It’s amazing to me, the stranglehold that Microsoft seems to have on the PC market. So much so that for years they’ve been the target of so many attacks, exploits, trojans and viruses. Between the OS itself just not being secure, to their flagship browser many dub “Internet Exploder”, it’s surprising that Windows would continue for so long to be such a popular product. But why change from what you know, right?
“Denny” wrote a great article over at MisticRiver.net (back when the site was operational) about replacing the internal battery of the iRiver H300 series players. The original article can be viewed at http://www.misticriver.net/showthread.php?t=34257 if you can find a cached copy anywhere. Someone named “Jeantet” grabbed a copy in PDF format available from their blog Since installing Rockbox on my H320 last winter, the battery performance of my H320 was slowly going way downhill.
When I started web hosting many years ago, I had to battle spam for other people for the first time. No longer did I have time to write to every ISP, trace every IP address, send nasty-grams, and get lots of confirmations back from sysadmins ... When I started web hosting many years ago, I had to battle spam for other people for the first time. No longer did I have time to write to every ISP, trace every IP address, send nasty-grams, and get lots of confirmations back from sysadmins that accounts had been suspended or cancelled.
UPDATE: This article was written over a decade ago. I haven’t tested whether this technique still works in Firefox (or any other browser with a similar setting). Use at your own risk. If you truly need this functionality, you’ll need to find out which version of Firefox was available back in early 2006 and follow these instructions. Imagine the horrific screams of Internet users world-wide as their printers start spewing coupons and ads from their printer without warning, and without the precious print dialog box to “cancel” the print process.
I’m quite speechless at the moment. It would appear that Google felt that by having the users of my site, as well as myself, click on the occasional ad on my Google Ads areas of my web site has somehow triggered a fraudulent flag on me and I’ve been shut down. I’m outraged they would do this without investigation and without my involvement. Their Email eludes to having robots/automated processes clicking on ads, which is absurd.
To my mini-geek, Elizabeth: I love you more than anything else. It was about two years ago that you sent me a “wink” at match.com, and followed that up by tracking me down via AIM. Since then, you’ve become the very best friend I’ve ever had. In many ways, it’s felt like forever; in other ways, it feels like only last week that I very nervously sat in Starbucks waiting for you to arrive for that great first coffee date in July, 2003.
I was just surfing around, looking to see any updates on GnuCash or such personal financial software to find a Linux replacement for Microsoft Money – the last nail in the coffin so I can stop using Microsoft products (other than gaming) – and came across a comparison of books that Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds had written. I looked at an “equivalents” page found at http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html and noticed under the ‘other’ listing that Bill Gates had written a book called “Road Ahead” and Linus Torvalds wrote a book called “Just for Fun”.
Hey all. Got a new job in Culver City that I’ll be starting at the end of March. I’m not sure how much I’ll be able to blog about it, of course, but my current employer was really nice about letting me leave. More details a little later. UPDATE, 2016: My time at Pricegrabber was pretty great. I stuck around until they were purchased by Experian for about $770M. I left shortly afterward, purely by coincidence, because I was tired of a 90+ minute commute in each direction.
ZDnet is carrying an article about how the nice folks over at Spamhaus are warning of a potentially large increase in the amount of spam to come through in the next two months. Apparently the spammers have made a zombie trojan that can figure out your ISP’s Email proxy information, and send spam through your PC as if you were actually sending it from your PC using your ISP’s Email service.
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