A Peculiar Blog

Here’s an interesting note, According to an interview with John De Goes, president of N-BRAIN, open source has effectively killed the software developer tools market. Apparently, in today’s open source software world, there’s a lot of people that have become set in their ways when it comes to the development tools they use. [...]

Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, is now claiming that TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chips that are installed on many new motherboards will make it impossible to pirate game software.
While it’s true that the TPM chips he’s talking about will present a seriously increased challenge, there’s no doubt at all in my mind that determined hackers, [...]

Recently I wrote about a project Modifying Thingamablog For Freenet 0.5 and while I have not yet been able to solve the puzzle of how to make the needed mods for the current version of Thingamablog, I have run into a problem with the templates.
Thingamablog uses tags within the templates that need to be converted [...]

After a LONG time without updates, version 1.2.5-Beta of Mixminion Message Sender is now available.
There’s been several changes / tweaks in the code (see the changelog below) and I’ve created a new distribution that includes Mixminion ready to run “out of the box”.
I have not yet been able to compile Win32 binaries of the latest [...]

Identity theft is getting to be a really big issue these days. It’s in the news all the time, usually two or three times a week you’ll see the talking heads relating yet another story about identity theft or something that this or that congresscritter is proposing to do about it. Theres the [...]

When I started my first blog, I was using thingamablog to do it with. I’ve long since converted to WordPress but I remember it well. It was actually a decent program.
Then on the latest edition of the flog “My Two Cents Worth(freenet link*)” there’s talk of a version that’s been modified so that [...]

First, I’ll quote the “official” announcement that appeared on the Freenet support list this morning:
Freenet is a global peer-to-peer network designed to allow users to publish and consume information without fear of censorship. To use it, you must download the Freenet software, available for Windows, Mac, Linux and other operating systems. Once you [...]

Japan’s four main Internet provider organizations have gotten together and worked out an arrangement where they’re going to be cutting Internet access to people using the “WinNy” P2P file sharing program.
Their big reason for this is the big battle against piracy. They’re claiming that most of the files being traded by the 1.75 million [...]

One of the several plugins I use with firefox is Adblock. It’s a handy filter that makes it possible to remove things from websites as they load.
Say you load a website and it’s got an ad banner that you’re sick of looking at. With Adblock installed all you have to do is [...]

I recently received an email asking about something I said on my unofficial freenet 0.5 download page. After answering, I decided that it’d be worthwhile to share that answer for anyone else who might have any passing interest in my opinions. (with the addition of fixing a few typos and a broken sentence [...]