Someone I work with sent me this article. I’m not sure what that says about them or what they think of me, but it raises some interesting points, especially in regards to finding that line between keeping your employees from being too unproductive with their use of the internet connection and being so strict that you make them all miserable. It’s a hard line to find sometimes…
Companies Must Deal with ‘Cyber-slacking’
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Heard this first on CNN last night, but they had no details at all. Went looking for it online this morning and found this link. It seems the RIAA agreed to stop trying to get the government to force tech companies to install anti-copying stuff on every piece of hadware, but the tech companies agreed…
Hmm here’s a question, can you use the “extended entry” feature of Movable Type,( which is very important for some things in a journal dealing with abuse, because it gives people the option to not continue reading if it’s too diffcult a subject) and still include the whole entry in the RSS feed? Or at…
Thanks for allowing me the temporary diversion in the interest of helping out Ohio’s libraries, now for the random techie comments: Perhaps the worst drive-by adware ever! According to Virtualsecurity.org, this one actually goes ahead and downloads the .NET framework if you don’t already have it, without asking, so it can use it to display…
“All I did was try to download a Solitaire game from the Internet” Anyone who’s ever helped someone clean up a spyware infestation knows exactly what I’m talking about. One “innocent” little game came complete with 8 toolbars, 4 startup executables, 3 advertising generators, multiple registry entries, random processes and, ironically enough, an anti-spam program that…
Spent last night putting together a basic installation on Windows on the new laptop hard drive. I guess I should be glad that there’s a Microcenter close by and that they had some notebook hard drives in stock. Or I should be glad it went out while I was still home where I had access…
My wife, after reading that last post, came to me last night and said “That was a little too Andy Rooney for my tastes, what happened to my husband?”. Ouch! OK, I admit it, I’ve been taking life a little too fucking seriously. Time to crank up a Too Much Joy CD and remember that…