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BBC NEWS | South Asia | Condoms 'too big' for Indian men
A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men.
Work Craft
My life has consisted of World of Warcraft and Work for the past few months. If I could somehow combine the two that'd be pretty cool.
Spam Spam Spam Spam
Seriously, what the hell is with the comment spam? I have no readers, don't they realize that?
Fright Night is So Gay
Fantastic Review exploring the gay undertones of the 80s vampire movie Fright Night.
What a Dumb Article
Australian tech sites are really inferior.
Apple and Microsoft: a tale of two piracy fighters is an article comparing the anti-piracy methods used by Apple and Microsoft. Besides being pointless it gets its basic facts wrong, and compares two drastically different areas of piracy, music and software.
My first issue with the article is that it sites the often quoted figure of there being only 20-25 songs on an iPod purchased through the iTunes Store. The author then lists several other sources of music and implies heavily that they are all illegal and illegitimate. He then mentions Apple has no intention of checking for illegal downloads on iPods, as if there is anyway to compare a legal ripping of your CD to a downloaded file.
However the biggest blunder is this quote: Unlike the case with Apple, the majority of Microsoft software sitting on users' machines is legitimate.
From that sentence you'd imagine that the average Mac is full of pirated software, but what he really means is music not purchased via the iTunes Store.
The last bit is he's comparing the company that allows nearly full control over purchased songs, 5 computers can play back the song, you can burn it to a CD, and you can sync it to any number of iPods to the company that forced the anti-piracy Windows Geniuine Advantage as a security update, who requires activation of their software or else it disables itself and who abandoned their Plays4Sure DRM scheme for a custom one for their own digital media player.
World of Warcraft Found
World of Warcraft has now invaded my life. So you next year.
The Social Aspect of Microsoft Zune
The Zune is a social network music player. Let's see how that works.
Social Zune User 1: Here let me let you listen to this track.
Social Zune User 2: Okay.
SZU 1: Sending it now.
SZU 2: Okay.
SZU 1: Done.
SZU 2: Okay.
*SZU 2 Listens*
SZU 2: Wow what a great song. Let me go buy it right away before Microsoft's user friendly, and industry friendly, DRM limits my right to listen to shared music. Thanks Zune!
SZU 1: Yes. Thanks Zune. I don't know what we did before.
Now the iPod way, or the realistic way.
Social iPod User 1: Listen to this track. *hands ear phones to friend*
*Social iPod User 2 listens*
SiU 2: Can you burn me a copy?
SiU 1: Sure.
Reclaim Disk Space on Apple Notebooks
If you have a modern Apple notebook computer, any Core Duo laptop or last generation PowerBook, it supports Apple's hibernate mode where it writes the contents of memory to disk when the power cuts off. The upside is that it uses no power for a sleep state, unlike regular sleep. The downsides are that it actually goes into regular sleep and will only hibernate when the power runs out and that OS X keeps a file the size of the amount of RAM you have installed in the computer, so a 2GB file for 2GB of RAM.
While this feature may come in handy you'll probably never be in a situation where your sleeping computer will be in danger of having its battery run out of power before you find an outlet.
To turn this off open up Terminal and paste the following into it:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
enter your password when prompted.
Next paste this in:
sudo rm /var/vm/sleepimage
to delete the sleepimage file.
Now you'll have that much more free space left for other things.
Palmiotti and Gray
San Francisco
I was in San Francisco on a business trip for a week.
What an odd city.
