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Imran Nazar wanted a JavaScript project: write a software to emulate Ninento’s classic game console. Today’s browsers are up to the challenge.

Originally posted at Deep Tech

Windows Home Server hasn’t exactly taken the consumer market by storm, showing yet again that people are more interested in shiny new toys than protecting their precious data. Still, there’s been a huge amount of negative backlash from Microsoft‘s recent decision to drop Drive Extender from the next release of WHS, currently codenamed Vail. Drive Extender is the tech that enables multiple physical disks to act as a single logical volume, making it easy for even non-techy folks to add more and enable data replication. Terry Walsh over at We Got Served was similarly taken aback by the decision and took the opportunity to drop a note to Big Poppa Steve Ballmer. He got a response:

From: Steve Ballmer
Sent: 26 November 2010 05:30
To: Terry Walsh
Subject: RE: MVP Feedback – Windows Home Server “Vail” Crisis
Let’s look into it

Yes, it’s a short response, and it course could mean anything or, indeed, nothing, but it is at least a response and a positive sign that the huge outcry among fans of Windows Home Server can indeed make its way to the top of the executive chain. Now we just wait to see what comes rolling back down…

Steve Ballmer looking into removal of Drive Extender from Windows Home Server originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Geeks like to show their colors. Bike polo geeks will wear jewelry made from old bike-chains, and the tackier car geeks will don Ferrari jackets and caps, hoping to trick people into thinking they actually have something better than a Ford Taurus parked outside,

Camera geeks already have their badge: a big swinging camera around their neck. But for the times when you can’t wear a giant 24-70 ƒ2.8 phallus on your chest, the F-Stop watch will do. It has a face with a “fetching” aperture-inspired design, and instead of boring old 1,2,3,4 running around the dial, you get markings at numbers 2, 2.8, 4, 5.6 and so on. The strap is faux-leather, like so many classy camera accessories, and it is made in China, just like almost everything in your kit-bag.

Want one? No, me either, but if you insist on inflicting a themed gift on a “loved” one this Christmas, you could do a lot worse, and it’s just $36. And if he or she is a Canon owner, may I interest you in my own entrepreneurial Christmas gift? It’s a “My other Camera is a Nikon” sticker (kidding!).

F-Stop Watch [Uncommon Goods via Oh Gizmo]

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It looks like we’re all doing our patriotic duty and spending more. Digital business analytics company comScore has reported that Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, saw $648 million in online sales, making it the biggest online spending day in 2010 and showing a 9 percent increase over 2009’s Black Friday. All those pre-Black Friday deals worked their magic, as well, as Thanksgiving Day saw a 28 percent increase in online spending, totaling $407 million.

Other winners in the online spending rush are the sites that organize and publicize Black Friday deals. comScore analyzed eight Black Friday deal sites for the five day period that ended with Black Friday and compared it with the previous year. Black-Friday.net led the group with 3.1 million unique visitors, up 42 percent from the previous year.

This article was written on July 16, 2007 by CyberNet.

I thought it was bad when a message appeared on an ATM saying that Windows needed to be activated, but I think it’s worse when the owner of an ATM doesn’t change the master password from it’s default which results in an “ATM Robbery.”

An ATM Robbery is exactly what happened in Pennsylvania last month when a man walked in to Mastorocco’s Market and reprogrammed the ATM to think that it was dishin’ out singles instead of twenties. Big difference there, huh? As mentioned, the owner of the ATM is responsible for changing the default passcode to prevent things like this from happening. And when the passcode for the Triton 9100 machine is as simple as 123456 and printed in service manuals easily found online, there is no wonder that this happened!

The man came to the store two days in a row and managed to get a total of $1,540 between the two visits. I’m surprised that someone hadn’t managed to do this prior! The owner’s excuse for not changing the master password was, “I’m not a technical person. I cut meat and I sell groceries, That’s my job. I don’t know anything about an ATM. I put money into it, people take it out, and I get a reading at the end of the day.”

Do you think the owner has changed the password now? I’d sure hope so! What a lesson to learn…

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