GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site
GoDaddy’s continued willingness to shut down any site that draws complaints makes one thing clear: you should never register a domain with GoDaddy unless you are certain that your site… Read more »
Perils of New Technology
Michael Nygard provides an unexpected reason why you should probably avoid buying the latest and greatest technology: Steve Jobs made me miss my flight.
Optimize A Fresh Ubuntu Installation
Wired provides a useful list of standard add-ons: Optimize A Fresh Ubuntu Installation. Also check out Medibuntu, which automates a lot of this stuff much more safely than Automatix. (Warnings… Read more »
US government forces military secrets on Brit webmaster
Article from The Register. I thought of making a list of all the basic security practices being violated here, but I gave up. It just boggles the mind.
Visual Studio 2008 Quirk
If you try to debug a web application and get the message You are not authorized to view this page HTTP Error 403 – Forbidden It probably just means that… Read more »
Voting Machines: California Gets a Clue
California is one of the few jurisdictions that is belatedly starting to do the right thing with electronic voting machines: subject them to rigorous testing by qualified computer security experts…. Read more »
Microsoft Backs Down on Vista Lockout
Update to previous post: Starting with Vista Service Pack 1 (available in early 2008) Microsoft will no longer disable your computer if “Windows Genuine Advantage” decides that your copy of… Read more »
Let the Machines do the Recount
The continuing horror story of electronic voting machines reaches a new level of tragic absurdity: Ohio e-voting review makes a mockery of “recounts”. This illustrates the real reason why we… Read more »
Comcast Packet Forgery
The latest flap about “net neutrality” started with a test by the Associated Press which found evidence that Comcast is slowing BitTorrent traffic over its network. If this were really… Read more »
Configuring IIS for HTTP GET
I recently ran into some frustrating problems doing something that ought to be really simple: setting up a directory on IIS so that the files could be downloaded with a… Read more »