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Learning Curve: Fox Sleeps with the Devil?

Mozilla's new 'opt-in' system is actually 'opt-out'. Here's how you change that around.

The Technological: The Day the Internet Stood Still

At least for Windows users.

Industry Watch: TPB: The New Pirate Bay

More on the proposed acquisition of The Pirate Bay by Global Gaming Factory.

Test Drive Xfile

Xfile from Rixstep is the only file manager for OS X capable of seamlessly handling all file systems - fdesc, HFS+, HFS+ case-sensitive, UFS, volfs, ZFS. It's the only file manager capable of detailing all file information available on OS X - and offering full editing capabilities for all these system features.

And Xfile is the only file manager for OS X that shows you everything - literally everything. Without exception. You'll be amazed - perhaps even shocked - at how much is out there that you never saw before.

Xfile is the only file manager offering you the power you're accustomed to on other platforms.

Available for all OS X versions Jaguar through Snow Leopard. Get behind the wheel today.

Learning Curve: On the 2.0.1.8 Xfile Test Drive

Rixstep's 2.0.1.8 update to the Xfile Test Drive contains a lot of goodies.

Industry Watch: Xfile Test Drive 2.0.1.8

Tracker back in the fold.

ACP Portable

ACP Portable is a special edition of (currently) 18 ACP applications and one command line ACP utility. It's packaged so users can swiftly create USB thumbs that work anywhere on anyone's machine 10.4 or greater. Nothing needs be transferred to target computers and nothing's left behind.

Learning Curve: On ACP Web Services 2.0.0.2

They're brilliant - as long as you understand them.

Red Hat Diaries: Windows Se7en: Crappiest Graphics in the Industry

Where does all the money go? By Tony 'Tokyo' Rhoades.

Red Hat Diaries: Hey MSFT Guys!

First in a series. By Tony 'Tokyo' Rhoades.

Red Hat Diaries: Two Travesties, One Day

Corruption and judicial decay. By Rick Falkvinge.

Red Hat Diaries: A Bad Thursday

Things could have been worse.

Radsoft: 'AMBASSADEN STÄNGD'

Too many good things on the telly.

Red Hat Diaries: How Lucky Do You Feel?

Are you willing to bet $5000 vs. $2M on proving your innocence to a bunch of 'peers' who don't know jack shit about networking, let alone computers? Are you willing to roll the dice? By Mack Diesel.

Industry Watch: Rixstep: New AWS, New CLIX, New Xfile

ACP Web Services 2.0.0.2, CLIX 2.0.0.4, Xfile Test Drive 2.0.1.9. Available now. Three nice upgrades almost at once. [Note: at time of writing the FTP server is overloaded. Please try later if you can't get in right away.]

ACP Users: Xfile 2.0.1.5 Express

The Xfile Test Drive has been released in a new super user-friendly format.

Industry Watch: XPT Switchers ACP Rebate

A good time to make the move.

Learning Curve: A Gullible's Travels

Parts Zero - Four. Part Zero in which Micro Luser Gullible loses his active footing. Part One in which Micro Luser Gullible regards Unix for the first time. Part Two in which Micro Luser Gullible enters his new home. Part Three in which Micro Luser Gullible learns how to arrange his new furniture. Part Four in which Micro Luser Gullible installs burglar alarms.

Hall of Monkeys: RIAA Picture Book

Five criminals, one lineup, no coincidence.

Hall of Monkeys: Cara Duckworth, Hilary Rosen, Elizabeth Birch

A look at three women who've shaped the digital world around us.

Developers Workshop: The Great Brick Wall of the Apple App Store

Travel all the way to the City by the Bay only to get the middle finger?

The Technological: Macopalypse!

Macopalypse, n. Comparable to an apocalypse but much more user-friendly.

The Technological: No Sex Please - We're Chinese!

Their hackers are amongst the best; their government IT staff are not.

Learning Curve: On CVE-2009-1700, WebKit, and Safari 4

Possibly over 100 applications affected but it's been fixed and you're safe as long as you're up to date.

Hall of Monkeys: Life Inside the Honeycomb

Fanboys are mentally deranged. They're the one greatest negative marketing factor on Apple sales after the highly priced dongle. As such they're impeding evolution on the Internet and in the world of homo sapiens. Every potential switcher these idiots turn off is another victory for Microsoft.

Learning Curve: More About That Box

A closer look at the new 15-inch MacBook Pro.

Industry Watch: Apple & Catch-22

Cheaper and faster everything. Gates trumped?

Radsoft: PP: The NeXT Big Thing

Freeing the world of lobbyists is only half the battle.

Radsoft: PP: Epic Winnage

Sweden's Pirate Party will be sending two reps to Brussels. Rick Falkvinge's remarks on the victory.

Radsoft: Kommandant Pontén

A clip made by a secret camera showing the illustrious Henrik 'Pirate' Pontén doing what he does best: bullying people and above all breaking the law. A step by step translation is provided.

The Technological: Re: 'How the %#@! did I miss this?'

At last there's an explanation why so many people still run Windows: they're batshit insane.

Industry Watch: Spotify's Android Client

Previewed at Google I/O 2009. Blazing.

Learning Curve: Can't Take a Punch

Microsoft Windows has a glass jaw.

The Technological: Research Proves Brains of Windows Lusers Smaller

At last it's known for sure.

Hall of Monkeys: Ira Winkler

There may be nothing worse than fudders after all.

Hall of Monkeys: Carolyn Samit

Is there anything worse than fudders? Yes there is.

Learning Curve: Life Without Windows™: The Bogus Backstory

Celebrate with Bogus and his friends.

The Technological: The Science of Stupidity

Nothing helps the clueless.

Learning Curve: Java Should Be Fun

So why isn't it fun?

Learning Curve: Linux for Human Beings?

Forks of open sauce forks getting forked like amoebas. Fork fork.

Learning Curve: Your Brand New Mac Software

Show of hands: how did it feel to get your new Mac home and open the box? How was that experience? Did you in any way find it lacking? Apple put a lot of effort into making that first event a total rush. So - did you find any gum wrappers inside? Any rusty screwdrivers? Someone's partially eaten lunch?

Software Reviews: MacHider 1.2.0

Three new rules of programming.

Hotspots: Safari 4: A Privacy Nightmare

Alfred's back designing applications in Cupertino again? Includes new CLIX command file to help thwart the worst.

The Technological: Larry Casey & OWASP

Webmeister alert: these people are jackasses so block them immediately.

Hall of Monkeys: Mark Ward & the BBC

Trusted? Respected?

Learning Curve: Apple Users: Turn Java Off

Then wait for the fix. And be patient.

Hotspots: Epic Fail for Apple's Launch Services

Can it be exploited?

The Technological: Rnd() values are changing everytime in ASP.NET

View the solution FREE for 7 days!!1!one

Heroes Banquet: The Daily WTF

Bookmark this one: it's soul food.

Heroes Banquet: Calandrella

Swedish star blogger.

Industry Watch: Big Day in Stockholm

Everything's happening at once.

Industry Watch: Swedish State-Owned Television Ban Pirate Party

The oldest and dirtiest trick in the world.

Hall of Monkeys: The 'New' Internet

It's supposed to be illegal to be this stupid.

The Technological: Euroschlock Song Contest

Welcome to Camp Dumb.

Learning Curve: Life Without Windows™

There is a life without Windows. It's a life of freedom. Of freedom from malware attacks and false promises. A life of security. Of enjoying the Internet rather than being afraid of it. And it's ultimately kinder on your pocketbook as well.

News: 10.5.7: Taking Security Seriously

If Apple are to convince their trusting customers they really do take security seriously (and are upstanding members of the crucial open source community) then they're going to have to devote less time to light bulb icons, Automator actions only the congenitally cerebrally terminal are at all interested in, and get their act together.

Red Hat Diaries: A French Preview

Coming soon to a theatre near you.

Red Hat Diaries: K Versus the Machine

A dystopian nightmare by Franz Orwell.

Red Hat Diaries: The NeXT Generation of Application Icons

From placeholder to work of art.

Hall of Monkeys: Lady Hadopi

Behind every diminutive man is a psychopathic woman.

News: TPB: Conflict of Interest Accusations Growing

So say legal experts after new revelations.

The Technological: OS 10.5 Accidentally Deleted the /bin/sh

The mold is broken.

The Technological: Lusercide!

It's being alternately called 'Windowscide', 'Microsofticide', 'Idiotcide', and 'Lusercide': the hackers controlling a Windows botnet decided to 'BSOD' 100,000 Windows computers under their control.

Hall of Monkeys: TechRepublic

HoM is getting SRO.

Hall of Monkeys: Bennett Haselton

A serious proposal from Bill Gates' neighbour to have the US federal government fund a fix for Windows.

The Technological: Attention Virginia

On Thursday 30 April 2009 the 'secure' site (run by Microsoft web software) for the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program was defaced and after all the medical records were copied (and encrypted) the originals were destroyed. The burglar will return the records for $10 million. At time of writing the entire site is still inaccessible. Should people wait a bit longer to sue Bill Gates and outlaw Microsoft web software?

Industry Watch: Spotify Movie: Wednesday Morning Breakfast Club

And a premium cellphone version is coming.

Red Hat Diaries: Form or Function

Why OO works and the others fail.

Red Hat Diaries: The New Open Sauce Desktops

Who was it said form was over function?

Heroes Banquet: The Socialist Nightmare

Jon Stewart sends Wyatt Cenac to Sweden.

Hall of Monkeys: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Slut

What was hot yesterday is fizzled tomorrow.

Software Reviews: Hidden Files Widget 2.0

Matthew Hansen is going places. Currently he's an undergrad at Winona State majoring in computer science with a strong emphasis in business administration and is an active member of the Computer Science Club.

Learning Curve: Between the Confickers
Another look at the morbid world of Windows 'security'.