GNC-2009-12-03 #533 Turn the Heat Down Dummy!
Reminder to oneself turn the heat off in the room before starting the show. Not good to record the show when its 80 in the room. The folks watching the live stream got to watch a meltdown. :) Full tech…
McAffee: .cm Top Level Domains are the Worst
McAffee put out their annual “Mapping the Mal Web” report. It is a PDF that lets you know how risky a website in a Top Level Domain (TLD) can be. Since the .com is so widely used, it’s easy to…
Use of SETI = $1.2 Million?
An Arizona school district information technology administrator is being investigated for misuse of campus computers because he installed and ran SETI software on up to 5,000 machines. The school district contends that this cost between “$1.2 and 1.6 million dollars…
Google to Murdoch: Here’s a Piece of Rope. Have Fun!
Today, according to the Google Blog, Google is making some changes in the “First Click Free” way they have been indexing pages. Up until now, Google and publishers have worked together to allow Google to spider and index news sites,…
Just Put the Installation/Recovery CD In the Box, Okay?
A couple of days ago, a friend of my son’s called me with panic in her voice. Her fancy media-enabled Acer laptop had died. Kept booting into a recovery mode but then could not recover, so would shut down, only…