Archive for November, 2004
Wednesday, November 17th, 2004
Buh-Bye Passwords
Tony reports that Microsoft plans to wean itself from passwords and move to smart cards, both for their own benefit and to help nudge along the increasing interest in biometrics and smart cards. That would certainly help with the problem of people using spouses, pets and kids as their easily guessed passwords. On the other [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Business,Security by Marshall
Tuesday, November 16th, 2004
Manually Purging Malware
Here’s some extensive info, long and yet oddly freewheeling and unspecific for the novice, on what can be involved in manually purging malware (adware/spyware) that has infested a computer.
No Comments » - Posted in Security by Marshall
Tuesday, November 16th, 2004
Family Reunion
I found myself wanting to use Palatino Linotype as the font on a web site, to match most closely the font used on the client’s business cards and marketing materials. Having recently found out that use of the “face” parameter of the HTML font tag is not necessarily considered a Good Thing, and knowing I [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Marshall
Tuesday, November 16th, 2004
VB Tips Collection
As I mentioned in the blog intro, XTreme had a history of publishing Visual Basic tips as part of the main site. I recently decided to revamp entirely, as the stale odor coming from the site overwhelmed me. Went down to a bare bones main page and left nothing linked from it until I could [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Programming by Marshall
Tuesday, November 16th, 2004
Microsoft: Root of All Evil
This is an interesting thread of comments at Wizbang. In my experience, a DVD drive from the supplier either comes with software, or you can pay $5 extra to get it. If I build a computer with DVD, I install that software, and the software goes along with the computer in case it has to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Computers by Marshall
Monday, November 15th, 2004
An Oddity
I may edit this to flesh out the details later, like maybe camera model and exploit details. I’ve been encountering the strangest thing with pictures taken by a digital camera. Some of them, and it always seems to be the last ones on the memory stick in the particular batch, if they are e-mailed as-is [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets,Security by Marshall
Monday, November 15th, 2004
Rest In Peace
This practice kind of goes against the idea that old code never dies, it just gets buggier. And if it does die, does it “goto” software heaven? Or does it gosub?
No Comments » - Posted in Humor,Software by Marshall
Saturday, November 13th, 2004
Scramjet Test
FuturePundit has a great discussion of the pending Mach 10 attempt by NASA with the final X-43A research craft, including an explanation of how scramjet technology works and the difficulties it presents.
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Marshall
Friday, November 12th, 2004
Not Just Any Wallpaper
Looking for new computer wallpaper? There are some incredible space pictures available. Via Dean Esmay
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Marshall
Thursday, November 11th, 2004
What Is This Place?
Or more properly, what was that place. This was the intro post for XTremeBlog, which could almost be an intro post for Geek Practitioners Blog. I’ve redacted the e-mail address, but otherwise left it the same. XTremeBlog is an idea I’ve had almost since I learned about blogging, and in some respects before that. It [...]
