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January 2003

100 posts

The new jailbird jingle

Ever download any music? Standby to go to Jail for up to three years and be fined $250,000 dollars. Sound like a bunch of bull. Well you better watch your 6. There are signs that prosecutions are coming soon. According to Declan McCullagh of News.com "A person close to the RIAA told him that it has had recent meetings with

iFilm

In case you missed the superbowl ad's you can watch them at iFilm. Big conversation piece at work today so thought I might as well link it up. [iFilm]

Avant Browser

I have about had it with IE so I have been trying different alternatives thus far I really like the Avant Browser. Big Kudos to the guys over at LockerGnome for turning me on to this nice browser. [www.avantbrowser.com]

Kazaa Fires Back

Kazaa has fired back with a lawsuit of it's own claiming that the Music/Movie industry has violated Anti-Trust Laws [Zdnet]

Slashnot.com

I love it when geeks publish sites like this. The site has both Parodies and is full of Satire. If you have ever read the Onion you are going to love this site. [www.slashnot.com]

The Slammer will strike again Monday

It is feared as business fire up there computers on Monday and connect to the net the Slammer Worm will hit these Microsoft SQL servers that have not yet been patched. The Net could see some slow down again. If you want to make some brownie points with your boss prepare a information sheet for him tonight. [Wired]

Search the Web with Add-On Browser Tools

I have not used the IE Search function in months as I have a applet added to my tool-bar that has a built in search function. I was wondering how many search tools are out there for your browser. A nice list of add-on search tools has been compiled at [www.alltheweb.com]

Airshare.org

If this group holds true to there charter we should see a great deal of good information come out of this site. The site contains almost a year's worth of news and information on the wireless world. They want people to learn, get help, share and teach. [www.airshare.org]

Linux-capatible Xbox mod chip

It was only a matter of time that this happened. I am glad to see companies being innovative. I am sure Microsoft will not see it that way. But things work a little different down in Australia. I just wonder what types of Games they are going to port to the Xbox. [Zdnet]

AT&T Loosing E-mail

If you are a AT&T Internet subscriber beware that a new spam filtering solution implemented by AT&T could be causing legitimate e-mail to get filtered. [News.Com]

The Civil War Inside Sony

Sony is stuck between a rock and a hard place they think the Apple Ipod is a great product. But they have released limited MP3 products. I have always thought it odd that the King of Electronic Devices have had such piss poor MP3 Players. The Wired article points out what is really obvious Sony has a Music recording component

SQL Worm Slams the Net

Net slammed by SQL Slammer Worm. If you noticed your surfing has been slower than Dirt over the past 24-36 hours well you can thank Microsoft and Lazy System Administrators that did not patch a bug that has been known for six months. It has been a while since we have seen this big of a hit. Routers are feeling

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