Spent yesterday home sick. Guess I did too much Saturday… enough that I completely crashed Sunday and was still weak Monday. Was able to come in to work this morning. – – – – – Getting my radiator fixed… hopefully means that my car will be condition to go on some road trips. – –…
Lovely… MSN Messenger is still down. Seems that Microsoft had problems with hardware so people were up and down. It is my turn to be down. Thankfully I have other IMs on which I can rely… AIM and ICQ being the most reliable IMs. Backing up all my data off my work computer in order…
The 4th was kewl… Chris, Annon, Melinda, and Edrick cooked. Probably a dozen plus there and hardly a dent in the food. Plan is to make another dent in it at lunch today. Looks to be fun. Finally got the hard drive for the 233 Mhz MMX, 64 MB RAM computer my brother gave up.…
Here is an extortion letter from a hacker to a company. So he figures out how to break into the system, sends a letter to the company that the vulnerabilities of the company are known to the hacker community, and wants $$$ to help fix the vulnerabilities. Sick
What kind of password do you use? Your own name? A family member’s name? Your favorite sports star or actor? Tsk, tsk, tsk. Here is a SecurityWatch article on a poll in the U.K. which asked people about what password they use on their PC or laptop. – – – – – Such low amounts of…
Great article on secure use of email titled Secure Online Behavior, Part II: Secure E-Mail Behavior over at the SecurityFocus site. It discusses the types of email clients and some potential problems, how to create passwords, and how to handle attachements. Seems clear and concise. This seems a little overboard. What authentication method does Microsoft use with MSN…
Pitas was down earlier. That was disconcerting, I guess. Installing the web server has been frustrating (incomplete environment settings) but finally coming along.
The remnants of Tropical Storm Allison was good to us last night. 8 to 9 inches of rain. So what if most of it ran off, a place that felt as dry as we did needed the precipitation. Two scam artists for the price of one? Lesson one: Get rich quick schemes make the other…
Did go to Dr. Bailey’s Retirement Dinner Saturday night (see 2 posts down). Was not as bad as I expected. Got to hide in a back room making name tags for people whose name tag was missing or incorrect. About 15 minutes after people had sat down to eat, Joe and I snuck out to grab…