"PC's are for fart huffers"

Funny stuff!

Finally Vista can move & copy files as quickly as XP

netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled (reboot required)

If you're seeing terrible file copy speeds in Vista, those are the magic words that fixed mine. After 18 months of agonizing over the slow file copy operations on my work Vista computer, I can finally stop using the Windows2000 terminal server for one more thing that Vista was lacking in. Yay!

WOW - this must have taken forever to make

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Yes I am a hypocrite

I now own not one but two ipods... well if you count the one I also bought for the wife, there are 3 that I have been responsible for giving homes too. The first ipod is an 80gig classic that stays in the car 24/7 and contains ALL of my music. The car I bought last summer (Scion tC) has native ipod support in the factory radio. There is a dock connector in the console that allows the head unit full control of the ipod with text output and also allows me to control the ipod with my steering wheel controls. The stereo also has a generic auxiliary line input. For the first couple weeks with the car, I thought I could live with using my Windows Mobile based Motorola Q through the aux input. As much as I wanted to live my life iPod free, this car was the beginning of my fall to the dark side. The ipod classic in the car worked out better than I hoped. Over the following months, curiosity, frustration with Windows Mobile's lack of improvement and plain old peer pressure finally got the best of me until finally last weekend, I convinced myself that I must have an iPod touch also. Of course I didn't waste anytime jailbreaking it and installing all kinds of cool 3rd party applications. I had intended to post a proper review of the touch detailing what I like and what I didn't. But tonight I find myself with an unplanned 30 minute downtime while I wait for itunes to download the recovery software for my brand new touch. Seems I got a little too tweak crazy and broke my ipod. Apparently changing the root password is not a good idea... Looks like its just about ready to install. Wish me luck!

RFID Eye Opener

This video shows how easy it can be to obtain someone's credit card information using very cheap and easy to come by products.  This only applies to the RFID enabled credit cards with wireless chipsets embedded in them.  The video below demonstrates it with an American Express but I believe there are RFID cards available through Visa & Mastercard currently as well.  The demonstration uses a laptop and requires the would-be thief/hacker to get close to his victim but its only a matter of time before the same results may be obtainable so discreetly that a victim would never know it has happened.  If this doesn't prove the insecurity of the current RFID platform, nothing will.  I know I wont be carrying an RFID card any time soon...