Monthly Archives: February 2005

Typing style may be new password

Posted on February 19th, 2005 by Ryan

Researchers at Louisiana Tech and Penn State found that the way you type can identify you, and can be as unique as eye color or speech patterns. While they do not feel it can fully take the place of passwords, … Continue reading →

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About.com bought by the New York Times for $410 million

Posted on February 18th, 2005 by Ryan

The New York Times purchased About.com from Primedia for $410 million dollars.

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Review: PHP Designer 2005

Posted on February 18th, 2005 by Ryan

For the past few months I’ve been using TSW Web Coder for web development. It is an outstanding program. Unfortunately, my computer is too slow for it. The biggest problem was random crashes. Re-installs would help, but I got tired … Continue reading →

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Site upgraded to WordPress 1.5

Posted on February 18th, 2005 by Ryan

WordPress 1.5 (Strayhorn) is out, and I’ve upgraded. Once I’ve played around a little more I’ll write a better review, but just a quick check it looks much better.

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Wait Wear fighting for virginity in Vegas

Posted on February 17th, 2005 by Ryan

Yvette Thomas took a stand against the sin-filled image of Las Vegas renting a booth for her Wait Wear line of clothing at the MAGIC Marketplace. MAGIC Marketplace, an intimate apparel trade show, draws an estimated 93,000 visitors. At the … Continue reading →

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Internet Explorer 7.0 may not support Windows 2000

Posted on February 16th, 2005 by Ryan

It appears that Microsoft may be leaving may users wanting when the rumored Internet Explorer 7.0 is released. Current plans limit support to Windows XP SP2.

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RAID array out of iPods

Posted on February 16th, 2005 by Ryan

Feel like a quick & easy geek project. Follow this guy’s directions to create a RAID array out of iPod shuffles. As he says ” Follow along as we explore new depths of geekery…”. Makes me wish I had a … Continue reading →

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Get your Google invite

Posted on February 12th, 2005 by Ryan

For those of y’all who don’t have a GMail account, and can’t find anyone with invites to share, look at isnoop.net. They’ve got a page set up where you fill in your email address and a GMail invite is sent … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! announces FireFox toolbar

Posted on February 10th, 2005 by Ryan

Yahoo! announced Wednesday that it will release a toolbar for the open source web browser FireFox. Source: C|Net News.com – Yahoo unveils test toolbar for Firefox

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Microsoft releases record 13 patches in one day

Posted on February 9th, 2005 by Ryan

Yesterday Microsoft released 13 security bulletings, nine of which were labeled ‘critical’. 12 of the 13 fix more than one component in either Windows or a Windows-based product. Source: TheRegister – Microsoft posts record 13 patches

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