Adobe UK vs US Pricing
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in computing, money | No Comments »I purchased a copy of Adobe's "Creative Suite 3 Web Premium" today, but I did so via the Adobe US store rather than the UK store and saved £604/$1209 by doing so. Adobe sell the product for $1599 on the US ...
Yahoo Mail, a Cesspit of Spam
Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in technology | No Comments »Need I say more? Yahoo mail doesn't seem to be able to filter out the spam very well at all. Perhaps Yahoo thinks that I might benefit from various drugs and a few Nigerian 419 scams. If you're not using gmail ...
Encryption Keys Cold Boot Attack
Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in computing | No Comments »If you are using an encryption program like TrueCrypt to keep your hard drive data encrypted, you should power down your PC when ever it is not being used. A recent video, by researchers at Princeton, demonstrates how an attacker ...
rsync error code 5, wrong password
Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in computing | No Comments »I just got the following error whilst trying to make an rsync transfer: rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1296) [sender=2.6.8] I couldn't figure out what the issue was for a little while, I tried running the rsync command ...
Urban Legend ER Video
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Posted in funny videos | No Comments »In this funny video from CH several urban legends come true. [flv:urbanlegends.flv 520 295]
Revver.com Sells To LiveUniverse
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 Posted in technology | No Comments »Revver has apparently sold to LiveUniverse (Brad Greenspan's operation) for less than $5m, at a considerable loss to investors. "Online-video company Revver Inc., which has tried to stake out a niche by broadcasting only material that doesn't infringe on copyrights, has ...