Comic: Spammers Are A Lower Life Form

Spammers are low life form, particularly the ones who sneak links into blog comment posts. Spam bots can be stopped by the Captcha, but not human spammers :-(

Ubuntu 9.04 Releasing On Thursday

Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) is releasing on Thursday. The availability of the Release Candidate last Thursday was a taste of things to come.

Jaunty Jackalope features out-of-the-box support for Wacom digital tablets, reduced bootup time, the 2.6.28 kernel featuring stable Ext4 filesystem support and updated packages of all included software.

MockupScreens Sent Me A Free License

MockupScreens just sent me a free license to try out their software. You can use it to create mockups for your software before you begin development. If you would like to order a license, it costs under $90 for a single user license.

MockupScreens is Vista-compatible and you can find screenshots of it here:
http://mockupscreens.com/index.php?page=Screen-Prototypes

Protest Against Sentence To The Pirate Bay

Hundreds of youngsters protested the sentence by the Stockholm court to the founders of The Pirate Bay.

Bezeq Intl Seeds Torrents Locally

Bezeq International, an Israeli Internet Service Provider, is finding ways to both satisfy customers' torrent needs and improve network performance while proving both aren't necessarily exclusive. Their approach is to seed torrents on their own network by modifying torrent files downloaded by subscribers, adding a tracker containing the seeds to it.

With the recent turn of events in the Pirate Bay case, this could become controversial.