Oct 5 2006

DreamHost’s 200Gb/2Tb Madness

Bah! I thought it was crazy earlier this year when DreamHost quadrupled the storage space and octupled monthly data transfer. Apparently it was saner than I thought, as they have just increased the storage by 10 fold and doubled the bandwidth. Now there are over 200Gb of storage and over 2Tb of data transfer in [...]

Oct 3 2006

Filling up PhishTank with Phishers

Via OpenDNS Blog, PhishTank is a website that collects URLs of phishing websites that conduct fraudulent activity by tricking people believing they are on a legitimate website. I’m getting phishing emails almost everyday telling me either my PayPal is not working, asking me to confirm an eBay purchase, or my bank needs my password. Great [...]

vNES, online NES emulator implemented in Java

vNES, a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator implemented in Java, where you can play all these old NES games online right inside your browser, in all its 8-bit glory. Mario Brothers, Bubble Bubble, etc. Doesn’t work with Java 1.4.2 for me but Java 1.5 is fine. There are heaps of old-school games that brought back [...]