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Screens of Death: XP Blue, Leopard Green, Vista Purple.
2007-12-11 20:54:00 Wasn’t it easier in the old days when there was just one screen of death? It used to be - on Windows at least - when your computer crashed you got the “Blue Screen of Death”, but now operating systems manufacturers must feel like it’s not politically correct to have only the Blue Screen of ... More About: News , Mac , Vista , Green
AIM chat in Gmail
2007-12-06 16:36:00 Gmail is constantly being upgraded, and the newest addition is the ability to chat with AIM users. So now if you want to chat with friends on AIM and Google chat at the same time, you can use Gmail’s integrated chat client. All you have to do is click the little running guy to chat with ... More About: News , Chat , Gmail
Firefox 3 Beta released
2007-12-05 23:30:00 The Beta for Firefox 3 was released. I haven’t tried it out myself, but it looks like it’s got some very nice upgrades. The rendering engine has been rewritten, the download manager supped up, and a couple of nice features added. One thing that sounds promising is Firefox 3 ’s capability to auto-complete urls typed in the ... More About: Software , Released
?Vista SP1 to Block Two Popular Piracy Methods?
2007-12-05 00:30:00 Here’s an article by PC Mag, describing how Microsoft will continue to combat piracy with service pack one for Vista . Vista SP1 will close two loopholes that allow software pirates to falsely register the operating system posing as manufacturers. “According to trade group Business Software Alliance, about 35 percent of the world’s consumer software is pirated. Windows , ... More About: News , Piracy , Popular
Information Security: Principles and Practice
2007-12-04 01:13:00 In my spare time I’ve been working my way through this great book by Mark Stamp. I believe the book is used as a text book for colleges (hence the somewhat high price), but it’s really a great read. Information Security starts out briefly describing the history of “Crypto”, telling about ancient ciphers (Caesar cipher anyone?), ... More About: Practice , Information Security , Principles
OpenOffice.org
2007-12-03 03:35:00 On my home computer I’ve been using OpenOffice.org in place of MS Word. I’ve got to say, it works really well. When I originally was looking for a free substitute for Word I didn’t really have high expectations. I figured that any free office suite would really stink. Boy was I wrong! In some ways I actually ... More About: Software
Microsoft Sued Over Halo 3
2007-12-01 22:07:00 Microsoft is being sued (again) over Halo 3’s “consistant” crashes. A single man from San Diego is going to take on Microsoft, claiming that “Microsoft and Bungie are in violation of consumer protection laws.” Read more about it here: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showA rticle… More About: News , Microsoft , Industry , Halo 3
?Leopard is the New Vista, and It?s Pissing Me Off?
2007-12-01 19:57:00 Here’s a good article by PC Mag. I haven’t had the opportunity to try out Apple’s Leopard yet. But then again, maybe I don’t want to? http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2223 921,00.asp More About: Mac , Vista , Asides
Al Gore?s Website hacked
2007-11-30 22:58:00 Al Gore ’s website for the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” has been hacked! Unfortunately it’s fixed now, but you can read more about it here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/27/c limate_change_hack The blog section of the website is actually what was hacked. A sixteen month old version of WordPress is what was installed. You would think that “the creator of the Internet” would ... More About: Website , Al Gore , Hacked
Al Gore?s Website hacked
2007-11-30 22:58:00 Al Gore ’s website for the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” has been hacked! It’s fixed now, but you can read more about it here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/27/c limate_change_hack The blog section of the website is actually what was hacked. A sixteen month old version of WordPress is what was installed. You would think that “the creator of the Internet” would know ... More About: News , Website , Al Gore , Hacked
Guest Account Greeting
2007-11-30 05:51:00 I haven’t used my guest account in a while on XP, so yesterday I decided to give it a try. After the beautiful startup music stopped playing and the desktop appeared, I was greeted with this message: I guess Windows doesn’t like guests or something, lol. I started killing off processes in Task Manager, hoping to see ... More About: Humor , Guest , Account , Greeting
Linux Developer On Trial For Murdering Wife
2007-11-29 16:15:00 Hans Reiser, the programmer who led the development of ReiserFS, the file system on Suse Linux /openSUSE, Slackware, Xandros, Yoper, Linspire and Kurumin Linux, was arrested recently by California police. The charges, murder. There’s a huge amount of evidence pointing to him as his missing wife’s killer. But could everything have been planned by his immigrated ... More About: News , Wife , Developer , Trial
Start Menu Woes - Part 2
2007-11-29 05:39:00 Due to popular demand, I will continue to tell the tragic tale where Windows organizes my program shortcuts in a manner that I dislike, and in order to cleanse my computer of this imperfection I attempt to change things that simply aren’t meant to be changed. AAAAAHHHHHH!!! Sorry, I just had to get that out of ... More About: Start Menu , Start , Part , Menu
Start Menu Woes
2007-11-28 04:12:00 The Start Menu really stinks. Well OK, it’s not as long as you don’t try to arrange the items, but if you do… Windows has this concept of “users”. When you install a program Windows usually asks if you’d like to install it just for yourself, or for all users on the computer. The problem occurs when ...
Microsoft might be sued over Vista
2007-11-27 21:25:00 Microsoft faces a lawsuit, again. Microsoft apparently has named their new operating system (Windows Vista ) after a small company that resides just down the road from Microsoft headquarters. When the tech company “Vista” found out about Microsoft using their trademark, the companies founder John Wall immediately started to take action. Wall says that he “may take this ... More About: Microsoft , Industry , Sued
The Registry
2007-11-26 22:39:00 In case some of you don’t know, Windows has what’s called a “registry.” I don’t know which genius at Microsoft thought this up, but it really needs to be changed. You can view your computers registry by going to Start -> Run -> Type “regedit.exe” -> OK. The registry acts as a sort of database. Every program ... More About: Registry , Regis
Windows Really Good Edition
2007-11-26 01:32:00 Sometimes I wish Microsoft would make a really good edition of Windows . Oh wait, someone already did that: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~meou/Flashes/WINRG /WINRG.html Once Windows Really Good Edition starts up, press Start -> “Word” -> Quickly type something in “Word” ok -> ok -> ok -> Try the above, if you’ve used Windows for any amount of time you’ll laugh. More About: Humor
Microsoft owns windowssucks.com
2007-11-24 22:34:00 When looking at anti-windows domain names (A hobby of mine), I ran across windowssucks.com. Try typing it into your address bar, it doesn’t exist. Hmmm… Wonder why? Maybe doing a WHOIS search will clear things up: Domain Name: WINDOWSSUCKS.COM Registrant [469717]: Domain Administrator One Microsoft Way Redmond WA 98052 US Microsoft way, Redmond Washington! Isn’t that Microsoft’s headquarters address?! Figures…
?Bought It Up?
2007-11-24 18:52:00 Here’s a funny parody of the famous Widows 95 launch song “Start Me Up” titled “BOUGHT IT UP.” Click here to view the video. More About: Humor |
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