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Record companies are quick to squeal about their alleged billion dollar losses due to Internet file sharing, so wouldn’t it be reasonable to expect to see the effect on their bottom line? Apparently not when it comes to members of the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). The latest financial results released by ARIA [...]

Direct from the “Could you possibly imagine a worse combination” department, The Dallas Morning News is reporting that the Republican party is considering using pop-up and ads to promote George Bush’s presidential campaign.
Anyone out there using Internet Explorer and stuck having to view ads while browsing, it’s time to do yourself a favour and upgrade. [...]

House rules

8 card decks
Double allowed on 9, 10 or 11
Dealer stands on soft 17
Blackjack pays 3:2
Insurance pays 2:1
Dealer Blackjack takes original and busted bets only
Split to 3 hands
Aces split to 2 hands
One card only on split aces
Double after split allowed
Double for less allowed
First card burnt

Number of tables:
$10-$500: 16
$15-$700: 4
$25-$1000: [...]

I’m convinced that digital photography will be the financial ruin of me. Not only did it lead me to purchase a Canon 300D digital SLR as soon as it was released, my renewed interest in photography has also started to translate in to an interest in expensive Canon “L” lenses.
My first foray in to [...]

SCO Group has begun targeting Australian Linux users in its legal campaign to claim ownership of some code in the open-source operating system.
SCO has engaged lawyers to “contact Linux users” about its controversial Linux licensing scheme, after its US legal counsel reached 1500 of the world’s largest Linux users in May.

More at news.com.au.
Considering that SCO [...]

It’s always nice to see a business oriented magazine taking a deeper look at Open Source software - in this case it’s CIO magazine with an interesting and in depth analysis of the following six popular myths about Open Source:

MYTH 1: The attraction is the price tag - It’s really the performance and reliability.
MYTH 2: [...]

Postfix Enabler is a simple application that allows Mac OS X.3 users to easily and quickly set up a mail server on their computer. It provides a graphical interface to configure SMTP, POP3 and IMAP services, all of which can be offered in clear text or encrypted using SSL. It can also enable [...]

Michael in various photographic poses

Microsoft Office has a useful feature called “Track changes” that allows tracking of the contributions multiple editors make to documents. It allows identification of what changes were made and when, as well as allowing the changes to be easily accepted or rejected. If you use this feature, you need to be careful as [...]

…to decide who cleans the house. Sounds pretty fair, after all, a coin toss is completely random isn’t it? Time to guess again.
Researchers in the United States have shown that a coin toss is inherently biased, and more likely to land the same way it started. This is due to the difficulty [...]