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The corportate firewall and desktop. Those of us that live on one have to deal with IT staff madness every day, and the rules they setup drive me crazy. Just this morning I received notice to re-boot my workstation and change the password so the length has a minimum of 16 characthers. I immediately sent a reply and asked if
I should caution all of you that have a Sony PSP and any that have been longing for one, this video will make you think before you run some code on your PSP that has not been verified as authentic. This will be painful to watch! [14.4mb Video]
I take 36 hours off and come back to Skype messages e-mails and all kinds of havoc in response to a post that Chris Pirillo has put on his weblog. He talks about spamblogs, trackbacks and completely bogus entries on blogs over at Blogspot. I have talked about the massive amounts of comment and trackback spam I get here not
Over the past 3 months I have personally had to send 14 messages and letters to hosting providers over sites that were Spam Blogs aka SPLOGS and have them shutdown to them outright stealing my content with that content filled with links to porn, male performance pill etc.. Thus far I have been able to get 9 of the 11
Imagine you arrive at your favorite club or bar and when they ask for your ID they run it thru a scanner that is linked to a database. I have nothing to hide but that kind of personal intrusion gives me the creeps and would be very prone to abuse. The company that is making it says it can be
I have had trackbacks turned off for over 2 months and last night as a social experiment I put the CGI file back up on the server. After 6 hours of being back online here are the preliminary results. First Spam Trackback Ping: 9 seconds after upload Maximum Number of pings per 60 Seconds: 328 Sustained Average Spam ping Rate
If you ever in your life needed a reason to quit using Microsoft Internet Explorer you will listen to my last podcast and read this article. Stop using Internet Explorer and get your computer back. [Scripting News] [Firefox]
Windows 2000 users nationwide who have not patched their computers either battled, or are battling a worm that continues to spread ,and cause havoc. Effected the most were large companies that have large enterprise installations of Windows 2000. I caught a news segment were a IT technician at CNN was actually patching machines by hand with a floppy. This surprised
Microsoft is recommend that if your system is not on auto-update that you run windows update and apply the patches released yesterday [BBC]
I don't normally quote a lot of other sites posting but the write up is perfect and will make you think a little! From PcWorld: "A flaw has been discovered on eBay's Web site that would have allowed fraudsters to successfully redirect the sign-on process to a phishing site." Read the rest of the Article [PC World] Thanks to Jeremy
I remember the blogsphere was all over the issue and the intense scrutiny and commentary for the lack of public response of Kryptonite to the online community. The companies perspective is interesting and also paints a picture to me at least that they still do not get it but are trying. [Naked Conversations]
Today a buddy of mine sent me an copy of a e-mail that really looked like it came from me. Here is how convincing it was. It used my regular e-mail "from name", and had some intelligent text in the body, and the kicker was it contained a couple of altered files in a zip file that had originally been
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