One of the few useful features WinXP has that OSX doesn’t have is “Hibernate”. WinXP is able, upon power loss, to save the contents of a sleeping PC’s RAM to disk, so that the system state and user data isn’t lost.

OSX’s sleep feature drains power, albeit slowly. On my work iBook, it can sleep for just about 3 days with no power, before it goes dead.

The new Powerbooks have a feature that is called ‘Safe Sleep’, which is pretty much ‘Hibernate’. Since the feature is software-based, it’s fairly easy to implement on non-Powerbook Macs.

Here‘s a nice primer on T1 technology.

By now all three of you who read this site are familiar with the tale of how Sony released a music cd (by Van Zant, some crap country band) that includes a DRM rootkit.

What you don’t know is that certain enterprising World of Warcraft hackers have used this nice, working Ring0 rootkit to hide their nasty WoW cheating programs from Blizzard’s “Warden” cheat detection processes.

This Indian Techie flamewar cracks me up.

You are mental sick, you cheap dog.

I’ve been using Flock for a few days, and I’m really impressed. I’ve not been a big user of del.icio.us, but I really like the Flock integration. I think my favorite feature so far is the indexed browsing history, which is a real time-saver when doing research.

I’m posting this using the Flock Blogging toolbar, and it’s very elegant, and works very well with WordPress.

Flock has integrated RSS feeds, but since I use Bloglines exclusively, I don’t see much of a point in having my feeds tied to a single browser — especially since I browse from any of five different computers at any given time.

VMware Player  is free software that enables PC users to easily run any virtual machine on a Windows or Linux PC. VMware Player runs virtual machines created by VMware Workstation, GSX Server or ESX Server and also supports Microsoft virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery disk formats.

I need to remember to download this.

For some terrible reason, I actually like the folk remix of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back”.

I’ve also been diggin’ Party Ben‘s remixes. In particular, his smashup of Green Day vs. Oasis vs. Travis vs. Aerosmith vs. Eminem, “Boulevard of Broken Songs” is so good, if I hear any of the pre-smashed songs, I think there’s something wrong with them.

For those of you who have Nextel phones, Mologogo lets you track and map your cellphone via Google Maps.

You probably didn’t know that honey could be used as a Honey topical antibacterial agent for the treatment of infected wounds.

That’s ok. I didn’t either.

I’ve been in a training class all week, and have found using a USB thumb drive to be an excellent way to carry around a few small apps — Portable Firefox and Putty — for use on a machine that I don’t control and that I might not use the next day.

Here‘s a list of more small USB-drive-friendly apps.