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Who is Select Insurance and how do they know so much about me?

For the last few months, I've been seeing "Insurance Select" (1-508-458-0203) on my Caller ID. They never left a message, so I didn't think much of it. Actually I thought they might be a bill collector after my daughter, but that's a whole other story. Tonight I got a call from...

Posted to spiderwebwoman (Weblog) by Kathleen Anderson on 11-06-2007
Filed under: Miscellaneous
Surgery on the horizon?

In July, I started feeling pain in my left shoulder when I raised my arm. I didn't think much of it and thought it would go away by itself. I think everyone thinks that at first, when something starts to go wrong with your body. I was secretly attributing it to old age and/or arthritis. Well, it...

Posted to spiderwebwoman (Weblog) by Kathleen Anderson on 11-05-2007
Filed under: Miscellaneous
Apple's Leopard rejects latest version of Java

Forum overlords delete developer gripes Apple faces yet more flack from the Mac faithful over the discovery that the operating system won't run the latest version of Java. It's one of several beefs relating to the OS X upgrade that is sparking vitriol among the normally docile crowd. Leopard...

Posted to Donna's SecurityFlash (Weblog) by donna on 10-29-2007
Filed under: Miscellaneous
Seagate settles class action: cash back over misleading hard drive capacities

The world's largest hard disk manufacturer will offer customers 5% cash back on disk drives bought over the last six years in order to settle a legal action over the measurement of hard drive capacity. But the real story starts way back, when marketers decided 24 bytes didn't mean much. In modern...

Posted to Donna's SecurityFlash (Weblog) by donna on 10-29-2007
Filed under: General Security News, Miscellaneous
Spammer's trick: Redirection. Can't Google, Yahoo and AOL kill the false one?

This is not new since this is 'common' issue with redirection and being use by spammer but geez, can't this company do something to stop the redirection to succeed? Same SPAM emails received today: That's AOL, Yahoo and Google. Guys, you should do something to kill this " False redirection...

Posted to Donna's SecurityFlash (Weblog) by donna on 10-25-2007
Filed under: In the Wild, Miscellaneous
Korean software firm sues Microsoft

Microsoft has been slapped with a lawsuit filed by Korean instant messaging program developer Digito.com, which is claiming millions of dollars in anti-trust damages. According to Korean newspaper Chosun, the US software mammoth has been accused of causing a loss in sales revenue estimated at W30bn ...

Posted to Donna's SecurityFlash (Weblog) by donna on 10-24-2007
Filed under: Miscellaneous
Exchange Server 2007 MCP Exams – Notes from the field

I love taking Microsoft exams because I learn so much. I learn what Microsoft feels are the important product features that everyone show know. I learn different ways to do common tasks within the product, let’s face it sometime we only know as much as our peers. I also learn exactly where I stand on...

Posted to Windows Server Clustering & PCNews (Weblog) by clustering on 10-03-2007
Filed under: Windows Server Clustering, PCNews, Miscellaneous, Exchange Server, ClusterHelp.com
Is anyone home at VIA NET.WORKS?

My web site has been down since Friday night, and all my email is bouncing back to the sender. They won't answer my emails asking for an ETA on a resolution - when I call they are all sorts of apologetic, they tell me that the sysadmins are working on it. Working on what? 48 hours of straight downtime...

Posted to spiderwebwoman (Weblog) by Kathleen Anderson on 09-10-2007
Filed under: Miscellaneous
Moving my web site to a new host

This article, 6 Easy Steps to Making a Web Hosting Switch , couldn't have come at a better time. I am so unhappy with VIA NET.WORKS and I'm getting ready to move on. My web site has been down since Friday night and I can't get an ETA from VIA NET.WORKS as to when it will be back up. Can't...

Posted to spiderwebwoman (Weblog) by Kathleen Anderson on 09-09-2007
Filed under: Miscellaneous
My Rose of Sharon is blooming

This was totally unexpected - a friend of mine at work gave me a cutting from her Rose of Sharon and explained how to plant and care for it. She also said not to expect much from it this first year, but that I would get blooms next summer. Today I went outside and found not only a bloom, but another...

Posted to spiderwebwoman (Weblog) by Kathleen Anderson on 08-26-2007
Filed under: Miscellaneous

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