tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39378532011-11-27T19:28:58.412-05:00This is a personal weblog about anything and everything. It may not really be that interesting... You have been warned.Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05145487982451065668noreply@blogger.comBlogger1411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3937853.post-12080985437585285932008-12-04T18:31:00.000-05:002008-12-04T18:37:53.788-05:00

It has been a bit since I posted an update on Joey, so here is a small one.As you can see he is pretty content, and the leg in the forefront is the broken one, as such, he is pretty well mended. While the leg still has more rehab in terms of buildlng muscle and flexibility, he is a happy cat.

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Microsoft to replace Live OneCare with 'no-cost' anti-malware"Exactly one year after it re-announced the commercial subscription edition of its anti-malware service for individual Windows users, Microsoft announced it will discontinue Windows Live OneCare, replacing it with a free alternative."http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_to_replace_Live_OneCare_with_nocost_antimalware/1227049072

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CHECK POINT CELEBRATES 15TH ANNIVERSARY WITH FREE DOWNLOAD OF ZONEALARM® PROCheck Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced that in celebration of the company's 15th anniversary and the anniversary of the ZoneAlarm firewall, it will offer Check Point ZoneAlarm® Pro 2009 free for 24 hours to consumers. The promotion begins on

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Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05145487982451065668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3937853.post-81169982727188977102008-10-28T19:31:00.000-04:002008-10-28T19:34:57.761-04:00

Quick update on Joey. He had his splint replaced twice. This weekend he wore it out again, and it needed to be replaced again. However, rather than spend that money on a new wrap for about a week, we had the vetrinarian run x-rays and based upon the clean look of the mend, he is now operating under his own power.Since he has not used his leg for so long, he is now much less mobile as he slowly

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Well it is not a new cat, named just changed again. This one should be the final one. (Hey, don't ask me, ask her!)... Anyhow, we brought him to the vet again to have his dressing changed. They went with yellow this time... he is a kitten and mobile, and seems to not even thing he is injured.He is scampering around the house without regard, attacking Mary's, Jeri's and My legs, Boyd and him have

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The Rise and Fall of Invasive ISP SurveillancePaul OhmUniversity of Colorado Law SchoolAbstract:Nothing in society poses as grave a threat to privacy as the Internet Service Provider (ISP). ISPs carry their users' conversations, secrets, relationships, acts, and omissions. Until the very recent past, they had left most of these alone because they had lacked the tools to spy invasively, but with

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"Oh lord, not another Vista article!" Like me, I'm sure many of you might be thinking something along those lines whenever you see an article with the word 'Vista' in the title these days. We've had what can only be described as a plethora of articles on Windows Vista, almost all of them repetitive, one-sided and of little practical use. Some of them have bordered on the absurd, such as Infoworld

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Here is a picture of traffic. He is a little unkept, as he is still recovering. The splint, really, doesn't allow him much mobility. He is able to play a bit with the ball, in the crate. He will be confined for 2-3 weeks, maybe more depening upon the vetrinarian's recommendation on his leg mending.

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05145487982451065668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3937853.post-60147836151664297812008-08-31T19:19:00.000-04:002008-08-31T19:28:41.479-04:00

Well, the kitten has a couple of names at the moment,MikeTrafficWill most likely end up being Mike "Traffic", the traffic, just fits since he was plucked out of the middle of it, and in Atlanta no less, which has such god awful traffic... anyhow, I digress.Here are the scans of the x-rays.Here is the first shot of the break Here is the second shot of the break Here is the view of the set.Thus

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Yesterday and today have been interesting days... I was off yesterday and ventured down to Dragon*Con with some friends. Jeri worked and had a very busy day on top of that. I returned home from Dragon*Con I needed to use the restroom, I ventured in and see a box with a towel over the top and a small scraggly tail hanging out from under the towel. I closed the door and headed upstairs to guest

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If you drink sodas you may have noticed, that Coke-Cola has a new bottle-cap for their twist off plastic bottles. I have purchased two bottles over the past two weeks of Diet Coke and I could not finish either, one because of the stench on the bottles (or the caps). I would smell the outside of the bottle and everything is fine, then when you put your nose over the bottle and sniff, you get a

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This is the book I am currently reading...

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Nearly everyone has a version Flash on their machines... As such, this applies to everyone. If you are not sure what version you have, head on over and update anyhow. Better safe then sorry. This allies to nearly every program you run on your compluters nowadays... We have reached the period of "liquid code", updates are common and neccessary. Make sure you update your appliations periodically

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Today we went for a morning hike at Kennesaw mountain. It was a beautiful day, with a light breeze. Perfect for outdoor activities. The hike was nice, and we got to see a snake on the way back to the car. It was crossing the path and another hiker noticed it first.We watched it cross the path. It was about 3.5-4 feet in length and looked similar to to the one pictured below, thus at this point I

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Nesset740 posted a clip of the tornado from their viewpoint on YouTube. You should be able to see below, or click on the link to go to the YouTube page.

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Seems like it may have been a tornado. The above image from CBS46, while below is a story from ABC2"A spokesman for the National Weather Service told WSB-TV Channel 2 reporter Ross Cavitt some of the damage was caused by a F1 tornado."Read the slight more expansive reporting hereStorms Damaged 1,000 Cherokee Homeshttp://www.wsbtv.com/news/16347555/detail.htmlIt really was this dark too, however,

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I left work at 6:00PM on Tuesday. I did not get home until around 9:50PM... That was one long drive. The drive started off like normal, late rush our traffic. Perhaps a little bit lighter than normal.Along the way, reports of possible severe storms on the news and on my drive some pretty intense lighting flares up. While this is going on the dark clouds begin to roll in. I check the radar on my

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Looking for some alternative tracks? Just stopped by this site? Well check out the MP3 clips widget to the right for some alternative rock tracks... covering the whole genre from Ska, through punk, to american alternative.

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A while back the new machines we ordered began coming with something called Intel AMT; we had not heard of it, nor did we have time to dig into it. We kept getting dialogs that AMT was disabled from our images (we had the drivers loaded), but since we had neither the time nor inclination to dig into the technology we just turned off or removed the drivers.Well that all changed after this year's

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The Microsoft Management Summit kicked off today in Las Vegas, NV. The event is being held at the Venetian, which boasts a large conference center amongst the posh environment. We came into Vegas on Sunday a day early. A large number of people fly in on Monday and start the event with afternoon classes, coming in early allows us time to relax (even have a night to ourselves) and schedule a Monday

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The following comes from an instant message conversation with a buddy about the current crop of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs – I removed the R for role-playing as role-playing is not often found in the games today as a norm).HIM: Will someone dethrone blizzard? (Age of Conan or Warhammer)ME: No, because most of Blizzard’s subscriber base is Asiatic subscribers, they are still playing

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Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless

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This is quite true...http://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/if-business-meetings-were-like-internet-comments/

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Most people who live in the Southeastern, United Stated have heard about the drought having experienced the total ban on outdoor watering. Some folks who travel through the Southeastern region may have heard of the drought on the news and other people may have only heard of the drought in passing on national news. We recently traveled up to Charlotte, NC for a business trip. I was unaware the

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Well I can state, that I experience some of the items discussed in the article. I have known that every email, phone call, instant message, or knock on the door put me back, but I did not realize how far or how much impact those items can have on us."What's more, when people do finally start working again, theydon't reach their earlier level of concentration for 10 additional minutes.Total time

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!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> Earlier in 2007 Blizzard released the Armory, which made the data of all their servers available to the public. I have used the Armory a few times to provide information on my character(s) to friends. However I had not looked into data mining or other statistical usage from the database. However, in general

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Here was a fun little problem, which hopefully none of you will ever have to encounter. At work we had a project to set-up a number of VMware images of XP under an ESX server. Previously we had images created in Virtual PC and those would not play nice with VMware Converter so we just created a new image.We SYSPREPed the image and packaged it up and moved it along to the ESX server admin. They

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The moral: There is a lot of hidden metadata stored from digitial cameras and depending upon the photo and how it is prepared for public consumtion may include information you may not want disclosed...http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18807651

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I have created an account on live.com and am playing around with their spaces.live.com service. It is an interesting attempt to compete with Google, Gmail, Blogger, etc. In my optinion the Google services are simpler and more streamlined, but there is promise on the MSFT side. If you get a chance check out my space there, I do not plan to replicate posts on both sides.http://

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This one is kind of funny. Despite what Hormel may think, when I hear of SPAM emails I do think of the original product SPAM, and how most people have a disdain for the product. (Yeah, I know some people like it). Despite that, they are a number of years too late. IF they had started up on these actions just as the slang usage of the product name started to become somewhat popular they might have

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A Chronology of Data Breaches Since the ChoicePoint IncidentMany people do not think about data breaches, we may hear of then on the news, or read of them in the paper from time to time, but as the following chronology shows, this is a very frequent occurance...http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/ChronDataBreaches.htm

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Most people, even those who do not play the game have heard of World of Warcraft. Here is another article bringing the game into the light. Less than two years after its introduction, World of Warcraft, made byBlizzard Entertainment, based in Irvine, Calif., is on pace to generate more than $1 billion in revenue this year with almost seven million paying subscribers, who can log into the game and

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Now this thing looks interesting.Your Very Own Personal Tank - Popular Science

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Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio Express is a new development kit, to be released in beta form in August, that will be available for free to anyone using a Windows XP PC.Macworld: News: Microsoft allows anyone to create XBox games

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Fred left me a comment on one of my older posts for BF2 and Folder Redirection. EA programmers or designers are being morons and causing problems by not thinking things through fully and not having the proper level of knowledge of the host OS system and all its features (which they ARE required to know) and to my knowledge, that is still the case today.However, I have not been playing much

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A Comprehensive listing of the free downloads available of download.microsoft.com.The Road to Know Where: Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft

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I already knew this was occuring, but never bothering to "prove" it. I'm glad someone has and has posted it in the media. Perhaps something will change in the next year or two.Whois Hijacking My Domain Research?

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I have always been surprised that this hasn't been explored more in our society. Cabinet Magazine Online - How To Grow A Chair: An Interview with Richard Reames

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Microsoft aquires Winternals Software and Mark Russinovich. Check out the blog for further details. Mark's Sysinternals Blog

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I am starting to think that Google really does have aims to take over the world. With all the products and services they are working on and now the Google Checkout service, what is left? Google Checkout Reviews. Software Reviews by CNET.

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Do you use Gmail? Do you like it? Want to use GMail with your domain? You just might be able to. Check out the link if you have not already heard about this beta. This special beta test lets you give Gmail, Google's webmail service, to every user at your domain. Gmail for your domain is hosted by Google, so there's no hardware or software for you to install or maintain.https://www.google.com/

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AN INQUIRER READER attending a conference in Japan was sat just feet away from a laptop computer that suddenly exploded into flames...Dell laptop explodes at Japanese conference

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Hmm. Very interesting. The power of water? Now why do we use Oil again?Water Fuel

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This is a very interesting look at outright theft or sheer laziness. Whichever it is, no wonder things are the way they are.Do we all have to install hidden cameras in our cars to verify the service we get? What about dry cleaning, Pet Sitting, House Sitting?When will monitoring cameras be an option or better yet a standard feature of automobiles to verify serivce at the dealer or independant

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Are we too late? Can the internet be saved? Save the Internet : Frequently Asked Questions

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This is too funny not to link to..."The people in the pictures below have my friend’s T-Mobile Sidekick. Instead of doing the honorable thing when finding someone’s phone in a taxi, they instead kept it.""I’d rather just embarrass the thief as much as possible. Teach them a lesson on the etiquette of returning peoples lost belongings." "I want GLOBAL humiliation to help these punks realize what

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Decided to post some pictures on Flickr. See the link below.Flickr: Photos from dhochsta

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I have not paid attention to some of the webs latest initatives. However Web 2.0 seems to be all the craze. My attentions have been directed elsewhere, however this site has some good primer information and links to the OpenBC site, which has a lot more links and information. Its a good road to walk down if you have nothing better to do, but almost all the items you will encounter are BETA or

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globeandmail.com : Scientists work up a disappearing act: "The invisibility cloak that allowed Harry Potter to wander unseen through the halls of Hogwarts is no longer confined to the realm of fiction. "

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I'm a Chevrolet Corvette!You're a classic - powerful, athletic, and competitive. You're all about winning the race and getting the job done. While you have a practical everyday side, you get wild when anyone pushes your pedal. You hate to lose, but you hardly ever do. Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

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Does teleportation exist as a possibility for us? This all centers on quantum computing and advances are being made which takes us much closer to exploring the realms of teleportation, if not of human beings, but of simple objects themselves. Based upon some of the research and the advances we have made in the past twenty to thirty years, I believe we are not far off from having some very

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Waterloo, ON - Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the immediate availability of BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express™, a new offering aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, branch offices and companies new to BlackBerry. BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express provides the same enterprise-level security, reliability, features and functionality of BlackBerry

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Online Chat Rooms, Cybersex, and MMOs. Combine the three and what do you get? Naughty America. Seems the folks at E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) are taking a stand on what is allowed and not in the gaming industry. Interesting debate this will undoubtedly kick up. First booth babes are ousted, now Naughty America has been bannedhttp://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/news/?id=12603Outside of that,

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This has been bandied about quite a bit, but it is worth it to post again if you have not taken the time to read up on it, Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition is now available as a free download and requires only basic registration. Combined with the new usage rights in Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition, which allow four concurrent guest OS instances to run under the one Windows

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The MSS 2006 Keynote Sessions are on the web for viewing ,• Bob Muglia Keynote Webcast (April 25, 2006, Windows Media file, 1 hr., 16 mins.)• Kirill Tatarinov Keynote Webcast (April 26, 2006, Windows Media file, 1 hr., 25 mins.)• Ron Markezich Keynote Webcast (April 27, 2006, Windows Media file, 1 hr., 10 mins.)

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Been a busy week or so with the preparations for heading out to San Diego to attend MMS 2006 (Microsoft Management Summit). I will be blogging some of thoughts and experiences from my travel to this, however due to the full schedule and exploring the little bit of San Diego that I can, do not expect a lot.Monday Morning MMS 2006 Day -0MMS has not officially opened yet; many people are traveling

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I was searching online for the shelf life of sour kraut this evening and stumbled upon a small nugget of information. Sometime the side trails in the search for information can be interesting.Flemish Sour AleFlemish Sour Ale is a style of beer made in Flanders that, while a small niche today, probably represents the bulk of European brewing from 1500 to 1800. It is 5-8% alcohol, sour and sweet,

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My pirate name is: Mad Davy Flint Every pirate is a little bit crazy. You, though, are more than just a little bit. Like the rock flint, you're hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you're easily chipped, and sparky. Arr! Get your own pirate name from fidius.org.

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I am finally getting off my duff and researching a bit more. I've been stagnated in the here and now or in gaming worlds such that I have not been looking ahead enough. So while I play catch-up on some of the possible future directions our technology and society will run I will drop a few links here over the next few days, weeks, or months.We all know the Giant Microsoft for what it is today and

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My three questions are: Why does Microsoft have 7 ways to deploy a desktop? Why bother with image-style desktop deployments at all? and Why bother with SMS-style tools? http://www.gpanswers.com/newsletters/15My answer to this rant is,“Each business has different politics and skill sets of administrators, thus what works for one business does not “work” for another, when only looking at the

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I have been trying to point out this concept to some of the folks at my current employer, as I believe this is a core concept of what separates good companies from exceptional companies.Google has the Finance section on their site (In Beta of course).Google Finance: Forward Industries, Inc.However, when looking at the site and actually using it, it has many of the hallmark items, which usually

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Free Games? Are they really free? Are they worth playing? Search online and you will find many onlines games which are free or in development. How many are worth playing? How many ask for too much information for a free game? How many are actually fun?Not many. My time to play games has dwindled to an all time low. I usually only play one game at a time, and they tend to be big name well produced

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Hmm... Copy protection, people love it, hate it, or do not know about it. Some don't care, some do, well what happens when companies try to bypass the copy protection market leaders? Do they play fair, or not? You decide...Well apparently a new game called Galactic Civilizations 2 has broken with tradition and does not use any copy protection software. It's a bold move I admit, given that most

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The first half of the Super Bowl is underway. Seattle is looking good and Pittsburg, while not out of it in any way, is looking a little sluggish and perhaps bruised by their long road to the Bowl. There is still a long way to go but I called SEA earlier in the week, and it looking like they have the edge. Time will tell if that continues to hold true.

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EFF: BloggersIf you have a web log, this is a valuable webpage to visit. I have heard of many stories about people being sued over blog posts (Do not know anyone first hand that has), but I am not one to wait for that day. The EFF Guide for bloggers will help you to understand your rights may help you realize when you may get close to the line.

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This week ended the post season hopes for a few more teams, MN and ATL both dropping must win games and were eliminated. However aside from those two teams, which I follow dropping out of the picture it was a good week for fantasy football. I won my league with the 13-0-1 record going into the playoffs, then of course won my next two games, to take the league with a final record of 15-0-1. Yay!

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John Porcaro: mktg@msft: Keep Checking Back for Xbox 360 Did you miss out on an XBOX 360? Know some little tike that wants one? Cannot find one? Have you heard the rumors? All these questions are answered and more...

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J2ME Downloads Those of you who have a Blackberry and are stymied on accessing Local for Mobile may want to take a look at this link until Google offers support for RIM phones.

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OSCON 2005 Keynote - Identity 2.0 Very interesting presenation and discussion about identity, technology, and where things may be going. Good to look at the presentation style and the message as well.

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Presentation Zen: Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic: "Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic" The title says it all. It is an interesting read.

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EFF: DeepLinksNeed to know which CDs to avoid this holiday season? Wonder if you already have purchased a CD with a root kit? (You still buy CDs?)The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has a listing of the known CD's which have the root kit on them. I would expect this listing to grow as there are rumors circulating that some other labels are using similar technology and the company that

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F-Secure Computer Rootkit Information Pages: XCP DRM Software This is a link to the F-Secure page about the Sony rootkit. More interesting reading.

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'Bots' for Sony CD software spotted online | CNET News.com Sony's problems just for worse by an order of magnitude. I have been too busy to really follow this story but this will be an interesting one, which will have long reaching after effects for the entire music industry.

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Mark's Sysinternals BlogMy, oh, My... I knew this day was coming but I though it would be a while yet before it arrived. DRM and media companies going too far. This links to Mark Russinovich's blog, where he has uncovered Sony doing some very unscrupulous actions and where because of their actions they are actually able to cause harm to a system. Which company is next?Better yet, how to combat

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Well it was bound to happen. A set back, but not a loss. Despite most of my FF team being banged up, my QB scratching, and a goose egg from a WR I managed to squeak out with a tie at 7-0-1

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Windows Installer CleanUp Utilityhttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290301This is a nifty little utility to clean up corrupted Windows Installer Configuration Files. If you are familiar with MSIZAP, you will like this little utility. If you are not familiar with Windows Installer, MSI Exec, or MSIZAP, then take some time to goolge them, more than likely you will encoutner a

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And another win. 5-0 in Fantasy Football - Yay! (still one other player in reserve ;))

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After 18 innings of record setting baseball, the Atlanta Braves drop yet another year. This was a nail biter through 13 plus innings in the longest post season game ever played. Atlanta did not look good through this game or the entire series. The brave’s bullpen having a rough season all year did not blow for them. The game was lost by the usual heroes, Giles, Chipper, Andrew, and Furcal. They

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Local politics are always fun, now expand that to the world and toss in the internet... Wow fun stuff. Here is an interesting article about root control of the "internet". The internet has long been a global utility. Is it right that it moves to a more decenralized and world wide control? Sure (as long as you are not a control freak :)), what will this mean in terms of changes to come? Time will

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I have been out of the the nitty gritty technical side of hardware for a while now, however I still need to dig into the guts of a processor or mainboard every now and then (for kicks or business). That said I am not as up to speed as I should be on some of the current hardware reporting appliations as I should be (Most of my archived ones were PII era tools). I stumbled upon this one when I got

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Wow, I turn around and a huge amount of time has passed... Let us see here. It is now football and hockey season, The Atlanta Braves have cliched their 14th straight divisional title, two hurricanes have slammed into the gulf coast (I believe about 4-5 typhoons have hit the other side of the world as well.), fall is here, and it is almost time to start shopping for gifts for christmas time. Egads

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Yesterday Betty shed this mortal coil. Hers was a hard life, yet one filled with periods of joy of which we are blessed to remember. She was a small kitty who sauntered into our lives one summer afternoon...

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Security Advisory: Acrobat and Adobe Reader plug-in buffer overflow - Support Knowledgebase Yet another vulnerability! This one will probbaly slip under the radar too, but is one of the most commonly installed applications. If you have it, update it!

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A while back Windows 2000 and Windows XP were touted as much more stable and secure operating systems than their predecessors. By in large that is true (despite the monthly patching cycle). However, with that very same patch cycle we now are to the point that if a machine is online for more than 30 days, you can be 100% assured it is missing patches or a patch has not been 100% applied (e.g.

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Today, Microsoft released their security bulletins for August. Six updates (Windows Update returned eight updates for my machine; which was 100% current as of the last patch cycle).Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for August 2005http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-aug.mspxSome more information on the patches and some guidance from Marc Maiffret on the possible ease of

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Spyware Warrior - Massive ID Theft Ring Discovered Which are you more worried about? Spyware or viruses? The lines between these types of malware are merging, but they are still separate issues. As this .blog thread will illustrate I think the real threat is Spyware!

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Inside Tech SupportEver wonder what happens in a technical support call center, this is a good example of all the little things that are wrong. You could call this deep dark true humor (It gets a chuckle from me), or you could call it stress therapy where this individual is venting off stress from a rough job.Both are true. This set-up is a mirror image of many IT support environments. The only

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Lots of talk about patches and vulnerabilities of late, just when I was thinking some of the bigger items were behind us there looms some huge potential issues. However, I have taken a moment to step back to try to look at the larger picture. The following are some key points I noticed,Sloppy software development techniquesRushed release datesinflexible software developers (e.g. support and

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Small Dog Rescue and Humane Society Remember those two little dogs we found? The humane organization updated their website. They are about 7months old. Wee little ones. Still looking for homes. Click on the link in the title then head over to the adoptables page for more information on those two and more.

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Windows 2000 open to IP attack - Security Strategy: "Windows 2000 open to IP attack"Hmm… Here we go again! This could be interesting and I do not mean that in a good way! Microsoft has communicated pre-release details about some of the patches coming next Tuesday, and they have communicated that they will be re-releasing the Windows 2000 security roll-up package… Now comes news that eEye has

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Today we transferred the two dogs to this organization Small Dog Humane. They agreed to take the dogs in, run a microchip check, get them dewormed, caught up on meds, and neutered. We dropped them off this afternoon. We never did settle on nicknames, as that probably would've gotten us to attached to them.They will update their website soon with a picture of the dogs (they are a pug/pekenise mix)

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EA - Battlefield 2 Forgot to grab the official notice in the previous article to the offical EA blurb about the issue. Quoted below as well, Profiles with all Weapons Unlocked Many users logged into Battlefield 2 today to discover that they had access to all of the game's weapons unlocked in their profile. We have fixed the root issue that caused this to occur and by tomorrow morning all

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Electronic Arts (EA) BattleField 2 (BF2) Stats Servers HackedThis topic is being discussed in many forums online as many people (myself included) have all the weapons unlocked for their accounts when playing on BF2 Ranked servers. The following quote is from one of the persons who has claimed responsibility,Well, what a wonderful few days it has been. Since EA didn't take the time to respond (or

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Doggie guests. This weekend, my better half rescued two small dogs from a busy road. They were winding along the roadside, and all the homes along the way have fenced in yards, such that the animals could not get back into their residence if they were from the area.Could be they dug under once of the fences and escaped, but they have no collars on them at this point, so hard to say. We will get

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