RIAA Defeated!

Published by: Codrut Nistor, in News

April30th2008


If it weren't those P2P music downloads lawsuits, probably most of us wouldn't have any idea about what is RIAA and what it does. In fact, RIAA is widely known for watching your downloads, rather than trying to take care of the artists' rights. Even when I look at the snipped shown in Google for their page, I see "Trade group that claims to represent the US recording industry." So not even them can't be sure about what they DO? Great! Well, today, it may be the beginning of their end...

RIAA logo

...because a federal court rejected one of RIAA's basic theories, passing a decision that could lead to the end of its litigation strategy, according to a copyright lawyer. Here's what the judge wrote:"Merely making an unauthorized copy of a copyrighted work available to the public does not violate a copyright holder's exclusive right of distribution."

This is it. The beginning of the end, as I said. I won't add anything else, because I am sure there's nothing more to say, at least now. I'll get back to the subject as soon as the effects of this decision will start appearing...
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Find Your IP

Published by: Codrut Nistor, in Tips & Tricks

April29th2008


If you look around on Google, or ask your friend, you will surely get a lot of answers regarding how to find out what's your computer's IP. Well, instead of opening a certain site just to get your IP adress displayed, there's something much easier to do, and this action can also provide you much more information...

What is my IP

As you can see above, it's all about typing a command in the Windows command prompt, but let's take this step by step, shall we?

1. Press the Windows key+R, or open the Start menu and choose Run

2. Type in "command" to bring forward the command prompt

3. Now, type "ipconfig /all" and press Enter to get the info you need (and some extras)

4. Notice your IP adress, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, and the rest of the information provided by this command

Note: if you need to know your network card's MAC, then you should know this is also displayed by the command mentioned here, as "Physical Address."

Oh, just one more thing - I know I displayed my IP address in the screenshot, but don't waste your time to play funny tricks on me, because I don't have a fixed IP...
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Communist Google

Published by: Codrut Nistor, in Tips & Tricks

April26th2008


I don't want to start a discussion that will surely turn into a flame, so I won't tell you anything related to the opinion I have about communism. There's only one thing about it to keep in mind today - the red color. I am sure the image below says it all, in fact it may even ruin the surprise, but this is only for you. I am sure if you go to a friend and show him this, he will be surprised, so let's see how can we "paint" this Easter Egg, shall we?

Communist Google

There are only a few easy steps to follow. The only things you need are a computer(even a mobile phone may work), a connection to the Internet, and a Web browser. OK...

1. Open Google.com in your browser

2. Type in "google communist"(without the quotation marks) in the input text box

3. Now, click on the "I'm feeling lucky" button

4. Enjoy the result and the effect it has on your friend!
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