For those who bought into Vista early, you might have wanted to hold your horses. I started looking around at what various legal opinions are about the EULA for Vista and what some of the realities are for those who are moving from XP (or another OS) to Vista. As to the early adopter problems, [...]
Check it out. While not exactly known as a geek’s magazine, The March 2007 issue of Vanity Fair has an excellent article covering the pirating of videos over P2P networks – with special attention to BitTorent sites. The guys at The Pirate Bay feature prominently in the article. Seems that our masters at the MPAA [...]
Microsoft unleased 12 patches to cover various (discovered) malicious attack problems. Most of these patches covered lingering issues with remote code exploitation, while a couple dealt with privilege elevation… Keep up on your patches people! ;P ((Update 17 Feb 2007 :: Turns out there was one Vista patch in this launch. Wow, that was quick [...]
 Anyone else hear of this little event? I sure didn’t. Evidently, Microsoft is pushing away at getting PowerShell (see an earlier post) some face time with the programmers and power users in their Scripting Games 2007. There are entry spots open for beginner and and advanced scripters, and it’s going on right now (as [...]
 Remember hearing about the DDoS attacks on three of the 13 internet root servers about a week ago? Well, I dug around and found some nice graphs that show the levels of traffic those entities received. Click HERE. Check g.root-servers.net and l.root-servers.net for the heaviest hits. To see a normal day of activity click [...]
Who said the internet was just for sharing information, both useful and useless. People are also using it to exact their own brand of justice. Have you been wronged by an idiot at work; a neighbor that keeps snatching your MAKE magazine; or a neighbor that actively allows his dog to crap in your yard? [...]
Well well well… Microsoft finally publically released a new command line interface – PowerShell v1.0. I was in on the beta (over a year ago) for Monad and am glad to see a more fully realized version in PowerShell. Right off the bat, you’ll notice a ton of similarities between PS and more mature shells [...]
I upgraded all the blogs on my site to WordPress 2.1 (“Ella”)… and it’s nice. The readers won’t notice a thing about the blog, but administration is niiiicer. Anyways, the upswing (for me) is that they finally upgaded a Askimet, a support plugin that quashes over 90% of the spam known to hit bloggers. Despite [...]