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Silly HaX0rs -- Those Tricks Are For Kids

When I get my notebook online with my Treo 650 (dialup networking over bluetooth — essentially a modem with lower latency and somewhat faster throughput … maybe double), my notebook...

The Dumbest Humans Alive

Having learned absolutely none of the lessons the internet has repeatedly tried to teach, well, just about everyone who’s ever tried to use the law to silence a critic (ahem) or to stuff worms...

Microsoft's Reign of Terror Coming to an End

Suddenly, “getting a Dell” isn’t such a bad idea — thanks to one of the smartest decisions Dell has made in recent years, you will soon (as in within a few weeks) be able to...

Dumbass Security

I absolutely love it when a company puts together a web site with convoluted, “jump through hoops to do the dumbest things” security “features” to protect the...

Consumer Electronics Really Freak Out Sometimes

The confused clock Part of the charm of consumer electronics is that since they’re not manufactured to any real “quality” standard, some of the more “esoteric”...

Will Recants

Heh. I’ve read through the service manual. I’ve looked around locally (in a limited fashion, admittedly) for replacement parts. I even fired up the soldering iron and played on a piece of...

LCDproc v0.5.2 Released!

I’m not directly involved in the project anymore, but I still follow the mailing list and thought this was worth mentioning. I started LCDproc almost ten years ago (yeesh!) as a project to...

Encryption for ZIP Archives

Disclaimer: I was paid to write this review. Who else remembers PKZip, one of the original competitors in the old-school “archiver wars” back in the early 90’s (in the days of DOS...

Oh Joy, Another Closed Format!

I snagged myself a soundtrack from a spiffy movie a few days ago and just got around to actually cranking it up to listen to it this morning. Well … that is, I tried to listen. I discovered yet...

I Have to Remove How Many Screws?

My notebook’s power connector is finally flaking out enough that I need to replace or repair it (the center pin’s loose and getting looser), so I’ve busted out the trusty repair...