Archives for February 2005

What the hake is a petabyte?

Published on 27 Feb 2005 at 12:22 am. No Comments.
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While researching the WayBackMachine I found that: “The Internet Archive Wayback Machine contains approximately 1 petabyte of data and is currently growing at a rate of 20 terabytes per month.” Which brings me to the question “What the hake is a petabyte”? 1 kilobyte (KB) = 1,024 bytes 1 megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes 1 [...]

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Time Travel

Published on 25 Feb 2005 at 1:03 pm. 1 Comment.
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Ok normally a Timelord’s job is to keep people from abusing the space time continuum, but here is a way for you ordinary mortals to time travel with out bringing down the wrath of The Timelords. It is the WayBackMachine. http://www.archive.org/web/web.php The WayBackMachine allows you to surf the net back in time. It is fun [...]

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Caller ID can be Spoofed

Published on 22 Feb 2005 at 3:25 am. No Comments.
Filed under Security,The Dark Side.

This is something that has been known for sometime to hackers, but it is becoming more common place. Just because your Caller ID says something does not make it so. Caller ID is just a short data burst that happened shortly after the first ring. So if you have equipment that can create the data [...]

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New Vesion of WordPress 1.5

Published on 21 Feb 2005 at 12:41 am. No Comments.
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There is a new version of WordPress out version 1.5 and yes Timelordshangout has been upgraded to the new version. There should be no noticeable changes in the way the site works. Later, The Timelord

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Clarke’s Three Laws

Published on 21 Feb 2005 at 12:07 am. No Comments.
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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. Then he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur [...]

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Microsoft to Scuttle Software Pirates

Published on 3 Feb 2005 at 7:56 pm. No Comments.
Filed under Security,The Dark Side.

Microsoft is planning to start requiring proof of Microsoft Genuine software for software updates. They are starting off with the Windows update web page sometime around July 2005. One of the best protections against virus and hacker attacks is keeping up on the critical windows updates. Being a software developer myself; I have never condoned [...]

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