Figures like these about suposed losses from piracy probably make my sister the accountant cry, but it just goes to show that the RIAA are just a bunch of thieving bastards. The whole article linked above is worth reading, if only to learn about the mathematical and reporting hoops that thieving bastards will go through […]
Seen on the Register, MS opens Hotmail to bulk mailers. With all the furor over Google’s foray into webmail, this shows that all the large free webmail providers are still trying to squeeze revenue out of their services. The downside is that what users think of as spam and what marketeers think of as spam
Vivendi Universal released Starsiege TRIBES, making the download available for free. Seen on Blues News, and here is a copy of the press release
I recently had to look for a decent, and hopefully free (as in beer), firewall for my sister’s Windows machine. Given all the threats – apyware, worms, viruses – out there that any personal computer hooked up to the wide wide web, you definitely do not want to be running naked. I mean sans firewall.
Ginger and I are debugging a client site and we briefly discussed/complained about wireframes. To which, she helped me come to this conclusion: Building solely from wireframes is like driving somewhere with only a picture of the house you’re supposed to get to.
If there’s anything that could motivate me more for the election this fall, it’s crap like this – care of the so-called Patriot Act that Ashcroft rammed through Congress after 9/11. Yes, voting out the current administration won’t magically make this sham piece of law disapper, but its a start. The American Civil Liberties Union
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Extremetech has a somewhat speculative article about expanding digital video recorder capacity through external, possible USB, hard drives. Let’s disregard the fact that your typical Tivo, or wannabe DVR you use, probably has more TV recorded each day than you can possibly wathc and still have a normal life. Why would I want to add
Dennis Bergkampf scored one of the finest goals of the 98 World Cup against Argentina. In this Guardian Interview, he talks about Arsenal’s season as it closes in on the English Premier League Championship. Seen on The Sports Economist. A nine-point lead means they require only four points from their last five matches to make
This page on digital camera support should be of interest to anyone who dabbles in the more alternative operating systems. By looking for a digital camera that support the USB Mass Storage standard and/or Picture Transfer Protocol, you can avoid the doubts and problems associated in getting it to work with Linux. You also get
I’m just posting this article on web standards so that Sandy and Jason can fight it out to the death. These days, the rebel youth aren’t so busy admiring Marx as they are giving each other tutorials on how to use XHTML Strict. Bravely battling JavaScript menus and eradicating layout tables, admonishing us to “please