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Windows Mobile 7.0 Delayed
Published Tue, Sep 23 2008 9:39 | William
At first glance, the announcement that Windows Mobile 7.0 will be delayed is pretty frustrating. MS has been in the mobile phone game for a while now and it's really hard to argue that Apple didn't get it right with the iPhone. So why can't...
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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...
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Rescuing the Hubble
Published Thu, Sep 4 2008 11:54 | William
Kudos to the Boston Globe for providing such high quality and just kick a55 pics of the mission to repair the Hubble telescope.
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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...
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The Associated Press' Double Standard
Published Mon, Mar 17 2008 9:46 | William
Exhibit A Whether it's legal, illegal, moral, immoral or whatever, it's not a good idea to post stuff on the internet if you don't want people using it without your approval. The main reason is that if someone does use it against your wishes...
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The Microsoft® Windows Mobile Line of Business Solution Accelerator 2008!
Published Mon, Mar 17 2008 9:04 | William
Rob Tiffany has got the details... . The main features include: Intelligent resolution awareness Synchronization Services Windows Communication Foundations "Store and Forward" MapPoint LINQ Custom Controls Managed Stored Procedures and Triggers...
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Interesting Mac iBook story
Published Tue, Mar 11 2008 17:16 | William
Every time I hear about the TSA, I become more and more convinced that if Darwin's theory is correct, the TSA will cease to exist before long. The latest 'can they really be this stupid?' incident has to do with a Mac Airbook. At first I started...
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I'd just close the hole...
Published Sat, Mar 8 2008 21:15 | William
There are often times that I read something, typically involving a lawsuit, that I'm shocked people push. Often they are so embarassing, I'd probably pay extortion money to keep the crap quiet if someone threatened to go public about something...
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Is this legal?
Published Sun, Jan 6 2008 15:15 | William
Bruce Schneier has a new article on a program that Sears is installing on people's computers. Money quote: "If a kid with a scary hacker name did this sort of thing, he'd be arrested. But this is Sears, so who knows what will happen to them...
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The downside to copy and paste
Published Fri, Dec 28 2007 0:01 | William
As much time as I spend on computers, it's really hard to imagine life without the Clipboard. Copy/Cut/Paste is such a handy feature I couldn't begin to calculate how much time and effort it's saved me. However, it's definitely caused...
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The Bill of Rights in 2007
Published Tue, Dec 18 2007 22:31 | William
So often when I hear talking heads pontificate about constitutional issues, I hear two basic sides. The first is the strict constructionist interpretation where they claim the constitution is clear as day hence end of discussion. On the other side you...
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Another major data breach
Published Thu, Nov 22 2007 1:24 | William
Although this time the incompetence and sloppiness wasn't the Veteran's Administration . In each of the stories of this sort that I remember, the data turns up a few weeks later, is blamed on some small and innocent mistake and all kinds of assurances...
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If Google were evil...
Published Tue, Sep 25 2007 13:03 | William
This isn't the first time I've read someone hypothesizing about the ramifications of Google going evil (or being owned by the government) but it's a lot of food for thought
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Silverlight Tour
Published Sat, Sep 15 2007 19:36 | William
I've been too busy flying back and forth between the coasts to doing anything cool and non-work related. The bigger bummer is I'm going to miss Shawn Wildermuth's Silverlight Tour . If you are going to be in Atlanta next week, Registration...
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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...
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Tracking Wikipedia 'edits'
Published Thu, Aug 16 2007 18:58 | William
If you use Wikipedia much, you have no doubt come across a page that has been vandalized. While vandalism is in the eye of the beholder to some extent, there are clear rules there and I've seen many posts that clearly violate the rules - no question...
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Theory matters after all...
Published Wed, Aug 8 2007 4:53 | William
There are many discussions developers have with each other that always make for interesting discussions. One of the best ones is "How much does a Computer Science degree matter?" If you argue that it's really important, you'll invariably...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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