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Archive for May 31st, 2005

Cool Download: RipEditBurn

Posted by Alan Henry on May 31st, 2005

Finally-an application that’ll help me with my CD and vinyl archive project. RipEditBurn is an application that essentially replaces a handful of audio burning and editing applications; it’ll rip any kind of CD (including copy protected ones, so use it for backups only, please), edit the music you got, convert the file types, re burn [...]

Microsoft: New Netscape Breaks IE

Posted by Alan Henry on May 31st, 2005

Just what we all needed, the absolutely new Netscape 8 comes out, vulnerabilities are noticed out of the gate to which Netscape quickly and quietly patches to 8.1, and then Microsoft gets word of and publishes that Netscape-which allows a user to switch between the Firefox and Internet Explorer engines to view pages-breaks Internet Explorer [...]

Database Hackers Reveal Tactics

Posted by Alan Henry on May 31st, 2005

Admittedly these guys broke the law and should be prosceuted for it, but I have to admit a bit of sympathy for them. The teenage hackers responsible for the break-ins at LexisNexis and the theft of hundreds of thousands of social security numbers and other personally identifiable information confess their tactics and admit that, contrary [...]

Ground Rules for the Windows-Macintosh War

Posted by Alan Henry on May 31st, 2005

Not my opinion this time, but I have to say that David Pogue does bring up some really amusing (and all too true) points with this article. I for one try to stay out of this particular battle altogether: I use a Macintosh at work (by choice, I have a PC available) and a PC [...]