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Today I notice a new bot called "turnitinbot" crawling my site and not for a new search engine.. this one is different. There is a new site called turnitin.com which sells a service to students and schools to prevent plagiarism, the idea is that students submit their work to Turnitin who then ve...

I am afraid of objects that are "protected" by "security".. . untill I confront my fear of such I will just have to avoid purchasing them.

After many discussions with many people over many years concerning the Open Source "problem", things are becoming clearer. Some have said that it will just die off as there is no way of making any money out of it and hence no way of surviving in today's economic system.

About a week ago...

I always thought of CDs and DVDs as an unpractical medium for storage and use, so I avoid using them as much as possible. They are fragile:

• you mustn't touch 50% of the object
• it can break or scratch very very easily
• to hot or to cold and it can break
• it's...

Icky on the inside ?

I noticed chrome is available for Debian/GNU Linux among others.. They have also been putting up ads around town that are impossible to miss. Some people think this is good, probably because Google is already their start page for many people, some even type the URL ...

Sometimes you take things apart so many times that one day you realize that when you really do need to take that pc apart to really fix it that a screw is screwed... On my little innocent "netbook" (i dislike that word) I waited a while before I decided it was time to bring out t...

Geocities is closing, you can however "upgrade" to something that will cost you money... I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that people tend to prefer having a facebook lol profile with zillions of real fake friends than publishing pages with actual "content" (ouch, the "C" word)...

I don't really like Microsoft's system but i admire their sense of humour.. :]

i found a few things on this subject:

in the "computer" world a driver is a software that "drives" hardware, if you want to take your mouse to the left you tell it to do so and it does so. it's like a human driver, you instruct the driver to make the car go places, the driver is the one who knows how to do it and actually does i...

and the thing is they use modified shopping carts specially designed so that you know it's not your shopping cart...

Building an ecosystem around a shopping car is an interesting concept.. . : ]