The newer graphics drivers in 10.6.8 not only eliminated any decline in speed from 10.6.5 through 10.6.7 but showed significantly improved OpenGL performance in Xbench and the game Halo for the ATI Radeon HD 5870 card. The Nvidia GeForce 320M graphics also showed higher OpenGL performance although the difference is less dramatic. While Xbench’s User […]
Evidently you can’t trust the police that much, at least not the off-duty officers at Miami International Airport… The Fullerton off-duty Police officer was arrested for stealing an iPad at the TSA checkpoint last month (5/2011). Excuse me, he shouldn’t be an officer… Â He should know that the TSA checkpoints are video “taped”. Â He expected […]
Yeshai M. Kutoff was house-proud, having bought a home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, for his family of five. And as an Orthodox Jew, he bought push-button locks for the doors — an accommodation for the Sabbath, when many of the devout do not carry keys. Yeshai M. Kutoff had push-button locks installed at his home […]
Should I Change My Password? has a lookup form where you can enter your email address to see if it was in one of the databases with login info that has been compromised and released to the public. ShouldIChangeMyPassword.com has been created to help the average person check if their password(s) may have been compromised […]
We just heard of a sad story about an Australian web hosting company (Distribute.IT) that was hacked and all of the sites they hosted were deleted (almost 5 thousand of them). What’s even worse is that the attackers deleted and corrupted their backup archives, so they were not able to… via Backup, backup and backup.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com?v=ss_BmTGv43M] The music video for the Weird Al Homage / Parody of “Born this Way”.
The 11th Doctor, actor Matt Smith, traded his Doctor Who attire of tweed jacket and bow tie for the Batman cape and cowl over the weekend. Batman is cool. If you’ve been holding your breath for a few short seconds now, you can start breathing: Matt Smith is NOT trying to replace Christian Bale as […]
What Is a Port Number? To the uninitiated or the otherwise-gifted computer user, technical geek-speak can be rather frustrating and aggravating. When instructions are filled with such things as “port,” “TCP,” “UDP,” and other acronyms or technical terminology, the user feels more isolated and rarely finds a solution or comprehension. Fortunately, comprehension is just moments […]