Archive for January, 2007

GoDaddy BendBackwards ForMe

Fyodor is a big name. He gave the world nmap and seclists.org and GoDaddy pulled his domain from under him. It’s not the first domain to be transferred or unlisted. GoDaddy has also previously suspended domains for spam. This is the first time GoDaddy has taken down a big site without a court order and [...]

Promises and deadlines for an open phone – openmoko

OpenMoko. I don’t know what that stands for but I know what it means. People on freenode have guessed that Moko is an acronym for Mobile Kommunicator but these same people know that it means complete control over your own phone.
Interest has piqued ever since Jobs announced that users won’t be able to put just [...]

That Apple iPhone thing

Okay, I’m salivating. The iPhone is nearly here. Details are sparse but I’m already excited by what I saw from the keynote.
Need more details:

Can you buy it without the SIM lock?
Is the battery user replacable? This feature is required in cell phones but still absent from iPods.

It runs OS X. Um, what? Will applications need [...]

Someone else nitpicked for me

I couldn’t properly organise my thoughts when trying to write something about Bill Gates’ use of the phrase “commercial [software].” Work started to heat up and I hadn’t been able to think about my blog at all lately. Well, someone else wrote an essay on the subject just after Christmas and it’s much better than [...]