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DVD Cracker Nails Apple’s iPod Code

October 25th

You gotta hand it to this guy, he says that he “doesn’t like closed systems”, which is pretty darned obvious The man, Jon Lech Johansen, who years ago cracked the DVD encryption known as CSS, and released (with two other unknowns) the software that could be used to decrypt DVDs (called DeCSS), has taken [...]

What About Going the Other Way?

October 19th

I just thought I’d add this last post as a bit of food for thought before signing off today. This link comes from a bloke who’s been through the pain of wanting to move away from Windows, only to find that the results were just as, if not more, painful than sticking to what he [...]

Virtual Vista Stuff-Up

October 17th

OK, so it looks like I might have been misinformed (er… wrong :)) by stating that the basic versions of Vista can’t be installed on VMs. That’ll teach me not to read the licencing details properly myself! It looks like it was a slight misunderstanding of the terms and structure that MS used in stating [...]

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