Look What I Found
I figured that all their software would have been Q&A’d for something like that. Someone is going to be looking for a job today.
Slashdot | Creative Zens Ship with Worms
An anonymous reader writes “Engadget reports about 3700 Creative Zen “Neeons” shipped with a virus. The virus in question was the W32.Wullik.B@mm worm. Creative released a statement today to help consumers pinpoint the possibly effected devices.”
10 Minutes, what are you waiting for?
TechFreaks v2
Xbox modification has come a long way in the past couple years. With the introduction of the TSOP mod, potential modders no longer had to shell out money for a modchip; rather just bridge two points on the Xbox motherboard. Now one doesn’t even have to open up his Xbox. Welcome to the world of soft modding. Using code exploits in certain games, a user is able to load a phony gamesave that will boot into a Linux based operating system and allow a user to mod his Xbox… in under ten minutes.
I figured that this was going to start to happen sooner or later…I thought a little sooner though.
Revenge of the Sith DVD only
Video Business reports there will be no VHS release of Revenge Of The Sith…
Last night was a lot of fun. Summer Brooks from Dragonpage.com was kind enough to join us for the entire show on Technorama. Over at Dragonpage.com, they produce 3 podcasts. Slice or Sci-fi, for mainstream news of Movies and TV, Cover to Cover dealing with print media, and Wingin’ It, which is whatever comes up and she works as producer, and fact checker.
What started as an interview turned more into a chat. It was a lot of fun to do, and I am sure a lot of fun to listen to.
Some good information of Skype/Gtalk verses SIP. I may have to give SIP another look-see.
Google Talk And Skype Are Boring, And Here’s Why | The ChangeLog
Saw this one coming…..especially with RFID here.
The End of the Barcode
valdean writes “The University of Wisconsin RFID Lab, principally funded by a dozen Wal-mart suppliers including 3M, Kraft Foods, and S.C. Johnson & Son, believes that RFID could spell the end of the ubiquitous bar code. The big draw? Speeding up supply-chain management. Wal-mart’s warehouse conveyor belts presently move products at 600 feet per minute… but they want to be faster. And better informed.”
Cool script to scroll the page when you visit a anchor on the same page.
Smooth scrolling demo
It’s quite often, when navigating through a long document, confusing or disorienting for users to click a link which immediately jumps them to somewhere else in that document. Are they on the same page, on a different page, should they scroll more from here, what’s going on?
Here is a script that I found to post directly to your wordpress site from Bloglines.
Uses the newest version of Greasemonkey.
This is an Interesting development…
FBI nabs Zotob virus writers
WASHINGTON (AP) – Authorities in Morocco and Turkey have arrested two people believed to be responsible for unleashing a computer worm that infected networks at U.S. companies and government agencies earlier this month, the FBI said Friday.Farid Essebar, 18, was arrested in Morocco, while Atilla Ekici, 21, was arrested in Turkey on Thursday, the FBI said. They will be prosecuted in those countries, the FBI said.
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TrekWeb reports that writer Erik Jendresen (Band of Brothers) gave an update to Dreamwatch magazine about the prequel Star Trek: The Beginning. He says he has turned in the first draft of the script to Paramount Pictures.