So, I’ve been having all sorts of problems with windows and Internet Explorer lately.
Vista would freeze when I was in the middle of anything intensive. XP IE7 was freezing whenever I tried to type something into the address bar. It would intermittently freeze when I was switching between windows. Someone had me look at their […]
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This is something to take a look at, as we start to use cell phones, and email, for more important tasks. In this story, New Years Eve revelers sent out text messages in large numbers. These text messages, sent all at once, caused a logjam on the servers and some of the messages were delayed for […]
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Here is yet another reason I think we should have a national firewall. I think it is absolutely insane that we don’t have a firewall blocking other countries traffic. We would then be able to block any malicious traffic. If you look at the spam traffic from other countries, we could cut that out immediately.
I […]
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If you look at this netcraft.com domain name registration graph, you will see a clear exponential pattern.
Total Sites Across All Domains August 1995 - November 2007
There are two lines here. In blue you have the number of domain names registered. This is the total number of domains people are snapping up. In red you see […]
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Google is being sued by Northeastern and a company called Jarg out of Massachusetts. I actually had heard a bit about Jarg previously. Kenneth Baclawski was one of my professors at Northeastern. In fact he was one of the best professors I had when I studied at Northeastern University. I remember him telling me about Jarg way […]
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Microsoft is claiming that Open Source software violates 235 of its patents. The article says that Microsoft is claiming that the Linux kernel violates 42 of Microsoft’s patents, and the user interface violates 65. I guess Microsoft has come a long way since they stole the look and feel of Lotus 123. Microsoft is certainly […]
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A group called Project Honey Pot has leveled a lawsuit against a number of spammers on behalf of their clients. The way this works is you set up an email address or an entire domain as a honey-pot on your system which catches spam and relays it to their servers. The honey-pot analogy comes from putting […]
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Apple Macbook hacked at a security event. I had read about this contest, they were giving away a couple of MacBooks if you could hack one. They called it amusingly “PWN to Own.” PWN being a hacker word that means to own or to take control of something (anything really). Â
It took the security about 9 hours to write […]
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I have wondered what it is like to not have the Internet. I have been ‘online’ in one way or another since I was 7 years old. This is no small feat considering I was 7 in 1984. My mother even uses a computer hooked up to the Internet. My father on the other hand […]
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This seems almost too over simplified. But the truth is, most of the techies I know don’t get spy ware or viruses. Why? Not because we are immune, but because we don’t go to the types of sites that will get you infected. It’s quite comical to see the faces, or hear the voices of […]
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