Woz Rocks
Steve Wozniak is my hero:
Looking to capitalize on the Apple halo effect, three former company executives, including co-founder Steve Wozniak, took their new company, Acquicor Technology, public yesterday in an IPO raising $150 million. The money they raised is purely based on their reputation, as Acquicor Technology, is officially designated as a “blank-check” company (no, [...]
Search Terms That…
To compliment Lily Dustbin’s ‘Strawberry pop tarts cause fires in Canada? post I too intended to post the best of the Top 30 ob.blog search terms.
Alas, where hers are strange and funny the vast majority of mine are extremely boring… with the exception of these three:
27. 28 guage shotgun
29. monkey cakes
30. masterbate
Amusingly, #8 is “monica [...]
Faking File-sharing Evidence
Thanks to The Pirate Bay you too can now manufacture evidence of illegal file sharing against all your friends and family: Bevismaskinen.
RIAAlicious (RIAAdiculous?)
(Via Wired)
Escalate a Ubunutu User To Root in Breezy
Evidently the Ubuntu Breezy Badger installer doesn’t properly clean up its log files after installation thus leaving the root password in cleartext in a file any user on the system can read. As a result of this, any user on a Breezy system can escalate themselves to root. Not a big deal if you’re using [...]
Geek Humour
“There are only -2 kinds of buffer overflow.”
Scarfing Flickr Images
My gf was trying to grab an image of puppies or kitties or something off of Flickr for a Photoshop contest she was entering and discovered that Flickr makes a whole-hearted attempt to protect user’s images throug the clever use of layers of divs.
I, knowing that once it’s in the browser window nothing is safe, [...]
C# 3.0 with steps backwards?
I’m a big fan of C# as a language, I think Microsoft’s done a hell of a job with and it’s far easier to use than Obj-C or Java (quite probably because of the IDE, which is unparalleled - how’s that for some flame-bait?) so I’m a bit surprised, if the post contains actual factual [...]
Loud Hard drive
I recently replaced the hard drive in my laptop with a Hitachi Travelstar 80Gb 5400 RPM drive. I can’t recomment it at all, it’s noisy as hell. All drives make noise, this is a given, but the amount of noise this laptop drive makes, and the sheer variety of different noises - none of which [...]
The Death and Resurrection Show
Last Wednesday my laptop hard drive died. The kind of death heralded by the sound of grinding bearings, reminiscent of someone trying to shift a car from fifth to reverse at top speed. Fortunately for me it gave me about a half an hour of warning, just enough time to plug in the Firewire drive [...]
GMail Invites
Holy crap, I just checked into my GMail account for the first time in about two months and noticed that I have 100 Gmail invites for the taking.
If you’re one of the five people left on the planet without a GMail account and you want one, or two, or three, leave a comment.