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I'm pretty happy that the Russians are damn good about putting people in space. A new crew has arrived at the ISS over the next 9 days a transfer of the station will take place. Meanwhile NASA continues to drag their feet in getting the heavy lift of the shuttle back in orbit. [SpaceToday]
Techdirt has a great article about Stream Ripping with the RIAA playing hardball people are looking to get away from P2P software. With stream ripping the RIAA cannot track you making it very popular. There are some new software packages that people are using to rip streams 24/7. [Techdirt] [p2pNet] [StationRipper]
Technology is moving at light speed and what would have been thought possible is now a reality. In the near future you may be able to have some blood pulled out of you and in a few weeks your Genome delivered on a DVD. Now imagine what will happen if safeguards are not put in place early to protect your
There has been some very secretive work over the last few months with multi-national governments to fix the TCP flaw. [New York Times]
A little over two years ago when I was thinking of starting this website I did it for one reason and one reason only "my enjoyment". Back in 1987 when I launched my dial-up BBS and then later moved it on-line was for my pleasure. The BBS Hobby had grown stagnant, even though the BBS is still on-line and has
We are fast approaching our 2 year anniversary. We are very happy with the continued increase in readership, which has averaged increases of 14.8% over the past 12 months. With that growth comes a huge server bill. I was able to secure upon my initial contract 2 years ago with the hosting company a 100 gig cap on monthly bandwidth
If you have traveled to any 3rd world country you will realize immediately why piracy will never be contained and will only continue to spread. For those of you that have not been afforded that opportunity read on. [Yahoo]
I really wonder how few people the RIAA actually signed up for the Amnesty program that allowed consumers to sign a agreement basically admitting guilt in sharing files by then deleting the data and then the RIAA said they would not be targeted. If they received more than a 100 applications I would be surprised. The RIAA has been keeping
Everyone from the MPAA to Sony are pushing for new formats and there are many companies that are on one band wagon or the other. The battle will be heated and what will likely occur is the market will be flooded with a variety of new technology and media types. In the long run consumers will choose one thing is
For the past 3-4 weeks I have been pulling feeds from several sources experimenting with the reliability of the current version of Drupal. The latest build is much more robust and the software is cleaning up after itself with purging older items. We will start adding more feeds and hopefully it will scale to the size we want it to.
Linspire is giving away it's Linux based operating system for the next few days. If you want it you will need BitTorrent and a high speed connection. [CMPNetAsia]
We have been Beta testing MovableType version 3 for the past couple of weeks. Thus far I like it very much now that the wide area beta has been announced I will release some links to pages of on of my MT3 test blogs here in a couple of days. [MovableType]
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