Why the internet will fail (from 1995)
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The Internet? Bah!
Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn’t, and will never be, nirvana
By Clifford Stoll | NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Feb 27, 1995
After two decades online, I’m perplexed. It’s not that I haven’t had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I’ve met great people and even caught a hacker or two. But today, I’m uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic.
Baloney. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.
Categories: Humor Tags: ash, common sense, computer network, computers, frustration, games, hack, human interaction, Humor, Internet, Kid, Software, tongue in cheek, Web
Geek Humor
- >——– The information went data way ——–<
- 2 + 2 = 5 (for extremely large values of 2)
- AAAAA (American Association Against Acronym Abuse)
- (A)bort, ®etry, ℗retend this never happened…
- Access denied — nah nah na nah nah!
- An error? Impossible! My modem is error correcting.
- As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.
- ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANCI.
- Bad command. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaay…
- Bad command or file name! Go stand in the corner.
- Best file compression around: “DEL *.*” = 100% compression
- Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers. (Leonard Brandwein)
- Beware of geeks bearing gifs.
- Blessed are the pessimists, for they make backups!
- Blessed is the end-user who expects nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.
- The box said, “Requires Windows 98 or better” so I installed Linux.
- BREAKFAST.COM Halted…Cereal Port Not Responding Read more…
More Shortcuts for MS Word
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Clampi Virus targets online banking
In the modern world, most people never see their bank (with the exception of ATM withdrawals). We use bill pay, direct deposit and bank debit cards. This is the exact behavior that the Clampi virus is living on.
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Must Have Application for Thumb Drives
It’s a sign of the time, you can buy a thumb drive almost anywhere. I have even seen them in Gas Stations in the Omaha area.
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Things Learned from the Internet
- You want it, you can find it online.
- If you don't want it, you can also find it online.
- It might take a while.
- Sometimes the hunt is half the fun.
- Everyone has a website. Grandfathers, mothers and babies. Everyone.
- At some point, Google became a verb.
- The difference between web surfing with Firefox and IE is the difference between body armor and a trendy cotton vest.
- If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
- The Internet is the geeks playground. Here, we rule.
- Not that you would ever need to know the dietary habits of the South American anteater, but it's comforting to know you could find it online if you did.
- When in doubt, Wikipedia.
- Anyone who uses the term 'Interweb' has never been online.
- Explaining the Internet to someone who's never been online, is like explaining the Magna Carta to your cat.
- Almost everything of substance can be summed up with a “DUDE! Check this out!' and a hyperlink.
- Be safe. Be cynical.
- Some else already said it first. But that doesn't mean it won't be said again, and again...
- The Internet IS redundancy.
- There is no such thing as 'sufficient bandwidth'.
- There's always something new.
- You can never go back once you've tried it.
Categories: Humor Tags: American, as, babies, bandwidth, body armor, can, cotton vest, dietary habits, Find, fire, FireFox, fun, Geek, geeks, google, grandfathers, half the fun, heck, hyperlink, Internet, interweb, magna carta, online, playground, Read, redundancy, south american anteater, the, use, Web, web surfing, website, when in doubt, wikipedia, you
Categories: Internet Tags: 1980 games, addictive, adobe, age, arcade, are, armor games, as, attack, bubble bobble, can, classic video games, commodore 64 games, crazymonkey games, fantasy, fantasy sports game, Find, FREE, free commodore 64 games, free multi player games, free online games, free web game, free web games, game, game fantasy sports, game goodies, games, games halloween, Great, halloween game, Home, Kid, memory, multi player games, online, popcap games, ports, puzzle, spot, START, sudoku puzzle, the, title, use, warning, Web, web sudoku, wikipedia, Window, WINDOWS, World, you
Go Figure, Dirty sites are dirty…
Symantec, the makers of a very widely used array of internet security programs, has compiled a list of the 100 “dirtiest” sites.
Categories: Malware Tags: adult content, adult sites, age, are, array, as, clearing house, comp, Content, crawler, exploits, extreme care, family, feature adult, inpost, Internet, internet security, internet users, irritants, judgment, karaoke, Malware, net view, News, norton, online, ports, post, program, Quotes, safe web, Safety, Security, security programs, security risks, Software, symantec, the, title, Tree, use, View, virus, viruses, Web, website, you
Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts
- Drag and drop
- Drag the favicon of any site to your home icon to set it as the home page.
- Drag a hyperlink (or image) to the new tab icon to open the link in a new tab.
- Drag a highlighted word to the search bar (beside the address bar) will bring you to the Google search result page for that word. If you drag the highlighted word to the address bar (and press enter), Firefox will perform a Google “I’m Feeling Lucky” search
There are many things that you can drag and drop in Firefox.
Categories: Firefox Tags: bookmark list, ctrl w, drag and drop, favicon, FireFox, google, google search, Helpful, highlight, Home, home icon, hyperlink, keyboard shortcuts, light, middle button, mouse shortcuts, page bookmark, page search, quick, search, search bar, search result, search tab, size, space, tab keyboard, tab navigation, tabs, the, use, Web, wheel, Window, word, you
Easily Remove Ads from Gmail
I enjoy the massacre of ads. This sentence will slaughter ads without a messy bloodbath.
Categories: Gmail Tags: age, amp, are, as, bad mood, blood, bloodbath, Content, Email, Enjoy, family, Find, gmail account, hacker, heck, Home, inpost, interface, Lifehacker, mail, nuts, post, remove ads, sentences, signature block, slaughter, START, the, title, use, Web, web interface, word, you
Flip 3D your Firefox Tabs
Looking at all the evidence presented to me, Firefox is making major strides in browser preference among web surfers. I know it is my browser of choice.
Categories: Firefox Tags: 3d interface, addon, Addons, are, as, can, choice one, color, exact window, favorite things, fire, FireFox, FoxTab, Great, inpost, interface, preference, Review, rightclick, stars, strides, tabs, the, tiles, use, View, Vista, Web, web surfers, wheel, you
I Love this utility
One of my favorite websites to look at daily (ok many times a day) is Life Hacker. Today as I was going through some of their archived postings I found this.
Categories: SW Tags: age, anti virus, application, archived postings, arsenal, as, audacity, can, Download, downloads, family, few days, FREE, free loading, Great, hacker, inpost, Installer, internet tv, itunes, Malware, mom and dad, photo manager, picasa, program, Review, scanner, system optimization, test, text, the, tv player, View, vlc media player, Web, website, whiz, WINDOWS, xml file, you, ZIP
Find drivers for unknown devices
Have you ever been given a computer, or bought an old fixer upper PC that didn’t have all the discs or information for the components?
I know this is frustrating since I too have had this problem. Especially when it involves key equipment (Network card). There is nothing more irritating then looking at your device list and seeing the yellow question mark. Well technicians, as with almost everything computer related, there is a site setup to help with this. PCIDatabase.com
So how does this work?
You will want to go to the question mark in the device manager and right click on the entry (there maybe more then one on a reimage or a custom built machine). For those that may not be familiar on how to get to the device manager here are some simple steps. Find the My Computer icon on your desktop (upper left by default). You will want to Right click on the icon and you will get a menu like this:
After you left click on the properties entry a new window will pop up:
If you do not have the tab shown, you will want to click on the Hardware tab. Once here, click on the device manager and you will see a list of installed devices. You will scroll down for the yellow question mark. In my example there are none, but I am sure you will find them rather quickly.
Categories: Internet Tags: age, amp, are, as, comp, computer, computer icon, Content, device manager, family, Find, fix, hardware tab, Helpful, highlight, important information, inpost, light, properties menu, quick, reimage, search, simple steps, system, the, Web, website, yellow question mark, you
When is an antivirus really a virus?
Today I received a call from one of my external users that was unable to access any websites because some new antivirus was saying he was unprotected and every website had malicious code.
Since I know that we have McAfee 8.5 deployed to our users, I knew that this was not a McAfee issue. As we discussed it a little further he was mentioning that the Antivirus wanted him to purchase the software.
This isn’t the first I have heard of this. There is a software company Innovagest 2000 that is producing this software. They advertise it as an antispyware application, but it is the spyware. On some less then savory websites you will get a pop up that says that your computer maybe infected and they offer a free scan.
The fear of being infected motivates a lot of people to run this free scan. Unknown to them this application installs underneath and now you are stuck. On that note, I do recommend only doing the online scans from reputable sites. I personally recommend the following: Symantec, Panda, and McAfee.
This application is extremely hard to get rid of. It reregisters and installs if it is not completely uninstalled correctly.
I hate programs like this. But it is a fact of life out there. The modern day snake-oil salesman.
While the program is running you will see the following undesirable behavior:
- A “Windows Security Center” stating that you should purchase Personal Antivirus.
- Numerous alerts stating that your computer is under attack or that you have malware running on your computer. If you click on these alerts, Personal Antivirus will be installed, or you will be brought to the purchase page for the program.
- Your Internet Explorer browser will be hijacked to show security warnings when browsing the web that stop you from reaching your desired page.
As I mentioned before this bugger is very hard to get rid off. But not impossible. I found these instructions at BleepingComputer.com.
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Online Backup
A few days ago, I discussed a backup tool named Cobian and I promised to look into online space for offsite storage.
Categories: Internet Tags: age, application, are, as, backup, backup set, backup tool, backups, bandwidth issues, can, Cobian, comp, computer, critical data, disk, Download, downloads, Find, FREE, Ftc, initial impressions, mozy, odd case, quick, Review, running out of space, space, storage, storage place, system, the, thunderbird, voip phones, Web, WINDOWS, you
Safely type email on your iPhone
I do not personally own an iPhone, but I do keep my eye out on some of the interesting applications from time to time, and this is one that I would love to see on my beloved blackberry. Email n’ Walk.
Categories: iPhones Tags: age, application, are, as, blackberry, blackberry email, can, Content, Download, drawback, Email, family, Find, iphone, love, object, platform, Review, Software, text, text messages, the, Web, you
Kidzui
When you think of trusted names in products for kids, some of that come to the top of the list include: Barbie, Mattel, and Hot Wheels. Now imagine the three of them combining to create a safe way for kids to access the internet and parents to check and control that access. What you would be left with is KidZui.
What is Kidzui? Well let me try and help with that. Kidzui is a browser that has parents in mind. With a centrally managed list of websites that are allowed, not allowed, ability to be notified when your child adds a new friend, as well as many other customizable security features, Kidzui is all about allowing supervised independence.
With two install options (Firefox Add-in or Standalone download) the setup is incredibly easy. Following the setup you will be then prompted to do the initial registration of your parent account. During this phase, you will be setting up your first “Zui” or child account. You can create an account for all members of your family. Please note, keep your password and email address you set this up with away from the child so they can not login and undo whatever settings you choose.
Some of the parental options in the browser itself are: full screen (kiosk) only mode and require a password to exit. This would be a great feature to keep anyone from being able to close Kidzui and just launch IE or Firefox.
Categories: Internet Tags: barbie mattel, customizable security, hot wheels, initial registration, Kid, kidzui, kiosk, mattel, new friend, parental controls, parents, real fun, safe way, security features, Web, website, zui
Keep that Software up to date
If you are like I am, you have a lot of software installed on your computers. So much in fact it seems impossible to keep them all up to date. I know a lot of people think, if it ain't broke, why fix it?
Categories: SW Tags: beta version, compatibility problems, compression utility, computer, file compression, FileHippo, FireFox, fix, flash version, flash versions, izarc, new features, Security, security updates, simple answer, Software, version numbers, Web, ZIP
Export to Excel
One of the nice things of working IT Support is that I get to learn of new features I would not normally use. This actually occurred the other day with a function the Microsoft Excel adds.
Categories: Microsoft Office Tags: desktop, drop down menu, Export, exporttoexcel, fantasy football, fix, football stats, help desk, microsoft, microsoft excel, new features, nice things, REG, REG Files, registry, unzip, Web, web page
Top 10 Phishing Scams as of 05/29/2009
By now, everyone with an email address has received those phishing emails. You know the ones I mean, your PayPal account will be disabled if you don’t login by such and such a date. I have found the following list of the top 10 Phishing Scams.
Top 10 Phishing ScamsIf you receive a similar message in your inbox you should delete it and not follow the links in the message. If you want to check your account, you should type the bank or company website directly into your web browser, or add a bookmark, rather than following links in an email. If you are unsure if an email you receive is legitimate, visit the companies website directly, phone the company, or contact their Customer Services or fraud department (usually fra…@companyname.com) to confirm that they sent the mail.
Updated Last: May 29, 2009
1. Amazon.com — Limited Account Access Details
2. Notification
3. Commonwealth Bank Survey 2009
4. notification
5. Security Alert
6. Paypal Member Notification
7. Important alert [message id: ]
8. Dear Paypal Member
9. Check out the latest items from your favorite sellers on eBay
10. Bank Of America Alert: We have temporarily prevented online access to your account
Categories: Phishing Tags: Amazon, Bank Of America, Bank Survey, Commonwealth Bank, Correct Web, Customer Services, Cut And Paste, Ebay, Email, Favorite Sellers, Federal Trade Commissions, Fraud Department, Ftc, Helpful Hints, Internet Browser, Legitimate Companies, Message Id, Paypal Account, Phishing Scams, system, Web
OpenDNS — Review and Recommendation
For those of you that have children and want to block out specific types of sites, OpenDNS is for you.
Categories: Internet Tags: amount of time, computer, Content, DNS, Email, email addresses, favorite sites, guns, individual computer, individual computers, inquiries, Recommendation, social networking, Speed, sports shopping, Web
