Archive for February, 2007
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I just saw a juicy little item over on eff.org that is going to rate about 9.5 on the dumber-than-crap-o-meter. They are saying that If a computer has popups and viruses, that this means that [...]
February 28th, 2007 | Posted in Computers, File Sharing, news | Comments Off
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In another case of anti-piracy gone too far, I just saw a times article about a case where apparently the RIAA hired some people to make “mixtapes” and then sent in the swat team to bust ‘em under the RICO act.
I wonder, when did it become ok to be a hypocrite [...]
February 20th, 2007 | Posted in news | Comments Off
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I just saw something on Slashdot that gives a little hope that the world need not be forever Windoze powered. Somebody posted a link to a Dell website that is concentrating on finding out what users want.
The most popular item on the list is “Pre-Installed Linux | Ubuntu | Fedora [...]
February 19th, 2007 | Posted in Computers, Linux, news, software | 1 Comment
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I ran across something on slashdot that struck pretty high on the irony meter. The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), has got some more egg on it’s face. Not only that, but there’s some “’splainin to do Lucy.”
I followed the story to a post on TorrentFreak to get [...]
February 18th, 2007 | Posted in news, software | Comments Off
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D-Wave Systems Inc., a company in Canada has claimed to achive a working quantum computer but scientists (and a lot of other folks) are beginning to have some serious doubts. It seems that when D-Wave did their demonstration, it was only by remote video. The machine itself was not [...]
February 17th, 2007 | Posted in Computers, Tech | Comments Off
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I just saw an AP story that caught my attention. The headline was “More Evidence Found for Water on Mars“. It seems that NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken pictures showing alternating layers of light and dark toned rock. In those layers of rock they see a series [...]
February 15th, 2007 | Posted in Space | Comments Off
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They’re starting to call it "Mobile Television" but it’s really nothing of the sort. It’s actually digital television on your phone or similar wireless device. You know, one of the many little gadgets people carry (and use) nearly everywhere. Some bright genius has decided that since these things [...]
February 13th, 2007 | Posted in Tech | Comments Off
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Well, by using a combination of a table and careful adjustments to the stylesheet, the calendar is now looking a lot more like I want it to. It may be a small thing, but I think it’s cool that I got the thing working and looking the way I wanted [...]
February 13th, 2007 | Posted in Wordpress | Comments Off
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… well, some anyway. I got the calendar sorta fixed by moving the code up to a new div at the top of the sidebar template… before the beginning of the sidebar div. That fixed the crazy wide column widths for days that had entries. Next up is to [...]
February 12th, 2007 | Posted in Wordpress | Comments Off
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Ok, I made a little progress, I found reference to “php get_calendar()” in the docs and added it to the sidebar template. It’s gotten the calendar function to show up, but I can tell by looking at it that something needs tweaking, probably in the stylesheet someplace. (Any [...]
February 12th, 2007 | Posted in Wordpress | Comments Off