Bunch o' stuff!

• Tiger spotted on Louisiana Army base - Of all the places to prowl around, I would think that this would NOT be one of them. :-)
  
  
• Usb Floppy Disk Striped Raid Under OS X - Yeah, let's hear it for RAID-5 floppy disks! And only on a Macintosh, too!
  
  
• PC PhoneHome - This might be worth getting if you have a laptop. It's software that sits on your machine, and every time you boot up with a network connection, sends a message to the company's central server. If your machine is ever stolen, you contact them, they will tell you where the machine is being used from and forward the information on to the police. From there, it's pretty easy for them to bust the perp and recover your laptop.
  
  
• Stuff Bak - This is a pretty cool site that you can buy stickers from to place on your cellphone, PDA, laptop, keys, etc. that result in someone finding them being paid a cash reward when the item is returned. It also helps deter theft of the items by making an item less unique. (Kinda hard to pawn/sell a stolen laptop that has an aluminum sticker on it!) Here's a sample label:
  
  
  
  
• Philadelphia Mulls Wireless Society - Aww, Philadelphia wants to have wireless access for the entire city. That's nice... but how about spending that money on something more important like... not charging me a 4.5% tax to work in the city! Oh wait, that's why I stopped working in the city!
  
  Or maybe fix the Sure Kill Distressway so that it's more than 2 lanes in each direction and doesn't get backed up for miles every single day?
  
  
• FBI busts alleged DDoS Mafia - Oh, here's a great one. I'll just quote the first paragraph:
  

  A Massachusetts businessman allegedly paid members of the computer underground to launch organized, crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against three of his competitors, in what federal officials are calling the first criminal case to arise from a DDoS-for-hire scheme.

  How nice. Looks like they caught a few of the jerks who hijack computers and use them in DDoS attacks against innocent parties. These people should be locked up for a good long time.
  

That's all for now.