Tag: Tech News

As my friend Simeon would say. So I download the new Adobe Acrobat Reader 6. I run the installer, and it asks where to save it, so I say Applications. Then I realize it is downloading the installer (I never pay attention, I am a Mac user!) So I cancel it and it asks what… Continue reading What a pile!

I have seen them on NBC during ER and quite abit during Sports Center on ESPN. I guess they have their demographics nailed!

A lot of us rip our own cds and use sources like the CDDB to get our initial meta tag info, like artist, title, album, etc. Then more data is added to the songs, such as rating. Or we might change the title to remove the artist name. That meta data is stored in the… Continue reading MTST Proposal (Meta Tag Source Tag)

Read all about the iLoo, or how MS admits they can design a shitty UI with the best of them.

They just raised my bill from $46 a month to $56. Over 20%! Oh but if I sign up for cable TV, they will drop it $10. For a year. Lamers.

The Philips iPronto is the latest in home entertainment gadgets that also crosses the information appliance boundaries. At $1700, it is too expensive and the thing is so large, it is useless for “couch potatoes” like myself. Not being a general purpose computer, I can’t chat on it using my computer’s address book. I can’t… Continue reading Do we need this?

A month ago my IBM Travelstar 48GB drive died and I sent it in to Hitachi early this month. I checked the RMA on their site and it shows as having shipped on 4/4/2003. I left town on the 10th, with no drive here and returned on the 15th. There was no UPS note, no… Continue reading When bad information costs companies money

Blue Screen of Death in the Movie Theater: Microsoft to drive digital movie theaters A sad, sad day. Excuse me, my movie crashed, I want a refund? And about those MS ads you allow to be shown before every movie, screw you too! “We’re sorry, but you must have a Microsoft Passport account to enter… Continue reading Nooooooooooooooooooo

Boing Boing reports onthis fab new case mod Armani anyone?

Macromedia has redone their entire site in Flash. It works, despite reports, in Safari, but you can no longer tell what is clickable (everything shows a hand, since it is a plugin!), you can’t select/copy text and I am sure this is not very accessible aware, since everything is a graphic! Yuckola.

McDonalds will begin offering one hour of wifi access with your combination meal. Sweet, now I can eat a bunch of junk food and spend an hour sitting on my butt letting it settle in. Oh, wait, I do that at home already, sweet! Read story

from an MSDN flash I received: Most likely you have heard about the “Slammer” Worm last week. While many communications focused on patching SQL Server 2000, there are additional Microsoft products used by developers which are affected. The worm targets MSDE 2000, which is installed as an integral or optional component of many Microsoft products… Continue reading Slammer Worm Affects more than normal MS SQL Server…

Recently David Lychfield posted that the recent slammer worm that affected MS SQL servers was his code. He posted the code to show the exploit. He now wonders if this was a good idea, because someone used this knowledge to create Slammer. “What if someone died because of this?” was a question raised. Sure, posting… Continue reading Should security experts alert us to exploits?

According to this Wired story, a utility is adding itself to user’s browsers and is difficult to remove. “When I find the bastards who programmed this thing I’d be happy to castrate them with a pair of dull pinking shears,” fumed one of Xupiter’s many unhappy victims in a newsgroup posting. Um, I have a… Continue reading Toolbar hijacks browsers

Seems Microsoft never patched a lot of it’s own servers, rofl: Article at CNET

The gnome reports that AOL’s mail servers were not requiring any authentication. Everyone’s email was open for grabs? Read about it here

Don’t mess with Texas Microsoft bullies people into paying large contracts or face audits. Houston gives MS the finger. MS comes in at last minute whining they were not part of the bidding process. Bidding process? You expect to bully people and then negotiate? haha. Yao Ming – 1, Gates – 0

Ok Mac users, run to versiontracker and download NetNewsWire Lite! NetNewsWire is a RSS news reader which lets you read news from many sites. You can even subscribe to this blog by clicking subscribe, then enter the following URL: http://www.geeksrus.com/index.rdf Now all new entries will show directly in the news reader! This will probably work… Continue reading Using a free RSS news reader with this blog!

This is just too cool! Pencil Clock

I got a call from “National Doman Name Service” telling me changes were about to happen to some domains and mine might be affected, and did I want the infomration about how to protect my domain, I said no, I only deal with my registrar, and they hung up lol, sheesh, so I emailed my… Continue reading Domain Name Scam?