Within a mere 24 hours of its release Google Video Viewer has been hacked by non other than Jon Johansen, of deCSS fame. The crack itself is actually quite simple and was just a question of reading the diff Google added to VLC (VLC being of course the player that Google based its video viewer [...]
Entries from June 29th, 2005
Scientists Create Zombie Dogs
June 29th, 2005 · No Comments · Math & Science
In what some might find is unnerving news, scientists in the US have succeeded in re-animating canines after 3 hours of clinical death: SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans. US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after [...]
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Why Does Blogger Suck?
June 28th, 2005 · 5 Comments · Blogs, Internet
Wired has a piece on the recent appalling state of Blogger: What’s up with Blogger, the institution that is eponymous with the media phenomenon it helped spawn? Lately, it seems like almost every time you tune into your favorite Blogger-hosted blog to catch up on the latest gossip, meme, political diatribe or cybersnark, you find [...]
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FreeBSD 6 & What’s To Come
June 24th, 2005 · No Comments · FreeBSD
OSNews has an interesting interview with a few FreeBSD developers (John Baldwin, Robert Watson and Scott Long) on FreeBSD 6.0. Stuff that they talk about includes: SMPVFS Hyper-Threading vulnerability TrustedBSD CVS Darwin Apple UFS Solaris They also talk about FreeBSD . Excerpt: 4. What other new features are we going to see on FreeBSD 6.0? [...]
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Play Monopoly For Real
June 23rd, 2005 · No Comments · Humor
In what I’m sure is a dream for both old & young, you now have the chance to fulfil your Monopoly fantasies in real life: We have turned London into a real-life playing board, and real taxi cabs into real-life playing pieces. All you have to do is make as much money from rent as [...]
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Interview With Marcus Ranum
June 22nd, 2005 · No Comments · Internet, Security
Securityfocus has an interesting interview with Marcus Ranum (he’s done many things, including inventing the proxy server). An excerpt: It’s not a technology problem, it’s a management problem. There are plenty of tools that can be used to control inter-host trust, but they are generally not used because they’re “too hard” or “inconvenient” or whatever. [...]
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Funny Iraqi War Cartoon
June 22nd, 2005 · No Comments · Humor, Middle East
Just found this funny cartoon on Sabbah’s Blog that I wanted to share.
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Dubai To Build Worlds Largest Theme Park (Dumb Idea)
June 22nd, 2005 · 3 Comments · Business, Middle East
In what is one of the dumbest ways to invest money, Online Insider reports that Dubai wants to build the worlds largest theme park: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Disneyland in the desert, you could call it. “Dubailand,” though, is the chosen moniker for the massive project now rising in the Middle East. By any [...]
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Low Cost Petrabyte Level Storage
June 22nd, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware, Internet
Linuxdevices has written a piece on Capricorn Technologies sale of over 1 Petrabyte of storage to The Internet Archive: Capricorn Technologies says it has completed delivery of more than a petabyte of storage to the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization based in San Francisco that creates periodic snapshots of the Internet. Capricorn’s PetaBox products are [...]
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Linus Torvalds Thoughts On Microsoft
June 22nd, 2005 · 1 Comment · Linux, Microsoft, Open Source
Good Morning Silicon Valley has done an interview with Linus Torvalds on what he thinks of Microsoft and where he thinks it’s going: Microsoft really is a fairly interesting vendor in this space. Unlike most proprietary vendors, it’s one of the very few ones whose bread and butter comes directly from its commodity market, and [...]
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