Ars reports that Paul Allen’s venture, Scaled Composites, is looking to ready itself and win the Ansari X Prize. So NASA spends the last 30 years using the same old spaceship and it takes a $10 million prize to come up with something new? Amazing.

Funny read on why people should stop pretending to be Dave Chappelle. If you don’t watch the Dave Chappelle show on Comedy Central you will have no idea what the guy is talking about with regards to Rick James. However, you will get the points he makes about other famous lines that get overused, *cough*Ace [...]

At least that is part of the argument the Ars folks throw at you and to be honest I couldn’t agree with them more. I got caught up in the hype when the initial videos were released, but delays always bring about doubts in you. But then again the original Half-Life was delayed numerous times [...]

This week the kickass column goes over the sort command.

But when you compare the command line environment of DOS/Windows with that of Linux, it’s like comparing a wheelbarrow with an 18-wheeler.

DOS?!? Say what?!?!

Very nice read for anyone interested in building a network that has the potential to grow. I used to work at a company where they hired so many people at one time that they ran out of IP addresses for the network. Then I had to introduce them to the wonders of DHCP. Of course [...]

Covers some of the very, very basics for protecting a website. If you can’t do these kinds of things you might want to look into getting some help. Of course now that I said that watch this site get hax0red.