Technology

As bad and horrible as I think that Microsoft is, they have gotten better in the last few years. I just had my first experience with Windows 95 in a while…. about 6 or 7 years I wager, and I know why it was made fun of mercilessly. The XP computer I set up for […]

Slashdot.org pointed to the start of some security FUD about Linux. Basically their next big PR campaign will be against Linux and how it’s not as secure as everyone thinks. Uh–huh. From the slashdot story it sounds like they are predicted to use the fact that Novell’s aquisition of SUSE and the end of support

Vertical Hold has a nice response to the reasons not to buy an iPod that I mentioned. Many of the responses are good and sane, which is nice. I’d still like the sub $100 iPod that Steve promised. A great quote: The idea that

Just to be fair, in addition to me fawning over the iPod, here is a story on why not to buy one linked off of /. Some of their points are good (moving parts for something to jog with for example), and price, but they don’t seem to have a single alternative. Having a 128

Hmm…. with SilverStr’s iTunes problems and finding this post from a self-described “.Net Guy” disliking it for it’s lack of WMA support, I’m sensing a bad iTunes vibe today. Works For Me&tm; though. I just wish it supported playing .ogg out of the box and ripping to .ogg out of the box. Course, as I’ve

This is a test of Gnome-blog, a simple blog posting tool for Gnome. It isn’t that bad either. No support for a category though. Maybe I’ll try to hack that in this weekend. This took about 20 minutes to type because I have a sleeping kitten on my arm I don’t want to disturb and

So an nmap on a default install of Windows 2003 Server is…. phoenix alan # nmap -O <IP> Starting nmap 3.48 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2003-10-27 07:43 PST Interesting ports on shiny (<IP>): (The 1652 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) PORT STATE SERVICE 135/tcp open msrpc 139/tcp open netbios-ssn 445/tcp

Today I actually got to touch and play with a real live iPod today, renewing my lust for them. It was set up in Future Shop right out there so people could touch and play with it, with only a security cord to keep it from walking off. It was hooked up to a couple

GROKLAW responds to Ballmers claims that Microsoft is more secure than Linux. Wow, wonder why he’d say a thing like that. Dana also has a great response to the article.

Darren has yet another reason why I will never put a windows system directly connected to the internet without a firewall of some sort. Hell, even a fully patched one I’d be nervous about. When I got back, Norton Antivirus had a HUGE message up about a virus found on the system, which it stalled