“They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know.”
Windows Vista, how do I dislike thee? The New York Times counts the ways — using Microsoft’s internal e-mails from their own staff and board members to do it.
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Snow, snow, snow…
…I hate it. The clouds crapped about two feet onto us today, ruining the 60th birthday party that my wife had been organizing for her mother for the past several weeks. I wonder what the Sahara is like this time of year…?
“Windows-based cash machines ‘easily hacked'”
Why am I not surprised?
Internet Explorer 8 to Fully Support Web Standards
The first public beta of IE8 is now available, and the big news is that MS has finally decided to fully support web standards (and it’s about time!). Why the sudden change of heart? They aren’t talking, but OSnews may have tagged it… it’s amazing what a little self-interest will do.
A new kind of CAPTCHA?
CAPTCHAs, the automated tests that are meant to prevent spam-bots from overrunning free e-mail services and comment forms, have been defeated. What’s next? Hopefully not something like this… I tried it three times, and only succeeded twice. Statistics also indicate that it wouldn’t work too well — there are less than 30 variations, so even …
RIP Gary Gygax, “Father of D&D”
A moment of silence please, to mourn the passing of the creator of a game that defined a generation of young nerds, including yours truly. (Thanks, Joshua.)
Pee Used To Create Self-Healing Substance
I can’t say it any better than the BBC: The as-yet-unnamed material – a form of artificial rubber – is made from vegetable oil and a component of urine. The substance, described in the journal Nature, produces surfaces when cut that retain a strong chemical attraction to each other. Pieces of the material join together …
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The Ever-More-Ubiquitous Webcam
In the David Brin SF novel Kiln People, the main character (a detective) follows someone’s movements at one point by tracking them via the public and private webcams that cover nearly every square inch of the city. When the book was first released in 2002, the reader could have been forgiven for thinking that was …
Bugzilla!
This morning I realized that my to-do list for Project X was getting out of hand. I’ve used various bug-tracking systems before, and I thought one of those would be ideal for this (both now and in the future), so I decided it was time to set up a local copy of Bugzilla.
ThunderBayes Report
After one month of using it, I’m very happy to confirm that SpamBayes (via the ThunderBayes plug-in for Thunderbird) is absolutely as awesome as I’d heard it could be! The scoring is so accurate that I decided a while back to let it automatically delete messages with 100% spam probability as read, so that I …