I love this extremely-tongue-in-cheek page I stumbled across today: “Bruce Schneier Facts: Things you might not know about Bruce Schneier“. Some of them (like this one) would only be understood by other people in the computer security field, but others are accessible to nearly anyone. I especially like this one. (Bruce Schneier, for those who …
Yes Chris, it probably is. But you’ve got to admit, it does look neat. 🙂
If you run your own website, you might have been following the brouhaha over the new LinkScanner feature of GriSoft’s AVG virus scanner. I can’t find this text on the GriSoft website, but it was quoted in a comment on another blog I was reading today: Following is AVG’s official response to LinkScanner concerns: We’d …
Interesting Terms of Service on Google Gears… not only does it explicitly exclude open-source products from the usual disassembly prohibitions, but it enjoins you (if you develop code that uses it) to “protect the privacy and legal rights of those users” (section 5.5). Not the sort of thing you generally see in a software license, …
As mentioned previously, I’ve been using the Avant Window Navigator (AWN) program as my main launcher for the last little bit. But I’ve taken advantage of this holiday weekend to figure out another program I’ve heard really good things about, and after using it for a couple days, I’ve completely replaced AWN. The program is …
And on a closely-related note, the court system has ruled that the President isn’t above the law. Who would have thought?
An interesting application of the famous RFC1149, if nothing else. But some of the comments below the story are priceless.
As noted previously, I rarely post about spam anymore, simply because there’s little new or interesting to post about. In fact, I rarely even see spam anymore, maybe one or two messages a day at most. This one is slightly interesting though, because it’s a perfect example of the contortions that spam purveyors have to …
A lesson in Bad Science from NASA (predictably on Global Warming again): if the facts get in the way of your favorite theory, ignore the facts.
Want a good cell phone/organizer, but don’t want to pay through the nose for a proprietary and closed-source system that limits you in all sorts of ways? Looks like there’s an alternative coming Real Soon Now. 🙂