Mac commercials annoy, but this parody of the mac commercials is just hysterical
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Category: General
Idle thoughts about generally anything
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Parody At Its Best
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Bunch of useful links
Links update
GamesUtilities
- Open Office . Org – Greate free functional office suite, able to export PDFs, and open MS Office documents, among others.
- Free zip/rar tool
Supported formats:- Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
- Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
- vlc – nice little application to play videos.
- editplus – great text editor with syntax highlighting and all
Security
- AVG – grisoft free antivirus scanner
- spybot
- Alternative Windows updates
- Firefox – more secured browser then MSIE
- Thunderbird – more secured email application then Outlook or Outlook Express
Patches
- apatch – patch Windows Live Messenger
- msg live plus – adds functionality to Windows Live Messenger [READ the install prompts carefully!]
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Ubuntu on Compaq Evo N800c
I took the leap and installed ubuntu dapper 6.06 on the laptop.
I’m quiet impressed with the speed, and everything.
I had some issues with getting the wireless network card to work properly. I’ve got it working, but I still have to do something manual with it, “sudo ipdown ath0” “sudo ipup ath0” before I get an IP that I can use.
The ATI Radeon mobile 7500 works well… with some 2d glitches… but nothing major. Just some buttons in gnome get artifacts… like snow or static over buttons.
Automatix broke my first install, so I just trashed the install, and used easyubuntu instead. Automatix wasn’t a bad thing, probably that I asked it to install the ATI drivers, which weren’t compatible with my card. I probably should give Automatic another try, but easyubuntu has everything I need essentially.
Overall, very stable, battery check feature works, hibernates well, automounts my usb key… any quirks I find, I’ll comment about it later -
BBC NEWS | Politics | UK holds Microsoft security talks
BBC NEWS | Politics | UK holds Microsoft security talks
So this is where big brother – George Orwell’s 1984 comes true. Im not sure if I should be scared or what. But this is a great push towards a open source alternatives. How soon would a cracker reverse engineer this backdoor and allow access to all your sensitive information?
The idea is great on paper at first. When you realize the potential damages that can occur afterwards, it’s a pain.
The current methods of obtaining sensitive information does not tread on anyone’s rights. Well, that’s worded poorly. I mean it’s not trampling on anyone’s right. It may step on them, but not trample.
With that said, how much fun will it be when you have a 10 year old script kiddie, reading your sensitive documents? There are just some things you would rather have private.
Backdoors are a bad idea. It’s a gapping security hole, that one would never have. The potential damages that this may cause, should not outweights the public interests. -
Adult ADD Strengths » Top 10 Advantages of ADD in a High Tech Career
Adult ADD Strengths » Top 10 Advantages of ADD in a High Tech Career
very interesting article on Adult ADD. -
Solitaire Game Gets NYC Worker Fired – Yahoo! News
Solitaire Game Gets NYC Worker Fired – Yahoo! News
I actually don’t blame Bloomberg at all. I agree with the action. I see the civil servant was also in agreement, but not the harshness.
If I were told not to play games at work, why should you? You are not paid to play games. You are paid to do your work.
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Achieve-IT!: How to Take A Caffeine Nap
Achieve-IT!: How to Take A Caffeine Nap
This maybe useful during exam time, or when a big project is due.