Is winter here for a few days?
They are giving a freeze warning for tomorrow morning with a projected low of 34 degrees and a low of 31 on Friday morning. But, alas don't worry, no snow is forcast so we won't be able to frolick in it unlike the espenator. But, i'm glad some cooler weather is here but I don't want to go straight from summer to winter with maybe one day of fall in between but I guess thats par for the course in Mobile. Its that time of year when, if you don't have much to do you can curl up in bed or on the couch or wearing your beach attire next to your computer and read a book or work on a fun personal project.
For those who don't know, kc's computer caught something which rendered its networking almost useless. Its quite weird, she can receive an address and DNS information. But when you loads firefox to go to any website, the progress bar jumps up to about half way then hangs and eventually says it cannot find the website. But Kenny and I stood there while we pinged an outside IP and received a response. Then to complicate things, it would only do that on cable, when we connected it to the dsl it worked fine. At least it worked fine for a bit. Now neither one works, but she can see my machine on the network.
I say, it should be open season on malware authors year round. Plus, the people who fund these malware authors who have full knowledge of what they are doing are just as liable to be shot on sight as the authors themselves (I'm sure that BJD will agree). I have had my share of problems, thank goodness nothing which caused a loss of data, only a mere reinstall of my OS.
Now we have the whole fiasco of Sony/BMG and their rootkit exploit. These guys really need to be severely punished. In order to protect their product from us, the consumer, and our right to fair use, they exposed our machines and personal data to possible exploits. Everyone knows the last couple years that malware has been aweful, everywhere you turn is some form of problem. IE, aka swiss cheese, has been an prime target but even firefox has suffered from some possible exploitation. So, whats the difference you may ask? On every occasion that a 'possible' exploit was found in firefox, the patch was out in 24hrs or less. I never see that happening from M$ for anything. California has filed a class action suit against Sony/BMG and I have heard that NY was supposed to do the same if they haven't already. But it shouldn't stop there. The artists themselves should sue as well, because there is no timetable for when the cd's without this exploit of trust will be released. This unwanted and uninvited software was included on about 20 of the latest cd's released from Sony/BMG. These artists are going to suffer as a direct result of Sony/BMG's boneheadedness. I would imagine that its part of their contract that they are unable to sue the record label over this, but I believe that this would an occasion where the court would strike this down. I hope this will strike fear into the record labels and *AA thugs that you just can't get away with anything. Lets hope this isn't just swept under the rug and the *AA's pour tons of money to help do just that.
Anyway, a reminder that tomorrow is the Python workshop from 3-5pm in FCW 19. I hope most everyone will come, I would love to see standing room only. If you have a notebook, bring it. There will be copies of Python available for installation.
~Kisea
For those who don't know, kc's computer caught something which rendered its networking almost useless. Its quite weird, she can receive an address and DNS information. But when you loads firefox to go to any website, the progress bar jumps up to about half way then hangs and eventually says it cannot find the website. But Kenny and I stood there while we pinged an outside IP and received a response. Then to complicate things, it would only do that on cable, when we connected it to the dsl it worked fine. At least it worked fine for a bit. Now neither one works, but she can see my machine on the network.
I say, it should be open season on malware authors year round. Plus, the people who fund these malware authors who have full knowledge of what they are doing are just as liable to be shot on sight as the authors themselves (I'm sure that BJD will agree). I have had my share of problems, thank goodness nothing which caused a loss of data, only a mere reinstall of my OS.
Now we have the whole fiasco of Sony/BMG and their rootkit exploit. These guys really need to be severely punished. In order to protect their product from us, the consumer, and our right to fair use, they exposed our machines and personal data to possible exploits. Everyone knows the last couple years that malware has been aweful, everywhere you turn is some form of problem. IE, aka swiss cheese, has been an prime target but even firefox has suffered from some possible exploitation. So, whats the difference you may ask? On every occasion that a 'possible' exploit was found in firefox, the patch was out in 24hrs or less. I never see that happening from M$ for anything. California has filed a class action suit against Sony/BMG and I have heard that NY was supposed to do the same if they haven't already. But it shouldn't stop there. The artists themselves should sue as well, because there is no timetable for when the cd's without this exploit of trust will be released. This unwanted and uninvited software was included on about 20 of the latest cd's released from Sony/BMG. These artists are going to suffer as a direct result of Sony/BMG's boneheadedness. I would imagine that its part of their contract that they are unable to sue the record label over this, but I believe that this would an occasion where the court would strike this down. I hope this will strike fear into the record labels and *AA thugs that you just can't get away with anything. Lets hope this isn't just swept under the rug and the *AA's pour tons of money to help do just that.
Anyway, a reminder that tomorrow is the Python workshop from 3-5pm in FCW 19. I hope most everyone will come, I would love to see standing room only. If you have a notebook, bring it. There will be copies of Python available for installation.
~Kisea
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