| 8 August 6:06 am |
Oops, big security hole in Netscape versions 4.5 through to 4.7 allowing access to local files. |
| 8 August 6:19 am |
Good article about the Napster case, Judge Patel's judgement and the implication that the writer of an application is responsible for the user's actions. |
| 8 August 19:11 pm |
From The Register, news of a publishing company effectively hijacking a web page domain name through thoughtless/malicious book naming - Penguin sticks head in the sand. |
| 10 August 0:58 am |
On GameSpy, a speech by John Carmack at QuakeCon on PCs versus consoles. |
| 10 August 1:13 am |
'Well-informed' article here on the Observer - choice quote: "Some companies are using 'web bugs' that hide computer codes behind images only a pixel in size on your computer screen to gather information about your web surfing habits." |
| 11 August 6:09 am |
Yet another article on abandonware, this one from CNET. |
| 12 August 18:58 pm |
Shoes that are projected to increase atheletes performance by up to 4% are being prepared for the Sydney Olympics. |
| 12 August 23:13 pm |
Tom's Hardware has an article comparing 3D performance on Windows and Linux - its based on NVidia cards, as the Linux drivers are fairly in step with the Windows ones. With the acid test of Quake 3, Windows is still ahead but not by all that much. |
| 15 August 1:59 am |
News and screenshots on release games for the Gameboy Advance, looking good. |
| 18 August 2:07 am |
News on a planned laser broom to sweep for space dust in front of the International Space Station. |
| 18 August 18:26 pm |
Posted on haddock, a really good article entitled Joel on Software Things You Should Never Do, Part I. Worth reading if you program. |
| 20 August 4:57 am |
The Onion had a similar feature a while back with music albums which was a bit better, but GamePro's 50 least influential films of all time is still pretty good for a laugh. |
| 24 August 11:42 am |
Nintendo at SpaceWorld 2000 announce details on the upcoming Gameboy Advance and the GameCube. |
| 24 August 15:36 pm |
Interesting article on CNN about free riders on Gnutella. A key quote: "1 percent of the users served close to 50 percent of the requests". This surprising ratio indicates that distributed file sharing applications could be heavily curtailed by selective lawsuits. |
| 25 August 13:15 pm |
The Register has news on the UK national lottery submissions, and advocates that Camelot lost out due to a software problem with GTech. |
| 29 August 17:34 pm |
More detail on why the UK National Lottery bids failed. |
| 31 August 12:51 pm |
DVD Debate rates the Playstation 2's ability as a dedicated DVD player. |
