From the archive

2004

1,276 posts

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]

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]

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