Got the Macadoo picture for Mac. Will drop the film off for developing this afternoon. Have to pick up the roll from last week. Why is it that the cover artist is so difficult to find on a book? You have to know to flip inside the cover and scan the credits page to even…
I guess if people really knew what they wanted, then it could be given to them, huh? Ever had a cognitive itch? Research in the US has found that songs get stuck in our heads because they create a “brain itch” that can only be scratched by repeating the tune over and over.In Germany, this type…
Couple of newly discovered vulnerabilities for Windows users. Excel and Powerpoint documents are not safe any more. Specially crafted dword (dotless) URLs (dword URL for VSU) can operate in the local intranet security zone instead of the general internet zone in Internet Explorer. Most people have the local intranet zone set to medium-low level and…
I’ve been a little lax about getting online to update this. Part computer screwup/ part being too busy. Thankfully, all that is over and now I can get back to posting. My family was in town for my gandmother’s 80th birthday. Got to see almost all of my cousins and engage in great conversation over…
The Spectator web site is updated… here is the article about viruses where I was interviewed. Horrible picture, I know. UPDATE 2011-MAR-27: link to article removed as VSU Spectator archives only go back to 2006 not 2001. ouch… my hard drive crapped out. Bad cluster on the REGISTRY! Means Windows can’t boot. And I was gonna do…
Made the school paper today. I was interviewed about viruses. Mostly about how they affect the school and how students can protect themselves.
Here is an article on computer viruses for which I was interviewed for the Spectator, the university student news paper. Lindsey Giddens Staff Writer Viruses are running rampant and are extremely contagious. But these viruses don’t attack your immune system–they attack your hard drive. The term virus is used to describe viruses, worms and trojans.…
A quote for posterity… “It’s like the naked leading the blind.”
Ahhhhh… my VSU personal web page is back. Means I can upload to the web server all the work I have not been able to send for the past couple days. That goes for the real work, not the personal home page which I have not really touched. Need a picture for my desktop… would be…