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February 2004

92 posts

Dan Gillmor’s perspective on the Super Bowl Flasher

Seems the FTC is all pissy about what Janet Jackson did. I just wish she would have had one of those total tear-away outfits. If your gonna show it you might as well show all. But Dan Gillmor is correct in wondering why it is ok for an Animal to fart on a human and about a dozen commercials designed

National Cyber Alert System!

The National Cyber Alert System provides timely information about current and emerging threats and vulnerabilities as well as advice about protecting your computer and networks. Sign up for this list. [www.us-cert.gov]

Opportunity rolling around on Mars

Opportunity is on the ground roving around. Actually the NASA JPL folks rolled off Opportunity a day early. They have already started collecting science. [Space Today]

SCO Website is off the air from MyDoom Virus

My response may be a bit controversial but I will say that SCO has been pissing a lot of big companies and small business's in the past year with there ongoing legal battles. They have also upset Unix users all across the world. So they should not be surprised that they have been targeted. The MyDoom Virus launched what is

Lindows to offer software for Free!

LindowsLive allows people to run the Lindows operating system from a bootable CD. The software which retailed for $29.95 is to be released on the P2P networks to allow Lindows to help reduce bandwidth cost and could boost Lindows market-share by giving users a chance to experience their OS. [ZDNet]

Help recycle 100 Million Pepsi Songs

Great suggestion from the Slashdot crew. Pepsi is about to give away 100 Million songs Pepsi figures the majority of the bottle caps which contain the download codes will be thrown away. But spread the word to prevent that details at [Slashdot] [Tune Recycler]

Back from short break

I took a few days off sometimes you need a break from the computer. Texas has been fun and I appreciate all of your suggestions on the eating places and things to do in the Dallas / Ft Worth area. While growing up in Michigan I had a cousin who loves the Dallas Cowboys well every Thanksgiving he usually ended

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