World of Warcraft fever has hit some members of the FG staff, myself being included. Over the past 2 weeks JC, Derek and myself have been running around completing quest, slaughtering murlocs, and working the Auction House. Over the period I play this wonderful game I will be sharing some tales of my adventures, which […]

Only YOU can prevent forest fires… or help find a decent user manager for ActiveDirectory.

“GameShout”:http://www.gameshout.com/news/012005/article277.htm is reporting that Sony executive Howard Stringer has confirmed the price of the Sony PSP to be less than $200 at CES. He didn’t give an exact price, but that is close enough to the DS price to be some serious competition, especially because it can play movies and music as well.
Not that it […]

2004 has come and gone and with that was a year where we got to see some of the best anime series ever introduced. While it would be cool of us to list all the new ones we saw along with our thoughts we can’t because we have to focus on the new year and […]

This is so funny, I just had to share it:
In his seventh annual keynote speech at the International Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft’s chairman explained that the proliferation of high-speed Internet access and the falling price of data storage are compelling people to put music, photos, movies and other aspects of their life into a digital […]

Goes to show how much value this game truly has…

Mad props to Microsoft for fighting the good fight. Damn them for creating a platform that allows spyware to propogate so easily on those unsuspecting grandparents who just wish to view a little bit of porn.
I would give it a testdrive, but I don’t have spyware so I don’t know how I can do it […]

We all know about the security threat of non-sanitized user input, but it’s pretty scary how much a hacker can learn about your database structure just through SQL injections. This article, one of the most interesting I’ve read in a long time, shows how easy it is to gain access to an intranet area.

A […]

Some reports that the ipod mini may have a five gig hard disk now

Every language has its pitfalls including Java. Java Coffee Break breaks down the top Java errors as gathered from newsgroup submissions. Among them is one of my favorites: the comparison ( = and == , or .equals() ).

Though it is impossible to completely eliminate errors from the coding process, with care and practice […]

Lending significant credence to this rumor is the fact that IGG Software has just renamed their time management/invoicing app, from “iWork” to “iBiz”, offering no explanation other than a small print statement that iBiz is “Formerly IGG Software’s ‘iWork’”.

Interesting developments in Apple world (well not as interesting as those juicy Cinema Display price drops). I […]

A gallery of cartoon and comic strip skeletons

Link dump for adware-free software and PC cleaning tools

Axis Communications (amongst others) manufacturer security cameras with integral web-servers to provide browser-based monitoring. Unsurprisingly, many of these video servers are completely unsecured - broadcasting their security footage across the entire Internet.

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A laundrette - in Japan

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Project to build a working reproduction of the 1964 prototype for the Block I Apollo Guidance Computer. The AGC is the flight computer for the Apollo moon landings, with one unit in the command module and one in the LEM.
Sounds like a great weekend project, but why build an AGC?
Early computers are interesting. Because they’re […]