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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Firefox tweaks

22/04/2008 – 22:48

Having just installed a couple of fresh systems I once again had to set up a fresh Firefox install. Here is a little collection of the tweaks I usually make. about:config stuff: Open links that point to new windows in the current tab: browser.link.open_newwindow = 1 Single tab close button on right: browser.tabs.closeButtons = 3 [...]

By mojo | Posted in software | Comments (1)

EU to expand definition of criminal terrorism

20/04/2008 – 11:24

I was reading over at Ars Technica that the EU has agreed to harmonise what acts are considered criminal in relation to terrorism. In particular, they want “public provocation to commit a terrorist offence” to be a crime. Problem is, who determines what is provocation? It’s that old chestnut again – who defines what kind [...]

By mojo | Posted in idiots, law, politics | Comments (0)

Sabotaging open source

15/04/2008 – 14:00

Following on from my previous post about new forms of internet trolling, it seems that sabotaging open source projects is also a popular new pastime for asshats. Take avr-libc. It used to have two functions sbi() and cbi(). These two functions are incredibly useful, pretty much the bread and butter of what microcontrollers do. So, [...]

By mojo | Posted in avr, idiots | Comments (0)

Never Mind The Bastards

11/04/2008 – 23:56

Wikipedia is a fantastic resource, just as shame so many editors are bastards. AVRs are wonderful little microcontrollers – easy to learn and work with, very versatile and very cheap. Unfortunately, the AVR community are mostly bastards. There seems to be a new kind of griefer on the internet – the academic griefer. Rather than [...]

By mojo | Posted in idiots | Comments (1)

AVR-USB with AVR Studio

03/04/2008 – 14:55

I have been experimenting with AVR-USB recently. It has a lot more features than Igor Cesko’s code, but the downside is larger code size and the fact that it’s partly written in C which makes interfacing assembly code a bit trickier. I wanted to use it because it has good native support for HID devices, [...]

By mojo | Posted in microcontrollers | Comments (0)

BT and Phorm secretly tracked 18,000 customers in 2006

01/04/2008 – 13:28

This article posted on The Register is quite alarming – apparently BT secretly trailed the Phorm tracking system in 2006 with 18,000 of it’s customers. Apart from the fact that the trial was probably illegal, it shows just how little BT care about their customers privacy. The second page of the article has an amazing [...]

By mojo | Posted in idiots, networking, privacy, security | Comments (2)
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