Authorities in Russia have sentenced a notorious spammer to prison. The net result is that the world’s spam email is lighter by nearly 30 percent. That must have been one impressive email account that jerk had!
October 29, 2010October 28, 2010Farmville-Playing Mom Kills BabyThis is just sad and stupid, but apparently Mom was angry that her three-month-old was crying, interrupting her fascinating game of Farmville. So the devoted mother shook the little boy to death. There is no punishment cruel enough for this bitch. October 18, 2010Desktop Linux is DeadThey tried. They gave it their all, but the little penguin isn’t going anywhere on the PC desktop. Mainframes, you betcha! But on the desktop, and in this article at least, the dream of desktop Linux is over. Alas. October 12, 2010Free Public Wi-Fi ExplainedA pretty good explanation of what that “Free Public Wi-Fi” thing is, which you may occasionally see when browsing for public wireless networks. It’s not what you think.
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October 11, 2010Binary MondayToday is 10-11-10. That’s a binary number! It’s 2-3-2 in decimal. But if you write the number as 101110 it’s the value 46. That’s ASCII for the period character. Hexadecimal it’s 0x2E. O, I love being a nerd!
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October 5, 2010Internet Explorer Down to 50 PercentAfter nearly two decades of dominating the browser market, Internet Explorer is passing the 50 percent mark, on its way down. Firefox is holding steady. The big increase is coming from Google Chrome. October 3, 2010Windows XP is Still Da KingFully 66 percent of Windows users out there are still using Windows XP. That means a few things, primarily that their computers are ancient. Glad that I still keep Windows XP tidbits in all my books. October 2, 2010Microsoft Sues Motorola Over Phone PatentsWhen you lack innovation, you sue. I don’t own any Microsoft stock, but to me this would be a good sign that it’s time to sell. October 1, 2010Google Releases the WebP Image File FormatI don’t know how well this new graphics file format will go over. It always seems like there are too many graphics file formats anyway.
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September 30, 2010The Internet is Almost Full!Well, full of crap mostly, but what’s really cramping the Internet is a lack of IP addresses. The world is running out. Quickly! I last blogged about the ipv4 and ipv6 problem back in 2008. Could this be the real end of the Internet?
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