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Various Updates

First off, ecto for Windows sucks but rocks on Mac OS X. They can’t possibly share any codebase because they are night and day.

Okay, first off. WiFi Spray is designed to keep your WiFi network running at tip top shape (via Gizmodo).

Holly found this heartwarming story for me. Thanks baby!

Microsoft “Genuine Advantage” cracked in 24 Hours

I don’t usually use this as a real “blog” but I’m bored. I had my wisdom teeth removed, and I’m on Vicodin, so, stfu. Microsoft started forcing people to verify their Windows serial numbers this week before it’d let them download updates from the Windows Update site. 24 hours later, it’s cracked. I, for one, find this totally hilarious. 24 hours later, someone has found a one line javascript applet that disabled the check. Brilliant!

(via Boing Boing)

When Geeks get Bored…

Guess what happens when geeks get bored? They upgrade operating systems or otherwise break their computers in some fashion. This weekend, I transitioned from Gentoo Linux to FreeBSD. I love Gentoo to death. It’s a great operating system. Portage rocks my world. But, FreeBSD offers some security and stability features which I find more critical in a server environment. I’d run Gentoo on a desktop all day and night. I wanted to go back to my roots (I started using FreeBSD in like 1994-1995 to mess around with).
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