July 26th, 2008
Great way to insure a lil extra security besides the AntiVirus and AntiSpyware thats running on your puter.
After writing the article yesterday about how to run CCleaner silently through a shortcut or a hotkey, many people expressed to me that they’d like to know how to run it every single night on a schedule, so I’m writing that up for everybody’s benefit. |
|
|
Posted in Home | No Comments »
July 24th, 2008
Why dont you and the rest of our corrupt officials start working for nothing?
|
Schwarzenegger seeks to slash state workers’ pay till budget passes
|
SACRAMENTO — –
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has prepared an order to cut the pay of about 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour until a budget is signed.
|
|
|
Posted in Home | No Comments »
July 24th, 2008
Alot of numbers and stats, but a must read for those who want to take no changes while online.
|
Hackers Attack Businesses, Blogs and Web 2.0 Sites, Sophos Security Threat Report Reveals
|
| Sophos, the largest privately held vendor in the secure content and threat management market today published new research into the first six months of cybercrime in 2008. The Sophos Security Threat Report examines existing and emerging security trends and has identified that criminals are increasingly using creative, new techniques in their attempt to make money out of internet users. |
|
|
Tags: cybercrime, hacker, internet, security threat, sopho
Posted in Home | No Comments »
July 22nd, 2008
As this great post at PCMags security section says, please be careful when choosing to click a link to visit a site.
If youve never heard of the product, do a lil research first. Visit a review site or use a search engine to check it out.
| This isn’t news, but it’s worth reminding everyone: there is a large category of malicious programs that present themselves as antispyware or antivirus programs. Having already established that they will lie about these things, they may lie about others. For instance, we recently came across one which claims to have won a number of awards, including the PC Magazine Editors’ Choice. |
|
|
Tags: fake awards, malware, rogue antispyware
Posted in Home | No Comments »
July 22nd, 2008
Ya know, it wasnt just the fact that Vista kept crashing my puter,
It was the lousy customer support that make you lose me as a customer.
|
Microsoft Admits Windows Vista Mistakes, Criticizes Apple Ads
|
“We broke a lot of things. We know that, and we know it caused you a lot of pain. It got customers thinking, hey, is Windows Vista a generation we want to get invested in?” So Brad Brooks, Microsoft’s VP of Windows Vista consumer marketing, fessed up publicly this week. |
|
|
Tags: microsoft, mistakes, Vista
Posted in Home | No Comments »
July 22nd, 2008
Found this in one of the groups I belong to at Eons.
Go ahead, forward it to the lil wife.
| Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slowing down in overall system performance, particularly in the Flower and Jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0. In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as NBA 5.0, NASCAR 3.0 and Golf 4.1. |
|
|
Posted in Home | No Comments »
July 21st, 2008
Sadly, we have very few heroes nowadays. This time in our lives is sure different.
|
Commemorating the Ultimate Geek-Project: Apollo 11
|
 Thirty-nine years ago, on July 20, 1969, two ultra-geeks landed upon Luna, Earth’s moon.? Their mission was called Apollo 11.? While the vast majority of the press at the time was devoted to Armstrong actually setting foot upon the Moon, the really crucial aspect of the landing on the Sea of Tranquility was just that, the landing.? This day commemorates the culmination of the science, technology, and massive national effort that went into the American Space Program.? In commemoration, we salute the second man to walk upon Luna, the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 11: Edwin Eugene “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr.
|
|
|
Posted in Home | No Comments »
July 19th, 2008
Yeah, this made my morning. Take the time to read the 10 questions you need to be asking yourself when shopping online.
|
Online shoppers getting security savvy
|
With rising levels of online fraud, internet shoppers are becoming increasingly savvy about checking for some kind of security before paying for their goods.
|
|
|
Tags: online security, online shopping
Posted in Home | No Comments »
July 16th, 2008
History has shown us many times.
The larger a entity becomes, the more likely it will collapse back into itself given time.
When the leaders head for a safe haven, the end is soon, sound familiar?
The suspicious death of XP support |
As Microsoft slowly kills off Windows XP itself — over the protest of many users — it’s still unclear exactly when Redmond will formally cut off all support for its old OS. But one reader’s experience in dealing with a series of update fiascos over the last few months suggests that XP support may actually have expired already, and under suspicious circumstances. |
|
|
Posted in Home | No Comments »
July 16th, 2008
Mozy Awesome Process
Sometimes people come up to me and say, “Paul, how is it that Mozy has created such an unrelenting output of Awesome?”
Today I have been authorized to share with you some of the unique facets of the Mozy Awesome Process that until now have been tightly controlled trade secrets of Mozy, Inc. It all starts with giant robots (virtually perpetual sources of raw Awesome). We attach them to special Awesome Siphons of our own design and pipe the yield directly into our engineers’ development workstations. Further, peripheral Awesome needs are farmed from old He-Man reruns, a roomful of ninjas wailing on electric guitars, and our captive Happy Fun Ball.
The crude Awesome is skillfully transformed by Mozy engineers into powerful software and hardware configurations, then carefully inspected and regulated according to a host of eldritch acronyms: SWAGs, PMQs, PRDs, and the ever-inspiring CFRRCs. Once a successful creation is stamped with the Seal of Acronymic Approval for Mozy (SAAM), it is subjected to final endorsement by the mystical, revered Mozy Leprecorn*. Finally, a highly trained team of Box Monks put the new Awesomery into place in the Mozy systems, where it becomes available to you, the user.
Our rigorous Awesome Enforcement Policies and Magical Oversight have brought us to what we believe is the most Awesome-efficient development process in the world of backup software.
Be safe,
Paul Cannon
Mozy Software Engineer
*Leprecorn (noun): a rare but phenomenal creature; half Unicorn, half Leprechaun, and all magical.
Visit Mozy now for a great reliable online backup service, I use it myself.
Vote for Mozy
Lifehacker is currently holding an online backup showdown. Show your love for Mozy. Vote now.
Tags: backup, mozy, online backup
Posted in Home | No Comments »
