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Archive of entries posted on November 2009
Pictures Display in Firefox but not IE 6, 7, or 8
So I had some trouble with some web development lately. I designed a webpage using Bluefish Editor on GNU/Linux using some code that a friend provided and modifying it. and checked my pages with Firefox and Ganelon. So far no problems. Then I tried multiple versions of IE. My page would display but not the [...]
Why You Shouldn’t Be An Admin On Your Work Computer
To Users That Know Enough To Be Dangerous, Let’s start out with a really simple point. It’s one of those points that you know everybody knows, but chooses to ignore. You don’t own your work computer unless you own the company. It is not yours. It was given to you to use to get your [...]
Swords to Plowshares in the Multimedia Piracy war.
If multimedia companies focus on subtle, tasteful advertising via their movies and their stars rather than trying to sell the media itself, free distribution of their content will no longer be a harmful. Instead, the free distribution can seriously improve the market for stars and media. Suddenly stars will have enormous amounts of free advertising and gain popularity. This in turn makes the the stars able to sell products more effectively since their face is seen more often. They will take the enemy of media “pirates” and turn them into a powerful ally as “content distributors”. More importantly, expensive DRM strategies can be abandoned, and companies can once again focus entirely on making better media rather than harder to steal media.
Apple: Making 2009 just like 1984.
Apple has become exactly what they said they were trying to slay in 1984, and they are just as Orwellian in their practices as Big Brother’s government.
Windows 7: The Healthy Edition.
Windows 7 is far better than Vista, or even Windows XP. Microsoft may finally have produced a winner again.
Apple Needs To Stop Their Negative Advertising (Plus It’s An Old Idea)
So Apple has basically been running the same kind of anti-PC commercials for years now, from when OSX was slightly better than Windows through when they started to suck a ton of ass. Now they just really focus on their overpriced phone,
PS3 Is $300 Now And Does Netflix, So Why Are Blue-Ray Players Still Expensive?
So I’ve had a PS3 for a couple of years now and have been very happy with it not just as a game system but as a media server, up-scaling DVD player, and Blue-Ray player as well. I paid $500 for my PS3. Now the new PS3′s are only $300 and they can stream Netflix [...]