Broodje met kip

Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:11:09 GMT

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]

Mon, 08 Dec 2003 14:01:55 GMT

KaZaA shuts down KaZaA Lite. Legal threats [The Register]

Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:19:25 GMT

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

Fri, 05 Dec 2003 12:13:03 GMT

Added my links

Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:44:47 GMT

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).

Wed, 03 Dec 2003 11:24:27 GMT

w'r back