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Archive for April 25th, 2007

Gallery: Lamest Technology Mascots Ever

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Technology has always had trouble appealing to the part of our hard-wiring that expects advanced machines to behave like sentient beings. It’s this problem that makes software product managers run screaming to careers in TV marketing, pet supply sales and toy manufacturing. In the meantime, they come up with blatant attempts to personalize tech products [...]

Just a little bug test

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

And once again I will attempt a picture upload and see if this method will work.
Well it appears that is one bug that I can squash. Okay I will try and stop testing for the day I promise. And once I get these all ironed out I will post a full write up [...]

More testing with ScribeFire

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Okay I will try and post a pic since that is a bugger to get to post right now
Hummm it posted but the wrong one. LOL I shall return with bug cures.
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ScribeFire

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Today I am playing with a new blogging tool, ScribeFire,and yes it seems to work better than the older version that it came from,ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) is a full-featured
blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post
to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are
browsing, [...]

Mac and Linux attacks set to rise

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

16:00, Apr 24th 2007 by Scott Bicheno
The increased popularity of alternative platforms will lead to more security challenges.
Speaking to consumer PC mag PC Pro,
security guru Eugene Kaspersky said that the lukewarm reception of
Vista will result in defections to Mac OS and Linux, thus making them
more attractive targets for malware writers.
“Home users are not
so loyal to [...]

Spy Act of 2007 = "Vendors Can Spy Act"

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

 
strick1226 writes “Ed Foster over at InfoWorld describes the Spy Act bill (H.R. 964) as having the same relation to the prevention of spyware that the CAN SPAM Act had to the prevention of spam. It allows exceptions for companies to utilize spyware for any number of reasons; if this bill had been law when [...]

PCLinuxOS launching hardware certification program

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

 
The PCLinuxOS Hardware Database (HWDB) collects user-submitted reports on the compatibility of various hardware with the PCLinuxOS distribution. Now its founder has announced a plan to begin a hardware certification program for personal computer…
A item that is needed in all Linux distros,with hardware causing the most headaches to the new users of LInux,now if [...]

Mozilla to end Firefox 1.5.x support next month

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

 
It’s time to move on, if you’re still using one of the Firefox 1.5.x-series browsers. A Mozilla blogger announced today that the end-of-life deadline for security/stability upgrades for the older Firefox has been extended to an undetermined date in mid-May from the original date of today,
Tis time to update folks really it is,Baldy
 
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