CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 2 on HP TouchPad

New malware has been released that can compromise your Microsoft Kinect. The resulted attack? How about a spy camera that uploads it’s pictures off of your console.

More information here: http://goo.gl/M5KEC

A lot of talk has been surfacing lately about major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) changing their policies on bandwidth usage for both residential and business customers. Usage Based Billing has been approved by the Canadian Radio-television & Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for major providers (ILECs)- MTS Allstream, Shaw, Telus, and Rogers. What are your thoughts on metering your internet usage? In a day where we have come to embrace technology as a part of our daily lives (specifically the internet), it seems like this move could be a critical factor in limiting how society has already changed.

Some sites of interest for more information:
– Stop The Meter
– CBC Explaining Usaged Based Billing (YouTube)
– George Stroumboulopoulos talks about the proposed changes on his show “The Hour” (YouTube)

DJ Earworm released his top 25 hit mash up of 2010.

I’ve bit the bullet. My current HP G60 no longer meets my requirements, and I’ve decided to build a new Core i7 gaming rig. I currently have the following parts:

- Intel Core i7-960 Processor
- Intel Desktop Board DX58SO Extreme-series
- EVGA GeForce GTX 570 – 1280MB
- Mushkin 12GB PC3-10666

Updates to follow….

Updated 28 Jan 10

It’s done, and wow is it fast! I added a 128GB Kingston SSDNow V100 solid state drive for added performance.

If Microsoft buys Adobe, the web industry will have two major players: Microsoft, and Google.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-buying-adobe-call-me-highly-skeptical/7602

Was doing some research for long backhaul IP/TDM link solutions and came across a company called TrangoLink. Though only authorized up to operate up to 37GHz by Industry Canada in the licensed spectrum, their GigaPro equipment can achieve speeds of up to 1.5Gbps  aggregate. Check ‘er out: http://www.trangosys.com/products/point-to-point-wireless-backhaul/licensed-wireless/trangolink-gigapro.shtml

I’ve been experiencing a lot of issues with Firefox on my laptop lately, here I am thinking it’s just an underpowered laptop… After actually looking into it, it appears that Firefox is using outrages amounts memory ( 250MB+ with two tabs open). After quickly googling it, it appears that it’s a known issue for users…no remedy is available yet from Mozilla. Looks like I will have to resort to an earlier version in the interim.

Affected operating systems appear to be everything from XP right up to W7 (what I’m running).

http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=en-US&comments_parentId=383932&comments_offset=20&comments_per_page=20&forumId=1

If Oracle buys MySQL as part of Sun, database customers will pay the bill.

www.helpmysql.org