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::: Monday, October 22 ::: |
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::: Wednesday, October 17 ::: |
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::: Monday, October 15 ::: |
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Cool Tools: TinyApps.Org
I've often heard that less is more. TinyApps proves that statement nicely. Nothing flashy, just good freeware that will fit on a floppy.
11:41 AM CST ::
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Yep: New net domain 'fiasco'
It's looking more and more like the English are going to steal serious computer journalism from the United States. With the The Reg and the BBC regularly tearing into the idiocy of ICANN and others. Soon if CNet doesn't want you to read something, then it simply won't exist on US news sites.
9:03 AM CST ::
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Hmm: RIAA Wants to Hack Your PC
Remember back a year or so ago when that RIAA representative said they intended to block intellectual property at the local port level? This, apparently, is what he was referring to.
8:44 AM CST ::
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::: Friday, October 12 ::: |
Amen: Sites seek to blast ad blockers
"The real issue is not whether people are filtering ads. Why worry about what 5 percent of the population is doing when most of the ads are being ignored?"
That just about says it all.
9:54 AM CST ::
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Interesting:Opinion A or Opinion B
I think it's pretty cool that a site would offer both sides of the story like this. What's not cool is that CNet only linked to the positive article. The only way I even knew there was another opinion is because the author of the positive spin decided to offer a link to the opposing viewpoint.
Food for thought.
9:46 AM CST ::
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Damn: CPRM phones home
This CPRM thing just refuses to die. It will be important for consumers to reject any products which contain such restrictions of fair use. We must vote with our dollars and send a clear message that this sort of thing just isn't acceptable to us.
9:36 AM CST ::
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Heh: The world will end tomorrow - official
The Reg does its best to debunk all the World Trade Center related hoaxes in one article. There are even a few things in there that I hadn't heard yet. The wingdings thing was spreading through our office a week or so ago. It's amazing how naive otherwise intelligent people can become when they are searching for something tangible to offer an explanation for the events of September 11.
9:26 AM CST ::
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::: Thursday, October 11 ::: |
w00t: THQ, Sega in deal to make Game Boy titles
I never really got into the Sonic titles myself, but this is quite a significant announcement for Nintendo. It basically guarantees that their dominance in the handheld gaming market will continue into the future. Whether that can be seen as a good thing or not depends on your opinion of Nintendo I suppose.
9:22 AM CST ::
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Whoa: Wiretapping Provisions of Anti-Terrorism Legislation
The ACLU offers up this page which summaries, in table form, the changes being considered to the wiretapping and surveillance laws. It's truly frightening to see just how far our government is willing to impinge on our civil liberties. I generally try and be optimistic that eventually someone with a brain will stop such nonsense, but lately I'm not sure there are enough intelligent people in Congress to override the legislative blood-lust being displayed in both the House and Senate.
We must keep in mind that if these attacks result in restricting the freedom of Americans while the terrorists remain virtually untouched, that the terrorists have already won.
[link courtesy of The Reg]
9:17 AM CST ::
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::: Wednesday, October 10 ::: |
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Ah, well: RIAA secret meeting memo a fake
I suppose that's the risk one takes when publishing rumors as fact. I'm not completely convinced that there wasn't such a meeting, but Hilary Rosen has proved herself able to hold her tongue until all the votes are in. Those quotes seemed a bit too over the top for her.
9:31 AM CST ::
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Ahem: Extension Manager
Ask and ye shall receive. I haven't tested this, so I can't really say whether it works at all. I just thought it was funny that it does exist.
9:25 AM CST ::
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::: Tuesday, October 9 ::: |
Bah: Selling old Windows? Beware of Microsoft
I find it deplorable and sad that charitable organizations are required to purchase a site license from Microsoft. These organizations should be given any tools which make their jobs easier including software licenses. Strong-arm tactics such as these will only come back to haunt us in years to come as charities become insolvent while filling Microsoft's coffers.
12:10 PM CST ::
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Hmm: The devil is in Windows' details
I never really considered this before, but he may have a point. It certainly would be nice to have an applet to manage extensions. In fact, I'm surprised there isn't a third-party utility to do so.
8:22 AM CST ::
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::: Friday, October 5 ::: |
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Okay: Intel to kill floppy drives, serial ports
Here's the deal, USB or Firewire is fine if you really need that kind of bandwidth. Cable/DSL routers, digital cameras, whatever the point is that is serves a purpose. What I don't understand is why we need to discard the infant with the bathing solution.
Keyboards, mice, analog modems, etc. all work fine on a standard port. There's no need to complicate matters by requiring a functioning USB bus (which is often harder than it has any right to be) for such low traffic devices. Dropping "legacy" ports simply doesn't lower the price of production enough to justify the headaches.
8:35 AM CST ::
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::: Wednesday, October 3 ::: |
WTF: Ja Da
I simply don't have the words to describe this. There's a kitten with a huge Magaret Thatcher head, a pixelish bunny, a burning city, and flying fish. Oh, yeah... and the lyrics are in swedish.
Good clean fun.
[link courtesy of the Usual Suspects]
1:42 PM CST ::
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w00t: Cathy Rogers - Junkyard Diva
StreetTech interviews Cathy Rogers, host of Junkyard Wars. I never realized that the show was called Scrapheap Challenge in the UK, that certainly explains why they spray paint SCRAPHEAP on every available vertical surface for the UK-produced shows. I always wondered about that.
Anyway, go read.
11:56 AM CST ::
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::: Tuesday, October 2 ::: |
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