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  • ThePirateBay is back online

    ThePirateBay is back online

    Merely a few days after their server computers were seized by the Swedish police, ThePirateBay.org is already back online. It appears that as any global private company, ThePirateBay.org really had a crash recovery plan prepared to correct extreme circumstances like those found last Wednesday. The new server is located in Netherlands (an additional server has…

  • Firefox is growing up

    At least, that is what I see from my web site statistics. Today, I checked and I can see that Internet Explorer is only 65% of last month’s visits. 23% of the visits come from one or another version of FireFox. By the way, Safari from Apple is still around 2%, while Opera does 3%.

  • ThePirateBay: some more

    ThePirateBay: some more

    The latest news in the battle between the entertainment industry and the (previously) world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site. The owners of ThePirateBay.org, still very sure of the legality of their web site (and it seems that they some good points drawn from the Swedish law), announced that they would be seeking for compensation from the…

  • AOL chokes on millions of email messages

    Yesterday, AOL fell because of a “software bug” that prohibited any email to be sent or received by the millions of subscribers to the giant ISP. After an unspecified time (visibly less than 24 hours), the operation could be restored. It seems that there was no email lost. The very old but robust email protocols…

  • ThePirateBay: We’ll be back

    ThePirateBay: We’ll be back

    That’s the message that the owners of ThePirateBay.org are sending right now. They expect to come back within a day or two. Woa! If they go as quick as that, it seems they were ready or prepared. I’m not sure that the entertainment industry was expecting such a fast move. I did not.

  • OpenOffice first virus

    One of the arguments pushed forward by the proponents of OpenOffice, the free open source desktop suite (replacement for Ms-Office) has long been the total lack of security issues. I never did use it, while I favor strongly OpenOffice and I appreciate this feature, because I felt that it was only linked to the more…

  • Vista is late. We know why.

    Gary Krakow, columnist at MSNBC has tried the Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2. It is fair to say that his report is shooting Vista down. Essentially, Vista is nice but it is a nightmare to install. You can expect that to be a proof of instability and a reason for added delays at delivering the…

  • “Porn is better than sex” say British men

    With such a title I should be ready for some flak. But this is just what announces a Neilsen Netratings survey commissioned by the Independent on Sunday. There, you will learn that the United Kingdom is fast becoming the best market for Internet pornography thanks to a phenomenal growth touching – Yes ! – women…

  • ThePirateBay.org: Servers seized by police

    ThePirateBay.org: Servers seized by police

    The world biggest indexation site for BitTorrent contents, ThePirateBay.org, would consider itself totally immune from actions from copyright holders associations (like the American RIAA and MPAA) because of its geographical location in Sweeden. As a matter of fact, in this Scandinavian country indexing contents (showing where to find them and not providing them by yourself)…