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DRM will never work unless...
Tuesday, September 21, 2004 4:39 PM

DRM will never work unless...Prelog: I tried to load up some .WMA protected songs I bought about a year ago only to find out I cannot play them anymore. Why? Because I installed Windows 2003 over XP, and it did not carry my licenses over.

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DVD2 is on it's way, and Sony bought it out
Saturday, September 18, 2004 4:56 PM

DVD2 (aka BluRay) is on it's way, and Sony bought it outWell it seems sony is up to their old dirty tricks. For those who don't know they developed their own DVD2 format BluRay and other companies developed another one. So instead of competing,

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The Worst Security Hole Ever Found in Windows
Wednesday, September 15, 2004 8:22 PM

The Worst Security Hole Ever Found in WindowsNo I'm not into sensationalism or exaggeration, this probably is the WORST Microsoft hole of all time. All you need to do is view a custom made JPEG and your system can be fully hacked (assuming you use

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'God Lives Underwater' is back!
Monday, September 13, 2004 9:12 PM

'God Lives Underwater' is back!Ok I don't normally put personal stuff on my blog as I try to stay as nerdy & educational as possible but I have to rant about the fact that the band 'God Lives Underwater' aka GLU is back. When their label went

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In defense of Longhorn's lack of WinFS
Saturday, September 11, 2004 6:09 PM

In defense of Longhorn's lack of WinFSThere's a really good and lengthy blog post over at LonghognBlogs.com about Longhorn not having WinFS. I'm still not happy about it, but it was an enlightening read.

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Great upcoming Fantasy movie... The Last Unicorn
Saturday, September 11, 2004 6:01 PM

Great upcoming Fantasy movie... The Last UnicornI was looking up 'The Never Ending Story' soundtrack and I noticed that 'The Last Unicorn' has come out on DVD. I'm a junkie for fantasy movies, even if they're a cartoon. Well I quickly found

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IIS7 is (slowly) on it's way
Thursday, September 09, 2004 4:09 PM

IIS7 is (slowly) on it's wayI was checking out yesterday's video at Channel 9 and Scott mentions that the ASP.Net got their first build of IIS7 today (9/8/2004). The ONLY mention I can dig up on the net about what features IIS7 will offer support

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First impressions of Media Player 10 aka the iTunes killer
Wednesday, September 08, 2004 8:30 PM

First impressions of Media Player 10 aka the iTunes killerWell I downloaded WMP10 which has the new built in music store features. I'm not going to repeat the marketing info but in 1 sentence it supports multiple stores (Napster, MSN Music, WalMart,

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RSS, the Internet and the Past/Present/Future of News
Thursday, September 02, 2004 3:25 AM

RSS, the Internet and the Past/Present/Future of News News delivery has evolved so much, possible more than any other technology. Obviously if you go back a thousand years, all people had was word of mouth. Extremely unreliable since people prefer

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Microsoft will launch Media Player 10 with their own iTunes killer tomarrow
Wednesday, September 01, 2004 5:49 PM

Microsoft will launch Media Player 10 with their own iTunes killer tomarrowI love itunes, but I can't wait to see what MS has up it's sleeve. Although considering the web view that WMP has had in the past, I don't expect this to be as good as iTunes.

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