Category: google
08/24/05 08:42 - 70ºF - ID#21524
Googletalk
Unfortunately/fortunately I had to sign up for a free google email to get it going. Luckily, this meant that I would get a chance to squash the gmail signup bug on the site. It was easy to fix once I saw the email, so now people with gmail can sign up in droves.
You can simply talk with googletalk too. It has the same mic capaibilty as you get with other online chat clients only the interface is very simple and clean.
What freaks me out is that google so into searching through personal information int he name of advertising. The gmail acount gives you targeted advertisments by reading your email to see what you are into. (e:shawnr) said that it is really accurate at pleasing him. But imagine this. You came home and the mailman had opened all you mail and was like, "oh I saw you got a bill from the doctor, you might be interested in these vitamins that one of my partner companies was selling." Or, "I saw that you got on D on your report card and was thinking you might like these tutorial lessions I am selling."
I like to think that the sytem is really only for advertsing too, but call me a conspiracy tehroist, I think it is one step away rom big brother when you start to accept that most of your communications are not private for the sake of advertisment. Where does it stop. People owuld have never accepted this in the past but now that this privacy wall is crumbling, do you think that people will stop accepting privacy invasion for other means.
Their desktop search freaks me out so bad I would rather have a virus than install it and the toolbar which I feel the same about. Whyw oudl you ever want to allow other poeple to search your computer and browsing patternst o make money off it. I believ that is precisly why people hate spyware and viri. So back to googletalk. Maybe the chat client is different but I see a pattern. They offer you a free service and in return they want to read all of your information and target advertise you and make money off of you communication. Some people are really into that.
I think it just feeds further into this system where every surface and communication becomes an advertisement. That is precisely why I don't use the aim client to chat and use gaim or trillian instead.
We are beginning to accept that every form of communication can be a conduit to an advertisement. This was not always the case with communication. Imagine if books had advertsiements on every page that went with the subject matter. We had books for thousands of years without them. I think 20 years ago people would have seen that as ludicris but now it would be more and more accepted. Just look at magazines. I had some old computers magazines I was looking at the other day and compared it to some new ones. Wow, what a difference the new ones are like 97% advertisments, even when they are disguised as articles.
For now I am perfectly content using a free client such as gaim where no one is making money off my chatting.
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Category: open source
08/23/05 08:35 - 70ºF - ID#21523
Curious about Open Source?
Open Source for All a good explanation of what Open Source is.
Is Open Source for you which is a fairly reasonable discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of Open Source.
The Open Source PC
discusses some of the most useful applications for people wanting to use Open Source applications on the Windows platorm.
--uncutsaniflush
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08/22/05 08:29 - 67ºF - ID#21522
Google Desktop 2 Beta released
Google claims that "Google Desktop gives you easy access to information on your computer and from the web. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, music, photos, chats and web pages that you've viewed. By making your computer searchable, Google Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks. It makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google."
This is what it looks like:
More information can be found here and here It can be downloaded from here The file size is 1.3 megs.
--uncutsaniflush
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Category: osx
08/22/05 09:04 - 62ºF - ID#21521
Apple Security Update
The update can be downloaded from or Software Update in Mac OS X.
Apple's Security Advisory:
Delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users.
Security Update 2005-007 v1.1 replaces Security Update 2005-007 v1.0 for Tiger systems Mac OS X v10.4.2. Users who have already installed v1.0 on Tiger systems should install v1.1.
Security Update 2005-007 v1.1 provides a combined 32- and 64-bit version of LibSystem to replace the 32-bit version that was delivered in v1.0. No other changes have been made in version 1.1.
This update includes the following components:
AppKit
BlueTooth
CoreFoundation
cups
Directory Services
HIToolBox
Kerberos
loginwindow
OpenSSL
QuartzComposerScreenSaver
Security Interface
Safari
X11
zlib
--uncutsaniflush
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Category: linux
08/16/05 08:15 - 79ºF - ID#21520
Linux music player - amarok
In comes amarok It is a full featured music player with an included library search and best of all, it looks up the lyrics and cover art for each song on a lyric database.
I think this is the first ime I have seen a music player that fetches lyrics and I love that. You can also contribute lyrics to songs that arn't found in the database.
You can totally customize the way it looks. I fyou had tried this player before the latest version uses an sql database to store mp3 data makign it much faster. I love it.
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Category: xp tips
08/15/05 02:35 - 77ºF - ID#21519
Burning Cd Images Free - iso recorder v2
With this software you can simply right click on any iso and burn them using windows XP explorer by choosing "Copy Image to CD" from the context menu. Then just insert a burnable CD and click next. I requires window XP service pack 2 I am pretty sure, although they have an odler version somewhere on the site for older versions.
--paul
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Category: linux
08/15/05 12:42 - 76ºF - ID#21518
SuSE 10.0 Public Beta released.
Just this month, Novell who owns SuSE open-sourced the distro and a public beta of SuSE 10.0 as well as previous releases of SuSE are available for download
This is the first public beta for SuSE in the history of the distribution.
SuSE calls itself the "world's most usable Linux distribution" but, of course, usability is in the eye of the beholder. One of the best features of the distro is YaST which makes the distro easy to install and configure.
p.s. in case anyone is confused this journal entry was written by (e:uncutsaniflush). (e:paul) graciously has allowed me the priviledge of co-writing the computer journal with him.
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Category: filesharing
08/14/05 09:34 - 66ºF - ID#21517
Filesharing with Bittorrent
[size=m]How do I get started?[/size]
1. Download java JRE and install it if you don't have it. You can get it at the Azureus site
2. Download the azureus client for your operating system. Same above
3. Go to the web and type whatever you want to download plus the word torrent into your search engine. Links to torrent sites will come up. WHen you find what you are looking for download the .torrent file and open it with azureus. It will start downloading to your hardrive.
4. You can also share your own video, art, whatever using bitorrent. Maybe (e:shawnr) can do a tutorial on that.
Here are some sites where you can search for torrent files.
Pirate Bay -
Bogaa -
Seedler -
[size=m]How does it work?[/size]
With BitTorrent, files are broken into smaller fragments, typically a quarter of a megabyte each. As the fragments are distributed to the peers in a random order, they can be reassembled on a requesting machine. Each peer takes advantage of the best connections to the missing pieces while providing an upload connection to the pieces it already has. This scheme has proven particularly adept in trading large files such as videos and software source code. Quoted from: BitTorrent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Talk about swiftness. I am getting sometimes upwards of 700k per sec downloading suse 9.3, same with many other programs and files
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Category: osx
08/13/05 02:09 - 81ºF - ID#21516
OS X on PC
I know that this is gogin to make (e:uncutsaniflush) crazy unless he has already done it!!
Here is a blog with more instructions, some imagery and video of it running on vaio laptop.
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08/13/05 01:59 - 81ºF - ID#21515
New Computer Journal
--paul
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The targeted advetisements don't bother me. I used to have a service that did that. The problem was it didn't really work right. I also had a service that when you logged on you then logged into there service and you got money for active surfing. They also had there own shops and featured sites. If you bought stuff at there sites your money was worth more sometimes. But I don't think I would do that again unless there was more money in it or if it included places I shop at. But you do lose privacy and it would be verry easy for abuse and by the time you knew it would be to late.