This is just so darn interesting.
Slashdot | Google’s Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage?
Re:It’s no lie…. (Score:5, Informative)
by mac-diddy (569281) on Wednesday March 31, @06:13PM (#8732700)
whois shows that the domain gmail.com was created back on Aug 13, 1995 [whois.net], which is actually before google.com domain was created (Sep 15, 1997 [whois.net]).
Continue reading ‘Slashdot Comments on Google Gmail’
Google will be launching a free email service providing 1 GB (yes, one gigabyte) of storage for every single user!
Continue reading ‘Google Launches Gmail’
Slashdot | Yahoo and Hotmail Filter Flaw
GreyMagic Software, an Israeli computer security firm, has discovered a serious security flaw in Yahoo and Microsoft’s email services which allows hackers to run malicious programs on users’ computers. According to the website, all attempts to contact Yahoo unfortunately failed.
Continue reading ‘Security Flaw in Internet Explorer’
from a Lee.org rant (not related to me in any way):
People die all the time from so many other reasons than bombs and guns. In 2001, 41,000 people were killed in America by cars. That’s more than 100 per day. But when was the last time you saw a news flash of a car-crash death?
Continue reading ‘Bombs and Guns vs Cars’
Walnut High School is doing the play Guys & Dolls. I have nothing to do with it, but I liked the tune of the “can do, can do, can do” song in it. So I’m posting here the lyrics for your enjoyment.
Continue reading ‘Fugue for Tinhorns’
Ah. I think my essay looks good, but I’m afraid it’s going to look stupid when I read it tomorrow (and I’m not as sleepy).
Wow! I’ve never heard of this before, and I haven’t tried it yet, but apparently you can use standard hardware and get 1.72 MB (almost a 20% gain) out of standard 1.44 MB floppy disks. Continue reading ‘Format Standard 1.44 MB Floppies for 1.72 MB Capacity’
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