Digital Review
If you’re like me, you’ve been putting off buying a new computer just because you didn’t feel like going through the hassle of transferring important files and programs from one PC to another. Procrastinate no longer! AlohaBob’s PC-Relocator, a new software program from publisher EisenWorld makes it easy to transfer the contents of your entire …
There are lots of reasons why people believe it’s acceptable to download copyrighted music for free. It is possible, for example, to believe that private property is abhorrent and that stealing is perfectly justifiable behavior. Of course, rifling through your friend’s wallet, taking money from the collection plate, or putting steaks under your sweatshirt can …
A laptop is an expensive investment, and having in itself won’t get you a first-class degree, you have to work hard for that! Before even looking at one (if you look, you’ll want it) you should consider whether you really need one. Laptops are very useful if: You spend a lot of time travelling on …
Hate the hype surrounding the Storm worm, and hate to add to it. Since its debut in early 2007, the virus has infected millions of PCs to create botnets that send spam or launch denial-of-service attacks. And it will very likely be used to create an immense amount of damage some time in the future. …
Found some lovely piece of code deep into the FTP parts of Zope 2 last Saturday, one of them is truly ugly. It’s listing the contents of the current and parent folders for no apparent reason (or at least, it didn’t make sense either to me or Chris McDonough). The code in question is in …
Lots of releases today. First SIP, our Zope 3 Sample Inventory application is being released. A proper press release follows next week. Then, Marshall, mostly a bugfix release to get some fixes that didn’t make it in the first and only release. If you don’t know what Marshall does, you probably don’t need it wink. There’s still more stuff to come. Watch this …
Mark Hammond just shown me a screenshot of Python and XUL. That’s right, Python used as scripting language on our most beloved browser to create XUL interfaces. I am so excited about it that I couldn’t keep it to myself and thought it would be nice to share with you.