Archive for October, 2005
Nightspeed Drag Wars only 1 week away
Oct 28th
Update: A lot of people are looking for the 2008 season and hitting this post. If you want to find info on the 2008/2009 season, please see the post Night Speed Drag Wars 2008 While I was out with Ian on Thursday evening, Nightspeed Dragwars briefly came up as the subject of conversation. Anyone that…
SFO thinks Police should be allowed to remove our "Right to Remain Silent"
Oct 28th
I know this has been floating around in NZ all of Thursday, but I’m only just starting to catch up with everything so only just managed to get around to reading it beyond the title. Police should be able to override suspects’ right to silence, the Serious Fraud Office says. Director David Bradshaw said other…
Pentagon wants Pre-emptive Nuclear Strikes against Terrorists
Oct 27th
Its been floating around for the past few days, but I only really sat down and read it tonight. But it is significantly important enough that I thought I’d post it here. On 9/11 of this year, the New York Times published an article in which it made public details about a plan by the…
Stocking Stuffer for Christmas
Oct 27th
I’m sorry guys, I can’t resist this one. I’m just going to post the whole thing straight as it is on the website and let you guys decide for yourself. This is hilarious. Definitely a stocking filler! ;-) We all send romantic, suggestive text messages to our partners, often deliberately to get them going. Imagine…
Don’t make your iPod obvious
Oct 27th
On the subject of iPods, I was in the CBD with Nikki today and as we were wandering around, I noticed that nearly every person that had an iPod was still wearing their white earphones. I even saw some people with them on their arm, a few on their belts and some had them in…
Another slap on the wrist
Oct 27th
The federal judge overseeing Microsoft Corp.’s business practices scolded the company Wednesday over a proposal to force manufacturers to tether iPod-like devices to Microsoft’s own music player software. Microsoft abandoned the idea after a competitor protested. In a rare display of indignation, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly demanded an explanation from Microsoft’s lawyers and told…
Wine 0.9 – The first beta! :-)
Oct 26th
Well, 3 weeks after my previous CrossOver Office subscription expires, they release 5.0. But Wine 0.9 beta (the project is finally a beta product) is now available and has most of the features of CrossOver Office 5.0. About the only thing it doesn’t have is “bottles” which is basically like a virtual machine. So I…
Aperi – OpenSource Storage Management
Oct 26th
Stuart! I hope you see this when you get to work. You might want to pass this link on to Phil when you get the chance. Ian, maybe SkyTV could use this to sort out their NAS in future. It is IBM after all. Already a relationship there. :-) More than a half-dozen tech titans,…
At least 1.7m DNS servers around the globe Vulnerable
Oct 25th
The other day in my comments about ICANN and their control of the DNS servers, I quoted from an eWeek article in which Assistant Secretary of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Michael Gallagher made the following comment : “Given the Internet’s importance to the world’s economy, it is essential that the underlying DNS of…
Ummm… Hi… Bye
Oct 25th
Quake 4 arrived today. Haven’t gotten in to it yet. I’ve looked at the opening sequence and gotten as far as getting told to go back to fetch a medic, but thats it. Will probably spend some time playing it later tonight when I’m not so tired and not so busy. Working on a new…