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Apple sued over ‘inferior’ iMac screens | InfoWorld | News | 2008-04-01 | By Matthew Broersma, Techworld
The company pointed to claims by Apple that the 20-inch iMac’s screens can display “millions of colors at all resolutions” and provides a “stunning” visual experience for uses such as watching movies, editing photos, and playing games.In fact, these [...]

Hackers Publish German Minister’s Fingerprint | Threat Level from Wired.com
According to CCC, the print of Schauble’s index finger was lifted from a water glass that he used during a panel discussion that he participated in last year at a German university. CCC published the print on a piece of plastic inside 4,000 copies of its [...]

I always here people moaning about how awful Vista is.  What are their complaints?
“It’s too slow” which is a stupid complaint, because does OSX run on a G3? no!  Vista wont run on old super old hardware either
Next complaint?
UAC is annoying (User Account Control). Well so is the damn OSX pop up about putting your [...]

We had a power outage @ RIT yesterday.  RG&E somehow messed up and 22 buildings on campus went dark, then lit up, then went dark again.
Fortunately we have a 2 hour UPS for the servers, and the generator kicked in ASAP and kept the network gear alive so aside from being pitch black, we stayed [...]

SFist: Photo du Jour 82

“END WAP”
via We Shall Overcome Shoddy Mobile Protocols - Boing Boing Gadgets
Its probably supposed to say “End WAR” but they ran out of material, and besides, WAP sucks.

How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ring | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
But what really snared Spitzer was a money laundering investigation that was flagged by suspicious activity reports (SARs) that banks have to file with the Treasury to surface everything from money laundering to terrorist activity. This network has [...]

Oops
I blocked DHCP traffic with a firewall ruleset and eventually the server’s lease expired.
Tinfoilsoldier is back up!

WordPress Shop [Americas] › Hoodies (powered by Indigo Clothing)

me want!
I actually might buy one, I really do like wordpress.  If they made a wordpress polo I would be more inclined to buy it and wear it to work and such, because I don’t really wear hoodies all that often.

Local News - Disgruntled Worker Accused of Deleting $2.5 Million of Files
“The lesson to be learned here is that you can’t depend on having just one set of records or files and having your employees have access to them. You’ve got to have some kind of backup,” Jefferson said.
It took loosing “$2.5 Million” worth of [...]

World Community Grid - Statistics By Projects
Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) 69,020:226:18:57:20
69,020 YEARS of processing time has been allocated by members of the World Community Grid to help study AIDS.
a quick comparison shows
20 years for African Climate@Home.
7,069 years for the Cancer projects
45,344 years for the Human Proteome Folding projects
Total Run Time 136,898 [...]

Anil Dash: Smug Ugly
The best case in point I can use to illustrate this is an example of the worst thing about Apple. There is simply nothing less attractive than a person who is both flawed and smug, and apparently one of the few plausible justifications for treating corporations as legal persons is the fact [...]

Daring Fireball: Yet Another in the Ongoing Series Wherein I Examine a Piece of Supposedly Serious Apple Analysis From a Major Media Outlet and Dissect Its Inaccuracies, Fabrications, and Exaggerations Point-by-Point, Despite the Fact That No Matter How Egregious the Inaccuracies / Fabrications / Exaggerations, Such Pieces Inevitably Lead to Accusations That I’m Some Sort [...]

World AIDS Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Joe. My. God. has reposted and linked to some memories of friends who have died of AIDS.
Google has a link on their homepage
I run the FightsAIDS@Home project on the World Community Grid.  World Community Grid - Research - FightAIDS@Home.  I think it is disappointing to see how many [...]

Google MapsNow you can make sure your home is in the correct location in Google Maps, so people can find it whenever they search.
Awesome. I have also made custom “My Maps” in the past to make sure that people ended up at my apartment, not 100 apartments in the wrong direction.
Warning: it is addictive
Google [...]

maxtor cable select - Google Image Search
So I think my 120GB hd bit the dust, time to get a new “big” one, and move the 250 and the 160 down a notch.
Either way, it means posting is a pain from my laptop, so I probably won’t do it a whole lot cause browsing is slow [...]