Well, my birthday this year just came and went. Five people other than my family noticed and said something. I think that's the most in about ten years.

Thanks everyone. ^_^

Looks like I was wrong. From Apple's security mailing list:
Safari ( Read more... )

Since about midnight, I had been copying a friend's hard drive to see if I could recover any files from it. His drive is 300 GB and for some reason, it's only copying at about 1.3-1.4 MB/s, so it's going to take about 60 hours to actually make a full copy. I didn't have enough internal drive space for it (my laptop only has a 160 GB drive which ( Read more... )

Whoever made the music for Spooks is a wonderful composer. The show's theme, the themes of the various characters, it's all wonderfully done. I want to see if I can find a copy of the music somewhere.

In case you're already sick of seeing these everywhere, I'm putting mine behind a cut.

( I got an iPhone about two weeks ago. My thoughts on it )

And I was right. iPhone doesn't need any more of a firewall than it comes with. "The iPhone is not running any services listening on any TCP ports, and silently drops all unrequested packets."

That's from a report on iPhone's security by someone who actually knows what he's talking about. It was posted on Full Disclosure a couple of days ago. ( Read more... )

A Gartner "analyst" talking about the iPhone ( Read more... )

Wow. I just watched the final episode of the third season of Spooks. I don't think I'll be able to watch it again. That one and the second episode of the first season.

Bloody hell, Resident Evil 4 is scary on a 10' diagonal projection screen. The game has surround-sound support, too, and the audio is masterfully done. It's like Myst in terms of ambience and how it changes. Flows smoothly from the area theme to a completely different one when enemies spot you. I also love the chainsaw's idle sound and how when ( Read more... )

To all those wankers driveling on about how Apple tags the new DRM-free files you download from them with your username and real name (yes, Wired, I'm looking at you!):

Welcome to four years ago.

That is all.