Topics on my particular interests.
Last night, just after midnight, my RSS reader picked up a notice that the new 5.0 version of TrueCrypt (my favorite cross-platform drive encryption program) is now available. It has several very neat-sounding new features, including the ability to encrypt the system drive (under Windows), a standard GUI under Linux (it only had command-line support …
The New York Times compares the two remaining Democratic contenders to Apple’s famous Mac vs. PC commercials. Quite amusing.
In-eye TV, anyone?
Today in the “technology for the completely clueless” department: a pair of shirts that show you (and everyone around you) how close you are to your paramour. Literally. This is good for about five minutes of conversation, then it’s just tacky… tacky, tacky.
Amazing. They’ve finally come up with a decent use for beets.
Great. If it reverses some of the truly bone-headed decisions that Vista was graced with — such as the Hollywood-friendly but user-hostile DRM stuff that’s built in — then it can’t come soon enough. And apparently even Microsoft secretly agrees… Pulling such a major release forward would be out of character for Microsoft. Could this …
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After several days of using ThunderBayes/SpamBayes, I’m happy to report that it’s just as awesome as it was rumored to be! 😀 Even better, I’ve been able to fix one of the problems that I had with setting it up (the multiple-accounts bug). I sent the code changes to Daniel Miller, the original ThunderBayes developer, …
Every so often, some company will say something about a virus or antivirus program (such as this), and the comments on it (if allowed) will be filled with an OS flame war. I’ve used PC-based computers since 1989 or thereabouts. In that time, I’ve been attacked by two viruses — one in 1997, a DOS …
That seemed like a rhetorical question to me when I first read it. But after reading the rest of the article, I’ve changed my mind. The music industry is alive and well, and in fact is thriving — it’s just the existing music labels, with their extremely wasteful business models, that are suffering: EMI, recently …