Reliance upon Microsoft products :(

May 1st, 2007

I have been happily working at a consulting firm for some time and am dismayed by how much the world relies upon Microsoft software. It seems as if no one realizes that, more often than not, there are very good alternatives out there. Many of these alternatives end up being better than Microsoft’s offerings because they comply with open standards.

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Have not updated site for a while

January 14th, 2007

I have not been blogging much as of late. Life has been a bit busy and hectic. Soon I will start blogging again.

Meanwhile Comcast is providing crappy customer support. I kind of expect it now after the whole CableCARD saga.

Should I just give up on them and move to satellite? I might. I might also just go without TV and watch stuff on the web.

Till next time.

Windows Vista’s Hideous Wakeup Support at The NeoSmart Files

December 10th, 2006

Windows Vista’s Hideous Wakeup Support at The NeoSmart Files:

Throughout the beta, Deep Sleep in Windows Vista went great. It’s the default option (so long as it’s configured in the BIOS) when you click the shutdown button. It would put your computer in a low-power mode that recovered in a matter of 2 or 3 seconds, and didn’t crash! But in the final version of Windows Vista, something is very, very majorly wrong.

Gizmodo: How To Use The Zune as a Hard Drive

November 25th, 2006

Gizmodo: How To Use The Zune as a Hard Drive

Fantastic news for the handful of people who actually own a Zune. Someone’s found a way to enable a sort of hard drive support, which although doesn’t assign a drive letter to your Zune, does allow you to drag and drop files from it.

Turns out it’s just a registry value to enable visibility in the shell.

Gizmodo: How To Bypass The Zune’s WiFi Sharing DRM

November 25th, 2006

This sounds like way too much work, but here you go.

Gizmodo: How To Bypass The Zune’s WiFi Sharing DRM:

…rename whatever files—MP3s, movies, programs—to have the extension “.jpg” in order to fool the Zune into thinking it’s an image. This hack works because Zune doesn’t apply DRM to images!

Then what?

Now, take your Zune and send the folder containing these files to your buddy along with a real photo. If you only send a fake photo, an error is thrown. The last step is to have your friend sync the Zune with their computer, open the “containing folder” where the files were downloaded, and rename the files back to their correct extension.

ArsTechnica: Cell phone unlocking legal (for three years)

November 25th, 2006

ArsTechnica: Cell phone unlocking legal (for three years)

Every three years, the Copyright Office develops a list of approved exemptions to the DMCA’s anti-circumvention protections. This is the third time through the process, and the government has approved the largest number of exemptions to date—though they’re still incredibly narrow.

Exemptions are allowed for 1) the educational library of a university’s media studies department, in order to watch film clips in class; 2) using computer software that requires the original disks or hardware in order to run; 3) dongle-protected computer programs, if the the dongle no longer functions and a replacement cannot be found; 4) protected e-books, in order to use screen-reader software; 5) cell phone firmware that ties a phone to a specific wireless network; and 6) DRM software included on audio CDs, but only when such software creates security vulnerabilities on personal computers.

MiamiHerald.com: Brawl mars UM-FIU game

October 15th, 2006

Here is a quote and a link to the Miami Herald’s coverage of the brawl at the UM / FIU game on October 14, 2006. What transpired was completely unacceptable. People in my section were close to being trampled as a fan fight broke out.

I have posted video of the whole event. Video: Fight at UM / FIU Game Last Night

MiamiHerald.com: Brawl mars UM-FIU game

Crosstown rivalry?

How about backyard brawl?

Whatever it was, it wasn’t much about football Saturday once chaos erupted with nine minutes to go in the third quarter of the inaugural University of Miami-Florida International game.

The Hurricanes won 35-0.

Now, to the brawl.

Thirteen players were ejected after a massive fight that brought both teams onto the field swinging, kicking, punching and doing just about anything else to inflict pain on the opponent. The Orange Bowl crowd of 51,130 even got into it as at least two fights erupted in the stands.

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October 15th, 2006

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October 9th, 2006

Bravo Microsoft! The video embeded below shows how to change the password of the current user account that you are logged in under without entering the previous password. This kind of thing should not work. I will have to test to see if Vista is susceptible to this “hack”.

The operating system should always ask you for the old password before allowing you to change it. Hopefully this only works when logged in to an administrator account. In Unix the superuser can change other user’s passwords without knowledge of the old password. If logged in as any other account you can change only your own password after typing in your old password.
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JohnChow.com: The Internet’s Biggest Google Whores

October 9th, 2006

JohnChow.com: The Internet’s Biggest Google Whores:

The following is a list of the Internet’s eight biggest Google AdSense publishers. The information was compiled from interviews and articles found on the Internet. Whenever possible, I list the source of the information.

All I can say is “WOW.” It takes a lot of pageviews to earn that kind of money! I need to think up the next killer idea…