You to can own your own 128 Bit number
From BoingBoing: In effect, AACS-LA (the AACS Licensing Authority) claimed that it owned a randomly chosen 128-bit number, and that anyone who possessed or tran...
Category: Computers
Top 7 Things System Administrators Forget to Do
A useful writeup over at O’Reilly about the top 7 things that sysadmins forget to do: Forgetting to Delete a Former User’s Account Forgetting to Reg...
Turned off my Win2K Server box last night
I had a Windows 2000 Server running in my basement acting as an AD controller and print server. That’s pretty much all it did. Okay, it also ran my JBidWa...
A Vista Simulator
This made me laugh today: “You should go to Vista.” “So you like Vista?” “Not really, no. I run a Vista simulator.” “V...
RSA Conference Codebreakers Bash
I’m at the RSA Security Conference this week and tonight was the Codebreakers Bash – a huge party. This conference spares no expense. It’s the...
Vista DRM Cracked Already?
From BoingBoing: Vista launched this week, and it’s already broken. As with previous multi-year DRM development efforts, this one disintegrated like wet k...
438 Windows XP Tips
Wow. I ran across this collection of 438 Windows XP Tips tonight when I was using Google to look for the way to log a user off when the screensaver starts. The ...
More than I ever wanted to know about MP3 tags
After I downloaded the Bootie 2006 Mashup album I opened the mp3s in MP3Tag to check the tags and they were all cut off at 30 characters. I assumed the tags wer...
DD-WRT is pretty cool
I’m setting up a network for someone and I had them buy a LinkSys WRT54GL, both because I have one and like it, and because I knew you could put DD-WRT on...
OpenFiler Test Results – Final!
I managed to finish up the new round of testing this evening and have posted the final results! They are a little different than I expected them to be, but at l...