Monthly Archives: November 2005

CSUS “housing village” project

An interesting “housing village” project developing at CSUS. Will it be truly pedestrian-oriented, or will they fall into the typical auto-centric traps? Continue reading

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CSUS housing survey results not viewable

A web page generated by University Enterprises (formerly the CSUS Foundation) is only viewable by unimpaired users of IE and possibly Netscape. Continue reading

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Check out this cool photo!

Awesome high-speed photography, awesome blog! Continue reading

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The silencing of Daniel

An American soldier blogging in Iraq is silenced. Welcome to George Bush’s America, where the Bill of Rights is a quaint historical document… Continue reading

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Customer backlash at Van Zant over Sony’s disreputable business practices

It’s unfortunate that the Van Zant brothers are suffering the fallout caused by Sony’s shortsighted DRM rootkit. Take a look at the customer rating of their “CD” Get Right with the Man: 5 stars: 17 / 198 (9%) 4 stars: … Continue reading

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Removing Sony DRM rootkit

Information on Sony rootkit along with instructions for removing it. Continue reading

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Handy malware-removal site

I was looking at some of the blogs using the new PingQueue service, and I came across an interesting malware removal/information site. Looks like they post pretty frequently, which is probably a requirement given the amount of malware created on … Continue reading

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California special election: Arnold takes a beating

The Governator put his political life on the line in the lead-up to yesterday’s special election. Unfortunately for him, every one of his propositions was defeated. (Arnold was pushing Props. 74, 75, 76, and 77.) There’s been much talk that … Continue reading

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DiskWarrior wasn’t able to help me

After nearly 7 weeks, I’m giving up hope that DiskWarrior can recover my drive’s data. Continue reading

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Prof. Felten added to my blogroll

Last week I was going through my blogroll and learned about the Sony rootkit debacle from Joseph’s blog. While digging into this some more, I ran across Prof. Ed Felten’s blog, “Freedom to Tinker.” I remembered Felten’s name from earlier … Continue reading

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