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Real quick: Great article by Mark Russinovich on how he finds a Sony DRM root-kit on his system. That guy is a great hacker. It would have taken me 10x longer to pull off what he did, and I have … Continue reading →

I wanted to play around with some Unix again, and I have been wanting to get into OS X. However, economics tells me to wait a little bit. Macs are priced a little too high for me to just play … Continue reading →

Here is the article describing the technique. I already saw this running on a more compatible system a while back. If you read the article, you will see that this system can outperform a Mac mini in most operations. $200 … Continue reading →

There are many programmers in the world. Then there are the few programmers or CTO’s with very large megaphones. Here is one of them: Making programmers more productive It is 2005, and I love what this guy finally says. “The … Continue reading →

Apple products are priced a little higher than others. This is not news. Check out this benchmark comparision. http://ladd.dyndns.org/xbench/merge.xhtml?doc1=129700&doc2=135353 The interesting thing here is this: that Athlon can be picked up with a motherboard at Fry’s for like $400. Wow. … Continue reading →

Neat stuff! Very efficient: Link

At this point in time, if anyone is looking for a laptop… I would only recommend an Apple. Why? Over the years, the PC guys have just gotten worse and added more cruft on the PC side in order to … Continue reading →

When I’m in my car, I listen to FM radio. The CD changer in the trunk broke a long time ago and I don’t own an iPod. Over the last few days, I’ve been listening to 106.9 FM. I don’t … Continue reading →