Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Firefox 1.5 has been released. This dovetails nicely with Computer Security Day, which is tomorrow. Go get it, and never use Internet Explorer again.
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Boingboing has posted a time-line of events surrounding the Sony rootkit-as-DRM debacle. If you’re still buying products from Sony, start asking yourself if it’s really worth it. It is unreal to me that an individual committing the same acts as Sony would be subject to criminal prosecution, but major corporations get by with hamfisted “apologies” [...]
After reading this story about how black holes could aid in the creation of stars, I wandered google until I found How to destroy the Earth. And you thought the Anarchist’s Cookbook was something to fear.
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
ExtremeTech has an abbreviated roundup of “TiVo Killers”, which means they’ve installed three PVR apps under Windows XP and looked at them. They only mention Mythtv to say People familiar with PVR applications for the PC are probably aware of Myth TV, and are wondering why the free homebrew project isn’t included. The answer is [...]
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
SilentPCReview has a review of the new Antec P150 case. This is a beauty of a case that includes all the quiet PC features most people will need, with none of the awkwardness inherent in the P180 design. I wonder if anyone besides Directron will be selling them sans power supply – I just don’t [...]
urss is a Mozilla / Firefox extension that provides a side-scrolling ticker of your RSS feed(s). Sounds nifty, and it was exactly what I was looking for at the time I first installed it. However, after I tired of it (and discovered Sage) I looked for a way to uninstall. Oh boy. urss doesn’t have [...]