* Gearhead: Mice, Xcelsius and dirty pictures * Backspin: Forget Big Brother — Watch out for Big Entertainment * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: Mice, Xcelsius and dirty pictures
Yes indeed, Gearhead is now completely virtualized. We’re online, on time, on target and “en point.”
To read this week’s Gearhead, click here.
Backspin: Forget Big Brother — Watch out for Big Entertainment
Last week I discussed the doublethink and newspeak of “the Campaign to Protect America,” an initiative launched by the Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy as well as the shameful strong-arm bullying tactics of the Recording Industry Association of America.
To read this week’s Backspin, click here.
Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
CAPTCHA Cracked
It looks like the spammers and scammers have found a way around CAPTCHA, that system used to authenticate a human by requesting them to enter text that they see in an image. Both Microsoft and Yahoo! are reporting that thousands of email accounts have been created and then used to send out spam, even though each uses CAPTCHA to create an account. If this is indeed true, it may spell the end of the reCAPTCHA project.
Dolbear’s Law
It’s July in Texas, and the crickets are getting started. Some years they are incredibly thick — I recall one year, back in the late 70s, when they had to close the Interstate — crickets so thick and slippery you couldn’t drive safely; drifts of crickets over a foot deep along the roadside. Ah, the distinct aroma of dead crickets in the morning; shopkeepers shoveling piles of crickets from the front of their stores…
How to solve Windows system crashes in minutesHow to solve Windows system crashes in minutes By Dirk A. D. Smith, Network World, 04/19/05]
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This gem has made me look like a freakin’ Windows god, many times. Dig down behind the crash, learn the whys and the wherefores, find solutions and fix problems. Read it; bookmark it.
