Bill Gates acknowledges that Windows sucks Microsoft announced a new corporate approach designed to allow the company to weather the slow growth in the computer industry Mr. Gates acknowledged today that the company’s error reporting service indicated that 5 percent of all Windows-based computers now crash more than twice each day. no wait there’s more [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2003
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Friday, July 25, 2003
Gee this Palm Pilot thingy is more complicated than I thought it was Larry Garfield explains why newer devices don’t have as much RAM available as they claim. In order to allow programs the ability to actually run, the Palm OS reserves a small portion of RAM that can be used only by the system [...]
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Friday, July 25, 2003
Young men ‘download illegal porn’ Why is this even in the news? “Clearly, the literature also shows that most adolescent sexual offenders do not persist beyond adolescence, however, some do,” the study says. …and some don’t, and some wear pants while others clearly prefer shorts.
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Friday, July 25, 2003
Preview the SanDisk SD Wi-Fi Card Brighthand just posted a preview of the wireless SD card. The SanDisk SD Wi-Fi Card maintained a strong signal up to 100 feet away from the access point. I tested it and a Symbol Wireless Networker CompactFlash card in an HP iPAQ h2210 Pocket PC and experienced about 20% [...]
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Friday, July 25, 2003
Batman vs Joker vs Aliens vs Predator vs Milli Vanilli …well ok not the Predator There’s a new amateur Batman movie out at Comic-con and all I can say is that it’s about time. I’ve had enough of that rubber sh@t. Where’s the dark, superpower-less, gritty crime fighter been all this time anyway? Link to [...]
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Thursday, July 24, 2003
Offline Blogging Tool No, I’m not talking about myself… The w.bloggar is an application that targets to be an interface between the user and his blog(s), in other words, is a Post and Template editor, with serveral features and resources that the browser based blog editors can not offer. [...]. Another great advantage of w.bloggar [...]
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Thursday, July 24, 2003
Get your geek on Geek.com’s Rick Hodgin proposes revolutionizing x86 CPU Performance Since multimedia extensions (MMX and 3DNow! first, later SSE and SSE-2) were added to the CPU, the potential to gain performance for multimedia applications has been very evident. But what about the other 98% of applications out there that aren’t suited for the [...]
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Thursday, July 24, 2003
Windows dragcracking becomes an official sport Windows passwords broken in 13.6 seconds Geek.com is running an article describing a new vulnerability in Windows passwords. Hopefully the results of this paper will drive Microsoft to increase the security of its passwords. Companies should also think about requiring a non-alphanumeric character in user passwords from now on. [...]
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Thursday, July 24, 2003
The Pierpont Project It’s just too funny to explain… One of the most common forms of email spam these days is Nigerian 419 (or Advanced Fee Fraud) scams. The stories in the letters change, but the form is always the same. Sad tales of corruption in Africa from petty civil servants, gold miners, the children [...]
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Wednesday, July 23, 2003
The tale of two languages A tale of love, sacrafice and loss The WSJ published an article comparing the backgrounds and personal views of the creators of Pearl and Python. I find it interesting that the personal views of the creators are represented in the way tasks are accomplished.