Archive for December, 2004
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004
Secure Downloading
There’s a great discussion, entertainly and religiously tempestuous of course, going on over Firefox and Internet Explorer. Not about the browsers, at least not at first, but about whether the Firefox download can be trusted to be secured and the file you receive and install untampered with.
I’m following the comments in the Wizbang post, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Business, Security, Software by Marshall
Monday, December 20th, 2004
Carnival of the Capitalists
Welcome to this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists, here at XTremeBlog. I hope you’ll be back to visit this place from time to time when there is no carnival to draw your attention. We post about everything from hardcore talk of programming, to basic tips for computer users, to stuff of possible geek [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Business by Marshall
Friday, December 17th, 2004
The Art of Buzz and Timeliness
There have been a bunch of people reading and reviewing or commenting on a recent book by Guy Kawasaki called The Art Of The Start. I am not one of them.
This is an excellent, concerted exercise in using blogs to build buzz for a product. Based on what I have seen, it’s a [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Business, Programming, Uncategorized by Marshall
Friday, December 17th, 2004
Computing Security Tips
Eric has pointed out an interesting post on safe personal computing by security expert Bruce Schneier. Good advice, even if I tend to be overly “do as I say, not as I do” in my own practices. At a minimum place to start, use Firefox to block popups and seriously curtail the chances [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Security, User Tips by Marshall
Friday, December 17th, 2004
Google Defeats Geico
Dane Carlson, who will be hosting the December 27 Carnival of the Capitalists, reports that Geico has lost their case against Google. This means Google may sell AdWords that are trademarks to ad buyers who don’t own those trademarks. The rush is on!
Incidentally, the Geico Gecko has a blog. Agree or not [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Business by Marshall
Wednesday, December 15th, 2004
Spyware Warrior
Inspired by the Jay Tea post I linked previously, McGehee has pointed out that there is a blog called Spyware Warrior. It appears to be a nice resource.
No Comments » - Posted in Computers, Geek Tips, Security, User Tips by Marshall
Wednesday, December 15th, 2004
Malware Slayer
Jay Tea describes an experience cleaning up malware, that is, adware and spyware, on an extended family computer. There’s that family tech support thing again. I can’t blame him for feeling dirty, as it was a particularly bad infestation.
He took a somewhat different approach from the hardcore one here and for that matter, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Computers, Geek Tips, Security, User Tips by Marshall
Wednesday, December 15th, 2004
Early Mastered Domains
Via The Trademark Blog, here, a list of the oldest 100 dot com domains. I, too, always assumed bbn.com was the first, considering their role.
The list of 100 was linked originally in this post at jottings.com.
Another post there links to all domains registered up to December 15, 1987, which is fascinating too. So [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Marshall
Wednesday, December 15th, 2004
Linux Hell
Rand Simberg is having serious Linux issues, originating, it seems, with some hardware problem or another. At this point, the main problem is retrieving data from a half-done upgrade to Fedora. Ouch.
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Marshall
Monday, December 13th, 2004
Carnival of the Capitalists: There Now Here Then
SamaBlog has the December 13 edition of Carnival of the Capitalists.
I will be hosting it here next week. Obviously you can write about anything business and economics oriented to enter in CotC, but I am encouraging items on technology in business, the business of technology, and naturally anything holiday themed.
The 12/20 edition was originally [...]
