Benny Ling’s Bling

As some of you may already know, I’m heading overseas for the next couple of weeks. During this time, I’ll be handing over the reins to my very capable (when he’s bothered to be) co-founder, Chris Jacques – which means you’ll still get your weekly dose of freshbytes-love.

As an added bonus, you might even see a post or two from me while I’m away, thanks to WordPress’ excellent publishing tools which allow me to publish a pre-written post on a specific date, at a specific time. Depending on how much writing I manage to get done before I fly out on Thursday.

via freshbytes » A Freshbytes Fresh Update.

So yeah – same thing goes for here, except that Chris Jacques will NOT be posting anything here. Sorry, fans of Chris! This is a personal blog, after all…

Try not to wreck the place while I’m gone, and hopefully I’ll have some awesome posts when I get back, as well as some sort of direction (no idea if you’ve noticed, but I’ve been cross-posting via Press This a lot lately. I don’t want this to become a gadget blog [that's better left to Engadget, Gizmodo, etc] but I do post things here which I think are cool).

From yours truly,
Benny Ling..

“Apple’s iTunes Plus files are DRM-free, but sharing the files on P2P networks may be an extremely bad idea. A report published by CNet highlights the fact that the account information and email address of the iTunes account holder is hidden inside each and every DRM-free download. I checked, and I found I couldn’t access the information using an ID3 tag editor, but using Notepad I found my email address stored inside the audio file itself.”

via Slashdot | iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info.

Cough, cough.

Late enough, Slashdot? This was “news” when iTunes Plus was released TWO YEARS AGO.

And no, John Gruber, I don’t remember a time when Slashdot carried cutting-edge, breaking news. Was there ever?

Here’s the story that’s mentioned in the Daring Fireball link, as well as the actual story on DF itself.

xkcd – A Webcomic – I’m An Idiot.

Sometimes the simplest of things escape us geeks, you know.

If in doubt (that we’ve missed something painfully obvious), spell it out!

Australian redneck fixes plasma television with baseball bat – Boing Boing Gadgets.

You lulz for the day, sir.

Couple of things, though:

1. We don’t play baseball.

2. We don’t call them rednecks. They’re bogans.

Education and Government Incentives [EDGI] and “Microsoft Unlimited Potential” are programs that allows vendors to sell Windows at zero cost. Microsoft’s nightmare scenario has already been realized in Indiana and other places. Windows is not really competitive and schools that switch save tens of millions of dollars.

via Slashdot | How Microsoft Beats GNU/Linux In Schools.

Hmm – so this is why our school has switched to MS servers… Which sucks completely!

Just because they want to save a little each year…

But TRWTF (The Real Worse Than Failure)is: one of the tags on this slashdot post is masturbation.

I mean, really?! WHY!!

WTF.