Yet another story of Windows Genuine Disadvantage screwing the honest customer: While Microsoft insists that problems with the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program are much overblown — claiming last weekthat “only a fraction of a percent” of the systems that fail the WGAverification are actually legal — Microsoft’s customers keep sayingotherwise. What’s worse, the WGA… Read More »
“The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would make it a federal felony for Webmasters to use innocent words like “Barbie” or “Furby” but actually feature sexual content on their sites. Anyone who includes misleading “words” or “images” intended to confuse a minor into viewing a possibly harmful Web site could… Read More »
Jimmy Kimmel takes regular clips and bleeps words that weren’t really bad to make them sound SO much worse. HILARIOUS! Great compilation of clips on YouTube pointing out unnecessary cencorship. read more | digg story
Pre-releases of Edgy are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are however recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs. I’m sorry for not posting this earlier (Yes, its a day old!) Get… Read More »
“Now, according to Paul Thurrott, Windows Vista comes complete with an automatic defragmentation scheduler. The default is for the user’s hard drives to be defragmented at 4:00 AM every Sunday, when presumably most people won’t be doing other work on their computer.” So, basically, here we are coming on 2007 and the best solution Microsoft… Read More »
So I’m back using XP at the office after a long home-based hiatus from all things windows. I am trying to setup this machine with comparable FOSS apps and I’m having a hard time. I’ve grown accustomed to my Linux based apps so these windows apps aren’t cutting it. I installed Winamp today, as I… Read More »
I wanted to pass on this flash cartoon put together by the EFF. It’s about DRM and how it’ll screw the consumer long into the future. Check it out. Pass it on [Digg it], [del.icio.us], [reddit], [MySpace], [YouTube]. Take action. Send a note to your Senator!
In a follow up from my previous post about WGA (Windows Genuine Disadvantage) I thought I would share a tool that I found that helps avoid a few of the ‘phone home’ issues we all hate. Try it out. Below is taken from the About page of xp-AntiSpy. The xp-AntiSpy is a little utility that… Read More »
This post is aimed at anyone attending the interLUG BBQ on Sat 17. I’m sure you all have read about the latest & greatest way Microsoft has of spying on us & pretty much continuing to rule the world as our not-so-secret shadow government. Good ‘ol “Windows Genuine Advantage” (where do they get these spin… Read More »
The Ubuntu Meet tonite was fun. We didn’t have a great turnout (you know who you are!) but those that were there got to experience the biggest pizza I’ve ever seen . We got a huge one thinking that some more people might show up. Well four of us ended up trying to share a… Read More »