Recent Posts From My Blog: Technically Sound

Windows Metaphors
Unless you’ve been living in a wooden shed in Montana, you know that Microsoft is the (well deserved) butt end of IT jokes. Feast your eyes upon this gem: “The [Environmental Protection Agency] comes out with second hand smoke and suddenly smoking is banned everywhere,” he said during a keynote at the RSA security conference in San [...]

James H Kunstler dissects suburbia
I came across this while reading up on Peak Oil. One section discussed how our living patterns and travel patterns would be changed, once the last few drops of oil had been squeezed out of the earth. I always hated living in suburbia, and would only wish such a soul destroying and bleak existence on my [...]

Waledac
Microsoft seizes 270+ domains to deactivate botnet “Three days into the effort, Operation b49 has effectively shut down connections to the vast majority of Waledac-infected computers, and our goal is to make that disruption permanent. But the operation hasn’t cleaned the infected computers and is not a silver bullet for undoing all the damage we believe [...]

Microsoft Turns Over All Data To Governments
Well, isn’t this just ducky? Cryptome: Microsoft Law Enforcement Sales Brochure Wikileaks Mirror Microsoft also provides some country specific domains such as .co.uk, .fr, .it, .de, .es, .th, .tk, .co.jp Currently all e-mail service customer data is stored in the U.S. even if the account name contains a country specific domain. Which means that all data, regardless of nationality, is passing through [...]