Monthly Archives: December 2005

How to make all video/audio files work on an Ubuntu Breezy system

December 29, 2005 – 1:49 pm

Having trouble playing DVDs, MP3s, DiVX, AAC/MP4, XViD or WMV audio/video files on your Ubuntu Breezy system? Since these fomats are all proprietary, the companies that invented them require that developers purchase a (very expensive) license to legally decode (play back) files in these formats (with the exception of XViD which has had a completely [...]

By FireRabbit | Posted in Computers & Technology, Linux, Ubuntu/Debian | Comments (8)

War on Christmas

December 17, 2005 – 10:06 pm

An interesting read: http://fuckchristmas.org/ (Courtesy Miguel).
My opinion: I think that if someone wants to say “Merry Christmas” then they should be able to, just as I think people should be able to say “Happy Holidays” or “Happy Hanukkah” (or whatever) if that is what they want to say.
I don’t think anyone can disagree with [...]

By FireRabbit | Posted in World News | Comments (0)

Identity Theft Made Easy

December 8, 2005 – 4:56 pm

In movies, “hackers” usually end up having to perform long drawn-out operations to obtain information about a target. Back in the real world, I am thinking now interesting it would be if they actually had to do that much work…
There was a lady sitting in front of me on the bus this morning making a [...]

By FireRabbit | Posted in Randomness | Comments (3)