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Wednesday, February 27, 2002 |
I love how in Mac OS X the dock gives you information and permits you to interact with some program. Two ideas for Apple:
1) Make it so that when you click in Mail's Dock icon an action is taken (eg., getting new mail);
2) Hire me so you can get more ideas like this one!
10:40:56 PM 
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Microsoft Making 'Clarifications' to Antitrust Pact [IDG InfoWorld]The dissenting states "seek to establish themselves as national antitrust policymakers," Microsoft said in its brief. Their proposal "effectively would dictate how Microsoft conducts its business in all 50 states. This they cannot do."
If this argument hold, the states would have to give up. Can you risk not having Windows sold in your state?
4:55:39 PM
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Hack a PC, Get Life in Jail. Look out, online miscreants: A House panel voted unanimously to make some forms of illegal computer intrusions a crime punishable by life in Club Fed. Declan McCullagh and Robert Zarate report from Washington. [Wired News]
What are we waiting for to start "The War on Hacks"? Possession will get you several years in jail (if it is only for personal use). If you are a distributor then you can get life in Jail. Since I live in Venezuela, which is near Colombia, I may be the head of an important Hack cartel. Hummm, maybe the Caracas Cartel...no, not cool enough...Got it! "The Cúa Cartel" How about that?
2:25:19 PM
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David Berry has been designing Web Sites since 1985! A full six years before html and http were invented... "As my first week of using Radio comes to an end I thought I'd share some of my thoughts and first impressions of using this tool. When I started designing web sites, some 17 years ago, I did them all in Notepad or third party shareware HTML editors, with very little features. Like many web designers I got into doing web sites because I had gotten Internet access, started browsing the web and thought, Hey, that's pretty cool. I wonder how they did that. So I started creating my own web site with the free personal space my ISP gave me."
That's Okey, I've been using Radio 8 for two years now...
Get over the mistake and read the article, it's very good
Update:Here is David answer: LOL!! Oops..sorry. You're right of course. I've been in IT for 17
years but didn't design my first web site until 1994. I guess I had
17 years stuck in my brain. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll fix
it.
Dave
A very nice guy!
2:10:39 PM
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My Wife keeps receiving e-mail from someone she doesn't know. Clearly a case of mistaken identity. Her last reception was too funny to pass. I don't know who these kids are!!!
1:47:17 PM
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From serenade to security hole?. Bug trackers are abuzz over a newly detected security scenario that could transmit a worm along with a song played on a number of popular Internet media players. [CNET News.com] More precisely, you could get a worm along with a song played on a number of popular Internet media players, including Microsoft's Windows Media Player or RealNetworks' RealPlayer. That's because the players provide the ability to embed Web addresses and scripts--key ingredients in self-propagating, hostile code.
The other weakness described in the article comes from the stupid idea of using extensions to identify file types. If you use Windows or Mac OS X, you should make sure that you are not hiding extensions. A false mp3 file with a name like worm.mp3.exe would show on Windows as worm.mp3 if extensions are hiden. Stupid, very stupid.
10:22:23 AM
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Well, nothing happened in Venezuela. You know what a self-fullfilling prophecy is? Maybe this was self-defeating prophecy.
Today there are two protest marches. One for the govertment, the other for the oposition. They are supposed to encounter each other, will see how that goes...
9:19:58 AM
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The Master .plan for World Domination
If you bought $1000 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth
$49. If you bought $1000 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) one year
ago, drank all the beer, and traded in the cans for the nickel deposit, you
would have $79. My advice to you is to start drinking heavily and recycle.
7:04:16 AM
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Moog and Apple Computer Honored. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences will award technical Grammys to Robert Moog and to Apple Computer Inc. [The New York Times: Technology]
For the machines behind the music, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences is to award technical Grammys tonight to Robert Moog, who developed a groundbreaking synthesizer, and to Apple Computer Inc., the first time a computer company has received a Grammy.
The academy noted that Mr. Moog's name became synonymous with the Moog synthesizer, which was introduced in 1965 and which helped fuel the electronic music revolution.
The academy singled out Apple for computers and software that advanced the way music is "written, mixed, recorded and creatively imagined." Specifically, the academy noted that Apple's products, starting with the Macintosh computer, have made it easier and less expensive for a musician to single-handedly compose, edit and mix music.
The technical Grammy, awarded by the academy's producers and engineers wing, was first given in 1994. Recipients have included Ray Dolby, the digital sound pioneer Dr. Thomas Stockham Jr. and Digidesign's Pro Tools, which are digital audio workstations.
6:49:29 AM
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