Monthly Archives: July 2006

Whois Hijacking My Domain Research?

Something fishy is up with Chesterton Holdings. How did Chesterton own a reader’s domain name and register it before she did? I ran some tests, picked three random names and checked them with CNet Domain Search page. 30 hours later … Continue reading

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Allied math nerds gleaned German WWII tank production from serial numbers

This article shows that just by reading the serial numbers of captured German tanks Allied boffins figured out a simple formula to calculate German tank production. And the formula was correct to within a small number of tanks. Remember folks: … Continue reading

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Microsoft to make defragmenting automatic in Vista?

“Now, according to Paul Thurrott, Windows Vista comes complete with an automatic defragmentation scheduler. The default is for the user’s hard drives to be defragmented at 4:00 AM every Sunday, when presumably most people won’t be doing other work on … Continue reading

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