Spammer goes to jail

In more good news on the spam front, a spammer from New York goes to jail for spamming to AOL.  He was order to pay 180k to AOL in restitution.  I don’t see that as a good enough amount, but at least he gets 30 months in the slammer.  Maybe this will make spammers think twice […]

If you only install one patch this year…

I don’t ordinarilly send out these types of things.  (Goes the mantra from your friends who always send you junk.)  It is true, I try not to be reactionary and alarmist.  I try not to rile people up with bug fixes they need to install NOW.  Most bug fixes can wait.  They tend to not be […]

So long, and thanks for all the bugs…

XP is finally leaving us.  It has been end of lifed by Microsoft.  They wanted to put a spike through its head the day Vista came out.  But, the business world wasn’t having it.  To be honest, Vista is still considered junk by businesses.  Maybe it has something to do with mission critical programs not […]