Internet, ideas

Minority Report Computer is Real

No really. Watch here.

Now they just need to finish up Jarvis from the Iron Man movie and we’re all set for RL to become obsolete.

Internet, OS X

Free OSX Tools I Use Everyday

Since a lot of my friends have been “converting” over to Apple machines, they often ask about programs I have running that they don’t recognize. Here’s a (fully linked) partial list of applications I use daily either at work or when at home:

firefox
adium
chicken of the vnc
Remote Desktop Connection
xpad
smultron
visual nettools
iStumbler
iTool
Things
Skitch
TrueCrypt
TinyAlarm
Carbon Copy Cloner
7zip
AppTrap
Growl
GeekTool
iStat Menus
MacLoc

Now I know I said free software, but I had to include the following paid software I couldn’t live without:
Little Snitch
Vmware Fusion

What did I miss? Comments.

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BSD has it’s own Magazine!

http://www.bsdmag.org/

Woot!

Information Security, Internet

Spam is unpredictable

Does anyone remember when the FBI busted a major spam ring? Bravo to those boys for what must have been a tough job.

Here’s a pic of what a huge difference it made according to submissions to spamcop.net:

Total spam report volume graph

Hmmm, not much to see here.

Today I saw an article in the Washington Post talking about how Web Host McColo was shutdown after being accused with spam activity. Here’s this week’s spamcop.net pic:

Total spam report volume graph

I leave it up to you the reader to determine which day and at what time McColo was voted off the island.

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OS X 10.5.5 Update Released

Release Notes

Photos, Travel

Fotos from Washington D.C.

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xkcd true-ism’s

Moving
We need a special holiday to honor the countless kind souls with unsecured networks named 'linksys'.