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In my spare time I do a lot of volunteer work and one of the organizations I volunteer with holds it’s meetings in an office building that is as close as I’ve found to a WiFi dead zone. There are three wireless networks available and all of them are secured (two of them are 2-Wire [...]
A few weeks ago Microsoft (MS) released Windows Live Wave 3 to public Beta. It didn’t take long for a few of the people on my contact list to start complaining. Here’s how the conversation started this morning:
10/9/2008 8:55:04 AM Stop opening windows on my desktop!!
As it turns out, I [...]
Sometime before Vista went RTM, I took advantage of a sale at a local retailer and picked up an ATI DV Wonder HDTV Tuner Card. It was supposedly one of the last tuner cards that didn’t support the “broadcast flag”. It’s been a while and I don’t remember the details, plus, it was a bit [...]
This weekend I spent some time getting familiar with Windows Media Center. An ATI Remote Wonder Plus came with my tuner card, so I plugged it in.
Vista automatically installed the software and said the device was "”ready to use”, but the remote still wasn’t working, so the next day I looked into the issue and [...]
A friend of mine pointed out a post on a political forum, and I thought I’d take the opportunity to clarify a few points that the original author seemed to overlook:
However, the core problem with libertarianism is that the philosophy refuses to acknowledge that our rights come God (like the Declaration of Independence states).
The [...]
Everybody hold your breath. Warmists conclude that a radical approach is the only way to force nature to our whims.
This sort of thing is the pinnacle of arrogance. First, it assumes that Earths climate at the moment is perfect. Second, it assumes that humans (who never make mistakes) should devote endless resources to the task [...]
From an article circulated amongst my family members:
Oberstar said the discovery of the Ohio bridge problem and its similarity to what happened in Minneapolis should renew concerns about the nation’s bridges. He said it underscores the need for a bill he’s sponsored that would increase the number of bridge inspectors around the country, as well [...]
Of course we can’t eliminate the possibility of an elaborate government disinformation plot, but stories like this seem to indicate that encrypted data security is alive and well. Here’s the meat:
For more than a year, the government has been unable to view drive Z.
A government computer forensics expert testified that it is “nearly impossible” to [...]
In a recent article on the Spam problem and one mans ideas to fix it, ZD Net contributor David Berlind advocated an unimaginative approach to solving the problem.
We have to go back to square-one on e-mail and rebuild the entire system. Who is in a position to do this? Basically, all it would take would [...]
A few days ago I was informed that imeem would be discontinuing it’s encrypted chat client so I started using Skype as my IM client for encrypted conversations, file transfers, etc. It has a few other interesting features that I figured I’d try out.Â
One of the features is the ability to host a "Public Chat" [...]