Tag: Tech News

In a hilarious example of “We don’t understand what we’re talking about” Paypal has sent out an email which explains how to avoid spoofing and phishing. Of course how do they tell you to learn about these scams? Click the link they say! Doh! Tiger Mail allowed me to easily pass the cursor over the… Continue reading Paypal wins stupid email of the week award

go to http://maps.google.com/ Search for your home address. Click the satellite link in the upper right. Sweet.

Forbes thinks so! It’s a world of laughter, a world of tears now please insert your iPod earbuds into your ears, we’ll program you to buy Macs now what does Bill Gates think of that it’s no longer a small market share after all…………….

Went to get more RAM to Play EQ2 (video card was $400) and wanrted 2gigs to aid in game loading times. ram was $239, but I can’t use 3 slots on my P4 2.6 motherboard, because Intel sucks ass, so I got a AMD processor ($250) and a AMD motherboard ($90) but the thing would… Continue reading PC Upgrades

The Register reports on a interactive urinal cake which when peed on, will not only deodorize your urinal but will also sound off an ad for you. Can’t wait till the wi-fi phone based urinal cake is developed. http://www.urinalshots.com/ here we come.

The Register reports on how a Toshiba TV cries for help. This is awesome! Interesting out hour wave space is overlapping at random times. Reminds me how Simeon’s Mac Plus with a bad analog board was killing our appletalk LAN and I could not figure out why the problem stopped promptly at 5:30pm every day.… Continue reading Toshiba TV Calls for Help

A friend told me to listen to some Poe music and sent me a Amazon link. ITMS did not have her, so I clicked a windows media viewer link. Guess what it did? Amazon send me an application named “hurl.exe’ ROFL. So no, it did not work on my mac, and two how appropriately named… Continue reading Amazon’s music humor

The Screen Savers as not been the same since G4 bought TechTV and Leo left. But today’s show ,where co-host Alex smashed up a perfectly working Mac out of some childish anger, which could have at least been used by a school somewhere, that was it. I don’t need to hear the 95% stories –… Continue reading Cancelled my season pass to The Screen Savers

Ok all you millions of people affected by this problem a couple of weeks ago, when LAX Central shut down and flights were cancelled all over. Turns out a technician did not do the “monthly reboot” of a WINDOWS server. They had moved from Unix to Windows. When will people learn? Fools, the lot of… Continue reading LAX outage due to Windows error

It seems that the folks who lost the pictures used on the “I found some of your life” site found the site and now it is down. For those of you who did not know, someone left a digital medial card in a cab or something. This guy found it, and since he didn’t know… Continue reading I found some of your life found out

TiVo’s one huge flaw is that it does not track season passes across channels. I had been wondering why I was not seeing any Deadwood episodes and now I realize why – They are on HBO2 now, not HBOW. The listing does not show them as repeats, so who is to know? So the episode… Continue reading TiVo’s one huge flaw

My brother sent me this telling data about why the Genesis probe crashed to earth after neither of the two chutes succeeded in opening. It turns out that Genesis was on track to a proper snag by the helicopters but as it came through the atmosphere, Service Pack 2 was automatically installed and activated. Next,… Continue reading Source of Genesis crash discovered

This might be the thing that makes me buy a HD DirecTivo. MSNBC is reporting that TiVo and Netflix are getting in bed together. If you have a network based TiVo (I don’t) you’ll be able to download movies from NetFlix directly instead of waiting for the DVDs to show up. If the movies are… Continue reading Netflix via Tivo??

Ars reports that Microsoft will be nuking WinFS, the much touted metadata file system from Longhorn such that it can ‘ship in 2006’ The bloodletting has begun. Longhorn was being OS X before Microsoft started cutting features. Do you think they will stop with WinFS? Probably not. As with XP SP 2, they’ve proven that… Continue reading Microsoft slaughters steer, shows longhorn full of hormones

Windows update reported a 78mb SP2 patch Started the download. After about 20 mins of “preparing” (I guess saving off old stuff) it is downloading a 95Mb file. Good to see Windows can still count. No wait, now it is backing up after starting the install Rebooted, have Windows XP “Please wait…..” blue screen That… Continue reading My SP2 experiences

In the “You can’t teach an old dog new security tricks” a firm in Germany has reported finding several flaws in SP2 that allow circumvention of the new security dialogs. Nice job, MS. As Gates said, “This is really important software.” Obviously MS put it’s best design/QA team on the job! Full article

My index page is finally HTML 4.01 validated. I have some older entries that have bad URLs, but I’ll weed those out. As a result, look for a new CopyURL applescript that encodes ampersands properly 🙂

OMUG posted my report about my morning at OSCON this week.

According to this story, Microsoft is planning to market its own anti-virus software. Nice! So let’s see – they sell you (not me) the crappy, bug ridden OS that has so many holes it is hard to not get a virus or to get hacked, and then they sell you software to remove those viruses.… Continue reading Aha! Microsoft’s plans are clear!