Outsourced

November 18th, 2007 by Futt

HP Invent As of December 1st, the entire IS (Information Services) department at my current employer is getting outsourced to an alliance between Hewlett-Packard and British Telecom. As a part of that project, I’ll be transferring to HP this December. Went to Oslo this weekend for the HP 2008 Kickoff and had a good time with some of my future colleagues. More as events unfold!

The Pirate Bay takes over IFPI.com

October 15th, 2007 by Futt

The Pirate BayEver heard of The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry - or IFPI? Somehow, through a donation from a third party, The Pirate Bay has gotten hold of the domain, ifpi.com. The original owners probably let the domain expire and someone snagged it before they could correct the mistake.

Torrentfreak has a brief interview with Brokep, of The Piratebay fame. Well played, mateys!

Showing off my stick

September 29th, 2007 by Futt

CruzerSo I was going to make this innuendo-laden post about what I do with my stick, but decided against it. This is a family blog after all. Anyway, USB sticks are cheap these days, so I always carry a couple of them with me. The latest acquisition is a 4GB Cruzer which I bought the other day for around €20.

Of course, the first thing you need to do when you buy a Cruzer is to remove the god-awful U3 software that comes with it. Fortunately they do provide a removal tool (it’s on a hidden partition on the drive or something). But once that’s done it’s a very useful drive in a very practical form factor. Now, here’s what I did with my 2 drives. Read the rest of this entry »

Pirates vs. Big Media

September 24th, 2007 by Futt

The Pirate BayAs foreseen, interesting things are happening in the wake of the recent MediaDefender email leak. Based on information gathered from said email messages, The Pirate Bay is now going after several huge media conglomerates, filing police reports alleging “infrastructural sabotage, denial of service attacks, hacking and spamming, all of these on a commercial level.”

While the chances of any charges actually going to criminal court are minuscule, I can’t help but love these guys.

Hot stock tip!

September 23rd, 2007 by Futt

SCOXI don’t trade stocks, and couldn’t care less about most of them really. But lately there is one particular technology company I’ve found some pleasure in keeping an eye on - SCOX. When I’m bored I just watch the little desktop widget showing SCO’s freefall.

No idea what I’m on about? Check Groklaw for the entire SCO saga in all it’s glory!

Anti-Piracy Ad from The IT Crowd

September 21st, 2007 by Futt