Browse by Tags

All Tags » Mindless Babbling » News (RSS)
Using Facebook to launch a Botnet army
Published Sat, Sep 6 2008 13:07 | William
Wired has a piece talking about how easy this would be to do. It's not entirely speculative since researchers built such a beast. I think the hype is a bit much though. The argument they make could be made for any mechanism that can get people to...
Filed under: , , , ,
Utter Coolness compliments of Roku
Published Thu, Jul 3 2008 16:01 | William
My first Roku Soundbridge joined the family back in 2005. As far as wireless media players go, it was a bit pricey. But it looked really cool and I got it through a special offer making it a lot more reasonable. The form factor and styling was the main...
Filed under: , , , ,
Rootkits anyone?
Published Mon, Sep 3 2007 18:13 | William
Since I was a youngster, I've always been a fan of Sony stuff. I'm old enough to have spent a few years alive before CD's came out. I was still a little guy when I got my first Sony Portable CD player. Even though there were only a few CDs...
Filed under: , ,
The coolest campaign ad ever
Published Tue, Mar 6 2007 2:11 | William
Ok, so it's probably not real and it's been done before. But it's still really *** cool
Filed under: , ,
Dumbest lawsuit Microsoft ever faced
Published Sun, Mar 4 2007 2:05 | William
This is a big claim on my part, but if this isn't the dumbest lawsuit Microsoft has ever faced , it's got to be a contender. In the lawsuit, Crooker argues that Internet Explorer was set to delete his browsing history after five days, but the software...
Filed under: , ,
Famous Last Words
Published Wed, Feb 7 2007 0:32 | William
I have very little to goof on Bill Gates about, but he's being Mighty brave with challenges like this . On the one hand, I really admire his approach and smack talking. "We made it way harder for guys to do exploits," said Mr. Gates. "The number [of exploits...
Filed under: , ,
Uniden WIN1200 - Windows Live enabled Cordless Phone
Published Sat, Feb 3 2007 3:39 | William
I got a few new gadgets recently and have been meaning to blog about them b/c all in all, I highly recommend them. The first of these is the Uniden Win 1200 Windows Live Enabled 5800 mhz phone . I'm not a big IM User although recently, Ryan Olshan , Brian...
Filed under: , , , , , , , , ,
Leviton, Microsoft's Z-Wave/Windows Solutions
Published Sun, Jan 28 2007 22:37 | William
This is very very cool.
Filed under: , , ,
Why the little things Matter
Published Thu, Jan 25 2007 23:51 | William
I've ranted over and over again about pieces of shameful incompetence I've come across over time. If you've been in the business more than a few months, you'll see things that make you say "I'm glad I don't do business with them." For instance, I was...
Filed under: , ,
MVP Chat Tonight at Strong Coders
Published Fri, Jan 12 2007 6:31 | William
My homie Ryan Olshan and the team at Strong Coders is hosting a public MVP Chat 01.12.07 8:00PM EDT . Although I'll be be a small fish in a big pond over there, Ryan was kind enough to invite me to join in Would love to see you over there.
Filed under: , , , ,
Why Technical People shouldn't design interfaces...
Published Fri, Jun 9 2006 4:24 | William
Not too long ago , I discussed the fact that programmers are pretty much the last people that should be developing interfaces. My point wasn't that developers are incapable of understanding good UI design concepts, it's just that for some reason or another...
Filed under: , , , ,
Mega BlogMap
Published Sun, Apr 17 2005 6:04 | William
I came across two pretty interesting folks in the area after Adding a blogmap . I now read both of htier blogs.... So that puts us at 3 for Greenvile. Now if yoyu check out Jeremy Brayton's friggin *blogmap* - 36 PEOPLE! Sure, Hotlanta is a lot bigger...
Filed under: , ,
More on what a-holes RealtyWorld is
Published Sat, Mar 26 2005 13:11 | William
So here's a copy of the actual letter they are threatening people with. I actually heard an interesting take on the issue. Say RealtyWorld is going to threaten SomeMVP because the RealtyWorld Symbol bares a small resemblance to the globe SomeMvp got via...
Filed under: , ,
Technological Paradoxes of Phishing Scams
Published Mon, Feb 21 2005 11:44 | William
Irrespective of how much I hate the SOB's, I have to give it to the people that create the Phishing Scams and many of the spammers - at least in terms of technology. They definitely come up with some pretty clever mechanisms for pulling off their BS....
Filed under: ,
Improving a CAPTCHA - An idea
Published Mon, Jan 31 2005 0:20 | William
Ok, so you have probably already heard about all of the controversy my homey KC caused with his Captcha beater. He posted his suggestions on how to make Captcha stronge, which are provided below: render the characters with different colors make some characters...
Filed under: , , , , ,
http://www.everythingado.net
Published Sun, Jan 30 2005 2:45 | William
Well, I finally bit the bullet and purchased my site from Brinkster. I'm going to be hosting blogs for a few of my disaffected DNJ friends - but well, due to the nature of the site - I'm not handing them out to everyone - If I know you, or you can convince...
Filed under: , , , , , , , , ,

Search

This Blog

Tags

Community

Archives

News

My other sites

Cool Stuff

Book Stuff

Security

ORM

Data Access

Funny Stuff

Compact Framework Stuff

Web Casts

My KnowledgeBase Articles

My MVP Profile

Design Patterns

Performance

Debugging

Remoting

My Fellow Authors

My Books

LINQ

Misc

Speech

Syndication

Email Notifications