Windows XP patch This is looking like a pretty serious security issue, and everyone is recommending to get it patched immediately. According to the bulletin, you are vulnerable if you are: Customers using Microsoft® Windows® ME or XP, or who have installed the Windows XP Internet Connection Sharing client on Windows 98 or 98SE. Grab…
Interesting reading for the weekend: Madhu on why web advertising isn’t working and how website owners could change that. (Via JD Lasica ) Dan Gillmor on a sneaky little thing AOL 7.0 is doing to your internet settings. Joel on Yahoo’s lazy programmers. As for myself, it’s approaching midnight and I’ve been asleep, doped up…
A little explanation today, as background to the bizarre fax we got this morning. We don’t have a traditional ISP, we have a company that we are partnered with, who provided a consultant about 6 years ago to put together our computer network. (Before I worked here). We’ve simply thrown up a fractional T1 between…
Speaking of why I do this website, I got this from one of the hundreds of folks who wandered over from Lockergnome yesterday: “Hi, Mike. I’m another Gnomie visiting your site. I used to be a one man IT dept, until I moved to the mountains to work from home in a different capacity. Now…
Wow, Badtrans just seems to be everywhere doesn’t it? We’re still seeing quite a few copies of it flowing into the generic mailbox we have setup at work. One of my co-workers got it at home over the weekend too. She was asking me first thing this morning about the possibility of it spreading to…
News UK: BT admits sending internet virus to its customers. Ouch, that’s a rather embarrassing thing for an ISP to have to admit. Of course if people had kept their browser upgrades and patches up to date it wouldn’t matter who sent it to them, it couldn’t hurt them. Guess that’s asking too much though,…