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I’m an eBay addict, and if you are too, you know it’s very easy to buy used and cheap CDs. You can even get rare and out-of-print CDs, some obscure ones go for over $100! However, often times people take advantage of the rarity of some CDs to sell unsuspecting (or, sometimes, desperate) people bootlegs. [...]

I haven’t written here in a while, been busy. Slackware is back on my machine. I remember someone years ago in a chat room saying that “Slackware eats your soul” and it does. Yet I can’t stand the “easier” ones – I always come back to Slackware. Using the 64-bit version, which gives me more [...]

You might have heard of computer supplier Newegg accidentally shipping computer builders boxed “processors”. This is no ordinary counterfeit import issue – I found a nice article describing the shipments – the CPU was a piece of lead, with a sticker of a fan attached to a “heatsink” piece of molded plastic. And, of course, [...]

From Engadget: Since 1977, RSA public-key encryption has protected privacy and verified authenticity when using computers, gadgets and web browsers around the globe, with only the most brutish of brute force efforts (and 1,500 years of processing time) felling its 768-bit variety earlier this year. Now, [three people] at the University of Michigan claim they [...]

For the past several weeks I was working on something – mentioned here before, an attempt at a calculator RPG which doesn’t use excessive amounts of memory, unlike other programs which would freeze up at the very beginning of the game. After weeks of being up at night listening to my favorite night talk radio [...]

I am now running a server for the game UrbanTerror! See the tab above for more information. This server will run for at least three months.

maybe i’ll instead do a rant. one time there was this squirrel. he hated chipmunks. it all went back to this incident when the squirrel was about to make out with his girlfriend in a movie theater when a giant chipmunk appeared on the screen. it traumatized him so much that he freaked out. scared [...]

I found this video where these two kids (guy and girl) prank call Dell, with the guy claiming that on his computer, there’s a virus which keeps popping up and telling him he’s gay. Over time "the virus" "makes" him gay until he starts hitting on the poor Dell technician who can’t speak English. Funny [...]

I guess with these latest SEO moves we’re doing pretty well! (There’s a hot keyword to add right now And here at the Azz Pizz Institute, we do everything well, so well that we once won an award for “Kickest Assiest Think Tank” by Hot or Not Magazine (2005). We’ve won lots of other awards [...]