Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Internet, PC Software | Posted on 22-01-2003
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It seems Microsoft has released a new CD and DVD copyright protection tool which lets recording companies restrict how CDs and DVDs are used on computers. A few companies have already announced they have adopted it. Of course this is built around the windows media player (like anyone uses it). They cliam to be able to limit the number of times a user can play the content on a PC and also claim to be able to restrict copying the content to various removeable media devices (mp3 players etc). I can see the press release from the RIAA now. “We have been working hard with Microsoft to produce a solid way for content providers to protect content and …..” (two weeks later on slashdot) “H4x0R writes, I just cracked the Windows Media DRM technology. It wasn’t that hard actually since the key to unlock the CD or DVD is a MD5 check sum of the song or movie title”.
Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Internet | Posted on 22-05-2002
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Google has released some of their new technology coming from their google lab to the public for us to play with. The keyboard shortcut is the coolest and most useful one out of the bunch. Check out their stuff at: http://labs.google.com
Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Internet | Posted on 23-02-2002
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It seems that Jabber is preparing to submit itself to the IETF as a standard for instant messaging and presence services. Doc Searls has an article on Linux Journal.
Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Computer Hardware, Internet | Posted on 21-02-2002
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Do you wish all of the documents on your network were searchable? According to Google, their new search appliance will solve this and other problems. Read more for details…
I was fortunate enough this Christmas season to be given an extremely cool geek gift, a Tivo. I figured I would play with it for a week or so before posting something to the site about it. If you have no idea what a ‘Tivo’ is, then read on, hopefully I will do a fair job in explaining how this electronic device will change the way you watch TV.
