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- MacBook Air Diary-Day 22: Argh! Recessed headphone jack
- MacBook Air Diary-Day 22: Argh! Recessed headphone jackHeartburn annoys people tooBut they don't amplify it to the internet.Quit whining.alternates?The reccessed stuff has always been a thing of apple. I remember my iPod shuffle was the same way. luckily, it came with an adaptor out of the box (it was...
- Tags: Notebooks, Heartburn, MacBook Air, Apple Inc., MacBook Air Diary-Day 22, headphone, Apple MacBook, Argh, Recessed headphone jack
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Microsoft teams with Sprint on mobile Web service
- Microsoft teams with Sprint on mobile Web serviceArgh ClearWire has its Launch Laser Show tonightSeriously. The guys that brought us AT&T celular are now launching a great new concept for Web access and this story is posted. Argh. Get to Seattle - thunder, lightning, lasars, hell freezing over. Intel financed....
- Tags: Team management, Microsoft Teams, Argh, mobile-Web, Sprint Communications, Microsoft Corp., team
- Discussion threads 2006-11-15
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- How I dumped my DVR for a terabyte TiVo
- Recently my house was struck by lightning and one of my TiVo boxes got zapped among other things. I had decided to try replacing it with a generic DVR from Time Warner Cable. Boy, was that a mistake. I wanted to like the Time Warner...
- Tags: TiVo Inc., Button, Digital Video Recorder, Play, Scientific Atlanta DVR, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Cuil exec bails out of search engine.
- Cuil exec bails out of search engine.Argh. I'd hoped they'd be doing better by now.I like having other search engines aside from Google available. The more, the merrier. I thought Cuil might have some potential. I wonder just how much traffic they need to be able to stick around, and...
- Tags: SEARCH, Cuil, search engine
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- Life without the Internet: Zapped off the grid
- In my last article I described what it feels like to have your house struck by lightning. Luckily there were no injuries or structural damage thanks for your kind words in the comments, but our gadgets and other electronics inside the house weren't so lucky. This is their tale. ...
- Tags: Game, Phone, Router, TiVo Inc., Grid, Cable, Cable Guy, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Virtual e-learning: the end of university?
- Virtual e-learning: the end of university?i disagree[i]Nowadays, a university degree or doctorate doesn’t guarantee you a job at the end of your course, whereas “learning as you work” is becoming more and more popular.[/i]As far as I understand it, University places have gone up considerably since the 80s (source: old...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, University Place, job, e-learning
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Should free broadband be neutral?
- Should free broadband be neutral?It should remain free or it shall be replacedIt should remain free, but most likely greed will prevent this for some time. Smutty content like spam should be penalized but not taxed.Telcos would love to profit by regulating bandwidth. Now this is not what capitalism...
- Tags: Taxes, Government, Network technology, Broadband Internet, Federal government, Socialism, broadband, tax, Internet, FCC
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- AVG changes its stance on LinkScanner
- AVG changes its stance on LinkScannerTime to lock down WindowsIn the days of Windows XP, the need for an active virus scanner was a no brainer. With Vista, a user can now easily lock down the system by using a limited user account and turning on DEP for all programs....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Cyberthreats, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, AVG, LinkScanner, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Web 3.0 - the future of social networking
- Note: re-posted after withdrawing post a few days ago; no changes made since then. I would put this very much on par with a past Scoble moment, as I've been lucky enough to see something which actually impresses me. I've seen a lot over my life, the...
- Tags: 3D, Web, Facebook, Network, Web 3.0, Scene, Vivaty Scenes, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- PCI-DSS 1.1 points to outdated OWASP Top 10
- OK, I'm not going to freak out about this too bad... I've already pointed out enough problems with PCI, but I did find it morbidly entertaining. My good friend Jeremiah Grossman pictured at right blogged today about the PCI-DSS 1.1 section 6.5, which covers "prevention of common coding vulnerabilities in...
- Tags: XSS, PCI, Security, Storage, Hardware, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Hey, kids! IT isn't boring!
- Hey, kids! IT isn't boring!There is no future in ITThe IT bubble bust around 2000 was only the tip of the ice burg. Today, IT is a mediocre industry that has an ecosystem of incompetent and insufficiently educated people from the "IT Recruiters/HR", the people doing the hiring to the...
- Tags: Professional development, Strategy, Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, IT IS, information technology, career
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- AV in the cloud... wait, what?
- AV in the cloud... wait, what?further adieu? :-DHow about 'further ado'... ;-)It is a gneiss article all in all though.That original article isn't just vague,it is downright poor.If you haven't called into question some bad AV depending on what is really going on at Trend Micro, you've definitely called into...
- Tags: Nate
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- 90% of all statistics can be made to say anything... 50% of the time, aka my thoughts on the Verizon report
- ** Update 06/23/2008: I realize I didn't do a very good job of talking about what we're reviewing here. This is in response to the statistics gathered by Verizon related to Forensic Analysis of Data Breaches over a four year span. First off, let me...
- Tags: Business Partner, Vulnerability, Verizon Communications Inc., Attack, Data Breach, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-22
- The 16 TB RAM PC: when?
- The 16 TB RAM PC: when?We splurged on the 16K RAM for our //e...We splurged on the 16K RAM for our //e, as well as the 80 column card and Microsoft BASIC card. That was one smokn' Apple II. We even had a data coupler and that new...
- Tags: Server-side, RAM, memory, 32-bit, 64-bit, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- WWDC 2008 live
- WWDC 2008 liveSuper Monkey Ball?Is that a jab at Monkey Man BALLmer? Hmmm... ;)Snow Leopard...after just Leopard? Does this mean not much has changed? Or that the changes are mostly visual? Names should be chosen very carefully!Al Gore? Yeah...what is he doing there? ...
- Tags: Games, WWDC 2008, High Tech Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- What is the U.S. doing about security? Part 2.
- Wow that was quick. No sooner did I get done posting my last article and I see on Wired the following story: Once again, supposedly sensitive information blacked out from a government report turns out to be visible by computer experts armed with the Ctrl+C keys — and that...
- Tags: Security, Phone, FBI, CALEA, Federal Government, Telecom & Utilities, Government, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Interview: Alex Wiley, creator of the gold MacBook
- Interview: Alex Wiley, creator of the gold MacBookthey ought to be gold or platinum......for how much they overcharge for hardware. Compare the hardware and you can plainly see you are overpaying. At least if the Mac came with gold plate or stones I could justify such a premium on the...
- Tags: Notebooks, Wiley, hardware, ALex, Apple MacBook
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
- Apple releases Safari 3.1.1 security update
- Apple releases Safari 3.1.1 security updateAnd they offered it to me, even though I said "ignore" Safari beforeThey also offered me a new iTunes+QuickTime, which I've "ignored" countless times before. (All I have is QuickTime installed.)They offered a new Apple Software Update, which I installed, so maybe the new...
- Tags: Security administration, Tools & Techniques, Digital media, Digital music, security, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Apple Software Update, Apple Software
- Discussion threads 2008-04-16
- Interview with the Vista Pwn2Own contest winners
- Interview with the Vista Pwn2Own contest winnersSo NO, we did not duplicate it on any other platform.What Nate states is this is a compiler issue with a polymorphism/name mangling bug. Therefore, it is not a Adobe coding issue. So my questions still remain:1) Have you duplicated this on...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), data execution prevention, Vista Pwn2Own, Nate, flaw, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-04-02
- News to know: Microsoft interoperability; Bypassing FileVault; Woz; Black Hat; More benchmarks
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft pledges interoperability--again Reading the fine print on Microsoft's new open-source promises Larry Dignan: Microsoft's real game: Open interoperability protects its stack Dana Gardner: Microsoft on open APIs: New tune or blowing more smoke? Dana Blankenhorn:...
- Tags: Black Hat, Interoperability, Disk, Dana Blankenhorn, Apple MacBook, Microsoft Corp., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
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