A Peculiar Blog

Welcome back!I just caught wind of this patent application (pdf) in which Steve Jobs & Co. at Apple are trying to patent what may well be the single most annoying operating system “features” ever developed anywhere.
The idea is that, from time to time, the operating system would stop everything it’s doing and present advertisements. [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads According to a recent Slashdot article it very well might be. Ubuntu recently released a new extension to Firefox alpha 3 called “Multisearch”.
The first thing that I don’t like about it is that it installs automatically without any warning about potential privacy problems. For me that’s a deal-breaker all [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads It’s been a long time since I did anything with MMS (Mixminion Message Sender) but I’ve finally gotten back to it.
MMS Finally has word wrap, which means there shouldn’t be anymore of those really ugly long lines.
There are also now three distributions. The original which only contains MMS itself, a [...]

A team of Microsoft engineers consisting of Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado, and Bryan Willman set out to “investigate the darknet – a collection of networks and technologies used to share digital content”. their conclusions were published in the report known as “Darknet Assumptions”.

Those assumptions boil down to three basic points.

There’s a piece on PCPro about “Windows Cloud” being released soon. There’s all the usual Microsoft company line stuff about how innovative and wonderful they are for pushing windows into “cloud computing”.. yada yada yada PHHHHBBBBBT!