How often do you backup all your important data? I highly recommend a program called Cobain Backup. The author, Luis Cobain just released version 7.4.5.335 of his backup software. He describes it as:
a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to […]
Mozilla has officially launched Firefox 1.5 at mozilla.com. Get it while it’s hot!
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There really isn’t anything that’s theoretically hack proof, but the Xbox 360 from Microsoft comes about as close as you can get. What makes the 360 so secure? Check this out (via Engadget):
The flash is encrypted with a per-box key
The key is stored inside the CPU
The boot ROM is stored inside the CPU
Also […]
A new version of PHP has just been released. Version 5.1.0 includes major security and performance improvements along with a few new features. View the changelog for details.
I’ve updated my apache installation guide to include the latest version.
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It amazes me how the music and movie industries just don’t get it. This is from techdirt:
Apparently, 20th Century Fox has proudly announced that they successfully stopped bootleggers from taping the latest Harry Potter movie — even though that’s apparently not true. As Dewayne Hendricks points out, he went online and found that you […]
The End User License Agreement on the rootkit infected CDs are almost as bad as the rootkit themselves! Here’s a roundup:
You can’t keep your music on any computers at work.
If you lose the original CD, you must delete all digital music on your computer.
If your house is robbed, you must delete all music from […]
Robert X. Cringely explains how he thinks Google will dominate the Internet in the near future. He thinks that Google will strategically place data centers all around the globe, starting with the U.S. They already bought up a bunch of dark fiber… Once these data centers are in place, they essentially have […]
Want to setup your own blog? I’ve published a guide to installing Apache, PHP, JSP, and MySQL with PHPMyAdmin and WordPress – everything you ever needed to get your blog off the ground! WordPress is the new addition to the guide. There has been some problems with the latest version of MySQL. […]
gHacks lists several alternatives to buying CDs from the “music industry”. My personal favorite is recording internet radio streams. Remember when you used to make mix tapes by recording songs off the radio? Streamripping allows you to do just that. Instead of sitting there with your finger on the record button, […]
Now that Sony has several lawsuits filed against them, they decided to stop producing CDs with the so-called “rootkit DRM” on them. A little too late Sony!
Sony BMG Music Entertainment said Friday that it will suspend production of CDs with copy-protection technology that has been exploited by virus writers to try to hide their […]