Ubuntu hacks

Maker of the Open Sauce Ubuntu software, Canonical had to shut down five of the eight of its servers after receiving reports that they were attacking other servers.
Knowing that there is nothing worse than a bunch of chavish Linux servers looking for a rumble, or goading Windows computers with calls of, “Come and [...]

Careful, this frog is wired

Fear not, this is not Al Qaeda latest terror tactic. Proof that with enough time anything is possible, experimenters have “installed” a webserver into the chest cavity of a dead frog. When the computer is running, users may interact with the specimen by controlling tiny motors inside it’s limbs. I think we’d all agree, this [...]

Google Desktop Search on Ubuntu

I’m a little late to the game, once again, but here is my quick Good, Bad, Ugly review on the recently released Google Desktop Search for Linux.
Good

Easy installation in Ubuntu using the provided .deb package
Starts automatically at boot
Integrates Local Search into normal Google results in your browser
Quick Search access by hitting Control Control
Respects my GNOME [...]

What in the world am I doing

I’ve really slacked off with my postings here, not that it really matters to anyone but myself. I suppose it is the summer time, which is generally a very slow time in the Internets world. It’s not that I haven’t kept myself busy, far from it, and in actuality - there just hasn’t been enough [...]

Is Microsoft about to release a Windows ‘kill’ switch?

A ZDNet.com Blog, posted by Ed Bott. Ed speculates that a specific unanswered question may reveal a September date to disable Windows if WGA has not been applied to computers running Windows.
This is not all that surprising to me. Furthermore, it was fairly obvious that this is/was Microsoft’s end-game when they began the Authenticate [...]