And Yet Another Microsoft Proprietary Format

Now, Microsoft is developing their own proprietary "XPS" format, which is the MS proprietary equivalent of PDF. Users will be able to export documents to XPS in the new release of Office.

Good luck Microsoft - go ahead and attempt to replace a widely used format with your new proprietary format, which has no real advantages over PDF.

Technorati Tags: microsoft, office, xps

Google Improving OpenOffice?

It seems as though Google is going to hire a few people to improve OpenOffice.org.

I think this is a good move on Google's part. Not only are showing their support for free software, but they are also improving a program that is directly competing with Microsoft. Who knows, with endorsement and help from Google and the continuing work of the community, OpenOffice could become the de facto standard. Heck, it should be.

Technorati Tags: google, openoffice, openoffice.org

An Interconnected World?

I picked up the Wednesday paper this week to get the Technology section (yes, I'm that much of a geek that I buy it only on Wednesday just for the Technology section) and there were a couple of articles about wireless connectivity.

And there was also an article that made it to the front page - Halloween costumes for iPods and cell phones! What retard would spend $40 to dress up their iPod in a pirate costume for Halloween?

But I digress. Back on topic...

The two articles in the paper: one is about wireless grids, and the other is about WiMax.

The wireless grid concept is simple: connect to device after device until you can reach your destination. Whether that destination be the internet or your TV screen, it seems like a good concept. This also, in turn, creates a very de-centralized network, which I think is a good thing.

If this idea does make it into the mainstream, it could be on most devices that support Bluetooth or WiFi (or possibly WiMax, I'll get to that later). You could turn your computer on in the morning, and log onto it from your PDA when you leave the house. After you're gone, your PDA can piggyback device after device until it finds one that it close enough to your computer and makes the connection. If they perfected the software, you could go around town and still have a connection to your home computer. And, with updated wireless connectivity, probably with little latency.

But the best part about this - they would have to make a Linux version, whether it's proprietary or not. Linux is on too many portable devices to simply ignore it. And in the future, it will most likely be on a good percentage of all portable devices (take that, Windows Mobile!)

Now about WiMax - I haven't read a lot about WiMax. All I have known about it up until now was that it is much faster than WiFi and has an incredibly huge range. Now, I have some more info about it, and it's something that I'd like to see around here in the future. For those of you who are like me and don't bother to read:

• WiMax = "Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access"
• WiMax has a max range 40 miles
• WiMax has a max speed of 70 Megabits per second (dang!)

So, if they could roll out just one WiMax tower in a city, everyone within it would have free internet at insane speeds.

But, what if we could combine these together? WiMax and wireless grids could become a good pair. You could drive up to 40 miles away from the tower (although, probably not quite 40 miles) and still be connected. If you drive out of range, you could start using wireless grids and connect to device after device until you could tunnel through to the internet. If you eventually drive out too far and there's another tower that is closer, you could piggyback other devices and connect to that tower instead.

Go far enough into the future, and everything from TV's to clocks could have built in wireless and support wireless grids. Everything would be wireless and you could control them all at once from some 'command center'. And with a future like that, proprietary standards have no place. Everything must consist of open standards for everything to be that interoperable.

That future sounds good to me :)

Technorati Tags: wifi, wimax, wireless

A World Without Open Standards and Free Software

Could you imagine what a world would be like without open standards? If simple things we use now, like HTTP, didn't exist, what would the world be like?

You'd turn on a computer to be greeted with a choice of several different operating systems, because some can do tasks that others can't. You choose one and boot up into it. You try browsing a few different websites, only to hit a roadblock when one of the sites uses a protocol that your browser doesn't support. No problem, a quick reboot later and you're in a different OS that has a browser that supports that particular protocol.

So now you want to check email. Well, you have five different accounts, which are completely incompatible. Another reboot later and you're checking your email on two of the accounts. No new mail. Another reboot, and you're checking the remainder of your email. You've got mail from a friend... he wants to chat with you on IM ASAP. You have 10 different IM services, and it just so happens that the OS you're using supports the one your friend has.

So you're chatting, and he tries to send you a picture from his digital camera. As it turns out, his camera is using an image format that your OS doesn't support. So, you reboot into the same OS that your friend is using and can finally look at it.

Now you need to get some work done. All of the office suites are split between three different OS's, and the printer is only supported on one of them. Getting work done requires reboot after reboot. You could have gotten everything done faster using pen and paper.

OK, so maybe all this is an extreme exaggeration. But still, the world still has problems like this today. How often has it happened that you want to IM a friend, and find out that he/she is using a different service? How often has it happened where you came across a media file that you can't play? In these proprietary areas, we need to push open standards like Jabber and OGG forward so the world can be more compatible. We can't live in a world under Microsoft control.

BashPodder GUI

Jon informed me today that he's doing an episode about Podcatchers on his GNU/Linux User Show, and as part of it, he's doing a segment on Bashpodder and will mention my GUI. To make things easier for everyone, I thought that I'd post directions on how to use it here so Jon can just send people here to get info about it.

For those of you wondering about Linc's BP GUI, let me explain something: he has a version and I have a version. I wanted an easier way to use BashPodder, but had a horrible time trying to use his GUI because of the way it's set up. I really hate it. Because of that, I made my own version. I did not simply modify his version to make it work better and take all the credit, the code is mostly my own. I looked at his code mostly for refrence, but I can assure you, I'm not just copying him.

First, thanks to Linc for hosting it (You Rock!). You can download it here. Running it is pretty easy, just follow these directions:

1. Make sure that you have Xdialog installed. If you have Debian, you can just do an 'apt-get install Xdialog' to install it.
   
2. Extract the files. You can use a graphical tool like Ark, but if you don't have one, simply open a terminal (you'll need it later anyway) and issue this command:
   

   tar -zxf bpgui.tar.gz

3. Now, open a terminal if you don't have one open and change into the bpgui directory:
   

   cd bpgui

4. If you have used BashPodder before and already have a bp.conf file, then you can copy it into the bpgui directory and the script will offer to convert it so that it is compatible. If not, just ignore this.
5. Now comes the fun! Run the script:
   

   ./bpgui.sh

Using the program is pretty self explanatory. First, add podcasts if you don't already have them. If you converted an old bp.conf, go to "Modify a Podcast" and set all the titles the way you like. Once all that's done, simply select "Scan for New Podcasts". Your podcasts will be saved in /home/(your username)/Podcasts.

Hope this helps!

Flock Fun

Well, I now have the "Developers Preview" of Flock, and there are some things that I really like about. Basically, it's a revamped version of FireFox but with lots of cool stuff added to it.

I think that it's going to make my life a lot easier, because it has Blogging, del.icio.us bookmarks, and Flickr built right into the browser... which means that I can blog about anything I want whenever I want. I'm using it's WYSIWYG editor to post this. I've heard that it produces horrendous HTML, but I want to see how horrendous :)

It has a really nice feature, called a Shelf. You can drag links, pictures, text, etc into it and save it for later. It's nice for saving links and text to blog about later.

I haven't used it a lot yet, but I've heard it's full of gaping holes. This is to be expected, since it's the first relsase. I'm really looking forward to when this becomes stable.

But this can be useful to other people. Think about how many people blog, use del.icio.us, or use Flickr? Ok, now how many of those people are using IE to do everything? We can use this to convert people off of IE and get them on something free.

(oh, and I like the local Favorites too - they have tags :) )

Technorati Tags: flock, firefox, mozilla

Page Rank, Kernel Compiling, etc

I just read Jon's blog post about his Page Ranks, so I thought that I'd check out mine. I remember that when I first started this blog, it was 0 (duh). I installed the Google Toolbar, and found out that I have a rank of 5/10. Not too bad.

In other news, I compiled the latest Kernel. Now, I have 2.6.11 (the default Kanotix kernel) and 2.6.13. The reason for the recompile was a couple of things. Firstly, I want apmsleep to work. It claims that APM was not compiled in the Kernel. And I also wanted to get Software Suspend working (yes, Hibernation). So, I downloaded the source, applied the Software Suspend 2 patch, made sure that APM was enabled (and just for the heck of it, I included it as part of the Kernel rather than a Module) and recompiled with the help of a guide that I found. It's now working fine, but I'm not using it at the moment. Why? The Ndiswrapper module is not installed, which means that I'll uninstall the current version and compile the newest version by hand. I'm just too lazy to do that right now.

Check back for updates in the near future.

VNC Working Like a Charm

I just discovered the wonders of VNC, and is it wonderful.

For a while, I was looking for a Linux equivalent (I like to avoid using the word "alternative", because that usually suggests that it's not as good) to Remotely Anywhere for a while now, but I never really got around to it until yesterday. I looked into alternatives, and found out that there is a great java applet which can connect to a VNC session from a web page, and works on any Browser/OS combination that has Java.

I have the vnc-java package installed, so vncserver can actually start a web server, but I already have a web server running. So, I downloaded the latest Java app from the TightVNC site (even though that's not the server I'm using) and copied it into a vnc directory in my web server. I set it up with the right screen resolution, and it worked great from my local computer (and others on the network).

With success, I forwarded TCP ports 80 and 5109 to my computer and tried it at work. Success! It worked great the first time I tried it. The only drawback was that it is kind of slow. Between the not so good upload speed of my internet here (around 300 KB/s) and the strict firewall at work, it was kind of slow. But, it still worked great! When I get FiOS service, I'll have 2 MB/s upload speed to use, so that should have a great improvement.

VNC Rocks!

Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger Released!

Yes, Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger has finally been released. Weren't they just talking about this on TLLTS last night? Yes they were, and it has been released.

Pick a torrent, any torrent and get the latest release of Ubuntu.

Live CD (i386) Torrent
Install CD (i386) Torrent

WordPress.com Invite Contest!

In a stroke of luck, I have obtained a second invite to WordPress.com, I guess accidentally. But this is good, because I now have another invite to spare, and nothing to do with it... Until now!

I'm going to have a contest here. What is the contest, you ask? All you have to do is write some original content that has relevance to Linux or Free Software. It doesn't have to be a lengthy 600 word piece, just something that has value to it (a few paragraphs should be fine). It can be an opinion on something that you've always wanted the world to hear, something related to current events, whatever.

I will post all submissions here, and I will pick my top two favorite ones and send a WordPress.com invite to both of them. So that means: send something and you'll have a good chance of getting one. This is good too, since WordPress.com invitations are limited now, and there's a long waiting list to get them.

Why WordPress.com? In my opinion, it is the best free blog hosting site that I've come across. All the good features about WordPress (like instant publishing, a nice Dashboard, and even a WYSIWYG editor) but all for free. Not even so much as a text ad, or an annoying top bar that is on Blogger blogs. Blogger users will absolutely love the instant publishing. Blogger publishing gets so annoying. My only issue with it is there is not template editing, but they should soon be starting something like that.

I really get annoyed after giving deadlines. I will probably close the contest when I feel there are enough entries, or when I think it has been long enough. That should give everyone a reasonable amount of time (I'm thinking between one and two weeks). If you want to write something, get it to me ASAP. If you hit a stroke of lazyness and can't write it (hey, happens to me all the time) or are just too busy, send me an email and I'll be sure to keep it open for you to submit one.

Oh, and before I forget, here's my email: jgrace103@gmail.com

(Also, if you have your own blog, why not link to this contest? I'll be sure to thank you when I announce the winner)

Another iPod???

Man, Apple has just been reeling out new iPods lately. I've been reading that they just had another special meeting today. I think that it's still going on, but they updated the home page, and they have the much rumored Video iPod. They made the whole iPod wider to fit the bigger screen.

While the idea of Video is equally cool, I think that Apple is producing them way too frequently! I had a friend that just went out and bought an iPod yesterday, and now he misses out on the video. That feeling must suck.

Firefox Troubles

Lately, I've been helping a friend design a website using purely XHTML and CSS (Yay! No tables). It is displaying perfectly in Konqueror, Mozilla, Opera, and even IE (yes, under wine). Firefox seems to be a problem.

Anyone with some CSS knowledge knows that a:link and a:hover control what links look like and what happens when you mouse over a link. In my case, I changed the colors and removed the underline for both of them. This seems to create a problem with FF.

When viewed in FF, the only links that those rules apply to are mailto: links. All other links seem to default back to the FF default. It displays fine in Mozilla, so I know it is not a Gecko problem. Just a FF problem. Nothing I do seems to change those links. I think this is just a problem specific to me, since those are so commonly used in CSS, but still...

Other than that, XHTML and CSS have been quite a pleasant experience. I just started using them, and they make web design so easy. Back in the days of Frontpage, I'd spend lots of time trying to perfect a website. Tables seemed too advanced for me, even with WYSIWYG. With CSS, all I have to do is specify a width and use float and can position content (separated with div tags and unique ID's) where I need them. I even ditched a WYSIWYG editor and am using Quanta, and man is that a good program. It has good indenting, previewing (without saving), great CSS support, tag completing (if I type in a br tag, it adds a / to the end of it) and so much more. I give it five cookies. (Get it? Oh, you're no fun)

But I really like the idea of a single CSS stylesheet that can affect the whole site. That will make changing anything so much easier than editing every page.

What I'm trying to figure out now is how to get a CSS calendar (as in 35 individual boxes). If possible, I want to stay away from layers, since all browsers seem to position them slightly differently. I'm seeing what else is possible.

May the Penguin be with you :)

Digg in Konqueror Too!

It seems as if I'm on a stroke of luck.

As many of you know, I really like digg as a source of geek news. It displays fine in Konqueror, but the "digg it" button never works. Now, I got it to work :)

Simply set it to identify itself as Firefox 1.0. I noticed that the the link actually changes. Instead of doing a javascript command and the link just being #, the link itself changes to a javascript that Konqueror will work with.

Nice :)

Staples Offering a Linux PC?

Staples is now offering a computer with Linux (CPUBuilders Linux) preinstalled.

This is the kind of thing we want. We want people to have Linux on their machine. Once more stores start to do this, we're probably going to see more and more software ported to Linux and newere software will be much more likely to be Linux friendly.

Good job, Staples!

Gmail in Konqueror Screenies

I took three screenshots of Gmail in Konqueror... enjoy.


My inbox right after I archived something (I know there are only three messages there, but you should see all of my archived mail!)


Composing a message. No WYSIWYG, but I never use it anyway. I'm able to upload attachments, and the spell checker does work.


Settings. Works great.

GMail Working in Konqueror!

Woohoo! I've finally figured out how to use the regular GMail interface in Konqueror. No, not the HTML version, but the full AJAX version that Firefox has supported since the beginning.

Normally, if you load the page with the nocheckbrowser option, Konqueror will display the page, but nothing works... now I found a way to do it, and it's pretty easy.

1. Go to http://mail.google.com/mail/?nocheckbrowser in Konqueror
2. Go to Tools > Change Browser Identification > Other > Firefox 1.0

For some reason, GMail works when Konqueror is wearing the Firefox hat, but not when it identifies itself as Konqueror. Weird.

But, equally cool! So far, almost everything I tried has works. Navigation, starring, sending a message (with attachments), and more importantly, Settings which isn't avaliable in plain HTML. The only thing I found that didn't work was the WYSIWYG composer, but that's fine since I never used it anyway.

Now I can cross off one more thing that I need Firefox for.

The MIT $100 Laptop

And what a sight it is. What if you could get a computer for $100? Not just a computer, but a laptop. Looking at pictures, this thing looks pretty awesome. What are it's advantages? Well, duh, it's $100. But what else...

It uses Linux! Not only is it cheap, but it's penguintastic! (I think I just made up that word)

But what are the laptop stats?

• It runs Linux :-)
  
• 500 MHz
  
• 1 GB Flash Memory (as a HD replacement)
• Dual mode display - Color and B&W
• Intergrated WiFi with "Mesh Networking"
  
• 4 USB Ports
• Windup crank, AC, or Battery power
• It runs Linux :-)
  

To quote CNet:

The machines, which will run a version of the Linux operating system, will also include other applications, some developed by MIT researchers, as well as country-specific software. "Software has gotten too fat and unreliable, so we started with Linux," he said.

And how right they are.

Could this be the future of portable computing? I think so. Eventually as computer manufacturing costs fall, we may see more of these. Seriously - give it a few years and we may start seeing these things at Wal-Mart for $30. Heck, traditional laptops may loose popularity among people who just want a portable device for browsing and email on the go.

CNet Article

"This is open-source education. It's a big issue."

Tech Tags: linux laptop $100 $100 laptop 100 laptop

Retards!

Agh! Cable has really been upsetting me lately. About two weeks ago, I canceled cable since I got satellite (which, I love). First, they billed me for cable after I canceled it. Then, they came out today to deactivate it... and in the process, disconnected my internet.

Dumbasses.

They came back a couple hours later to reconnect it. Needless to say, I'll soon be getting rid of cable all together, when I upgrade to Verizon FiOS, fiber optic internet service, which is avaliable exclusively in this part of town. Seriously! My friend who lives maybe a mile away can't even get it. With 2 MB/s of upload speed, I may even be able to host my own blog...

Cool GMail Feature - Auto Save

I just found out that GMail has a new feature called Auto Save. Basically, this automatically saves a message you're sending as a draft every half minute or so. This is going to be very useful to me, as I use email a lot, and sometimes Firefox will crash, and sometimes I accidentally close it without sending... but now, I won't loose messages anymore! This rocks.

Made My Decision

I think that I've made my decision regarding WP.com.

First of all, from using it, I've discovered that WP beats the pants off of blogger. With blogger, every time that I make a new post, modify an old post, change any setting, or make the smallest modification to the template, it has to republish. This can take a long time, depending on wether or not it needs to republish the whole thing. If you change a setting or modify the template, it needs to republish the whole blog, and that includes the index, all archive pages, and every individual post permalink. That means when I do either of those things, it has to publish over 100 different pages. This is my 104th post, so that's 104 right there. If the publishing engine was any slower, no one would use blogger. Once you have a significant amount of posts, you could literally be waiting several minutes just for the whole thing to be done, and that's on a direct blogspot blog. When you want to FTP it to your own site, it could take even longer.

With WP, it gets published instantly. Period. That's why I was able to get all 104 posts over there so quickly - highlight and drag, click a button, repeat.

So, back to my decision - they stated this on the FAQ:

Can I edit my templates?

We are definitely mindful of making everything more customizable for our users, but at the same time we don't want people to have to look at HTML and CSS code, which is antithetical to the purpose of WordPress.com. If you want complete control over your enviroment, you're probably better off running WordPress on a great web host of your own, but if you really don't want to worry about that sort of thing just stick around and we'll be adding more customizability as time goes on.

So, basically when they add the ability to instert custom HTML somewhere besides in an actual post, I'm there. Even if it's just the footer, I need to put in my counter, Technorati code, and probably AdSense. Otherwise, I'm staying here until they can add that.

Zoho Writer - AJAX Office Application

Yes, I found this on digg.

This seems pretty cool. It's a completely AJAX document writer that somewhat resembles Word 2003. It has a nice WYSIWYG text editor, and it even has right click functions. I haven't tried creating an account, but I believe you can even maintain your own documents. The feature it desperately needs is the ability to print.

Check it out, it's pretty cool.

Google Ads Check Your IP, too

You may recall that Jon reported that Google Ads check your browser for Operating System info? Well, I guess they also check your IP address for you location as well. I just was browsing his blog, and saw an ad specifically for my home town. There's no way that same ad is there for other people, too.

Oh, and isn't it ironic that Blogger's spell check doesn't know the word 'blog'? I just tried it, and it picked up on 'blog'. Come on, that's just pathetic.

Hey, I Got a WordPress.com Account!

I've had it for a little while, but I guess I was too lazy to report it here.

But, I did obtain my magical WP.com invitation (a "Golden Ticket" as described in the subject line of the email) and I'm still deciding wether or not I'm going to use it. I really like the WYSIWYG post editor, the ability for seperate pages, instant publishing (I hate the way blogger publishes), categories, intergrated search, and tons of other cool stuff.

But what's the big problem? You cannot edit the template, which is where Blogger still has the upper hand. This means I cannot modify any part of the template, at all. I can only change what is modifiable in the admin interface.

Well, I'm still evaluating and (manually) transfering posts from here to there. Wanna see it? Come on, guess what the URL is!

For the sake of lazyness, here's a link.

The Best Linux Web Browser?

Anyone on Linux probably has their opinion of their favorite browser. Without the choice of IE, you have much safer browsers to use. But which one is the best? I'll take a look at what I think are the top three: Firefox (and Mozilla), Konqueror, and Opera.

Firefox: This is probably the most popular browser among the Linux world. The advantages of Firefox include good compatibility with most sites, and stability (it hasn't crashed on me yet, but I don't use it that heavily)

Konqueror: Konqueror is probably the most versatile and feature rich browser on Linux. It has tons of great features, complete compatibility with KDE themes and such, a fast loading interface, and arguably the fastest rendering engine out, KHTML. KHTML isn't as widely compatible on the web as Gecko (for example, WYSIWYG doesn't always work, AJAX doesn't work as well) but it's blazing fast

Opera: I haven't used Opera that much, but I do like some of what I see. I really like it's default theme and button styles, and it starts up pretty quick, but I'm not sure if it is actually that good of a browser in general. Some javascripts don't work properly, and is not as compatible with sites as Gecko. One odd thing I noticed was that it was set to identify itself as Internet Explorer by default.

So, which one wins? I think the winners are Konqueror and Firefox. I don't think I'll use Opera until it gets more compatible, but I am already using both Firefox and Konqueror for my normal web browsing. I try to use Konqueror for everything I can, but for things like Netvibes and GMail, Firefox is the next icon on the Kicker.

Tech Tags: linux internet browsers firefox konqueror opera

ZDNet: What Slows Linux Most?

What slows Linux adoption most? According to ZDNet, "experts who don't know anything."

Paul Murphy asks a good question today. What's the key factor slowing adoption of Linux?
His answer: experts who don't know anything. He offers two examples, one a bad install by a Windows person, the other an inefficient Internet manager.
Below these examples, however, are deeper problems, problems we've addressed here. A clean install that includes applications, like the one Novell has been working on, would fix his first problem. A manager with a technical Clue might fix his second problem.

Article

Gizmo for Linux - not ready for prime time

I finally got Gizmo for Linux to install and work correctly. It is currently in alpha, but even so, it lacks the features that the Windows and Mac versions have had since day 1. For example, Gizmo features call recording. I have not found that feature in the Linux version yet. Linux podcasters are probably better off with Skype Skype-rec for recording calls.

But probably my biggest problem with Gizmo is the configuration ? there is none. I can't even find a configuration file for it. This is especially bad for me because I use a USB headset for calling my friends on the computer, which gets assigned /dev/dsp1 after plugging it in. I cannot find a way to change soundcards in Gizmo, and am unable to change anything.

What else doesn't it have?

• IM (recently implemented)
• 'Map It'
• A call sidebar
• Configuration - none at all

Those are some of the features I like about Gizmo. It seems the only plus to it is the nice interface and slightly better call quality (for broadband, at least).

So, in my opinion, Gizmo for Linux was somewhat of a letdown. It does have hope for the future, though. Hey, it's still in alpha. I don't think people will start using it until it has all the features of Windows and Mac.

Oh, and did I mention - they only release it as a Debian package and a Linspire package?

Tech Tags: linux gizmo gizmo project gizmo linux

Sean Parsons is Back

I just caught up to episode 101 of TLLTS today, and I'm happy to hear that Sean Parsons is back, and is still alive.

What most of you (probably) don't know is that I used to be a journalist on TheLinuxBox.org (his website) up until May of this year. Sean Parsons just dissapeard without a trace, and none of us knew what happend to him. A couple weeks after he left, his website stopped working. None of us could log into the web interface to post, so we were (and still are) unable to change the site at all.

Today I got to listen to TLLTS and I'm glad to hear that Sean is OK. He explained that his web host changed his contract and gave him 250 megs of space, which is hardly enough for a podcast site. Because of that, nothing could be changed to it.

He also said that he's going to be starting a new site soon and start over, since his old one is out of whack.

I'm going to try to contact him and offer to be a journalist on his new site. I'll keep everyone updated.

30 Gigabyte E-mail?

I saw this on digg today.

Apparently, there is a new site that is offering a free email account with 30 gigs of storage.

What's my opinion on this? First of all, I'm not sure if this will really make it into the mainstream like GMail did. Honestly - unless you're Adam Curry and have a GMail inbox that is 99% full most of the time, who really needs a 30 GB inbox? Honestly? I use email all the time for lots of uses, and I'm using up 202 MB of my GMail account. That's 8%. I am more than contempt with 2.6 GB.

Even so, users will probably be attracted by it. I don't know anything about the interface, but I can make some assumptions based upon the nature of the service.

1. There are probably ads, or there will soon be ads (not just text ads)
   
2. There are probably restrictions, possibly stricter than GMail
3. There will probably be a little footer ad sent out in every email - god I hate that!

Other than the storage, it doesn't look like there is anything useful that GMail doesn't already have. In fact, there are features on GMail that I prefer over what they are advertising the service as.

'nuff said.

Tech Tags: email gmail 30 gb

Hacking the Hackers

I came across this CNN video on digg today. It was shot in a 'hackers confrence'. They even advised you to hold on to your hotel cards, and to not use the ATM in the lobby, since someone already messed with it. Freaky.

Video

(it plays good on Konqueror with the Kaffeine plugin)