Rumor gears are turning as it appears that Google has threatened legal action against LimitNone the company behind Gmove unless they immediately discontinued offering it.  This comes on the heels of the release of Google’s own utility dubbed Google Email Uploader.

If you try out the new product by Google let me know what you think.

Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Furious Citizen
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…. or at least they used to.  Misleading title aside, I just read up on this by follwing a link to Xenix from the MS-DOS entry on Wikipedia.  I haven’t been this scared in a long time.

Straight from the article:

Xenix was Microsoft’s version of Unix intended for use on microcomputers; since Microsoft was not able to license the “UNIX” name itself, they gave it an original name. The -ix ending follows a convention used by many other Unix-like operating systems.

Currently there are several “Xenix” bibles on ebay for sale [Search Results]

Spooky

Posted on August 17th, 2008 by Furious Citizen
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Well…. They didn’t exactly call it a response but after more than 18 months of negotiations they have allowed the United States to build part of the missile defense shield inside of their borders.  This is a move that is likely to piss off Putin but it’s a win-win for the good ole’ US of A.

US and Poland agree to missile defence deal

Posted on August 14th, 2008 by Furious Citizen
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The new site we have been working on these past couple months is going to rely heavily on Amazon S3 to store and serve static content.   A big problem with the Amazon S3 service is statistics, in fact the only statistics Amazon gives you are on usage/cost which is paltry compared to the wealth of information I have grown accustomed to through Apache/Awstats.

Then I found:  http://www.s3stat.com/

One trip to their website and you’ll find everything they do clearly explained but assuming your to lazy to click here is a summary straight from their homepage.

S3STAT is a service that takes the detailed server access logs provided by Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3), and translates them into human readable statistics, reports and graphs.

Every night, we’ll download your access logs, translate them, sort them, and run them through Webalizer, the industry-standard web analytics reporting package. We’ll take the processed log files and reports, and stick them right back into your Amazon S3 Bucket for you to view.

In other words I get decent stats from my Amazon S3 account for $2/month.  Its only day one for me but it seems like a good service, I only wish they had an option to view logs using Awstats because 1999 called and they want the shitty interface that Webalizer uses back.

Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Furious Citizen
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I started using Vista 32bit Edition on my desktop computer at launch for about three months and was very disappointed by the driver support from Nvidia.  My Nvidia 7900GTX SLI setup worked fine in XP but with Vista my machine would start displaying artifacts after the machine had been running for a day or two.

I took a break from Vista and returned to XP for another couple months until late 2007 when I received a free copy of Windows Vista 64 bit Edition from my Microsoft Action Pack.   I bit the bullet and installed the 64 bit build, interestingly things have been improved vastly and I am fairly impressed by this version of Vista.  While Vista is still slow in comparison to XP for file transfers and boot speeds I have noticed Vista is faster when resuming idle applications than XP was.

My experiences with Windows Vista has also brought up some truley unique bugs, after installing a copy of Atari Arcade Classics with Starforce protection.  Afterward I was unable to boot and was forced to do a system restore that led to all sorts of problems, inevitably I had to reformat my computer to recover from that disaster.

On a more regular basis though I am confronted by an unknown set of bugs that tend to lock up my machine on me more often than XP did.  One such problem seems laughable considering it even exists in a modern operating system.  If I have an application that I delete or move to the recycling bin without removing a shortcut to that application I find that even clicking on that orphan shortcut causes explorer to crash for me.  Keep in mind this is 2008 and Windows Vista doesn’t have a great reputation as it is.

Posted on August 12th, 2008 by Furious Citizen
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A “heads up” for those of you who may be regular Home Depot customers. Over the last month I became a victim of a clever Scam while out shopping. Simply going out to get supplies has turned out to be quite a traumatic experience. Don’t be naive  enough to think “It couldn’t happen to you!”

Here’s how the scam works:

Two seriously good-looking 20-21 year-old girls come over to your car as you are packing your shopping into the trunk. They both start wiping your windshield with a rag and Windex, with their breasts almost falling out of their skimpy T-shirts.

It is impossible not to look.

When you thank them and offer them a tip, they say “No” and instead ask you for a ride to another Home Depot. You agree and they get in the back seat.

On the way, they start having sex with each other. Then one of them climbs over into the front seat and  performs oral sex on you, while the other one steals your wallet. I had my wallet stolen June 4th, 9th, 10th, twice on the 15th, 17th, 20th, & 24th. Also on July 1st, 3rd, twice on the 7th, three times just yesterday and very likely again this upcoming weekend.

So be careful.

Update: We’ve been stumbled!!!

Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Furious Citizen
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This video cracks me up, oh and did I mention that I put it on repeat for two and half hours the other day?  No, well I did and I am crazy enough to have actually enjoyed it for the entire 2.5 hours.

Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Furious Citizen
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The New York Times has written up a question and answer article on how to use Amazon MP3 Downloads on an iPod.  The fact that this is just hitting the mainstream media (MSM) now a year after the launch of this store just made me chuckle.

Read more if you want – Amazon Music on an iPod

Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Furious Citizen
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My Sister was searching for a local Chinese place called Hunan of Solon in Internet Explorer and started getting popup ads from it.  I was sure it was something she downloaded but nothing appeared to be out of the ordinary on her PC.  I tried it on my Mac and upon clicking the link in Google I was redirected to a Spyware Program.  This is very scary because it works on the URL when searching on Google!  The problem does not present itself when you type in the correct URL for the site.

Here is a video of the redirection in progress vs. typing in the correct url directly.

Has Google’s redirection service been poisoned?

Hi Res Video Download is HERE

Posted on August 1st, 2008 by Furious Citizen
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This is a quote from the Vista Blog:

“Last week we showed a video of the Mojave Experiment to a small group of folks here on campus. Today we are excited to share the results with the public.

For those new to the Mojave Experiment, it’s a focus group effort we initiated a few weeks ago. We interviewed and polled 120 participants in San Francisco, in hopes of better understanding everyday users’ perceptions of Windows Vista and seeing whether there really is a gap between perception and reality. We wanted to see how people reacted to Windows Vista when they were not aware they were seeing Windows Vista. We recorded our discussions, and today you can see them for yourself.”

It appears that Microsoft is going to fight an uphill battle on how Vista is percieved after last years very expensive advertising campaign failed to get people interested.

Check out the videos: http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/

Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Furious Citizen
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