Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
With the oil companies doing their level best to put the economy belly up, lots of people are turning to more and more ways to conserve the cash. One option that many have overlooked until now involves getting some cash out of old hardware that they're not using anymore.
Lots ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Well, it looks like *somebody* has learned a lesson. According to the folks at Microsoft watch, the Justice Department is overseeing the development of "Windows 7", which is the version that's supposed to replace the disaster everybody loves to call veeesta.
This government sanctioned "Technical Committee" is overseeing Windows development ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Of interest to Ruby Programmers I just read about some serious vulnerabilities were discovered in Ruby by Drew Yao, a member of Apple's security team.
According to the article about it that I read, these vulnerabilities could be exploited to allow the execution of arbitrary code or lead to a denial ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
When it comes to bad ideas for the Internet, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) a non profit organization that handles IP address space allocation has approved a wide expansion of TLDs (Top Level Domains).
Up until a few years ago, the most common endings for domain name have ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Here's something interesting, something on slashdot VM
Enables 'Write-Once, Run Anywhere' Linux Apps, we're liable to see Linux native apps that can be run on any machine that has this virtual machine installed. In a way it reminds me a lot of Java Virtual Machines, but in spite ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
That's right. If you have an inkjet printer, especially if you've had it for a while, then it's got a really dirty secret.
Have you ever wondered how it cleans the print head? Well, it does so by spraying some ink through it to make sure that the holes are ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
This has got to be the strangest bit of computer hardware I've ever seen. It's called the "CrazyPC 5.25 Inch Bay Toaster".
It's a single slice toaster that fits in a 5.25 inch drive bay. It connects to an open USB 2.0 port both for power and so that it's ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
That's right. In spite of all the stuff and nonsense about Vista and XP's so-called "End of life", Dell is going to be offering Windows XP past the cutoff date set by Microsoft.
It boils down to the fact that anyone buying either the Business or Ultimate versions of Vista ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Microsoft's David Cross was quoted as saying: "The reason we put UAC into the platform was 'to annoy users. I'm serious." This gem popped out at the 2008 RSA security conference
The apparent purpose of one of the most annoying "features" that any software maker has ever included in a ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
It looks like XP users can breath a (brief) sigh of relief now that Microsoft has decided to extend the life of XP for "Low Cost" Laptops.
Of course, that's not the full XP Pro that so many would much rather have, it's XP Home. This means that XP will ...
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