Month: September 2005

  • Watch Tower sues Quotes for $100,000

    “I was served notice yesterday that Watch Tower has launched a suit against me due to my web site: http://quotes.watchtower.ca/ […] Oh, be sure to not miss paragraph 31 for an interesting, and bizarre claim: the Watch Tower’s books and materials “embarrass[es]” the Watch Tower!””

    Jehovahs Witness Discussion Forum via Fark.com

  • 100% More Bitchin' Than Dell.

    “Top business publications refused to run our bold ad concepts because the headlines were thought too controversial. At Sun, we’re the radical engineers that build “ass-whoopin” technology – we’re not Miss Manners and we never want to be.”

    Sun via Tietokone

  • “We would like to kindly inform you that we are in progress of switching data centers and upgrading the free hosting cluster with better and faster servers. Please note that the switch should be completed within 72h time frame starting from 13.09.2005 11:00h AM GMT. During the switch we are expecting downtimes of the user web sites and the main web site.”

    Atspace

    Tämä vaikuttaa siis underground-sivun ja webkamerakuvan näkymiseen.

  • Enterblogiin kommentointi

    “Enterblogissa on tänään otettu koekäyttöön kommentointimahdollisuus. Spämmäyksen estämiseksi kommentit tarkastetaan ennen niiden julkaisua.”

    Enterblogi

  • Google Blog Search

    Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. […] Whether you’re looking for Harry Potter reviews, political commentary, summer salad recipes or anything else, Blog Search enables you to find out what people are saying on any subject of your choice.”

    “Google Blog Search Help”
    Google Blog Search via Killinki
    some links added

  • Eduskunta avaamassa uudelleen tekijänoikeuslain

    “Sisällön puolesta jo lähes lukkoon lyöty, vain viimeisiä muodollisuuksia vailla ollut uusi tekijänoikeuslaki saatetaan avata eduskunnassa uudestaan. Eduskunnan suuri valiokunta selvittää, ovatko uuteen lakiin otetut määräykset kopiointisuojasta kohtuuttomia ja voisiko niitä lieventää.”

    HS Verkkoliite
    linkitys omani

  • F-Secure enters hardware business

    “We’ve been a software company for 17 years. But today we started selling our first harware product, ever. Which is cool.

    The box is called F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway. It’s a 1U-sized rack-mountable appliance that sits next to your email server and filters spam and viruses from the message traffic, automatically.”

    F-Secure
    some links added

  • Virus iski Lahden kaupungin tietokoneisiin

    “Lahden kaupungin tietokoneet saastuivat reilu viikko sitten viruksesta, joka pitää tietoasiantuntijat kiireisinä vielä ainakin tämän viikon.  […] Yhden koneen siivoaminen vie aikaa puolesta tunnista kolmeen tuntiin. Askaretta riittää, kun koneita on puhdistettavana tuhat. […]

    Virushyökkäys on aiheuttanut katkoksia kaupungin tietoliikenteessä, mutta tietohallintopäällikkö [Marko] Monnin mukaan tärkeät perustoiminnot esimerkiksi sairaalalle on pystytty turvaamaan.”

    Etelä-Suomen Sanomat via Sektori.com

  • "Worker error kills power to half of L.A."

    “About 700,000 electric customers in Los Angeles lost power Monday afternoon after a worker mistakenly cut a wrong line, triggering a cascade of problems in the city’s power grid, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said.”

    CNN via Juha

  • Privacy Enhanced Computer Display

    “The privacy-enhanced computer display uses a ferroelectric shutter glasses and a special device driver to produce a computer display which can be read only by the desired recipient, and not by an onlooker. […] The ferroelectric shutter glasses allow only the desired information to be viewed, while the inverse image causes unauthorized viewers to perceive only a flickering gray image […]. It is also possible to use the system to “underlay” a private message on a public display system.”

    MERL via Fark.com