Archive for March, 2006
I’m a pretty pathetic note taker. I’m not great at it, my note management skills aren’t that great, and I take a lot of notes during the day. My computer’s desktop is littered with notepad files all the time. Just ordered and unordered lists of things to do, snippets of code, URLs [...]
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006 Posted in Open Source, Personal | 3 Comments »
It looks like someone may soon be declared a hero. Hopefully some verification of the process (and the process itself) will be made public soon.
Edit [3/16/2005 @ 1:17 PM EST]: Here are the instructions/downloads what you need to use Windows XP on an Intel Mac… now if only I had an Intel Mac.
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006 Posted in Apple | No Comments »
Many remember a few months ago Symantec came under fire for suggesting that IE was more secure than Firefox, because it had less security issues. Immediately many pointed out that Symantec’s methodology in the research was flawed, since they focused on vendor acknowledged security issues. That essentially lets the development teams decide how [...]
Sunday, March 12th, 2006 Posted in Mozilla, Security | 1 Comment »
Last week my private server had some corruption on the system partition. Seems to be related to the system log file from what I can figure out. I’ve got it back up and running, mostly. Though not 100%. If it was running something newer than 10.2 Jaguar, I’d likely be in [...]
Saturday, March 11th, 2006 Posted in Hardware, Software | No Comments »
Niels Ferguson of the Security Integrety Team had this to say about the idea of a backdoor being implemented in Windows Vista’s new Bitlocker security system:
Over my dead body.
Well, maybe not literally—I’m not ready to be a martyr quite yet—but certainly not in any product I work on. And I’m not alone in that sentiment. [...]
Saturday, March 4th, 2006 Posted in Security, Software | No Comments »
I have my G4 Mac Mini… but now it’s outdated because, it’s now available as a Intel powered Mac Mini. So cool in just about every way, except the Intel Integrated Graphics, which even Apple agrees is junk. I do like the audio in put (which was missing on the G4 version), and [...]
Wednesday, March 1st, 2006 Posted in Apple, Hardware | 1 Comment »