Nullsoft (the Winamp people) today released WASTE, a secure, mesh-network IM/chat/file-transfer system. Looks kinda cool. They even GPL’d the code. WASTE is initially available on the following platforms: Windows FreeBSD MacOS X Notice a particularly popular operating system missing from that list? No, I’m not talking about Solaris.
Bill Nye the Science Guy will be speaking at UCLA on Sunday June 1st at 3pm in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom.
The cover story of the June 2, 2003 edition of BusinessWeek is entitled Yahoo! Act Two. As an insider, the article seems pretty accurate to me. It does a pretty good job explaining what’s changed about the corporate culture since Semel came on board. Our stock price is up almost 70% since the day he […]
I had a chuckle when I read these two bullet points in the Mozilla Firebird 0.6 Known Issues release notes: Form auto-complete is still an unstable feature and may lead to crashes. Followed immediately by: Disabling of form auto-completion is not working. Makes me wonder why I’d ever consider using something other than the World’s […]
I hate email almost as much as I hate the web. I’ve found that I’m using my Windows 2000 laptop a lot these days, but I’m still doing my email on my 4.5-year-old FreeBSD machine (running a vintage 2.2.7 kernel, complete with the a.out runtime linker bug). Switching back and forth between the two has […]
Those wacky virus people have done it again. The big@boss.com virus (W32.Sobig.A@mm) has mutated into the support@microsoft.com virus (W32.Sobig.B@mm). Ariella and I were chatting about this over lunch. She suggested that if the government simply bought the rights to distribute Norton Antivirus and legislated that it be installed on all computers, we could do the […]
After 3.5 years of using TiVo, I’ve finally decided to crack open the case and increase the recording capacity. I purchased my Philips 14hr HDR112 TiVo (the first model ever manufactured) from Fry’s Electronics in Sunnyvale on October 22nd, 1999. Today, Ariella and I schlepped out to Fry’s in Woodland Hills to purchase a Maxtor […]
Today is Yahoo! Mail Dump the Junk Day in the United Kingdom. If you’ve got a friend or colleague who bombards you with joke emails and “wacky” attachments, nominate them for the The Dump the Junk Award. Apparently, you’ve gotta be a Brit to enter the contest.
JR Conlin: “Caffeine has become the new nicotine.” Over the past 10 years I’ve kicked my caffeine habit twice but fell off the wagon both times. A few years ago we got an espresso maker as a wedding present, and I’ve been drinking a shot or two every morning. It turns out that a shot […]
After a few weeks of pleading with my cell phone carrier, they have finally resolved a billing error. This is a good thing for both of us. Good for me, because I generally like my calling plan and would hate to give it up, and good for them, because they will continue to get my […]