Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Hack your Xbox, get illegally converged. Why buy an expensive "media center" PC with lots of DRM that restrict how you can use your own music and movies, when you can hack a cheap Xbox to do the same thing? ... ... "It's a convenience thing," said Phil, whose hacking hobbies discourage him from divulging his full name. "All of my movies are organized into categories, and it's very easy to navigate through the menus to find exactly what I want to watch. I have a PC in the basement of my house which stores all of... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 3:11:09 PM

Monday, December 08, 2003

KaZaA shuts down KaZaA Lite. Legal threats [The Register] 3:01:55 PM

IBM draws first blood in SCO Linux battle. Proof is in the pudding. So show us the pudding [The Register] 12:19:25 PM

Friday, December 05, 2003

Added my links 1:13:03 PM

Wednesday, December 03, 2003

http://boingboing.net/2003_12_01_archive.html#107036669543712817 E-texts used against Bayesian spam-filters Bayesian anti-spam filters count word-frequency in suspect messages and compare the results to profiles of word-frequency in spam and ham. Defeating this requires that your spam include a lot of natural human prose. So spammers have started to mine the Gutenberg Project and other sources of human-generated ASCII and dumping random hunks of literature into their messages to get around the filters. Blogger and journalist Clive Thompson found an excerpt from Chapter 20 of The Master Key by Wizard of Oz author L Frank Baum in a message that had as its subject line "the big unit" (no prizes for guessing what the rest of it was hawking). 3:44:47 PM

w'r back 12:24:27 PM

Friday, May 09, 2003

A Victory for Music-Swappers. Lost in the shadow of Apple's announcement is a court ruling against the music industry. [The Motley Fool] 11:03:53 AM

Tuesday, April 08, 2003

Passive smoking 'killing workers'. Research finds passive smoking at work kills three people every day - more than workplace accidents. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] 10:23:26 AM

Tuesday, April 01, 2003

cdma over gsm. Congressman Darrell Issa's bill proposes a mandate to use CDMA cellphone technology over GSM in rebuilding Iraq. [dE Limonademan] [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 10:21:05 AM