Archive for February, 2008
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You can tell the music & movie industries and the Australian equivalent of the RIAA and MPAA have their filthy little mitts all over the government there. How? Because the Australian government is now [...]
February 24th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment
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StandsandMounts.com has got to be one of the most comprehensive site’s I’ve seen when it comes to stands, racks, and mounting hardware for televisions, displays and related equipment. From the several varieties of lcd mount hardware for wall, ceiling and other mounting arrangements, to the most complicated and involved setup [...]
February 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Business, Websites | Comments Off
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You know those really cool digital picture frames? Well, along with some other digital devices that connect via USB to Windows computers there’s been a lot of them found to be infected with a powerful trojan from China.
This little bugger is advanced enough that anti-malware software has not caught up [...]
February 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, Electronics, Hardware, news, software | Comments Off
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More bad news for Vista owners along with a warning: DO NOT Install Service Pack 1! I just saw a thread where there’s a load of people that are losing access to their machines because Vista’s SP1 is going into an infinite loop during the install.
Several people in this [...]
February 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Computers, Opinion, Programming, news, software | Comments Off
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I ran across a site tonight that caught my attention in two different ways. First the domain name: blind9golf.com brings to mind the idea of a group of blind people playing golf and the Benny Hill type of mayhem that one might expect to ensue. The second was a [...]
February 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Misc, Website Review, Websites | Comments Off
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Remember the surveillance bill that the senate passed recently that was going to give immunity to telecoms for their participation in illegal domestic spying? Well, since the House apparently could not get their version in position to pass in time with enough votes to override a veto, they’ve instead elected [...]
February 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Internet, Misc, Opinion, Privacy, news, surveillance | Comments Off
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First it was the Chinese that shot down a satellite about what, a year ago? It was a test of their anti-satellite weapons system. It also made a heck of a mess in orbit. Debris flying all over the place and actually turning out to be a navigation [...]
February 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Misc, Opinion, Space, news | Comments Off
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This is just too rich for words. The micro-brained ones in Redmond are trying to get people to think better of Vista and instead of just flushing the stupid thing down the toilet and making a REAL operating system that gives people what they want….. They’re holding a contest [...]
February 21st, 2008 | Posted in Computers, Opinion, software | Comments Off
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According to a recent item on Zdnet, Micro$oft’s attempt to fix Vista is not only a failure in terms of doing any real good to improve vista, it’s also a failure in their attempt to stop “non genuine” installs from working.
Once again it’s proving that determined people are not going to [...]
February 18th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, Internet, Misc, Programming, software | Comments Off
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According to a recent Wired.com article it seems that the FBI has been asking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in “terrorism and foreign spying cases” to be allowed to use their “CIPAV” (computer and internet protocol address verifier) to snoop the computer activity of people and organizations that they’re investigating.
Problem with [...]
February 17th, 2008 | Posted in Computers, File Sharing, Internet, Misc, Opinion, Privacy, Programming, news, software | Comments Off