Firefox to be renamed in Debian

This little war is kind of sad. I hate to see this happening within the open source movement, but I guess it is inevitable. Well, so long and the newly named firefox works as well as the original. I wonder if this will affect Ubuntu. It reall has to.


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setting up a webserver

So far I have failed at this, but one of these days.........


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Foxnotes

Neat little bookmarks synchronization for firefox. I just installed it and it works fine.


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Google reader redesigned

Not too bad!


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smart usb drive

Note that this requires NO battery


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Ubuntu EdgyEft Beta

Beta release for Ubuntu 6.1.0


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Google notebook getting better

Some nice new features to google notebook


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Homemade car 100 miles per gallon

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Why aren't they making something like this?

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List of programs not working on Vista

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List of programs currently NOT working on Microsost Vista

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diggdot

http://diggdot.us/

This looks interesting. Combination of feeds from digg, delicious, slashdot and reddit. Customizable. Web 2.0 interface. I'm going to give it a serious try.

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windows genuine advantage sucks

Windows Genuine Advantage worse than we all feared


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Posted Sep 26th 2006 12:25PM by Jason Clarke
Filed under: Business, OS Updates, Security, Utilities, News, Windows, Microsoft
WGA statisticsVenerable Windows expert Ed Bott has been carefully documenting his misadventures with Windows Genuine Advantage for a few months now. As evidence mounted that the WGA system was not as bulletproof as Microsoft would like to have us believe, Ed decided to get statistical on their ass, so to speak. After scouring Microsoft's own help forums looking for people reporting problems with WGA, Ed found an extremely disturbing trend: a full 42% of the Windows installations that are flagged by WGA as not valid turned out to be perfectly legitimate. That's a far cry from the "almost perfect" and "we know of no problems with WGA" drivel that Microsoft continues to spout. And consider that the numbers used here are only for Windows users that were actually willing and able to find Microsoft's support forums and use them. I'd wager the real number is far worse.

Realistically, Microsoft didn't ever expect their user base to actually like WGA. As with all DRM software, there is absolutely nothing in it for the end user; the best case scenario is that the vendor (be it a media or software vendor) is going to inconvenience a number of their customers. The worst case scenario is this one; the vendor makes a large number of false positive detections, and significantly alienates a large percentage of their customers.

I should be clear that in opposing WGA, I'm not advocating software piracy. It's reasonable to expect Microsoft to try to protect their interests. What Ed's saying, and I'm agreeing with, is that Microsoft's first attempt at a tool to prevent piracy is horrifically flawed, and is resulting in nightmarish situations for many of their users.

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introduction to x windows

online book

http://www.freecomputerbooks.com/

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Sep 20 2006

Installed ipodder on ubuntu, very proud of that being a linux noobs. It's working well, subscribed to a feed at podiobooks.com. It's the time of the year to get back into podcasts, I guess. Did a second beta season on game.exe that I made in vb6, and despite a mysterious 8% increase in results, it is working fine.Now to start looking for osme quality podcasts.

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sophos anti-rootkit

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64174-page,1-c,downloads-RSS,RSS/description.html

Ran blacklight and was pleased to see my xp system is clean. It might not hurt to be a little aware of these buggers.

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stop badware.org

http://www.stopbadware.org/

Decent explanation of and presentation of badware.

Blender tutorial

Good tutorial on the linux 3-d program blender
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Blender_User_Interface.224.0.html">
Blender tutorial

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blind radio

blind radio page

Radio Look-up : BlindTalk