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New commemorative pennies? You gotta be kidding me.

Posted by penrod on September 25th, 2008

It costs more to make a penny than it’s worth. Right decision would be to do away with the penny.

But, our glorious government is not only is keeping the penny around, now we get four new commemorative pennies. Ugh….…

If you’ve heard about Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account being broken into, one thing to take notice of is how they did it.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/palin-e-mail-ha.html

Have you ever noticed how online accounts will ask you personal questions that you can use…

Things that are not free in linux…

Posted by penrod on September 19th, 2008

So things like MP3, WMV codecs and DVD playback functions are not really free. Sure, you can turn on the “restricted” repositories and download them in your Ubuntu box, but their license is not a free license.

So, to all…

Tonight’s Lesson: Always lock down your wireless network.

Posted by penrod on September 9th, 2008

Tonight at a local restaurant, I did what I always do. I checked to see if they had a wireless network available. I was surprised to find that their wireless network was called “(hidden) has salmonella!”

Note: (hidden) equals…

Microsoft Patents “Page Up” & “Page Down”

Posted by penrod on September 5th, 2008

Yep, you read it right….


(Patent Info)

They own the rights to “Page Up” & “Page Down” as of August 19th 2008.

Two opensource companies to watch…

Posted by penrod on September 4th, 2008

I’ve got a “to do” to look more into both of these companies…. (A note to myself…)

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