Archive for July, 2005

Blu-Ray Discs and the PS3

Sunday, July 31st, 2005

The console world is setting up for the showdown. Sony’s new media is going to be using Blu-ray technology

In the typical MS fashion of bug fix here, promiss more later, and damn we forgot that. MS is now saying they will sell a add on unit to replace the Xbox360’s DVD drive with a HD [...]

Wireless hijacking under scrutiny

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

Wireless hijacking under scrutiny
“Gaining unauthorised access to someone else’s network is an offence and people have to take responsibility for their actions. Some people might argue that taking a joy-ride in someone else’s car is not an offence either”.

I am willing to bet that if you left the door open and the keys in the [...]

Warez Scene and the FBI

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

Alright first off this story comes from slashdot.org, but I will just post to the bbc link here.
I dont see how the FBI and others think up this stuff “US police say $100m worth of illegal material was removed from the net?”. In the same article did you not just say “It said that once [...]

What a night

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

Just spent hours updating a whack of debian boxes one of which has not been updated for a very very long while. So much still to do on it, but since some was installed by source I think I will wait and convert it over to using debian packages so I dont have to track [...]

Gnome just keeps getting better.

Sunday, July 24th, 2005

Went back to a nice install of Debian Sid on my desktop here at home. My god Gnome just keeps getting better and better. I like how when you look at the desktop not much seems to change, but go into the menu and they have so much more stuff. Not like KDE where it [...]

Pimp’in my ride.

Sunday, July 24th, 2005

Washed the car and cleaned it all up today. Still have to get new breaks and paint them on the back, but the front ones are holding up good after a little rebuild and paint to them. Anyway thought since I went to all the trouble of cleaning every inch of the car inside and [...]

Wordpress: Filetype not supported. Thumbnail not created

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

Image upload Resize in Wordpress….
I notice a fair number of people on google not finding this solution to a problem that is pretty easy to fix once you know what you have to do. Windows users should check out this page, as I have not tested the window version of much anything in years. Linux [...]