Bryce Whitty has a list of 7 situations you may find yourself in as a consultant, and asks how you would handle them. There’s some interesting discussion going on in the comments. I do have one comment, regarding number 7 “A male client wants you to setup monitoring software on his wife?s computer because he…
I got an email notice from my bank today that said starting such and such a date they were implementing a new security feature for on-line banking. On that day if I want to do some on-line banking, I’ll have to enter my password on two consecutive screens to login. Now, I’ll admit I don’t…
So with this week being “patch Tuesday” an update to Firefox being released, and work continuing on the intranet, including hacking away at a copy of Xoops, work’s been pretty busy. I’ve got some follow-up work to the website RFP I did for the Friends of the Library due, and some serious writing to work…
Today was pretty insanely busy at work today, so this post has been “in the works” all day, at least in my head. I took part in the Tech Chat on Kevin’s podcast over the weekend, which was pretty fun. I guess Kevin will have some excerpts during some upcoming podcasts, and I understand there’s…
Well I promised more later, and boy is it later… 🙂 After lunch we were treated to a talk by Steve Gibson. Now to say that Steve has a different perspective that Rob Rosenberger would be putting in mildly. Some of Steve’s main points: The internet, globally is very robust and impossible to bring down,…
OK AOL backers. Here’s a few questions for you. (Yes they are blocking Trillian again, and there’s a new version out today…blah blah blah.) If AOL is so all fired up about Trillian “hacking” their network, why is ICQ not blocked as well? (It’s owned by AOL too) And if AOL is for an open,…