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Football can teach you a lot about cyber security 1) good defense does not mean the offense does not score; 2) drinking helps; 3) drinking helps - Dr. Eric Cole

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“They spelled uninstall (dot) wrong log…  wait, no.”

It’s been one of those days.

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From TextMate:

[2006-11-02: REVISION 1324]

[REMOVED] TextMate no longer pays tribute to human sacrifices, rape, nor does it show a picture of the God of the dead in your dock - ticket 945BEB5D

It’s real, I swear.  Download the trial and look in the release notes.

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So you’re thinking about designing a program, product, or… anything? Remember
three simple rules.

• Users don’t read stuff
• Users aren’t coordinated
• Users can’t remember anything

Joel makes good arguments for these and I think he hits them spot on.  The above links are meant for ( Read more... )

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Ok, so more news is coming to light about the WGA fiasco, and even applies to all Windows Updates. I won’t retract my previous statement (about switching), but I’ll provide the info below and let you make your own decision.

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So you read my tirade about Vista’s EULA, read on for one about XP.

One of Microsoft’s ‘critical updates’ to Windows XP is WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage). Essentially what this tool does is check to see if your copy of XP is genuine or pirated. Well, it tries to anyway. It ( Read more... )

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Joel Spolsky of Frog Creek Software makes some good points about customer service.

Almost every tech support problem has two solutions. The superficial and immediate solution is just to solve the customer’s problem. But when you think a little harder you can usually find a ( Read more... )

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If you’re not familiar with using an Apple computer, you might be a little hesitant to purchase one for general use, however nowadays that’s less and less of a barrier. If you like, you can setup Windows XP on the latest Mac machines and either run it as a virtual machine or ( Read more... )