Monthly Archives: October 2008

Oct
20
2008

Keyboards Insecure

Keyboards are insecure.
Anyone with a degree of proximity to your keyboard can pick up anything you type, including passwords.
Just so you know.
CX

By Captain Xark | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)
Oct
19
2008

Breakthroughs

RNA Logic
and
Bucky Paper
The future just got more interesting.
If RNA can hold logic, all life can become a processor. If you put a few of those bucky paper sheets together, bullets are going to go out of style and jet packs are going to steeply increase in fuel efficiency.
Beware! [...]

By Captain Xark | Posted in Design, Ideas | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)
Oct
16
2008

Excellent Summary of Interface Design Sites

link
AE will be feasting for months to come.
CX

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Oct
13
2008

Asus Mk241 24″ LCD L

The Abstract Exponent recently purchased an Asus Mk241 24″ LCD for general use.
Also considered were several Samsung, Viewsonic, and the Gateway 24″ models.
After seeing the Gateway’s poor picture and unstable portrait-rotating stand in stock at Best Buy, I ruled that out.
I have never been impressed with other Viewsonics and they make a lot of cheaper [...]

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Oct
07
2008

Open Office and AbiWord ready for OS X.5.5*

*See Below for Update from 11/25/08.
FWIW, I recommend avoiding the use of Open Office and Abi Word in OS X, it has positively introduced chaos onto my system.
After exporting a file to PDF, look what happened to a normal web page:
AbiWord and OpenOffice both also exhibit glitchy text editing, the cursor [...]

By Captain Xark | Posted in Apple, Design | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)
Oct
06
2008

Excellent Fedora 8 Gnome Desktop - Linux is Ready

For many, many years, we have wondered if linux is ready for the desktop.  I want to put a link here to the article, ok I will , but this discussion is such a huge fandango you could really waste a lot of time. In the opinion of AE, the question doesn’t boil [...]

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