Dispelling myths everywhere (Aardvark vs Anteater)

Aardvark: Anteater: As per one of my favorite sites, everything2.net [http://www.everything2.net], I was able to look up the difference between an Aardvark and an Anteater. Why would I bother looking such a silly thing up? Because Shannon and I had a little bet going, I say

Even Microsoft cant patch this exploit

As seen today on the Full Disclosure mailing list: > {BIMPIN ADVISORY}[PLATFORM] I TESTED THIS ON A WINDOWS XP BOX. IT WAS PATCHED. <DISCOVERY> aLMOST EVERY COMPUTER HAS A SWITCH ON IT SOMEWHERE. SOMETIMES THEY ARE VIZIBLE, SOMETIMES THEYR HIDDEN. IF A HAQQER WERE TO TAMPER OR

Knowledge Navigator

Watch 'Knowledge Navigator [http://www.bu.edu/jlengel/kn65kfs.mov]' from Apple that was created in 1988. Great stuff. We are almost at this point in the desktop, I say 5 years or so more and we could be there. With things like Google, and desktop video conferencing

Feedster on OSX Con

Feedster.com [http://feedster.com], which is a search engine just for blogs has setup a page [http://feedster.com/osxcon/] to show you all things related to the OSX Con [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/macosx2003/] hosted by O'Reilly [http://www.oreilly.com/] which is happening this week.

NaDa is great, NaDa is good!

I found this great cross platform software that works on everyone now, and is something everyone should invest some time downloading and using from time to time. I came across NaDa while reading a blog somewhere, and it has proved to be a great new concept for productivity, and gives

People flocking to Panther (OSX 10.3)

According to Dan Wood [http://weblog.karelia.com/MacOSX/Users_are_quick_to_.html], creator of Watson [http://www.karelia.com/watson/]; people have been quick to migrate to Panther OSX 10.3! When people start up Watson, the software polls his site to see if there is a new

More reasons to upgrade

An advisory from security group @Stake [http://www.atstake.com] was just released and it states: > It is possible to cause the the Mac OS X kernel to crash by specifying a long command line argument. While this primarily affects local users there may be conditions where this situation

Hot damn! new iBooks

G4 iBooks [http://www.apple.com/ibook/] have been released. I am very happy with my G3 iBook 500, but these new systems will be hard to resist! Not to mention the fact that its only 1499.99 Canadian for the 800 Mhz G4 12" model! Which is less

Da'pain, da'pain!

I haven't posted much about myself (personal info) on my blog lately, so today I will :) I am in pain, this is the second day of pain and it hurts even to type this blog entry! Why so much pain? Good question, I hurt my back the other

Hell froze over

[http://ddll.sdf1.net/images/bu_apple04.jpg]Yup that is good ol'Steve Jobs using a Dell [http://www.dell.com] computer. I wonder what Michael Dell thinks of that? :)