Dust off that ol' jukebox!

Got an old computer?
Want a music server?

VortexBox is here to save the day!

It's a great app that you can use to turn an old machine into a music server. Once this is installed, just pop your CD in the drive, and it rips it automatically!

Who Crashed?

"This program has performed an illegal operation...here's a bunch of debugging data that only makes sense to the nerdiest of nerds: 0xBLAH 0xBLAH 0xBLAH"

Sound familiar? I thought so.

Well, now you can make sense of all of that debugging mumbo jumbo with "WhoCrashed".

RFID is not secure...surprise surpri--- oh, wait.

No surprise here, RFID chips are not a good place to store secure stuff.

At least, that's what I get from this post.

He claims to have ripped off 2 passports in 20 minutes, and with a device that has a range of only 30 feet!

Keep those things in a Faraday cage!

My N810 Review

Here is my Nokia N810 review.



And a couple of links about it:
Nokia USA
Wikipedia

Paint yourself secure

Are you paranoid about whether people are getting on your wireless network?
Are you worried that your wireless signals might be killing the birds outside?
Do you really like the color "neon green"?

Then this paint might be for you!

That's right, it's a new paint that keeps your wireless signals from leaving the house!

20 Petaflops is a LOT!

Here is a link to the new supercomputer that IBM is building.

Just a couple of points:

• 20 petaflops = 20,000 teraflops = 20,000,000 gigaflops = 20,000,000,000 megaflops
  
• Over 1.6 million processors (how many does your computer have...1, maybe 2?)
  
• 1.6 terabytes of memory = 1,600 gigabytes = 1,600,000 megabytes (a little more than your 1 or 2 again)

It's a good thing we're all about "going green"... :-/

Unix in Windows

I hate being in the "DOS" prompt and typing `ls` only to see:
"'ls' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file."

Here's my answer: UnxUtils

(and yes, I did write batch files at one point, but this is much easier IMHO.)