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I recently wrote about the FileZilla FTP Server and Client programs but there was a version of it that I hadn’t mentioned. The FileZilla Client program, which is the version that most people will need, [...]
June 19th, 2008 | Posted in Computers, Freeware, Hardware, Internet, Misc, Opinion, Programming, Websites, open source, software | Comments Off
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Cornell University has come up with an Azureus Plugin called “Cubit” that I think is one of the first such that will give the ability for it to handle “decentralized approximate keyword search capabilities”.
This means that Azureus users would be able to search torrents currently available on the network. This [...]
June 6th, 2008 | Posted in DRM, File Sharing, Freedom of Speech, Internet, Movies, Music, Opinion, Programming | Comments Off
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I’m behind on my Slashdot reading again. I just now came across the article about NBC turing on the broadcast flag on certain programs. By doing this, then programs like Windows Media Player and other software (and hardware!) that honor this flag which means it is no longer [...]
May 31st, 2008 | Posted in Business, DRM, File Sharing, Internet, Movies, Opinion, Programming, news, software | Comments Off
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Blizzard, the company behind Word Of Warcraft, currently has a lawsuit against MDY Industries over a bot program called Glider. Blizzard is pushing this thing to new limits now, arguing that a software creator retains complete control over how a program is used, meaning that anyone who uses it in [...]
May 18th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Opinion, Programming, games, software | Comments Off
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I just saw something on ComputerWorld that caught my eye. Seems that HP is saying that because of the increasing demand for storage, they expect to ship … get this .. a “Yottabyte” of storage per year sometime soon.
How much is a “Yottabyte”? Good question. I’ve never heard [...]
May 18th, 2008 | Posted in Computers, Internet, Misc, Programming, Tech, software | Comments Off
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Stylish design is a web designing blog that does more than just cover and re-cover the same kind of things that most web-design gurus have been writing since forever. It brings the matter of style into the equation.
Style is an important consideration. Bare bones basic techniques will work, but [...]
May 6th, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, Internet, Opinion, Programming, Website Review, Websites, blogs, software | Comments Off
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Steve Ballmer was talking at the MVP Summit where he is quoted as saying that Vista is “a work in progress”. I can’t help admire such skill in the art of understatements. Calling Vista “a work in progress” is like gathering weeds in the field and calling it fine [...]
April 30th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, Opinion, Programming, software | 2 Comments
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Ok, it’s true that Microsoft has given in and decided to extend the lifetime of XP on “low end laptops” until 6/30/2010 or one year after the next version of Windows, Code named “Windows 7″, is released.
It’s also true that XP is still consistently outperforming Vista in benchmark tests. What [...]
April 19th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, Misc, Opinion, Programming, news, software | Comments Off
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It seems that the work on Firefox 3 is moving along nicely with the recent release of the “Beta 4″ version. According to the release notes there’s a lot of new features going in and there’s been tons of fixes. Thing is, I took a look at FF3 a [...]
March 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Computers, Internet, Misc, Opinion, Programming, news, software | 4 Comments
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Now that this case as been granted class action status, Microsoft is of course flailing away at this latest development. Now they’re trying to get the legal process of discovery halted while it appeals the decision to make the case a class action.
This process is where each side finds out [...]
March 15th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, Financial, Internet, Misc, Opinion, Programming, news, software | Comments Off