This email sent to Rep. John Lewis really peaked my interest this evening. I totally agree with the idea of drug testing welfare recipients, or any government aid for that matter. I know there would be people out there complaining that it would not be cost effective because of the cost of the actual urine [...]
This is not the first time the RIAA’s website has been taken down. In the past, the site had been hit by a Denial of Service attack, among other attacks. This time, hacker’s had used a SQL injection attack to gain access to the site and deface it. For more information on the attack and [...]
Wikia Search has gone live today (alpha). Wikia Search is another brain child of Wikipedia creator, Jimmy Wales. I must say, I am not too impressed. Doing a quick google search, it doesn’t seem like many others are either! I don’t see much more than a regular search engine. All the hype about this new [...]
This is very cool, supposedly the largest gathering of “snow angels”! I want to know how many people were actually involved, and if the guys from the Guinness Book of World Records were there! (So I can be the devil’s advocate! It could be photoshopped!)
I downloaded a DVD torrent of a documentary titled “Steal This Film II“. This torrent was saved as a single ISO image. I figured there has to be a way to play a DVD ISO without having to burn that ISO to a physical DVD disc. Here is how to play a DVD ISO in [...]
For all you geek’s and tech junkies out there, I have found some great live streaming links from the CES convention over at Robert Scoble’s blog! Check it out!
Wow, what a beast! You are looking at a prototype of a new CRT, curved monitor by Alienware. A quote from gizmodo.com gives some insight to some specifications:
Lit by LEDs, this 2880×900 monster is well over three feet wide and is said to have an other-worldly .02ms response time, great for gaming.
I am sure many [...]
Sometimes, tasks are easier to accomplish from the command line. I stumbled upon a CD full of data from the BBS era. I thought to myself, I really need to create an ISO of this and put it on my file server (the cd is in pretty bad shape).
Here is a quick way to create [...]
