Month: October 2005
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Selling Songs for a Song – Newsweek Technology – MSNBC.com
Selling Songs for a Song – Newsweek Technology – MSNBC.com This article seems to pander to the music companies. Why they can’t see that the music companies are greedy and state that amazes me. Hint (to the record companies) in a free market economy you don’t get to be the only one who profits from…
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Russian Brides ? – Photo Catalogue – Profile # 11629
Russian Brides ? – Photo Catalogue – Profile # 11629 Congratulations to Alex on his first russian bride!
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Microsoft’s Security Suite
Reading the current information available on the web that seem to indicate that Microsoft will soon be charging for Anti-Spyware and Anti-Virus software, all I can say is that I am beyond very dissapointed. SpyWare is a direct result of bugs in Microsoft Windows and the software shipped with it (Internet Explorer). This is not…
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Forcing the Pentium-M or Centrino to run at full speed.
Having recently set up a laptop that had been dropped on its screen to use as a headless Linux server (Ubuntu 5.4 – Hoary Hedgehog) I discovered that its CPU was not running to its full potential – the cause was that the funky magic that makes the processor scale back to save power was…
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Everyone needs a Jim.
I have a work colleague who we shall call Jim for the sake of argument. The great thing about Jim is that he is like an evolving electronic pet. With the correct inputs or comments you can derive amusing results. For example imaging singing along with a song (annoying in itself to most people, but…