Archive for January, 2006
diggfan.com
Thank you to all the folks that gave me kudos for running diggfan.com. As you can see from my long post there, I will only take from digg and never give back. I will never submit stories, I will never report stories, I will never promote stories and I most certainly will never comment on […]
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Pr1nt3r H@x0r
Just when you thought you’d secured your network. Now the idiots that insist on making life hell for Sys Admins have decided that hacking printers is the new hotness….This article over at ComputerWorld offers a brief look…
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Duplicity
So here’s a question. The big no-no on digg is not submitting duplicates. Their submit function even checks for duplicate submissions by URL and god knows what else. It’s well known that the search functionality doesn’t work all that well, but I digress. My question is this. Why is it so bad that a post […]
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When Captcha Text Goes Bad..
As all one of you who read my blog realize, I frequent digg. A lot! I also submit a lot of stories that I find interesting. One thing that has frustrated me to no end is their word verification hoop that you need to dive through in order to submit a story. I almost NEVER […]
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An article over at Ars has this to say about music in general “The accessibility of music has meant that it is taken for granted and does not require a deep emotional commitment once associated with music appreciation,” said music psychologist Adrian North. The study concluded that because of a greater than ever level of […]
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This is a followup to my previous post regarding MSN Spaces and the pro-democracy blogger from China.Microsoft employees are now officially defending Microsoft’s removal of the offending blogger. They’re justifying it by basically saying that a business model will ALWAYS SUPERSEDE any basic human rights… In China, there is a unique issue for our entire […]
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Flash Based Apples??
Flash-Based Apples To Be Released Next Week? There’s a rumor going around that a new flash-based Apple Notebook will be released as early as next week.
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Dell 30″ Monitor!
Is it wrong to lust after this? The Dell� UltraSharp� 3007WFP 30-inch Wide-screen Flat Panel LCD Monitor is a wide aspect desktop display that enriches the performance of LCD displays with a stylish design and enhanced functionality. The 3007WFP wide aspect LCD has WQXGA resolution of 2560×1600 pixels and also provides 11 ms (grey-to-grey) response […]
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China and Censorship
Say what you will about living in the United States, we still don’t have it as bad as people living in Communist China. Microsoft, in a move that has me scratching my head, apparently pulled a pro-democracy, Chinese bloggers, blog, from MSN Spaces under pressure from the Chinese government. Robert Scoble (a technical evangelist at […]
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