As a consumer, I get the feeling that companies don’t care for me. If I were a vindictive person, then I probably would be going out of my way to screw them out of even a tiny bit of their profits. Piss enough of us off, and they would feel the pain in their wallets.…
I would be the first to admit that I am a computer junkie!  😛 Gimme a decent rig with decent games and you can let me have fun for hours upon hours. Of course, one could do the same with books or movies. That reminds me… need more shelf space for all my books and movies.…
“Those sending computer viruses to this email will have their ip addresses forwarded to the proper law enforcement officials.” Right. Most people whose computers are infected with a computer virus are probably unaware that it is infected. How many people think, “Hey, let me infect my computer with a virus and let it send out…
Good game M$!! MS paper touts Unix in Hotmail’s Win2k switch (The Register) Santa Switches (Apple.com) Apple making fun of themselves? Who’da thunk? All you software piracy phreaks, listen up… Woman sentenced in multimillion-dollar software sting (ComputerWorld)
Here is an article on computer viruses, spam, and the new portal for which I was interviewed for the Spectator, the university student news paper. Josh Stone Campus computers are getting sick from e-mail viruses and spam, but Information Technology staff members say they have medicine to fight the problem. “We can’t really eliminate them, but we…
Dependencies sux… knew IMP required the Horde Framework, PHP, MySQL, and Apache. Horde requires MySQL, gettext, and mcrypt (don’t find out those last 2 until one reads the directions for installing it from the download cause they are not on the site). So get all the Horde stuff done. Ready for IMP, right? Oh, wait… you…
I find myself wanting to give Netscape the benefit of the doubt and give it another try. The browser offially sucks now in my opinion. Now, I do not have by any means a slow machine at work:Â 1.4 GHz, 256 MB RAM, Ultra ATA 100 7200 RPMÂ hard drive. On this machine, the browser crawls.…
Sorry… just got up off the floor from laughing so hard. Got this in an email: “Explore the world of beautiful Russian woman Browse FREE PICTURES submitted by Lovely young Russian women seeking love and a better life. Everything you’ve dreamed of Unspoiled, Available, and Eager. Think of the world through the eyes of beautiful…
Never, ever trust technology. No matter how “easy” they claim it will be, there is always a “gotcha”. Just to be clear, a gotcha, is a user-defined misconfiguration. Frequently they are a default configuration the user is supposed to change, but not clearly noted in the documentation. So much in technology is an afterthought. The only reason…