Wired News:
Finally someone who gets it. This is about the future and the French parliment are looking after the people. It should not matter where or from what company I purchase some content, I should be able to play it on any device I own, both now and in the future. This is not condoning [...]
XNmap 3.0
Nat has been a busy boy, and released XNmap 3.0 with some significant changes from 2.2.x
XNmap is a Universal Binary!
XNmap is now multi-session - more than one scan at a time
Configurable nmap location (the options are to point at /usr/local/bin/nmap - where nmap is placed after being compiled, /sw/bin/nmap - where Fink places [...]
Banned from WoW for using a programmable keyboard
This is perhaps the most negative aspect of Blizzard’s WoW. They can’t control the botters, gold farmers and end up going for the ordinary layman who has no recourse. WTG - Things like this make me not wish to renew my subscription, in fact I might not.
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Five reasons why you should never use PostgreSQL — ever
Perhaps a nice way of explaining why PostgreSQL is not a poor choice using 5 of the most common reasons not to use it and rebutting them.
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Swiftfox
Swiftfox is an unofficial release/rebundle of firefox that contains optimisations for various CPU architectures which should help make your firefox experience and speedy one!
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Greenhouse theory smashed by biggest stone
Rather interesting in light of the doom and gloom the bloody hippies are ranting and raving about. While I do not think we should just run about burning all the fossil fuels and destroying rain forests and habitats I don’t think we should blame all ills and climate changes on [...]
Damn Interesting » Shortness of Dark
Its not laziness or unhealthiness - its being healthy. Sleep more
Hatchback hate: Lamborghini chased - National - smh.com.au
Silly little swift. Kinda feel sorry for the poor bugga in the Lamborghini though, I certainly understand his agitation at these little gits in their tarted up runabouts with big nasty stereo’s. It must not be a nice feeling to have someone want to ram you. (An accident/ramming [...]
Firefox: Mac PPC Optimized Builds
I am sure that I have posted about PPC Optimised Firefox builds here before (G4 and G5 optimisations over the more generic G3 you get out of the Box). I keep on misplacing the link to these files so here it is again!
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globeandmail.com : Code 2
And here I was thinking that Genes were relatively fixed from the moment of conception, it seems that the lifestyles of our parents and even the way we live our lives can play a big part in how our bodies develop and the types of genes we pass to our offspring.
Spooky!
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