UNCONVENTIONAL WORLD RECORDS

via /. and minimsft

right now, there are people working within Microsoft wanting to fire the likes of CEO Steve Ballmer and Windows chief Jim Allchin.

If they could, that is…

At the very least, an interesting look into internal corporate grumblings.

via /. and the washington post
irhabi = terrorist

real name: Younis Tsouli

occupation: Al-Qaeda’s top hacker

age: 22

base: West London

skills: web defacement, web cracking, anonymous browsing, hacking, programming, executing online attacks, mastering digital and media design, stealing creditcard info etc (more…)

via /.:

A team of Japanese and German scientists broke the old record of 1.28TBps held by another team of Japanese scientists.

That’s equivalent to 60 DVDs!
This, of course is in R&D mode. The current highest commercially-available speed is 50 times slower i.e. 40Gbps.

from the BBC:

Pope Benedict XVI has asked the Afghan president to show clemency towards Abdul Rahman, who’s facing possible execution for converting to Christianity.

I think jerryc deserves as much plugging as possible, and I dare say he’s one of the best unknown guitarists out there. Could he be better than Malaysia’s guitar heroes Sham Kamikaze, Man Keedal and the others?

IMHO, among all his online videos “Rock on” is the best, showcasing his talents perfectly.

Apart from google video (and probably other sites too), his website has more downloadable audio/video.

According to an article at chosun.com, gaming turns our kids into antisocial criminals.

It’s the RedShark v2 by rin3y

It’s a car audio storage system made up of the following components:

• A Linksys NSLU2 Network Storage Link, an embedded Linux box. It boots a variant of Debian called OpenDebianSlug from a 1 GB USB memstick. It runs MPD (Music Player Daemon), which provides socket-based control over playing music, creating playlists ++. (more…)

as claimed by Dell with its XPS 600 Renegade

among the specs

• 4 x GeForce 7900 GPUs combined to give 2GB dedicated graphics memory [apparently the first time ever this was showcased - using NVIDIA Quad SLI technology]
• 1 x Intel Pentium D Extreme Edition (dualcore) “factory overclocked” to 4.26GHz
• 2 x Western Digital 10K RPM hard disks at RAID0, plus another 400GB 7200rpm hdd
• 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 RAM
• 30″ flatpanel monitor
• dual DVR+-RW drive + another DVD ROM drive
• the highest end speakers + soundcards

…and last but not least……autographed by Michael Dell himself!

Cost? USD10,000

not available for sale in Malaysia

it’s time to get cranky again

Hockey

semifinals

Australia 6-0 Malaysia

after such promise, the most dreaded thing, collapse of will,  happened, yet again. Why??? How many psychology sessions do we need???

On 15th March, The Washington Post reported that for the 3rd consecutive year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) gets another F in computer security.

Why is this so special? The DHS is “charged with charting the federal government’s cyber security agenda .” (more…)