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{ Monthly Archives } May 2006

Why I Don’t Run Windows

Reason #1: The “Security Center” that Microsoft has put in their flagship OS is nothing more than a comfortable blanket for it’s users. “Hmm. I have a Security Center in Windows. It must be secure now.” Please. Here is why the “Security Center” sucks- it doesn’t update 3rd party applications, [...]

Spammers- Don’t Get Too Comfortable

Spammers must enjoying the relief from the very apparent strain that Blue Frog users were giving them. Well, they won’t be enjoying the relief for long. Thanks to a new startup group called Okopipi. For starters, it is peer-to-peer, de-centralized and completely open source. And the best part? DDOS attacks [...]

Bloggers Are Journalists

You can read all about it here at Groklaw. In a nutshell, the Appeals court held up the ruling that bloggers are journalists and have the legal right to protect their sources. This came via the Apple v. Does litigation. Glad to see that free speech is wining.

Favorite OSS Application #1 and #2- Screen and Irssi

I am going to try something new. I am never good at keeping the motivation on these kinds of posts, so we’ll see where this takes me. Lately, my blog has been fairly negative, and for this I appologize. I appologize to my readers at Planet Utah, for those who syndicate me and to [...]

A Simple Way To Fool Robots

I’ve known about this little hack for a long time. Anyone who knows HTML should know it too. That’s why I am willing to share. If you are a web dev, have your own site, or publish your email to pages, YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS.
Disclaimer: This isn’t a bullet-proof way to fool [...]

Over and Out

Blue Security is no longer fighting the war on spam.  Another victory for the spammers.
So I guess I get to join the file and rank of “bend over and grab your ankles” when it comes to spam entering my inbox.  Downloading filters is what to do, right?  Out of sight, out of mind?  Out of [...]

Dvorak, Dvorak, Dvorak

Seeing as though May 19th (Open Discussion Day) is coming up rather quickly, I won’t have anything to countdown to once that passes.  As such, I made another goal for myself.
For the faithful readers, you are already aware that I have been typing using the Dvorak language for some time.  Well, it hasn’t been 100%.  [...]

Skeletor Runs Linux!

I have proof here (beware, vulgar language ahead).  Check out the Skeletor Show, if you haven’t seen it already.  It’s pure genious.

MSN Windows Live .NET Messenger Beta Plus XP Service IM Pro 2005

Ok, so Windows released a beta version of Windows Live Messenger. I just have one question. How does this relate with existing products? Namely, Windows Messenger, MSN Messenger, the Messenger Service and the .NET Messenger Service? I hear there is a new service too- the Live Messenger Service? So we [...]

OpenDocument Approved As An ISO/IEC Standard

This is good news, even if it is a week old.  Andrew Updegrove gives us the news:
The six month voting window for ISO/IEC adoption of the OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard closed on May 1, and at midnight (Geneva time) last night it was announced internally that ODF had been approved by the ISO members [...]

Misconceptions About Blue Security

There seems to be a lot of miscredited information spreading around the Internet like wildfire concerning Blue Security. Although I don’t work for them, or know their inside operations personally, I would like to take the time to put many of them to rest. I will admit, that because I am not [...]

DDoS On Bluesecurity

Bluesecurity is fighting the good fight.  Unfortunately, the spammers are hell-bent over bringing them down.  Three days ago, Bluesecurity began suffering DDoS attacks.  Bluesecurity tried to wait it out, but found it wasn’t going to be letting up any time soon.  They then moved their domain to the Six Apart servers hosting a Typepad blog.  [...]

Google Is Whining Yet Again

You have to love it, when you stumble upon pages like this one at The New York Times.  I just have to weigh in my $0.02.
First off Google, it is undisputed that you own the search engine arena.  No one comes close.  So why in the world are you whining that MSIE 7 will be [...]

Spammers Are Feeling The Pressure From Blue Frog

I have blogged about this before. If you haven’t already decided to protect your inbox with Blue Security, get on it now! I couldn’t be more serious. Blue Security is the single best solution for stopping spam COMPLETELY! If you are unsure about it, here is how Blue Security works.
First, a [...]