———From Email———to Rex Moncriefdate Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:41 PMsubject Skype Hey Rex, have some questions about Skype. I don’t want to let my home phone number go, but, I’m tired of paying att too much just for local calls. I know you use Skype and have been using it. I know you like it, too. Is it worth …
Firefox and Direction
I just reviewed a great interview with Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla. If you are using Firefox and are interested in how something free is organized and directed, this is a great video to watch. It takes about 10 mins. http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/?p=347 Brendan discusses organizing open source contributors, how Google Chrome is affecting the Firefox strategy, and other things.
Minimum Purchase Amounts
This is one of those little aggravating things that I finally decided to blog about. Have you ever been to a convience store (or some merchant) that required you to purchase at least $5 in order to use your credit card? I’ve encountered this a few times when I stop to get my kids a Dr. Pepper or something – …
Domain Registration and Privacy
================== From Customer Email==================Follow-up via email about the privacy registration. Remember, it doesn’t hurt to do a private registration if you are more comfortable with that. I just tend to be very practical and realistic about things. (1) When you register a domain name, the information that you use is entered into the WHOIS database. This information serves a number …
Picasa for the Mac – finally
While doing some quick research for a customer of mine with a Mac – I ran across the Youtube Video from Google showing off Picasa for the Mac. I’m very glad Google finally released it! http://picasa.google.com/mac/ As most of you know, I’m a huge fan of Google’s products – and I use Picasa to manage all of my pictures . I …
Blogger Issue – java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out
Well this year started out a little shakey on the technology front. I have been attempting to post about malware for 2 hours using my Blogger.com account and kept receiving the following error: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out Just so you know, I use Blogger.com to post my blog to my own webserver using the FTP publishing built into Blogger. This …
Still think your anti-virus helps you
Happy New Year to everyone! Unfortunately, my first post of the new year is not a positive one. For example, malware programs now infect computers and then routinely use their own antivirus capabilities to not only disable antivirus software but also remove competing malware programs. source: http://www.infopackets.com/news/security/2008/20081216_internet_security_is_losing_the_online_war.htm Ok – I’ve been preaching for a long time that your anti virus …