User: securityman

English link

On: Animate Your LILO

The english link of the story is here.

A mutual agreement benificial to both?

On: AOL vs. Trillian

Isn't it interesting that AOL would rather fight off a compeditor with VERY dodgy practices than work on an agreement with MS,ICQ etc. to allow all IM clients to work on one protocol.

The article does not mention them even contacting Trillion before imposing this "block". Surely playing nice and coming up with a mutual agreement would be better business.

Re:Methanol?

On: Laptop Methanol Fuel Cells Promised This Week

Yep confirm that, I get temporary blindness when drinking. Wears off fast when I wake up next to a shocker the next morning though.

Re:It's not about google...

On: Yahoo! Launches Pay-Per-Search

If there was some way to poll browser configurations and see what the default start page was, I'm sure the majority would be Yahoo, followed closely by MSN (the default for IE) and then Netscape.

This interests me because as the theory goes ~90% of people never change their default settings, but I would imagine the default home page is one of the settings that even novices would change.

Does anyone have any stats on this?

Hey its M$

On: Export-level Encryption Proves Insufficient

Whats going on here?

MS has a weak security standard, the security gets broken, and the terrorist is the idiot?

Come on people this is an open target for some MS bashing. Whats going on here?

Free broadband but you gotta pay for the beer

On: Broadband Obstacles

I live in LaGrange and took up the broadband offer. Generally it was good except having A LOT of houses in my street (85% maybe?) sharing one cable made downloads shit from 4 - 11 pm.

It still impressed my neighbors used to dialup though. More communities should attempt similiar communal services.