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Thousands of geeks will be descending upon Las Vegas for DefCon 2002, which will be held Friday through Sunday at the Alexis Park Hotel. Last year's DefCon ended with the arrest of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, for violating the Digital Millenium Copyright Act for creating software that removes user restrictions on encrypted Adobe e-books. Among the scheduled events for this
I am almost afraid to post this site as I would hate to see it get slammed as this site has the largest collection of Music Programs downloads: over 1,000 programs to play, edit, convert music as well as addons and plugins for the popular music programs. [Source Internal]
FlashGet File Mirrors is an anonymous URL sharing service for users of FlashGet. If another FlashGet user downloaded the same file before you, but found a different mirror for the file and shared that information, this lets you find the mirror they used. [Source www.shareurl.com]
This is a very interesting article and has the potential to open up a way for the geeks to build some cool tools. "One of the coolest and most unknown products Microsoft has released is called the Windows XP Pre-installation Environment, or Windows PE. In short, it's Windows XP-on-a-CD. You boot directly to a Windows XP GUI, which allows you
Salon has a great article today worth the 2 minutes to do the full read. "The legal crackdown hasn't squelched MP3 trading -- it's just made it more of a pain. But the music industry would still rather fight than give its online customers what they want. " [Source Salon.com]
We recently referenced an article that says Microsoft has a plan with the upcoming Windows XP Service Pack 1 to not allow machines with invalid or hacked corporate keys to be upgraded and who knows what-else. I want to preface-face the article with a comment. In the initial reference article on LockerGnome a writer made the valid point that sometimes
I have been digitizing some of my home video's with today's announcement that the revamped VideoWave now owned by Roxio is set to be released on Wednesday I know what my software buy will be. The version I am using now is really a pain and I am sure the Roxio has cleaned up the interface. [Source News.com]
I have been steadily scanning every document that I think is worthy of scanning and putting them to a pretty elaborate filing scheme. When I get done I will have several thousand documents scanned and then the shredder will get a work out of it's lifetime. But imagine being in charge of digitizing every article ever produced by the New
Wahoo computers have some very nice computer cases. Styled to match any decor. [Wahoo Computers]
The Register I love these guys they are one of the better tech news reporting groups I have seen and they give me a lot of firepower to work with. They have written in better than I ever could so you just need to read the story they have published today. It is worth the click. Just be sure to
Editors note before I go off. We here at Geek News Central do not support denial of service attacks we feel the energy put forth to do this could be better spent by forming grass roots petition drives and political activities to send a clear message to your rep in Congress and House of Rep that you are strongly against
I watch our web-stats pretty close and have seen what articles and subjects are the biggest draw. Besides seeing what people are checking out on the site and a general idea of when they are reading the site there is not a lot of other information that is really useful. Not that I really need that information or should even
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