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Lycos introduction of a screen save that continually pull data from spammers website has backfired and may have actually caused some of their own servers to become slow and unresponsive. I knew from the get go that they were going to have trouble with this strategy. [ZDNet]
If you would like to put news feeds on your website the news distribution company Moreover have launched a new service. This looks like a great way to get some news feeds onto a website that wants to carry news feeds. [www.feeddirect.com]
I travel a great deal and usually keep my laptop within reaching distance, but I am always concerned that I am going to do something careless and have my laptop stolen. I am not so worried about the monetary loss as I am the information contained within. The same can be said for home burglary. With the addition of desktop
A short 3 minute Special Edition Geek News Central Podcast. GeekNewsCentral-SPECIAL.mp3
Geek News Central was nominated by a number of you in the category Best Tech Weblog for the 2004 Weblog Awards. We have made the final list and even though their are a number of great sites on that list we are happy to have made the cut. Thanks to all those that nominated us! If you are discovering Geek
Philadelphia Metropolitan Wi-Fi Plan Not Blocked by Legislation The City of Philadelphia has concluded negotiations with Verizon Communications, and will move forward with plans to develop a metropolitan Wi-Fi network, even though a new Pennsylvania law allows telecommunication carriers from blocking such projects.
First Live Interview tonight with Thomas Gaume from Ipodio.com we discuss Bittorrent and concerns we have with Torrents and Podcasting among other things. A full line-up of news and information. GeekNewsCentral-120204.mp3 Comments about the show to 619-342-7365 or e-mail geek @ geeknewscentral.com if you want to rant call me on Skype at GeekNewsCentral Advertisement slots are filling up and if
A flaw in the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) in Windows NT Server 4.0, Server 2000, and Server 2003 creates a security hole that would allow a cracker to gain full control over the network server, thereby putting corporate data at risk.
Make Love Not Spam, regardless of it's poorly-punctuated name, is an antispam effort lead by Lycos Europe. Users who download the screensaver allow their unused processor time to go toward flooding the websites advertised in spam e-mail. Sounds good, but there are two catches, and they are both significant. First, what is flooding?
I probably have received 20 e-mails asking me what our hardware setup looks like for recording the Podcast and I had some extra time tonight and I put them up on our secondary website that is hosting some of the shows you find on this site. Do not link the rss feed on the new site as we are not
Today I was listening to the Law session from the Bloggercon Session and was curious about a group called IPac that was discussed several weeks ago. So this evening I am reading through the feeds and found a new Wired article on the organization. Every tech geek that is worried about intellectual property rights, fair use, copyright and various other
All I can say is the Cassini probe keeps sending back some seriously cool pictures. [The Register] [Cassini Home Page]
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