Attack of the Cocker Spaniels

Download Index.dat Suite to help cover your browsing tracks.  Or just because it’s nobody’s business where you’ve been.  Unfortunately it’s Windows-only but every tip is still a tip.

Vertor is a new site that aims to help you find torrents that are free of fakes and malware.  Sound interesting?  Read on…

Governor Kulongowski of Oregon (makes one yearn for the simplicity of Blagojevich) is eyeing a driving tax on cars, as measured by GPS.  This kind of pocket-reach is unconscionable and will do nothing but create more libertarians.  As soon as the government discovers it can stick its hand into your pocket, you have a virtual assurance you will be pants-less in a short period of time.  Now that the economy is in the proverbial loo, as caused by these same goons, they are looking at new ways to take what is yours.  Maybe the Gov needs a staff-reduction and to start taking public transportation to work.  After that, we’ll start to talk about taxes.

Ok, we have a winner: D+Caf caffeine testing strips are dipped in a beverage and can tell you if your decaf is really decaf.  This was obviously a product screaming out for a manufacturer (kind of like another remake of “Endless Love”).

Famous Last Words Dept: Microsoft: MD5 hack poses no major threats to users.  Nor does web surfing or dancing naked on the freeway in rush hour traffic.

The Atom chip, pretty much the standard processor in netbooks, is getting ready to face a boatload of challengers in 2009.  There is the dual core Atom, which should be interesting but hasn’t shown up yet, plus a bunch of others.  As a person with a whole pile of netbooks, this is pretty good news.

How to eavesdrop on cordless phones.  They’re digital!  They’re encrypted!  They’re safe!

Columbia disaster ‘not survivable’, NASA concludes.  Those folks don’t miss a thing.  Sharp as a bowling ball, they are.

An extract from grape seeds can destroy cancer cells by encouraging them to commit suicide, US research suggests.  Gee, do you suppose we can get it distributed in DC?

ThermionicEmissions is proud to bring you information from all over the place.  Here is a post with actual important information.  It’s on screw heads.

How to run PortableApps in Puppy Linux (or linux in general).  This was just way too simple and too good an idea for me to have ever come up with.

Review of CloneZilla, the open source answer to Ghost.   We use this at work with Gparted to image all new desktops, putting a clone of the new install on a hidden partition.  When the users destroy the computer (it’s Windows, after all), we can blow the fresh installation right back in no time flat.