I’m not sure how many of you are keeping up with the PWN to OWN contest that is going on right now, but Mac OS X is the first one to go down. Basically its a contest to see who can compromise the three operating systems the fastest. So far Vista and Ubuntu are unscathed. Hmm.. maybe its time for some new Get a Mac ads? 
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Apple has started to install Safari automatically when you attempt to update Quicktime or iTunes. This is just plain wrong. Think “spyware”.
Update: This is also similar to what Adobe does, but I think its even worse.
You can check out some pictures on my photo site of the dungeon garage office where I hang out most days.
Yesterday was the first day of spring, and I got my free Italian ice at Rita’s . It was almost too cold outside to eat it though. Did you snag a free ice too?
There’s been a number of changes on this blog the last while.
Don’t you just love my short domain name?
Needless to say I was quite surprised at receiving a free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate with Service Pack 1 at the Windows Server 2008 launch event this week. It was definitely worth going.
The Google toolbar keeps crashing for me which totally locks the IE 8 Beta 1. This is the error message that I get even when running the latest version 5 of the toolbar.
Anyone else experiencing this?
I just downloaded and installed Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1. One of my favorite features is how IE 8.0 highlights the domain that you are currently browsing. You can view an example in screenshot #5. One big negative at this point however is that a lot of web sites don’t display properly unless you have the Emulate IE7 mode turned on. For example, G-mail and Google Reader have some display issues. You can read more on this issue here. In time this problem should disappear.
Check out these screenshots:
