I’m home from work today. I am not feeling very well, although sleeping in until 11 AM seems to have helped some. Maybe I just need a day to shut down and rest? Who knows! Anyway, I’m behind in updating and blog-reading, so more to come later, maybe!
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Just a typical IT day, you’re trying to reconfigure a machine and get it moved, as an improvement for one of your users, but you get sidetracked when your boss comes running into your office, accounting reports falling out of her hands, asking you to investigate a missing payment from the database! Turns out someone…
Some interesting stuff, but no closer to a final conclusion of how it got there. The installer ran an XML file to get it’s updates. The XML file instructed it to download 4 files from download.statblaster.com. Those files were MemoryWatcher-b.exe, all_files9.exe, tracker.exe and FixIt.exe. Those in turn come bundled with their own “extras” and in…
OK here’s the deal. Yesterday, one of the subscription news sites that someone here subscribes to changed the format of their site. This person could no longer log in. They claimed that she must have cookies turned off and that was why. She came screaming to me about turning her cookies off, which I never…
After a lovely meal of fajita’s and El Salvadoran Beer, prepared by my wonderful, recipe collecting wife, I’ve managed to finish writing Part 2 of the Free News Aggregator Showdown this evening. Go have a look at the new, updated information. New versions called for a whole new look at things, and there has been…
From Scripting News: This is so beautiful and symmetric. An ISP is banning the RIAA from its network. Now, let’s all of us think of ways we can erase the RIAA from our lives. This could get interesting. Indeed it will be interesting to watch this unfold. Surely the RIAA, once given power to monitor…