If you use Gmail and you want first access to new features as they’re added, make sure your “Gmail display language” is set to “English (US)”. Same goes for other Google services, and services from other providers such as Office Live. I had another tip to make it a twofor, but it’s gone. I’ll add it in later if I think of it.
Sure why waste time handing out chocolate bars. Stay anonymous and have employees do the work when you want to break into their network.
“Of the 20 USB drives we planted, 15 were found by employees, and all had been plugged into company computers. The data we obtained helped us to compromise additional systems, and the best part of the whole scheme was its convenience. We never broke a sweat.”
I’m not going next to near Tom and Damien‘s attempts to out me as one of those filthy blogger types, but I do feel the need to point out that when something looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it may in fact be some kind of ferret, or a saucepan, or a teeny-tiny grouping of thingamajigs widely debated by physicists. (more…)
“My firm belief is that the net effect of the Web 2.0 movement will be a marked loss of privacy on the internet, one which leads to big business knowing more about you than it ever did before. This is why.”
(I don’t have anything inherently against “Web 2.0”. I do have a problem with most types of modern marketing though, and “Web 2.0” is guilty of that by default (it is marketing), and for the reasons this chap outlines in this article.)
What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It’s amazing and completely insane. The first part of this video demonstrates a simple geyser, and the second part shows just how extreme it can get. Over one hundred jets of soda fly into the air in less than three minutes. It’s a hysterical and spectacular mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas, brought to you by the mad scientists at EepyBird.com.
(It really is amazing and completely insane. They’re not just saying it.)
Dapper Drake booted straight into a desktop, livecd style, which is where I’m posting from now. Totally cool. I have to go now though, there’s an Install icon on the desktop and I can’t resist clicking it… :)
EDIT: You can actually work away while it installs. Loving this.
Best book I’ve read so far this year, probably the best in several. I’m not really good on reviews, but in basic terms it’s a story about family and friendship, using a modern history of Afghanistan as a backdrop — the story brought a tear to my eye, the history was both fascinating and maddening. Read this book, you won’t regret it.
An anonymous [Slashdot] reader writes “ThePirateBay.org, a longtime fixture of the BitTorrent community, is currently under investigation. Slyck.com is reporting their servers have been seized by the Swedish police.” What’s really interesting about them is the strange political power that they held in their homeland. There was much discussion even of a political party. This will be interesting to watch unfold.
I’m afraid I won’t be one of the commentors brown-nosing O’Reilly for his response to the Web 2.0 debacle. His point-by-point response is contradictory and disingenuous imho. Here’s how it should have read: (more…)
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