Dry Eraser Jenny: The actress behind the hoax

That’s it….  I can’t believe anything on the internet. Nope, the Sun won’t rise, nor will it set. Poor Old Jenny, isn’t real.  How sad.  But you can survive by learning about the story behind the hoax. Dry Eraser Jenny: The actress behind the hoax

Escape to the Internet?

Fourteen young detainees overcame their guard and fled a boot camp regime of physical training and psychological treatment designed to cure their addiction — to the internet. The group, aged 15 to 22, staged their mass breakout by grabbing a duty supervisor when he was in bed and immobilising him in his quilt. He shouted […]

Internet abuzz with BitTorrent bypass code

Draconian UK law gets SeedF**cked A block of 86 lines of C# code is creating a buzz online following claims it may make BitTorrent downloads untraceable. The code, sweetly named SeedF*cker, is actually an exploit discovered last November that would allow a BitTorent user to fake the IP address of a server from where a […]

The Open Book Project

The Open Book Project is aimed at the educational community and seeks to encourage and coordinate collaboration among students and teachers for the development of high quality, freely distributable textbooks and educational materials on a wide range of topics. The advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web are making collaboration among educators on […]

Steam News – Coming to the Mac

Leading Gaming Service Expands to Mac Platform Valve announced today it will bring Steam, Valve's gaming service, and Source, Valve's gaming engine, to the Mac. Steam and Valve's library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available in April. “As we transition from entertainment […]

How a stray mouse click choked the NYSE & cost a bank $150K

The term comes from the idea of a clumsy, ‘fat-fingered’ typist, who presses extra keys without being aware of it. As the practice of high-frequency trading continues to become more widespread, concerns are growing that erroneous trades carried out by ‘algos gone wild’—a sort of digitally amplified version of the ‘fat finger’ phenomenon—could cause a […]

Why is a MobSyncing Me? And what should I do?

Seriously, have you wondered what the mobsyc.exe process is in Windows?  It is a process that assists with the Microsoft Sync Center & the Offline Files feature.  Typically it is used when you have a Windows Mobile Phone, a SL Server, or have Internet Explorer set to synchronize web pages for viewing offline. It is […]

Clear your Browsers Cache

Here’s how to clear the web browser cache, on the majority of the web browsers… Internet Explorer 8 From the Safety menu in the upper right, click Delete Browsing History… . Check Temporary Internet files, Cookies, and History, and then click Delete. Internet Explorer 7 From the Tools menu in the upper right, select Delete […]