Archive for November, 2005
links for 2005-11-18
Wired News: Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit. Bruce Schneier on the Sony/BMG CD rootkit spyware. Nope, until they get rid of all invasive DRM, I’m never touching Sony/BMG CDs again. (tags: virus) Mr. Fuzzypaws’ Owls. O RLY? YA RLY. (tags: fun net) The DCeiver: The Pompatus of Lost: 2.07. Tailies recap. (tags: tv fun) [...]
Stuff with Pandora On It!
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BegTheQuestion.info Reborn!
Meet my latest pet project: Beg The Question. (Or BTQ, for short.) Although BTQ started out as a silly little April Fool’s gimmick, I recently decided to make better use of the domain by turning it into a concise central venue to inform the general public of this all-too-common idiomatic travesty. Now, you can chastise [...]
links for 2005-11-17
D-Vision. Looks like a pretty useful Mac video utility. (tags: mac video software) Open Source Mac – Free, Open-Source software for OS X (tags: mac free software) Instructions for Apache, Perl/CGI, PHP, and MySQL on Windows (tags: server windows) BBC NEWS | Middle East | Q&A – White phosphorus. Willy Pete Basics. (tags: war)
I Get the Wrong RAM
I really wish I’d read the specs a bit more closely on that PC I got. Why did I blithely assume that what I needed for this machine was 184-pin SDRAM? The Netvista M41 uses old, slow 168-pin PC133 SDRAM. Not that you’d know that from the product page which is for the wrong computer [...]
links for 2005-11-16
Mac OS X System Startup. What happens behind the scenes when your Mac starts up. (tags: mac) Free Downloadable Visual Aids/Picture Clips (tags: clipart) Retro Gaming. Some guy’s retro game downloads on Geocities. (tags: retro games) DCist: Butterstick’s Coming Out Party. National Zoo’s baby panda going public, December 8! (tags: animals) IBM Personal computing support [...]
Tiger Direct Sends Me the Wrong PC
Those of you who saw the Cheap And Tiny entry on cheap small form desktops probably had a clue that I posted it because I was looking for, well, cheap small form desktops, since my iBook is getting on in years, but I want to wait for the Intel Macs before I get another Apple [...]
Wider
Notice anything different? Yeah, a wider weblog div, slightly larger text, and no more serifed type. Mostly I tweaked things because Flickr doesn’t provide 400px photo width (and they don’t seem to be planning it as an option), and I was tired of having to post 240px photos because the standard 500px width was too [...]
Metro Mugging
DCist mentions a Metro mugging in the news, and it turns out that the mugging victim is DC weblogger lugnochro. “Yes, I was mugged on the metro on the way home from work. No, I’m not all right.” Full story here.
links for 2005-11-15
“Dark Crystal” Sequel In The Works (tags: film) Aparita Bhandari on Reclaiming the Swastika’s Original Hindu Meaning. Before Nazism, the swastika was a Hindu symbol for “samsara,” and a common craftwork motif. (tags: religion culture) We’ve got so much blog we don’t know where to put it all. Megnut reminisces on “We’ve Got Blog,” and [...]