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We all know the story the RIAA & MPAA want to control there media and stop people from stealing. On the other had those of us that are in the Fair Use camp want to be able to play and listen to music we purchase on any device we choose to listen to it on even if we have to
Some seem to think that the CD is headed down the same road that the 8-track did a number of years ago. My personal belief is that it will take a very long time to kill the CD off. After all it is very rare that people do not have some sort of CD player. I bought my daughter a
Well I found a interesting site that is spidering Blogs and found out who is linking to who. There are several spiders out there that are tracking Blog to Blog linking but this one is different from the other tracking sites. We ended up number 349 on the list which is pretty good I guess seeing there are thousands of
I have been holding back on commenting on the FCC decisions last week so that my brain could digest the ruling. There are both positive and negative aspects of this ruling. I had to reflect on what I witnessed during the Baby Bell break up in the early 80's the break-up allowed consumers more choices and the end result is
In a move I consider surprising considering weakness of 802.1b the Naval Postgraduate school is deploying a very wide based WiFi network. The referenced article has some very good information about the problems they found and what it took to wire the campus. [80211-Planet]
I would not like to be the database person who put monitors on sale by mistake at Dell seems some lucky patrons were able to get some flat screen monitors for a few pennies. Dell has honored those orders. [ZD Net]
Somehow I missed this news story as it hit earlier in the week. It seems Microsoft is going to get in on the Blogging action and have released this software and what is amazing is that they are releasing it for free. "The Community Starter Kit enables you to quickly create a community Web site such as a user group
Newsforge has an interesting article about (OSSTMM - Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual) If you are a system administrator this manual is a must read. If you are new to being a system admin and have not yet developed a comprehensive security testing doctrine this manual is a good start. [newsforge.com]
This is a review of our site from an independent reviewer. "This is a geek site which doesn't look like a geek site. Its colour co-ordinated! When reading a blog for the first time, it is rare that I spend more than 10 minutes scanning through content. I spent over an hour at Geek News Central, the content is that
No Kidding! I bet it took these college educated lawyers about 5 years to figure that out. If you do a non-violent white-collar crime you will get less time in prison unless it is computer related. So if your a crook better just cook the books instead of looking at the contents of someone else’s hard-drive as you will probably
A Texas man was found innocent after the jury was only out for 15 minutes. It appears that this good Samaritan was trying to help county official last year when he demonstrated to county official how there WiFi network was wide open in a county office. There are zealots out there that will continue to try and prosecute innocent geeks.
I have just spent about an hour at this site and if I spend a hour at a site you can bet that it caught my attention. There are many open source web building packages out there but sometimes it is a pain to set them up to just test them. Well they have set up a huge number of
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