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Fedora 10 Released

tom — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:09:31 +0000

Check out what’s new!

Minority Report Computer is Real

tom — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:28:42 +0000

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.

Free OSX Tools I Use Everyday

tom — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:34:11 +0000

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.

BSD has it’s own Magazine!

tom — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:42:53 +0000

http://www.bsdmag.org/

Woot!

Spam is unpredictable

tom — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:54:36 +0000

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:

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:

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

OS X 10.5.5 Update Released

tom — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:07:16 +0000

Release Notes

Fotos from Washington D.C.

tom — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:48:43 +0000