Archive for the ‘free software’ Category

Holes in the Tubes!

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Cult of the Dead Cow has come out with a new set of diagnostic plumbing tools for the vast series of tubes we know as the internetz. Hackers use Google to find website vulnerabilities from PhysOrg.com Infamous computer hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) said Friday it is offering ...

Distributed Lottery

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

If I had a huge computing task that could only be accomplished by a massive network of computers working together over time, I'd be worried about how to convince millions of people to let me use some time on their cpus.  Creating a botnet like storm is one way... I ...

Reblogger

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

A huge number of posts I've been making are reposts selected from some of the feeds I read. I installed the wordpress plugin for reblog, an open source project by eyebeam. It didn't work straight off the bat, but I found this bugfix which tells you that there ...

FriendFeed Recommendations? Who Are You Likely to Like?

Friday, February 15th, 2008

FriendFeed is a life streaming service, in the form of a social aggregator. You may have heard Mark “complain” about it in the same way Pete used to complain about Twitter, but as the beta testing progresses, folks seem to be adapting to FriendFeed…or maybe FriendFeed is adapting to ...

Pirate Bay Captain Speaks Out on TV for the first time

Friday, February 15th, 2008

value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uENqtT5AP_w" /> type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="280" height="231"> One of the most popular online communities - ThePirateBay - is known as one of the Internet's largest file-sharing sites with free music, games and movies av... Originally from Tailrank: ...

Google GrandCentral… API coming?

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

So, I'm adding this call me button from my freshly established GrandCentral account to the blog: If you're reading this and you are not me (unlikely as this may be), try it!  Leave me a voice comment!  This button allows anyone to hit it and call my phone without being able ...

Microsoft’s Excessive Shit-Talking Causes Chronic Corporate Halitosis

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Microsoft recently alleged that various forms of open source software collectively violate 235 of its patents. They say that Linux, GUIs, e-mail programs, and Open Office are among the IP violators. This is apparently aimed at Red Hat and other companies that sell service and support for ...