/Linux from Windows. Slashdot reports:

After a long process of review and polishing, the win32 loader from goodbye-microsoft.com has finally made its way to official Debian CDs. Latest daily builds of lenny (the development version) are including it, making starting Debian Installer as simple as just a few clicks (OGG). The win32-loader version, now based on GRUB 2, includes new features such as detection and pre-seeding of Windows settings, and is translated to 20 languages."