Looks like Apple’s gonna make a Tablet PC: Apple Computer was granted a patent for an enigmatically titled “Electronic device” Tuesday, May 10th, 2005. Illustrations for the device clearly indicate it to be a tablet-style Macintosh, and patent filings specifically compare it to the “HP Compaq Tablet PC” and several other tablet machines. The patent [...]
Entries from May 11th, 2005
Potential Of SSH Worm Devastation
May 10th, 2005 · No Comments · Internet, Security
Bruce Schneier once again makes a valid point: SSH, or secure shell, is the standard protocol for remotely accessing UNIX systems. It’s used everywhere: universities, laboratories, and corporations (particularly in data-intensive back office services). Thanks to SSH, administrators can stack hundreds of computers close together into air-conditioned rooms and administer them from the comfort of [...]
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Early Reviews Say New Star Wars Is The Shit
May 10th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Movies
Yes, you read that correctly. THE shit as apposed to just plain shit. CBS has an article that points out the overall vibe of the early reviews of the latest Star Wars flick, Revenge Of The Sith. Apparantly, it doesn’t suck monkey balls like the past two movies: Daily Variety writer Todd McCarthy says the [...]
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FreeBSD 5.4 Released
May 10th, 2005 · No Comments · FreeBSD
A new version of FreeBSD has just been released: The Release Engineering Team is happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD Stable development branch. Since FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE in November 2004 we have made many improvements in functionality, stability, performance, and device driver support for some hardware, as well [...]
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Google’s Accelerator Breaks Web Apps
May 10th, 2005 · No Comments · Google, Internet, Privacy, Security
It seems that my hitherto published worries about Google Web Accelerator are being given some grounds by a recent article published in Eweek: Google’s effort to speed the pace of Web browsing quickly aggravated some early users, who say that the software is delivering them Web pages under other users’ logins and breaking Web applications. [...]
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Computer Cooling By Oil
May 9th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware
Some guy named Markus has found a new way to cool his computer by just dumping everything in a fish tank of oil. Markus has been using this system for over a year. It is quiet and is cooled by the still functional fans circulating the oil. He has swapped components and even successfully used [...]
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Brief History Of The Post-It
May 7th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff
Seeing as the humble Post-It is now 25 years old, The Rake has taken the opportunity to write a fascinating piece on it. Excerpt: Once upon a time, the American office was a nightclub with typewriters—at least according to mid-century myths like The Hucksters or The Apartment. Formal dress was mandatory. Client meetings had a [...]
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Networked Emoticons
May 6th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff
Yet another cool but totally useless device, the Networked Emoticons: What is it? It’s a networked emoticon device. You log onto it through the Internet and let your other significant at home know if something at work or at school has made you happy, sad, upset, etc. And how does it work? Ideally there are [...]
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Man Implants Magnet Into Finger
May 6th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Paranormal
Some guy has implanted a magnet into his finger and now has a “sixth sense”. Excerpt: I am now able to perceive magnetic fields in ways not naturally possible. The sensation is different than holding a magnet, as the neurons are stimulated with a higher resolution. With the implant I can detect subtle changes in [...]
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A Brief History Of The GUI
May 5th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Computers In General, Cool Geeky Stuff, Linux, Microsoft
Ars Technica has written a fascinating brief history of the GUI. Excerpt: The history of the development of the graphical user interface is a long and complicated tale. While it is easy to find individuals like Douglas Engelbart and Alan Kay who made great contributions to advancing the state of the art, the truth of [...]
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