Good news for the Unifour area of North Carolina (where I lived three years of my early adult life), Google is building a 210 job, $600 million dollar datacenter to help bolster its online offerings.
Google Taps North Carolina for New Datacenter Site (E-Commerce Times):
Google plans to build a new, US$600 million datacenter in North Carolina [...]
Most of us probably knew this already but Internet Explorer (IE) is one of the most unsecured browsers on the planet. Last year alone, it was unsecure for 284 according to a Washington Post article by Brian Krebs.
Internet Explorer Unsafe for 284 Days in 2006 (Washington Post):
Security Fix spent the past several weeks compiling [...]
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 was released yesterday. It’s a bug/security fix of sorts so it’s highly recommended you upgrade.
You can download it here:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Or use Mozilla’s preferred method, bittorrent:
http://bittorrent.mozilla.org/
I got this e-mail during my afternoon commute back home today:
Hi Chris,
WorkZoo.com launches job search engine indexing over 40,000 new jobs per day
New job search allows job seekers to search all major job web sites in the USA with one click and get a map of job distribution for their individual skill set.
Fountain Valley, [...]
Here’s a ridiculous case that I heard about today on Fox News. In 2003 Devin Thompson of Alabama was arrested after a high-speed chase. While Devin Thompson was in custody he was able to grab an officers weapon and killed three people.
Devin Thompson’s lawyers are arguing that Grand Theft Auto: Vice City [...]
BBC via Slashdot:
Chinese authorities closed 12,575 net cafes in the closing months of 2004, the country’s government said.
According to the official news agency most of the net cafes were closed down because they were operating illegally.
Illegal? What are some of the Chinese regulations on net cafes?
Can’t be within 200 meters of an elementary [...]
I got this via Fark this morning and realized two things; 1) This is good for kids because finally there is a way for them to learn how to deal with what many parents have no knowledge about and 2) It’s sad that such a product has to exist.
ABC News: Abduction Game Isn’t Child’s [...]
In a rare move for software developers these days, Ben Goodger, announced that the release of Firefox 1.1 would be delayed until June of 2005:
… the slippage from March is not due to my move to Google, it is due to us needing to ensure the 1.1 release is of identical quality and scope as [...]
I’ve discovered a bug in MT 3.15.
See this article for some of the details.
The thread on the help ticket I filed with MovableType is as follows:
Chris Short:
Can’t use string (”ARRAY(0×898e4cc)”) as an ARRAY ref while “strict refs” in use at lib/MT/Mail.pm line 66.
I got this error message after sending a notification. The e-mail was sent [...]
This Reuters article explains that Microsoft will be rolling out a full fledged authentication system to check for pirated versions of the Windows operating system towards the middle of this year.
Windows users with pireated copies of the Microsoft operating system will still be able to download security patches but will not be able to acquire [...]
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