* Gearhead: A little more on DPCs and some PPC apps * Backspin: Behavioral advertising isn’t the big problem * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: A little more on DPCs and some PPC apps
Last week I concluded by threatening to tell you what I found out about my errant deferred procedure call problem, but I’m still working on it.
An interesting suggestion for why DPCs on my Windows XP box have been inexplicably using up to 40% of the processor came from reader Dave Pampreen (Auburn Hills, Mich.): A friend of his killed the performance of his family’s PC by installing a 2.5MB image — which Windows converted into a 15MB BMP file — on the machine as a desktop background.
To read this week’s Gearhead, click here.
Backspin: Behavioral advertising isn’t the big problem
The following quote is from the report “Consumer Rights and Protections in the Behavioral Advertising Sector” presented by a whole passel of privacy activists during the Federal Trade Commission’s Town Hall meeting titled “Ehavioral Advertising: Tracking, Targeting, and Technology,” held on Nov. 1 and 2:
“The online tracking and targeting of consumers — both in its current form and as it may develop in the future — needs to be limited so that consumers can exercise meaningful, granular preferences based on timely and contextual disclosures that are understandable on whichever devices consumers choose to use ….Companies engaged in monitoring and tracking must respect consumer privacy by implementing Fair Information Practices, and there must be a structure that allows for enforcement of these rights.”
To read this week’s Backspin, click here.
Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Cubicle, Sweet Cubicle
If you thought Office Space was a documentary, then you’re gonna relate — here’s one for all the cube farmers out there:
The ‘Winners’ of the Wired News Saddest-Cubicle Contest
I believe you have my stapler…
Everex TC2502 Green gPC
Wal-Mart has announced that they are selling the Everex TC2502 Green gPC online and in select stores. Their web page includes a link (enable javascript) to find those stores (none within a hundred miles of me).
Virtualized Leopard Now Legal
Over on TidBITS: Apple to Allow Virtualization of Leopard. ‘Bout time too.
Lyx Licks Document Creation
Yesterday I checked out Lyx, a remarkable open source, freeware, text processing and formatting system based on the venerable LaTeX system with a GUI to make it palatable.
All a-Twitter
Do you Twitter? The more I play with Twitter the more impressed I am that such a simple and elegant concept could become so powerful as a social networking medium and that it would spawn so many way cool mashups.
Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Windows Explorer
So, why does Windows Explorer occasionally go to sleep when you launch it? On my Windows XP PC I’ll often launch a new instance and watch Explorer just sit there apparently doing nothing! I thought the problem was due to Explorer trying to handle network drives mapped as local drives but even when I’ve removed all mapped drives the problem still exists. Any ideas?
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