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Upgraded to WordPress 2.2

Everything seems to be up and running as usual. I was pleasantly suprised to see that my themes & plugins are all fully functional. The only difference seems to be the inclusion of widget functionality in WP 2.2, which makes … Continue reading

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Reality of hiring and expansion

This past week, Microsoft’s Mac development team announced that a real document converter, that will allow old versions of Office users to convert to new versions of Office 2007 format, will not be released until after Mac Office 2008 is … Continue reading

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For Windows user with QuickSilver envy

For many Mac users, QuickSilver is one application they can’t do without. It’s one of those amazingly simple application that be can extended to be extremely powerful, but still elegant enough to be used for its most basic function as … Continue reading

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Leopard is a lazy, sleepy kitty

Apple announced today that Leopard is going to be delayed (via TUAW) until October because of the focused effort in getting iPhone out in time. Personally, I think the delay doesn’t really mean much. As much as I love to … Continue reading

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WordPress upgraded! Whee!

Just updated WordPress to the newest version. I have no idea what security flaw the newest version fixes, but any security flaw fix is better than none. If you have not upgraded to WordPress 2.1.3 yet, download it here.

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Brute force keygen now available for Vista

You know it’s only a matter of time… just another proof any sort of piracy protection ultimately, will fail. Brute force keygen cracks open Vista It’s certainly not an easy hack, but at the end of the day is that … Continue reading

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Showusthecode!

This post goes beyond even my usual amount of geekiness. “Show Us The Code” is pushing for Steve Ballmer to show the open source world exactly what part of Microsoft’s source code is being used in Linux: Your repeated claims … Continue reading

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More on Vista content protection

A bit after my last massive, wall-of-text post about Vista content protection, Wired’s Monkey Bites blog had a few things to say about it as well: Vista Month: Welcome To The DRM? It’s a good, short & concise post that … Continue reading

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Windows Vista content protection

A few weeks ago, A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection was published by a software researcher from New Zealand. The paper went into deep discussion on what was, up to that point, completely uncovered topic related to the … Continue reading

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Pirated software key to IT growth in Romania

This is just too funny to ignore: Piracy worked for us, Romania president tells Gates Although this response could be universally applied to all software, it is hilariously funny that the president of Romania would say this right in front … Continue reading

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