Monthly Archives: February 2005

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I have seen the light haleluya! So, I heard about Air America Radio a while ago (that whole Al Franken vs. the entrenched Republican news radio). Wasn’t interested and didn’t care, but I don’t know what changed. My views haven’t changed much, but I can’t get enough of Morning Sedition. Mark and Mark are funny,

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Palm Source moving away from hotsync Good for Linux users, good form Mac too! Article at Brighthand

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Octavio Digitizing rare books for the rest of us… Introduced shortly after the invention of printing from movable type, the octavo was the first format developed specifically for creating portable, mass-produced, low-cost books. At the same time, Renaissance thinkers believed they could elevate the individual dignity and worth of great numbers of people by disseminating

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US soldiers to receive ecstasy to fight combat trauma US soldiers traumatized by fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are to be offered the drug ecstasy to help free them of flashbacks and recurring nightmares. Has anyone else seen this?

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The Apple Product Cycle Funny because it’s true.

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How to steal music Just in case the site is taken down… Hundreds of music CDs, zero dollars*, obtained legally. *Not including the cost of blank CDs Practical how to: (credit goes to warlock1711 of club.cdfreaks.com for discovering this loophole) 0. Download and install Napster, sign up for 14 day free trial. 1. Download and

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Run kismet on yo’ router and kismet client on Windows XP I’m quoting everything here in case I end up loosing the link someday. February 03, 2005 WRT54G running kismet and kismet client on Windows XP There was a question on a wireless network mailing list if there was any experience with Kismet on the

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USB 2.0 Portable Storage Slap-Down USB thumb-drives are a good thing, putting up to a gigabyte of storage into a device the size of your pinky. In a case of too much of a good thing can be wonderful, small USB 2.0 hard-drives that can easily slip into your pocket have now come to market,

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NTFS Performance Hacks One way of improving the performance of your Windows XP machine is to tweak the NTFS file system. In certain scenarios, simple changes can make a big difference; that’s because hard disks are often a primary bottleneck in today’s machines, which have fast processors and lots of memory. Let’s look quickly at

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Microsoft’s Security Chief Says Blah Blah Security chief staunchley defends Microsoft product, less patches than Linux products too. Nash staunchly defended the Redmond, Wash.-based developer’s progress, and compared Windows’ flaws with those in open-source Linux operating systems from Red Hat and Novell’s SuSE. “Even with the relatively large number of bulletins we released this week,