Information about certain file types that are blocked after you install Office 2003 Service Pack 3
OK, Microsoft is making Vista safer, making IE safer, tightening up a variety of things (usually by disabling features or prompting you to click through a nag) and yet they find it good to make sure that Office 2003 service [...]
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“Opening and saving these file types may pose a risk to you.” What else is new from Microsoft ?
Did I just loose my desktop?
Intuit Alienates Mac Users With QuickBooks Fiasco
I understand that companies lost data, at an important time of the year. And, I saw Intuit, after their first few days of not turning off the update server on their end, implement pretty good customer support. But, there really wasn’t anything they could do to recover data. We [...]
Dell warns of Vista upgrade challenges - ZDNet UK
Dell warns of Vista upgrade challenges - ZDNet UK
It’s not that you shouldn’t upgrade, just that you had better really plan it and layout the money. I am still looking for a good cost/benefit for smaller businesses that really don’t have much more than even one PDC.
20+ Windows Vista Features and Services Harvest User Data for Microsoft
Isn’t it wonderful that so many things can spy on you. And, we all “have” to believe that moving to Vista is better for us, keeping us safer from those malicious and malevolent malware programs. Does this remind anyone of the same logic being used by certain federales to convince us that gathering more information [...]
Keeping up with the Jones “The enemy adapts: the state of spam, malware, and phishing scams”
Just as we are supposed to keep our consumer society healthy and flourishing it seems that computer bad stuff is making plenty of money, for someone. And, thinking that a Mac will keep you safe is only going to cover part of staying safe on the Internet, it seems that phishing schemes, those things that look like you have to reconfirm some financial information, are really taking off. [...]
FBI Issues New Rules For Getting Phone Records
And, I thought our FBI played by the rules. But, it seems that they have, and can, just call the phone company and get the records that they want. Sure, they have a letter “template” to follow, paragraph 2 in http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/
03/19/AR2007031901775.html
Yet, the Justice Dept has a different take on what it happening behind the scenes. [...]
All Microsoft updates phone home
I have gotten out of the habit of reading those wonderful privacy statements from software vendors, jaded and cynical from their weaseling out of notifying me of changed by placing the burden upon me to view their changes. And, just by agreeing once, I have agreed to any further changes, even if I don’t know [...]
AirPort Disk, finally a way to get your files from anywhere
I have wonder, as others have, about how to get to an AirPort Disk from outside my LAN. And, finally some screen shots and enough english to give me hope.
Thanks to Ars Technica, AirPort Extreme 802.11n Wi-Fi Wireless Base Station, AirPort Disk I now know more than I did.
Office 2007 rant
Why I thought Microsoft would do something that I could understand with Office 2007, I don’t know. But, here I am, stuck with someone (a so-called early adopter) who sent me a .docx file and I am on a Mac.
So, I can fire up a PC and use some remote desktop software (Remote Desktop Connection, [...]
In the beginning …
… there was a web site, languishing in the wilds of the world wide web. Not really doing anything for anybody, and definately not helping the people who wanted help.
So, how to help them. And, the answer came, use a blog and see if at least one bit of news or helpful hint could be [...]