Cable Modem Hackers unlock Cable Modem
A very amazing article on the Register on how a group of hackers have unlocked a certain brand of cable modem. The implications are significant and service providers will not be happy. [The Register] [TCN-ISO]
From the archive
February 2004
92 posts
TiVo users not happy TiVo is spying on them
Well TiVo's boosting that it Janet Jacksons Garment malfunction was the single highest re-watched event has many TiVo users asking how do you know that? I don't personally own a TiVo but it appears TiVo is calling home. [ZDNet]
Your car have an engine warning light?
Doesn't it make you mad to take you car to the dealer pay $80.00 just so they can plug a dongle into your car and read the code with a laptop. Wish you could read the code yourself? [Lockergnome Tech News]
Tired of your computer taking 10 minutes to boot
If you have a computer that is being slow to boot you may want to check out. Startup-Mechanic. Come highly recommended from a friend to mine. Let me know what you think. [www.startupmechanic.com]
An Idiot takes a Jab at Movable Type
Everyone has an opinion I am no exception to that rule. But a particular idiot over at Kuro5hin named James A C joyce has attacked a large portion of the Blogging community by attacking those like me that use Movable Type as our Blogging package. What I find the most amusing are the comments to his post are. It's an
The time-line Unix versus Linux
With all of the legal maneuvering by SCO the Groklaw group are going to prepare a time-line of the development of Unix and Linux to help understand the on-going legal issues and possible future lawsuits. [GrokLaw]
SunComm does not want you to record Analog music from your Speakers
It seems the battle to limit consumers from recording music is being taken to levels of insanity. First of all about the only people recording music coming out of speakers are kids and certain live band performances. But it seems SunComm wants to encode digital recordings with some algorithms that will make speaker based recordings sound terrible. The Insanity will
Microsoft wants to entice you to Upgrade your NT boxes to Win 2000
I have some geek buddies that come over to the house from time to time and are shocked when they see a server hammering away running Windows NT. This server has been in service for a long time and has survived a couple of motherboard blow-outs upgraded cases etc. But in all of those upgrades and changes the OS has
Microsoft 1 – MyDoom.B 0
Seems that Microsoft has battled the MyDoom.B virus and survived. What strikes me as funny is that SCO who obviously is running UNIX boxes on their websites where unable to fend off the attack. Obviously their is a significant higher number of Unix Servers on the Net but it's funny that Microsoft which obviously run Windows Servers where able to
What is Infoworld.Feedster.Com
The ever popular Feedster.com which has not changed has a very interesting added extension to their domain name. Obviously there is now some sort of business partnership or sponsorship that has been made which is terrific news for the folks at Feedster. [infoworld.feedster.com]
Work comes first!
Sorry folks I have been putting in 12-16 hours a day for the past week which has put a serious dent in my posting ability. Hopefully I will be finishing up this job here in Texas shortly and be on the way home. GeekNews
Microsoft says it’s ready for MyDoom
In round two the MyDoom virus is set to hit Microsoft when computer clocks all over the world roll-over to Feb 3rd. I hope they have rolled out the heavy armor we will see if they can survive and not get waxed like SCO did. [Microsoft Watch]
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