Steinbring Inc.

With the ubiquity of Windows in today’s world, this could be a very good thing.  I just hope they properly implement it.

Microsoft is working on a remote access tunneling protocol for Vista and Longhorn Server that lets client devices securely access networks via a VPN from anywhere on the Internet without concern for typical port blocking issues.
The Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) creates a VPN tunnel that travels over Secure-HTTP, eliminating issues associated VPN connections based on the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) or Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) that can be blocked by some Web proxies, firewalls and Network Address Translation (NAT) routers that sit between clients and servers.
The protocol, however, is only for remote access and will not support site-to-site VPN tunnels. 

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What the heck! When they released this stupid thing, they said:

(a) The music industry will be getting a kickback for each Zune sold for no real apparent reason

(b) You can only use music bought from the Zune marketplace and can’t even use the music you already bought from Microsoft via MSN Music

(c) Everything is infected with their DRM crap

The only cool thing was that you could do was to share (or squirt) music (for only 3 plays or 3 days) to other Zune owners (if you can find another one) via built in wifi. Now, they’re saying that for music from certain artists (40-50% of Universal and Sony artists) you can’t even do that?!?!? That’s insane! This is why the Zune is failing so miserably.

From cliczune:

Here’s what we found from the 50 songs tested by Zunerama:

Universal Music Group

* Prohibited Zune Sharing: Gwen Stefani, Snow Patrol, Eminem, Blue October, JoJo, Jay-Z;
* Accepted Zune Sharing: Nickelback, Nelly Furtado and Maria Careh;

Sony Music

* Prohibited Zune Sharing: Beyonce, Weird Al Yankovic (not sure if song is from Sony) and Ciara;
* Accepted Zune Sharing: Shakira, Wyclef Jean, The Fray, Christina Aguilera, John Mayer and Brad Paisley;

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Like the look of the iPhone?  Don’t wanna get rid of your windows smartphone?  Now, you can keep your windows phone while pretending to have an iPhone.

Instructions Link [ Via UNEASYSilence ]

Play your ROMs the way they were meant to be seen. On a real NES.
“I decided to hack a cartridge to be able to reload it with the software of my choice, which may be a game, a demo, a home-made game, or maybe someday my own software. I used two AT49F002 (256K) flash chips. I program them using a universal eprom programmer.”

I don’t know how this will effect the distribution of VLC (if at all) but according to Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, “Starting tomorrow December 31st 2006, reading a DVD protected with CSS (as most DVD are) is illegal in France when it is done with a software allowing to circumvent the protection, such as VLC or mplayer which can both use the libdvdcss library.”

Just in case, I’ve saved the current version of VLC for safe keeping.

VLC 0.8.6 (Win32), VLC 0.8.6 (OSX), Journal Officiel (In French)