Admit it, at some point in time you’ve inadvertently sent an email to the wrong person, but what happens when it’s a company that you trust that sent the email to the wrong person… actually over 3,000 persons? That would be embarrassing. What if that email contained an attachment with the company’s email list? That [...]
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Greener Living through Technology: How a Geek gets Back to Basics
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Oct 30
Proof that Mac OS is going mainstream: Some Leopard upgraders see 'blue screen of death'
A significant number of Mac owners upgrading to Leopard on Friday reported that after installing the new operating system, their machines locked up, showing only an interminable — and very Windows-like — “blue screen of death.” Then again, can Mac really be called an OS anymore? Isn’t the OS that Mac runs on BSD Unix? [...]
Oct 30
'Shoot first' laws make it tougher for burglars in the United States
Burglars in the United States could once sue homeowners if they were shot, but now a growing number of states have made it legal to shoot to kill when somebody breaks into a house. When will Utah follow suit? And how is a homeowner to know if it’s a burglar or a SWAT Team with [...]
Oct 30
A Call for Zune Autoplaylists
I really like the Zune (the hardware; and one day I will have one), in the meantime I’m switching over to using Zune (the software) versus Windows Media Player. I have 50GB of (legitimate, ripped from my own CD’s) music at home on my terabyte RAID, ripped as MP3 320Kbps CBR. But I don’t have [...]
Oct 29
Then End of the World: How it all begins
I’ve debated whether or not I should write this post, in part because many of the sources I’ll list are religious in nature, and I’m trying to keep my posts as "factual" as possible (complete with citations and what not). Even moreso because I’ve been getting strong "feelings" about this topic that seem to grow [...]
