Being Peter Kim: Broken windows in social media.
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Coding Horror: The Economics of Bandwidth
Coding Horror: The Economics of Bandwidth. Interesting what the price of bandwidth is compared to hard drive pricing. I’m mostly interested in this from a backup perspective, and sending data to an offset backup via 2-500GB hard drives would figure to be cheaper than sending data to an Amazon-hosted backup solution. Update: I just realized [...]
Facebook’s New Terms Of Service: “We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.”
Facebook’s New Terms Of Service: “We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.”. Okay, it is The Consumerist. I see a lot of alarmist things on The Consumerist. This is quoted content from the Facebook terms of service and does not seem to be misrepresented in any way. Update It looks like “We [...]
Outlook: How To Delete Duplicated Contacts
Outlook: How To Delete Duplicated Contacts | Microsoft Outlook | Tech-Recipes.
Is cloud computing a threat to Microsoft?
Washington Times – KELLNER: Cloud computing a Microsoft threat?. From what I’ve seen, Microsoft is actively combating this with their Software + Services offering. The battle really comes down to whether you want to drive the car of your choice to work (desktops apps), or depend on public transportation (cloud). Software + services is like [...]
Laptop Replacements
Netbooks For Road Warriors On A Budget — netbooks — InformationWeek. In the headline, the phrase “laptop replacment” is used. The work laptop that I use on a daily basis is a “desktop replacement,” but I don’t want to have to pay for my own–yet I don’t want to be tied to my desktop’s location [...]
Silverlight on Linux
Moonlight 1.0 brings Silverlight to Linux – Ars Technica.
Cloud-based IDE?
IDE in the cloud: Mozilla Labs’ browser-based IDE prototype – Ars Technica.
Clearly I missed out on all the fun.
Apparently, there was another exploit on Twitter today? #dontclick Those exploited would end up tweeting the following message: Don’t Click: http://tinyurl.com/amgzs6 So, it was a Twitter worm by way of clickjacking. Though I missed out on the fun, I learned a new security term: CSRF (Cross-site request forgery). I tell you, security geeks get to [...]
Changing the e-mail program used by Firefox for mailto: links
Changing the e-mail program used by Firefox – I used this to change mailto: links to go to GMail instead of starting up Outlook or Outlook Express.
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