“Become illiterate, save a tree” – Darryl Henriques, 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Pave the Earth Hmmmmmmm, as much as I love technology, I tend to shy awy from electronic books. Part of it, I think, has to do with how I use computers. In what I do, I multitask quite a bit,…
It’s 67 F in my apartment this morning. It feels so very good. Over the past week I’ve noticed temperatures have dropped. My apartment retains heat pretty well. Its 42 outside. I went to visit Cat in Lawrenceville. She asked me to help her with her computers. I knew both were old and one is…
Poor guy. I am curious about how people come up with the figures they do about how much damage a hacker caused. My guess is whatever they spend to fix the problem. So… holes in computers they should have patched by didn’t or software they should have purchased but didn’t until the hacker caused the…
Survey: Software engineers top list of best jobs – Computerworld Software engineers have the best jobs in America, according to a Money magazine survey released yesterday. College faculty are number two? I am so going to get my PhD now!
Maybe this is my stint working in a library back as a college student. There were some shady folks who came into the library to look up pictures of women with huge, obviously fake breasts. Plus the gutteral laugh at the ones where each had twice the volume of the woman’s head. They did this…
UPDATE: Position filled. Valdosta State Information Technology is hiring 2 Web Design student assistants. Web Design student assistants are responsible for creating and maintaining several department web sites, surveys, and other projects. Individuals will be responsible for interacting with representatives to build web pages and perform basic graphic design to complete websites from existing web…
From talking to J: Me: Think of the computer as more a toy and less of a tool. Toys you explore all the parts and see what they can do. Tools you expect to be reliable. J: i bet if you were here – you could solve this problem lickedy split Me: probably. only cause…
Couple of newly discovered vulnerabilities for Windows users. Excel and Powerpoint documents are not safe any more. Specially crafted dword (dotless) URLs (dword URL for VSU) can operate in the local intranet security zone instead of the general internet zone in Internet Explorer. Most people have the local intranet zone set to medium-low level and…
Hmmmmmmm… got some new DVDs to watch. Stuff I already had on VHS already: 5th Element, Tombstone, and Wrath of Khan. This brings my DVD collection to 61 titles. Have never thought of myself as a PC repair person. I have done some stuff on my own home and office computers. Assisted Andrew Otapski with some stuff. He really…