Category: Computers


  • An old friend sent me an instant message. Amazes me how many become more and more internet savvy. Perhaps soon I will have have to abandon the internet at work as they take more and more of my time? Naw…

  • Changed the navigation at the Fountain Of Knowledge. It utilizes a DHTML menu script to open a menu bar. The inspiration came from this lovely lady’s site called Grain of Gold. Looked up the site that built the script and used their instructions to place it on my site. – – – – – – – –…

  • SecurityWatch has an interesting article discussing a new virus which looks for filenames which might contain kiddie porn. Once it identifies a file that may contain it, the file and email address are emailed to a government agency. Read the article. Another article discusses a bill circulating the House which would allow ISPs to sue spammers.…

  • Tom Wise has another opinion article out on Racism and the criminal justice system. Read it on Alternet.org ———- Shopping online with a credit card should be getting safer. Inter@ctive Week has an article on Mastercard, Visa, and American Express approaches to making this stuff safe. Inter@ctive Week article

  • Someone wrote a virus which exploits a backdoor created by the lion worm to… patch the infected system. Interesting that anti-virus “experts” are concerned about it because it does break into your system. Read the article at securitywatch.com.

  • Hmmmmmmmmmm… guess it is time to clean up my space in the office, huh? It seems that the large amount of hacking and an innability to stop it has resulted in vigilantes attacking perceived threats. See article Hmmmmmmm… Defacements rise in China/U.S. hacker war. Kind of like gangs tagging streets. You go into the other’s territory and…

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    This is pretty cool… they help others keep up with your email address changes. Veri Post

  • For Michelle: A list of bots on the internet that talk back to you. Note that there is not one on here for me!

  • Still hashing out the computer plan. Here is what I have so far… The end result is 3 computers (win 2000 x2, linux). The All-Around: This computer is a basic, normal computer that one could play games on (or with). It would not be the highest power gaming machine, but it would be just above…