a couple of years ago one of my hard disks crashed. it wasn’t a major crash but i lost a good number of files nonetheless. i do have backups but since then i have tried to offload most of my files from my desktop and/or laptop to the internet.
at the time, one of my fast [...]
this topic has been taken up time and time again its still worth repeating.
change your passwords.
that string of letters and numbers that you call a password is what protects your online identity.
websites that asks you to register a user name and password usually recommend creating a password that’s at least eight (8) characters long using [...]
biases notwithstanding, my gut tells me a merger between the two is a bad idea. for both companies.
my take:
44 billion is a huge amount. microsoft may be desperate. competition or not, if this bid will go through it will stress microsoft out. maybe a year before real results become visible. changing logos on websites doesn’t [...]
yup. its old news but yes, 360 is closing. the good news is that they’re actively developing mash. its a social networking thing like myspace and facebook. they’re a little late in the game but mash looks interesting and it may be worth a look see. it has lots of ajax bling some of which [...]
january 2008 is ending and i think its been a good month. granted that there has been glitches here and there and i’m late on some of my workload (with good reason) but no one under my care has been hacked and work-related stuff are moving forward although at a slower pace than i [...]
i get a lot of forwarded mails from friends containing jokes, quotes, stories and whatever. when i open the mail i see this longish list of people which forwarded the mail to their friends who forwarded to their friends, etc. until the list of recipients is nine times longer than the actual message at which [...]
givens:
desktops are running windows with ms office; file server is running samba on linux
problem:
file ownership of a shared file gets messed up once a user opens, edits and saves the shared file.
what happens in the background is when user1 opens, for example, an excel spreadsheet with a file ownership of nobody.research, excel copies the file [...]
i had a visit from a friend of mine who works as a web designer. she was half way through her pint of ice cream when she came in. i was working on a website and she took one look at the page i was working on and she gave me that knowing smile.
“obssessive/compulsive.”
“what?!?”, i [...]
i’ve always thought that doing two (or three) things at the same time is cool. my mother on the other hand always told me not to. “it’s not good”, she would say. i would also receive the same advice from my father.
well, it appears that they’re right. i found this article (via /.) by walter [...]
the other day i received an e-mail which looked a lot like spam but it didn’t get filtered. i took a closer look and i found out that the address of the sender was my e-mail address and it was sent to the same. i’m absolutely sure i didn’t send anything with a subject “january [...]
